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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Yaron Koren!

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You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki.

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Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful.

Made a mistake?

Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it.
Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 04:50, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. Raymond (talk) 05:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! That's nice of you.

File:Allers Spree 25 Im 'Zoologischen'.jpg

Hi, at File:Allers Spree 25 Im 'Zoologischen'.jpg you added P31 as photography. It is a drawing, I changed it. Be careful when using tools. -- Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 06:31, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Yaron Koren (talk) 15:52, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

Instance of: photograph

Are you sure that P31 on Wikidata is not something merely for Wikidata items?

In any event, you cannot mark dozens of millions of photos on Commons. This is clearly a bot task (perhaps for Schlurcher's bot) and no one should try it as mass edits without bot flag. --A.Savin 07:15, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

"instance of" is indeed used heavily on Wikimedia Commons, and the vast majority of the time (for 43 million items) it is used to state that something is a photograph - see here. That said, maybe it's not that helpful to add additional "instance of: photograph" values. I really haven't done it that much - maybe for a few thousand items - and maybe even that was too many. Yaron Koren (talk) 15:57, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

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File:Allers Spree 25 Im 'Zoologischen'.jpg

Instance of: photograph