There are a lot of dates in {{Information}} which display as e.g. "1 May 0008" instead of "1 May 2008" because the year only has 2 digits |Date=08-05-01. Could a bot fix these, at least for unambiguous dates which were uploaded close to the date specified? Jc86035 (talk) 16:40, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
There are too many ways to go wrong for this to be realistic. --Fæ (talk) 17:57, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
I agree |Date=08-05-01 could be 8 May 2001; August 5, 2001 or 2008 May 1. We could do some fixes if it is not ambiguous, for example 08-12-28 can only be 28 December 2008. --Jarekt (talk) 20:25, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
You forget 28 December 1908. --Fæ (talk) 21:03, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
The format {{other date|or|2008-12-28|1908-12-28}} can be used for 2 variants.
2008-05-01 or 2001-05-08 or 2001-08-05 or 1908-05-01 generally
Questionable pages can be categorized by uploader to analyse which format is used by the specific uploader.
some conditions can be used in the algorithm (date = EXIF, date ≤ upload-date etc.) --ŠJů (talk) 13:33, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Can't really see the point. A person would make a better job of it, and there is no benefit to adding templates which are likely to actually make later parsing more difficult. --Fæ (talk) 08:13, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Check "source" and similar fields for red links
If there's a red link in the source, {{Derived from}}, or {{Extracted from}} field, it's a good sign that something is wrong. Either there's a typo, or the original file has been deleted. If the original file was deleted, most often it's a copyright problem, and the derivative work is therefore also a copyvio. These would need to be reviewed manually, but a bot-generated list would be a place to start. Guanaco (talk) 04:33, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. 8,000 files is a lot, but it's doable. For the derived from/extracted from, I think I can categorize them using the templates. Guanaco (talk) 08:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
You could just use petscan. --Fæ (talk) 08:35, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
I forgot that existed. Thanks. I ended up adding some automatic maintenance categories to the templates, so it's something we can keep an eye on once the backlog is cleared. Guanaco (talk) 09:31, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Create interwiki links to Wikipedia
Could you create interwiki links to Wikipedia for files in these categories, please:
I am talking about articles of villages, municipalites, protected areas. Name of categories on commons are equal to name of articles on cs.wp, moreover, from articles on cs.wp commons categories are linked via template commonscat or from the infobox. Thanks!--Juandev (talk) 12:07, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
License checker for Thingiverse
With the upcoming support of .stl files (according to meta:Tech/News/2017/46), a bot similar to the FlickreviewR 2 bot should probably be created. The Thingiverse licenses that are compatible with commons (as far as I can tell), are the following: {{CC-by-3.0}}, {{CC-by-sa-3.0}}, {{CC0}}, {{GPL-2.0}}, {{LGPLv2.1+}}, and {{BSD}}. The following licenses are not compatible: CC-by-nd-3.0, CC-by-nc-3.0, CC-by-nc-sa-3.0, and CC-by-nc-nd-3.0. I can start building the categories, similar to Category:Flickr review needed and its subcategories, if someone will build the bot. Elisfkc (talk) 19:36, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
https://xkcd.com/1205/ comes into mind. Do we have an estimate on how many such files per day will be uploaded? --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 20:04, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
@Elisfkc: How many are there? — JeffG. ツ 05:02, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Once again, no idea. However, I was thinking earlier today, it would just be easier if, instead of a Thingiverse checker, all STL files were placed in a designated STL license review category by a bot. Considering the extra FOP implications of 3d work, I feel like it would be best to just throw all of the STL files through a license review process. Elisfkc (talk) 05:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
I think we need more explanation as to why this should be done. Are wide characters deprecated? Are there downsides? Do we need to check outputs from "Unicode Text Converter" too?
The script above search filenames using only containing ASCII (U+0021–U+007E) and ASCII full width (U+FF01–U+FF5E) characters. These should not have issues for conversion. I've included a selection from the 1,874 results. —Dispenser (talk) 22:53, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
moot
@Dispenser: did you even check code points of characters in the own code? (if not looking at the U+FF00 code chart) Where do your “ASCII full width [ending at] U+FF7E” and “/* U+FF21 - U+FF7E*/” come from? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 23:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
Fixed that. I was deriving it from memory and assumed the ASCII control block would be repeated. The query and results were correct though. —Dispenser (talk) 23:22, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
Wide characters are perfectly valid, but there is iMHO no reason to tolerate them as substitutes for (most of) ASCII equivalents in file names because of problems with accessibility, evasion of detection by Special:PrefixIndex and AllPages, larger (in bytes) links—both wiki text and URLs, potential corruption by text editors, bulky visual appearance, maverick sorting. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 23:42, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
But it would be reasonable to consult CJK users because they produced most of names in question. A volunteer to go to CJK venues? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 23:59, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
I checked a couple of files. Most had no categories and thus are correctly flagged. I think the categories get removed automatically, when two or more categories are paresent. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
@Schlurcher: , please check some more files. I've been browsing this category for some time (not only from this IP), and I can assure you that a large part of files in it do not lack categories any more. And no, Category:Media needing categories (cyrillic names) does not get removed automatically. For example, these are just some (not even close to all!) of the files from the first 200 in the category, and many were categorised more than a year ago...
Hi! Is it possible to create automatic redirects for dates in Arabic. I mean for example 1 يناير to January 1. So that we can avoid redlinks in descriptions and summaries in Arabic. Especially for moved files. The list of dates can be found here . --Helmoony (talk) 04:45, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
SVGs
Could someone compile a list of SVGs missing an XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> and similar <?xml?> tags)? Without it, SVGs do not render but there are still some cached renders of files without XML declarations from before 2010. Furthermore, could the files be reuploaded with the declaration prepended? Thanks, Jc86035 (talk) 10:10, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
Does this only affect files before 2010? Currently, I could only provide a list by downloading and searching the SVG information. This might be easy doable for SVG files before 2010 or 2012, when these files where still uncommon. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:14, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Its a tradeoff between development time and bandwidth. While backend support HTTP range requests (thus <2 GiB bandwidth for complete scan), the requests python library does not. You'll have to add custom headers to urllib2. —Dispenser (talk) 22:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
We have a 2017 upload with an <?xml tag, but is missing xmlns= so it does not render. Oddities: The thumbnailer scales up the smallest cached render if SVG rendering fails. A full run would take 40+ hours. —Dispenser (talk) 12:10, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Reporting back, it took 32 hours to scan 1,138,986 SVGs. At least 4 files were lost. 1,779 SVGs are missing xmlns= and I will need to check if they fail to render. I may attempt a second run to determine severity of other issues. —Dispenser (talk) 04:41, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
@Dispenser: Thank you, but isn't that about 58,811 files short of the "Total" in the table above? — JeffG. ツ 13:41, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
The database connection died at the very end and it was close enough I didn't notice it. This weekend I have some time to work on it again. Dispenser (talk) 21:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: The second scan is done and nearly everything was logged or packed into a 616 MB archive. It took 29.3 hours to scan 1,229,573 SVGs of which 1,810 are missing xmlns= critical for in-browser rendering. —Dispenser (talk) 05:45, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
@Dispenser: Thanks, I hope it didn't take too much babysitting. — JeffG. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
SVGs missing xmlns
Year
Files
2005
25
2006
793
2007
571
2008
161
2009
163
2010
48
2011
35
2015
1
2016
7
2017
6
The SVG xmlns rendering problem was first noticed end of 2012. A bug (T43174) was filed and declined. And apparently (from the above table) whatever mechanism was to deny uploading SVG without an xmlns has been removed. And that's all the history I could find. —Dispenser (talk) 23:21, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Attention: I am speaking about searching in files– SVG code is a kind of text. I do not request searching in «File:» wiki pages. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:25, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
@Incnis Mrsi: It's not impossible, but it would currently require all 1.2 million SVGs to be downloaded on someone's computer or on the WMF cloud servers. At that point it would be better to have the bot periodically reupload all such files (for fixes which are very unlikely to cause rendering issues, anyway). This would also help with fixing invalid XML declarations/<svg> tags (librsvg stopped rendering files without an xmlns about 7 years ago but there are still some files which don't have an xmlns yet), and possibly other librsvg/Inkscape/etc. formatting and rendering artefacts if someone is aware of how to fix those things. Jc86035 (talk) 14:39, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
@Incnis Mrsi and Jc86035: I downloaded the first 4 KB (see #SVGs above) and this is a rabbit hole:
The thumbnailer does font substitution (see meta:SVG fonts), every font-familyshould end with a generic-family (e.g. serif or sans-serif), but some don't and the thumbnail uses a sans-serif, but when downloaded it displays a serif typeface.
Some interesting font names I spotted:
Arial-BoldMT
DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic
LiberationSerif-Italic
MyriadPro-Light
MyriadPro-Regular
MyriadPro-Semibold
MyriadPro-Bold
MyriadPro-BoldIt
SourceHanSerifTC-SemiBold-B5pc-H
Ubuntu Bold
Verdana-Bold
In my dump there are 343 SVGs using typefaces ending with -Bold (specifically regex: font-family\s*:[^{};<>]*-(Bold)["\'\s]*[,;}]). Dispenser (talk) 04:05, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could add {{Mechanical Curator image}} to the images in the descriptions. Some already have it so, can the url be added to the template as well? . Thanks. Artix Kreiger 2 (talk) 22:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
See also links
There are just over 1000 See also links to categories that are not displaying correctly. They need the: removing from before the category (example). Could someone fix them? -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Confirmed 1011 hits. Shouldn't it be replaced by {{Cat see also}}? --Achim (talk) 13:38, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Could do. There's 4700 others that could use Cat see also as well. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:21, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
A bot is needed to examine and verify image resolutions and licensing of the pictures at Category:Pictures from Oberwolfach Photo Collection. Most of them at the category are labelled "Copyright: MFO". It should function, like FlickrReview2.George Ho (talk) 22:14, 23 February 2018 (UTC); edited, 22:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Albright-Knox Gallery public-domain images
Hello. Apologies if this is not the correct place to ask about this. I've noticed that the Albright-Knox Gallery has 1,661 public-domain images online, but their Commons category has only 94 images in it. I'd like to help to add to it (even though they unfortunately don't appear to have an API). Could someone point me to a bot or tool (or instructions on how to make one) that could help? I'm probably just not looking in the right place... Thanks. — Hugh (talk) 21:23, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello Alexis Jazz, do you mean that all these pictures should have their {{PD-US-XXX}} template replaced with {{PD-US-defective notice}}? African Hope (talk) 18:35, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
@African Hope: Those that were published between 1923 and 1977 should. For files published between 1978 and March 1, 1989 another template is needed - but I don't think it exists at this moment. Many of these files have a {{PD-US-no notice}} template that should be replaced with {{PD-US-defective notice}} and the text with the circ03.pdf link should be removed. That may be harder than it seems because it's on various pages slightly different, but always comes down to the same thing. It just describes why the {{PD-US-no notice}} template should have really been a {{PD-US-defective notice}} template.. - Alexis Jazz 19:05, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: , I would suggest to start with pictures that were uploaded between 1923 and 1977, replacing the {{PD-US-YYYY}} or {{PD-Pre1978}} template with {{PD-US-defective notice}}. As for the text with the circ03.pdf, I guess you mean text links such as [http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf United States Copyright Office page 2] . What do you think? African Hope (talk) 20:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies.
2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles.
And replace those with a template. I don't know, but having nearly the same text copypasted on thousands of pages is just wrong.. - Alexis Jazz 21:00, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: Then we will search for all images that link circ03.pdf, and remove the text you mentioned above, and then add the {{PD-US-defective notice}} template. Is that it? African Hope (talk) 15:31, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
@African Hope: In some cases (as it turns out) there really is no copyright notice. Also I've checked it now and there are only 33 files with the {{PD-US-defective notice}} template. And 3 of those are mine. It may be more sensible to get rid of the PD-US-defective notice template altogether. Let's put this request on hold for a moment. Something needs to be done but we first need to figure out what exactly. - Alexis Jazz 16:10, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: What problem(s) do you see with that template, other than low usage? — JeffG. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:20, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: It will be a massive amount of work to properly add it to files that should have it, legally and practically it is identical to no notice and there is no template to cover defective notice not registered 1978 - March 1, 1989 files. Possibilities could be to create an additional template that will be added alongside no-notice or a template argument for no-notice. - Alexis Jazz 16:35, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
There are over 57 thousands of valuable but uncategorised files in the category, most with non-descriptive names. They are however properly marked in their descriptions. Doing it by hand - even with Cat-a-lot - would be extremely tedious. Is there a possibility of using a bot for first rough categorisation for fine-tuning by hand later. E.g.
If such an operation is possible, I will prepare the main categories and fields and searchwords.--Felis domestica (talk) 10:38, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
No special scripting needed, this was a cat-a-lot job. Very few matches, so not really a bot job. The search I used was incategory:"Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art" insource:/escription.*China/ insource:"Ceramic" --Fæ (talk) 13:24, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
@Fae: Thank you! But this was just one example - I guess that substituting "porcelain" in place of "ceramics" will probably yield several thousands results. I will gladly do all this myself, but would need a few pointers. For example, if I would like to rerun your search with different parameters, how do I do it (unless a bot is necessary;) ). Idiot-level explanation, or a links to relevant pages, if you be so kind:) --Felis domestica (talk) 14:42, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Have a read through Help:cat-a-lot. In the search results show as many as possible (click the 500 results at the bottom of the search page), put the category you want in the cat-a-lot pop-up, select all, then use the right arrow to move all to the target category. --Fæ (talk) 11:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
@Fae: Thank you very much! It was searching within category which was a problem- I didn't know one could use such expressions in the searchbox; but now I will manage Thank again for the explanation:) --Felis domestica (talk) 18:47, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Renaming a user category
All my photos coming under user categories are named in a pattern like "the name of the taxa, genus, species, etc." + a space + my username. All of which are hierarchically placed under the main user category {.{User category|cat=User:Vinayaraj}}. Now I want one main category - Category:Photographs by Vinayaraj V R - be renamed as - Category:Photographs Vinayaraj - so that all the categories are having a uniform naming convention. Please attend to this so that the management of user categories are easy and uniform. Thank you.--Vinayaraj (talk) 03:01, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
I agree with Jeff. Category names at Commons should be self-explanatory and be written in proper English. "Photographs Vinayaraj" meets neither of these criteria. De728631 (talk) 16:29, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Keep in mind that ad hoc category intersections are easy with PetScan, see example. A large hierarchy of user categories is unnecessary and unhelpful when main topic categories can do the same thing. I upload lots of files and my user categories are very flat (i.e. most have >10,000 files). --Fæ (talk) 17:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions. But I use this style and method which is not at all cumbersome. I can rename them myself but a person with a better knowledge (and right) may be able to do that in a fly. Just see this where I can manage all my photos categorized in a better way, even others can use them if needed. I'm using the categories without "by" so would like to see them as such, after all they are just user categories. Thank you. --Vinayaraj (talk) 15:28, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
It would be nice if a bot could go over these and add the sitelinks to Wikidata. Later on a bot should also replace all these templates as this is obviously wrong, but exactly how that should be done is to be determined. For now, lets use the argument from this template to improve Wikidata. - Alexis Jazz 14:08, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Correct license and typo
When i moved Stevan Kragujević photos from srwiki to Commons some of them where under wrong licences Cc-by-sa-3.0-rs now it has to be changed to Cc-by-sa-3.0. Pictures under different licenses such as Cc-by-sa-4.0 are unaffected.
I also made a typo, word premission shoud be changed to permission
I have just made the Category:Unidentified subjects in Suriname for a project that we will have on nl.wikipedia in the short future. Is it possible for a bot adding this category to all files that contain "Suriname" or "Paramaribo" that are not in the category:Suriname or in one of the subcategories starting from category:Suriname? We will use it for a double writing week on Suriname. During this project volunteers will be encouraged to add as many categories as possible to these files. The objective is to better categorize as many files on Suriname as possible. Is there someone that wants to run a bot for this? Ymnes (talk) 16:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Maybe the best solution is to tag all files which are tagged as {{Uncategorized}}. Adding a special parameter to all files which having "Suriname" or "Paramaribo" in filedescription. --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:57, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I just dumped some 250+ uncategorized files in the category. @Ymnes: what kind of capacity do you expect from this project? If what you are asking would be done literally you probably get tens of thousands of files. - Alexis Jazz 19:51, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
At the very moment, there is one GLAM project starting and in September/October there are writing weeks planned. I'm involved with both and the 'writing weeks' must be the summon where all the remaining files will be re-categorized. Tens of thousands of files is a lot, but they are welcome. (as long as they are not yet categorized under Suriname or starting from there) The writing weeks on nl.wikipedia.org attract a lot of attention and several hundreds of articles are written each time. It's good to understand that these events are organized by more people this time and the expectations are high, because the Caribbean have never been the central point. Ymnes (talk) 20:12, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
See the screenshots here at the right. With Flickr-to-Commons one should add the []-hooks in the fist occasion but not in the second occasion. So in the second occasion this should be done. It would be better when the tool would idenntify whether hooks are used or not. Ymnes (talk) 16:16, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
By the way, I have been experiencing experimenting with Crop Cat-a-lot after I saw you used that tool. I have stopped doing it, because I was adding categories to files that had categories yet. This weekend I hope to learn more about the tool. If you have suggestions of tools I should learn to know here as well, I would be pleased you tell me, so I can make advantage of it. Ymnes (talk) 16:30, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
@Ymnes: Do I know which files are concerned? I don't understand.
By crop-a-lot you mean cat-a-lot and by experiencing you mean experimenting? Well you have to be careful with that indeed. I do searches and run cat-a-lot on that but a few of the files I added may have already had good categories. I checked several though and all seemed to have at at least some issue regarding categories. - Alexis Jazz 16:47, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: I am sorry, I was confused. Thanks for adding them! Ymnes (talk) 17:13, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I see some overcategorisation happened with for example File:Trees live (39371073731).jpg. There is a limit to the length of search queries so I was unable to exclude all subcategories of Category:Unidentified subjects in Suriname. I did exclude the big ones though, but I could only exclude 3 or 4 categories. - Alexis Jazz 17:51, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
seems to provide some good results as well. - Alexis Jazz 10:48, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: Thanks for the advice! This may be helpful. I didn't have enough time this weekend. Hopefully I will next one (one day more because of Kings Day). Ymnes (talk) 16:30, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Add missing template parameter
For template {{Published}} the parameter legal is mandatory, but often has not been set. I added an error message and maintenance category Pages with incorrect usage of Template:Published for these cases. For hugely reducing manual work it would be fine that a bot doing these things:
Go to all pages in this cat, search for uses of {{Published}}, note that there also could be more than one.
Look for every use whether the parameter |legal is present (because of copy & paste it could be something like | legal = with varying number of spaces).
For all cases where it is not included add | legal = unclear.
Then the manual work had only to be done for other issues. —Speravir–16:34, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
267 results (some overlap with the previous link). Please add {{LicenseReview}} to the license section and Category:Tasnimnews review needed. The latter I could do myself, but somebody might start screaming when images start popping up there without {{LicenseReview}}. I don't know if reviewers can handle that.
I guess this request has to be tackeled in batches. I have done the last part and took the liberty to strike it out. It will also be corrected on all future uploads. --Schlurcher (talk) 04:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
There are more, but it will be easier to find them after a bot has sorted these out. Obviously: the bot should be able to handle new names when Tasnim hires a new photographer.
This is not really bot work, it can be done with catalot. What are the daily numbers that may justify this as automated housekeeping? --Fæ (talk) 08:11, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
The fact I don't want to run dozens of searches every day? - Alexis Jazz 08:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, some stats would help to encourage a bot writer to spend time setting this up. Six in a month is very different from ten a day. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 08:32, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Photos from tasnimnews.com contains 13,554 photos right now. Nearly all of them need to be in a "Photos by .. for Tasnim News Agency" category and new photos are still uploaded every day. hastemplate:tasnim insource:"date: 2018-03" turns up 320 results which would suggest slightly over 10 a day, except that search is missing anything that uses a different date format so there may be more. I had started to initially fill categories with cat-a-lot, but this is taking forever and at some point point I will start to make mistakes. Better have a bot handle this and I can sort out wrongly credited photos. - Alexis Jazz 08:56, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
This Archiv has published round about 30 thousand pictures of Kiel under free licences, I think a bot should import them. Habitator terrae (talk) 16:55, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
I am contemplating the idea to offer the files I uploaded so far (and the one's I will upload in future), to offer for download also on an other platform to reach a wider audience. As this will probably done with an other licencing, I would like to exchange the licence information in my uploads to a user template, so that I can later add the dual licencing infarmation to this template. For the moment my template should only duplicate the cc-by-sa-4.0 info. As I have uploaded about 3000 files until now, I would like a bot to replace the entry in the file information pages. Could a owner of a bot do this for me? Thanks --C.Suthorn (talk) 11:58, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
@C.Suthorn: Personal licensing templates are not allowed. When the time comes, we can add licensing directly to each file for you. — JeffG. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:04, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Maybe, I used the wrong words? What about a template like (as example): Template:Cc-by-sa-4.0 Bourjon? --C.Suthorn (talk) 13:28, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
@C.Suthorn: Template:Cc-by-sa-4.0 Bourjon is in the Template namespace, is backed by an OTRS ticket, is not expected to change, is fully protected, is watched by two Administrators, and is not "a user template", which would be in the User namespace. — JeffG. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:44, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: So this does mean, I would have to request the creation of such a template by a mail to the OTRS, then it could be inserted by admin or bot to my files, and once I know, how I will go on with publishing my files on an additional site, request the template to be expanded with additional text by an admin? --C.Suthorn (talk) 14:28, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
@C.Suthorn: That sounds about right. What license were you thinking about adding? — JeffG. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:41, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
I have still to research that. I will send mail to OTRS to start with this. thanks. --C.Suthorn (talk) 06:42, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Credit templates are fine, and may give links or other information which can then be updated en mass. --Fæ (talk) 11:14, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Natürlich kannst du eine eigene Vorlage verwenden, es braucht auch keinen Bot, um sie einzubauen, ich empfehle VisualFileChange - einfach in den Einstellungen aktivieren. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 17:23, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
In den Preferences/Gadgets habe ich nichts gefunden, aber unter Help/Ausprobieren dann doch. Damit erledigt. --C.Suthorn (talk) 12:00, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Done 41 moves. I have a custom way of doing these, but someone did write a tool to do mass renames. It's in the archives of this noticeboard somewhere. --Fæ (talk) 11:48, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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GODL-India
Hi, Please move 5,517 pictures from {{Indian navy}} to {{GODL-India}} (see the talk page of this template for the background). It would be useful to retain the license review, and the source websites have quite a habit of moving files around. Thanks, Yann (talk) 16:47, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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Sludge G
Hello I need help. In the last week I categorised many new images from Flickr-User "Sludge G". There are over 3700 images (Search) with "Sludge G" as author. I search for images for East Germany ("DDR"). After many work I found out there is an other category: Category:Photographs by Felix O with 3586 images. - Can a bot add all images with author "Sludge G" to the "Category:Photographs by Felix O"? Thanks. -- sk (talk) 12:20, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: the flicker-user has 24480 Photos on flickr. I think there are more then one uploader (user + bots), which copy this images to commons. So we get many duplicates like in Category:Mohsdorf. If we had one category for all images from "Sludge G" then we find this better. -- sk (talk) 12:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Done Make it by my self. -- sk (talk) 14:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
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Changing a lot of descriptions at the same time
Dear all, could anyone please put in the following text into the description of all pictures in the categories Category:Images by TheTokl on 2018-06-01 and Category:Images by TheTokl on 2018-06-03: {{WikiAlpenforum}}? Thank you! --TheTokl (talk) 15:07, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, anybody hanging around who is willing to ad the Category in one go? Thanks. Lotje (talk) 13:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Looks already done. Rudolphous (talk) 10:06, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Taxonavigation for species
There are many species without a Template:Taxonavigation, for example . It should look like this . For some species separate dedicated templates exist, like Lepidoptera or Coleoptera. The data for the taxonavigation can be found on higher cats on commons, wikidata and other wikipedia's. A nice challenge for someone who is handy. The following articles can also be done: Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox for taxons. Rudolphous (talk) 10:17, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Add project template to files
Hello,
I would like to request bot work. I need to add {{Mediagrant 2018|Foto českých obcí}} below the Information template in files from these categories, where Atelerixx is uploader:
@Marek Preis: I can't read Czech, but it would help if you could explain (link) why {{Mediagrant 2018|Foto českých obcí}} needs to be added. (so whoever does it can verify it's the right thing to do) - Alexis Jazzping plz 19:29, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
It would also help to know why you are making this request. — JeffG. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:43, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: for now I just ran it (so it's Done), 148 files were affected and it can be undone if it turns out it was wrong. @Marek Preis: for future requests please provide more information. Also, you can run VisualFileChange yourself. You don't need autopatrol. - Alexis Jazzping plz 19:50, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: I replaced "=={{int:license-header}}==" with "{{Mediagrant 2018|Foto českých obcí}} =={{int:license-header}}==". (and some newlines) I checked a dozen files before running it and examined my contributions afterwards. - Alexis Jazzping plz 20:55, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: 1) I am sorry Alexis Jazz, next time I will provide further explanation. Atelerixx (images uploader and author) request to cover some expenses of picture taking to Mediagrant. Mediagrant rules (#3) requires the use of project template. I help Atelerixx and other new users with this process. 2) I dont know, how to run VisualFileChange.js, I have tryed several options to install it and none of them worked. --Marek Preis (talk) 21:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: As I told to Alexis Jazz, Atelerixx and others are new, so I am helping them. I was trained for that.--Marek Preis (talk) 21:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Guanaco (talk) 03:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Fix coordinates according to EXIF data
Vicuña uploader messed with the coordinates of 36 images I uploaded to Category:Roman villa of Liédena. Longitude should be replaced that from EXIF data. If reading EXIF data is a problem, the error has a pattern that can be used to extract the correct longitude from the wrong one in the template (something like longitude = wrong longitude - 2 degrees).
I just learned that by placing {{GPS EXIF}} another bot will complete the task. Therefore, I just need a bot to replace {{Location}} with {{GPS EXIF}} in those files.--Pere prlpz (talk) 17:43, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
adding a suitable subcategory of Category:Photos from Panoramio by ID (if not yet done); if such a category doesn't yet existing, it has to create like existing samples
Complemental minor changes are recommendable:
replacing template {{Taken on}} (exact day of shooting is needed) with {{According to Exif data}}; for many images nobody can trust on the date given in the exif-data, particularly it's given the local time and not UTC time (the date can beeing different by one day); some panoramio users didn't take the trouble to adjust the camera's system time, often (but not always) identifiable by the value january 1st
replacing underscores with spaces in the string "Category:Panoramio files uploaded by Panoramio_upload_bot"
possibly looking for and removing invisible misplaced LTR marks within category names
Bot to license review videos imported from YouTube
Category:License review needed has been flooded with thousands of videos imported from YouTube. Someone should write a bot to review them all so that we can get this category back to a manageable state. Pinging Bryan and Zhuyifei1999 in case they can help. Kaldari (talk) 02:38, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
The thing that makes auto-LR videos complicated is there is no easy way to determine if the video on Commons is the same as the video on YouTube. All the image review bots check the file contents match, not just the license, to prevent abuse. But video codecs are lossy and they could well be transcoded... --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 04:16, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
False coordinates - Třeboň
Hi. Please remove {{Location dec|49.228036|14.770572|source:Flickr}} (and replace with {{Location possible}}) for 81 Flickr images of the town of Třeboň by Herbert Frank. The coordinates are completely wrong. --ŠJů (talk) 21:06, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Done, removed manually. --ŠJů (talk) 23:16, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Replace coord by GPS EXIF template in some files I uploaded
Vicuña uploader keeps messing with coordinates of some files. I need a bot to replace {{Location}} with {{GPS EXIF}} in the last files I upload. Those files are in category:Urbasa and have a name beginning with "Serra d'Urbasa". Just going for all files uploaded by me in that category would be equivalent, or going to my last 45 uploaded files. If more of my recent files are affected it won't be a problem because EXIF data is OK.--Pere prlpz (talk) 23:38, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Done for 48 pages. —regards, Revi 01:20, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Batch create "surname" categories
I have built up a list of missing surname categories, about 20000 or so. I am ready to associate existing Wikidata items to them and they would readily be linked to existing Commons items as well. Up to now I created them manually but... it takes forever. All such new categories should be initialized to the very same contents: "{{Wikidata infobox}}[[Category:Surnames]]". See this example that I created a few days ago. Please let me know if I can use an existing tool to do it myself. --Laddo (talk) 22:37, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
@Laddo: Creating the catgory's is enough (who links the stuff with wikidata? Subcats are added to all category's automatically, right?)? If yes, i can do that. --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:20, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
@Steinsplitter: Yes, just creating categories is fine. I would create Wikidata-to-Commons links myself with QuickStatements, as soon as Commons categories are created. I completed and cleaned up the list, there are a bit more than 36000 entries to create. Thanks! -- Laddo (talk) 14:22, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
@Steinsplitter: I corrected a few errors in the list of surname categories to be created, please use the updated version when you restart the bot. Thanks! - Laddo (talk) 11:42, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Steinsplitter (talk) 12:02, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Louvre museum renamed their exhibition rooms
The Louvre renamed all their exhibtion rooms before the Summer. Wikidata is update. Now we would like to update Commons. A bot is needed to rename ~350 categories and move the files. Shonagon could provide all the technical info necessary to the bot owner who would be happy to help us;) Pyb (talk) 19:39, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
@Pyb: As a admin you can directly post batch rename reuests to COM:CDC. --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:06, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Make a bot that uploads pictures from pixabay to commons
There is a image depository called http://www.pixabay.com and all the images it contains have a Creative Commons 0 License, essentially making it public domain. I believe these photos could really augment Wikimedia projects since they are so high quality. So I request a bot to be created to upload images from pixabay to commons. 49206561742062616e616e6173 (talk) 23:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
The bot would probably have to be heavily assisted by the operator - titles and descriptions would need to be written manually. The site has a nice API, but the only useful metadata associated with each image is a short list of pretty broad tags. BMacZero (talk) 19:16, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
The Dollyrots
Could somebody with either a bot or AWB do a run on the category: The Dollyrots (Category:The Dollyrots)
The following line should be replaced:
| Description = The Dollyrots during the
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Grand Victory Festival on 12th September 2014
The line should become:
| Description = The Dollyrots during the Grand Victory Festival on 12th September 2014
I've made your links work. --bjh21 (talk) 16:57, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Done via a custom script due to size. --Fæ (talk) 11:20, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Ronhjones(Talk) 21:12, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Change in licence
Hi all of you, I would like to ask you for help. I need to change the licence in all pictures which I uploaded by this account from the {{Cc-by-3.0}} to {{Cc-by-sa-3.0-cz}}. I wrongly chose the license in Upload Wizard. Thanks a lot for your help --Akademie věd České republiky (talk) 07:34, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi Jeff G. ツ, thanks for the reply. The problem is that the content is released under the {{Cc-by-sa-3.0-cz}}see here and this is the license which somebody from OTRS team would have to confirm in upcoming days. The images were uploaded on wrong license so we have two options - to delete them and upload them again (hence wasting time and work which was already done) or fixed by the bot the license so somebody from the OTRS would not have to fix this manually. Best regards --Chmee2 (talk) 12:46, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Ronhjones(Talk) 15:45, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Add Vector version available template to files
I recently uploaded vector versions of following files, which are named the same as the original GIFs. Please add {{Vector version available}} to the originals. Thank you. --Wesalius (talk) 22:08, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
@Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran: The files are already transcoded to MP3 and can be downloaded from the "Transcode status" section of the file page. Is this sufficient for your purposes, or do we need MP3s as a separate file for some reason? Guanaco (talk) 19:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I linked the files in Curso de alemán para principiantes con audio (wikilibros.es), there the files are .ogg. Therefor you can't listen to them on mobil devices with apple OS. I tried now simply to chzange the ending to .mp3, but it does not work. I need embeddes audio-mp3 files inside the textbook, not for separate downloading from commons. Maybe there is a simple trick for this. MP3 (with capital letters)? --Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (talk) 20:02, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
If this is not already possible, you should make a feature request on Phabricator, not a bot work request. - Alexis Jazzping plz 20:18, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Looks like this should already work. - Alexis Jazzping plz 20:38, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
But neither .mp3 nor .MP3 does work. But now I am confident that they are working on it and hopefully my "problem" will be solved at least in one year or earlier. Thanks again! --Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (talk) 21:40, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
@Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran: did you try loading the page on an Apple OS device? It should play. If it doesn't, open a bug report on Phabricator and explain exactly what happens. - Alexis Jazzping plz 23:13, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Upload videos from nasas youtube channel to commons
Much of NASA's content is really educational and I'd love to have them augment Wikimedia commons, but doing that manually would be to tedious, so I'd like to have a bot do the same work.
I have done this for other channels, however NASA published content is not always NASA copyright only. There would have to be some credible verification that all their YouTube content was strictly their copyright to release. --Fæ (talk) 11:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Search with OSM-Overpass-API for every admin-level with Wikidata-Values for this coordinate from the image
get the deepest commons-category from wikidata ( If not then it goes one admin-level up ( from Village --> County --> State --> Country)
With this concept I could categorize nearly 130.000 images by hand in the last two weeks with a perl-script and the tool "Cat-a-lot". Now we can found with this usefull search that only 21.687 images are left. But in this last images there mostly only 1 or 3 images in the same category. So I think this last setting of nearly 10.000 categories in 21.000 images can done by a bot.
I know there is a small number of images, which not work with this process. All images in en:International waters get no admin-level. Maybe there is another way. Also we need a new category for images with wrong coordinates like 99° north or 185 east. --sk (talk) 18:35, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
@Rudolphous, Jim.henderson, MB-one, and Multichill: Thanks to RudolphousBot! Yesterday this category lost over 8000 images.:-) I think with one or two other working days of RudolphusBot the category will be empty. At the moment only 11.476 images are left. -- sk (talk) 14:18, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Status currently is that around 4000 are left (see link above). Most of them are people (some even DR worthy), wrong gps coordinates. Some manual help is welcome. Rudolphous (talk) 07:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Update dead links for Russian coins images sources
@Ronhjones: it seems that there are a lot more files in the category. Do they not have the URL, or is it of different format? —andrybak (talk) 14:38, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
@Andrybak: I searched - here - you will still see 44 hits, as these had a repeat url in the history transfer - I decided to leave that and just change the main url in the information box. It seems most do not have a url to that site. Ronhjones(Talk) 14:47, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
For the category, please mass add categories. For example, if the word "Maui" is in the title, please add Category:Flora of Maui. Also, in the files, please add species name. For example in this file, there is a space in Euphorbia celastroides. That should be added to the category. 100.35.20.108 19:39, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Most images attributed to Jean Reutlinger are probably not his. Jean Reutlinger was working with his father Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (cf. ). So please replace
{{Creator:Jean Reutlinger}} by {{Creator:Atelier Reutlinger}}
{{PD-old-100-1923}} by {{PD-France}}{{PD-1923}}
I mention that to the BNF. FYI @Rexcornot: Thanks, Yann (talk) 11:19, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Possible redirects creation?
I'm not sure if this is a reasonable idea or not. On en-wiki (and maybe other wikis), there is an issue with editors changing the file name in a article and breaking the link. Obviously there are the usual vandals, etc., which are dealt with. There is a definite subset of changes which have been done semi-automatically which have broken the links - examples I know of are changing "fancy quotes" to "standard quotes"; changes of dash type; etc., It was suggested by Sam Sailor at en:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Galobot_2#Discussion that maybe we could have redirects pre-made to prevent such changes breaking the link. If you need more examples, I'm sure that Sam or KatnissEverdeen can supply. We are looking at a en-wiki bot to notify a user that the link has broken, but it's not yet been approved. Ronhjones(Talk) 15:57, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, Ronhjones, as I wrote on en:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Galobot_2#Discussion I was more thinking about a human-operated script rather than a bot. But if any examples are needed to explore the possibility of a bot here, I will gladly try to provide some. SamSailor 20:42, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
I'd be willing to write a bot to create redirects for this. Before I code, does the community want this? —JJMC89(T·C) 04:16, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
If there are images I can directly download, then it is possible to let my bot upload the images. But I find that en:WP:WPTC/M says the contributors using an image processor to create images, and it using C. So I can not let my bot create the images, sorry. --Kanashimi (talk) 21:22, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for the examples. I will decide which kind of image to import after getting more samples. Are you have Wikimedia account so I can call you by the account name? And are you know any image having uploaded in commons? --Kanashimi (talk) 09:16, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
We use Warnings/Cone Static images (Full forecast, forecast track line off, initial wind field on, which should be the default setting on the NHC page anyway). – TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 22:58, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
I prefer to see a forecast track line. In the continental US, I also like to track where Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel is positioned to report on landfall. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:09, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
@Hdjensofjfnen and Kanashimi: The problem with using the track line is that, to the general public, it conveys a degree of certainty that doesn't exist. Meteorologists have been complaining about images with the track line being shared on social media for that reason. I won't make a big fuss about it now since we're rounding out the hurricane seasons, but I'll bring it up with the project over the next few months. In terms of the file name, it would probably be easiest to keep the current format with its number identifier (i.e. 16L 2018 5day.png). The problem with "2018 Hurricane Oscar static image.jpg" is that a) the file would have to be moved when a tropical depression is upgraded to a named storm since not all systems are named from the get-go, and b) the file would have to be moved depending on its classification (i.e. subtropical storm, tropical storm, hurricane). – TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 22:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
@TropicalAnalystwx13: I find it is hard to detect the NO of the storm. How can I know the NO of the storm? e.g., "16L 2018". --Kanashimi (talk) 23:01, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
There was a batch upload of 27500 images of the City archive of Kiel. The most of the pictures are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, if there aren't in the public domain. The problem is, that we didn't see that they give a special way, to give attribution see here, last page, if you could read German. For example the Rights holder, that isn't always the Stadtarchiv must be attributed. So I think we should documentate this, because it could missunderstand. So I created a template {{License Stadtarchiv Kiel}}, that attribute, like the Archive want. There you mus fill in first the Rights holder (mentioned with {{Information field}} in describtion), second the Identity (mentioned also with {{Information field}} in describtion), without a point 50.823 ==> 50823, and third the author (here an example edit). Could someone do this for all images in Category:Images from Stadtarchiv Kiel with the License tag {{Cc-by-sa-3.0-de}}? Habitator terrae🌍 09:17, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
You should probably raise this with the batch uploader, before going to a noticeboard. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 09:22, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I didn't see why your Bot could do this easier than any other Bot, but if I did something wrong, then I'm sorry for it. Do you want to do the work request? Habitator terrae🌍 09:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I have not looked at the issue. You can raise it on my talk page.
There is no "Bot" that simply does batch upload projects. Creative design effort and significant volunteer time goes into these projects. Someone could probably use VFC to change licenses, but if the original uploader is around, that is the natural starting point, as the uploader understands why and how the upload was managed. --Fæ (talk) 09:37, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I so often must read "Please don't use my user talk page, I have the pages on my watchlist and you could use {{Ping}}", that I try to don't use user talks to often. Habitator terrae🌍 10:09, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Please remove the false (fictional) location tag {{Location dec|50.080057|14.432086|source:Flickr}} from 321 Flickr files by Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden. {{Location possible}} tag can be applied instead. --ŠJů (talk) 19:25, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Done Checked and removed manually. --ŠJů (talk) 13:46, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Processing these requests should be done automatically, at least for autopatrolled users in any case where all live revisions present are from the same account which requests renaming. Brains of file renamers are needed in other sectors. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 21:28, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
More exactly, if
the oldest live revision
the current (top) revision, and
the request itself
are by the same account and it is autopatrolled, then it’s safe to proceed with renaming. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 21:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
I helped empty it. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
There are still +3,000 files right now, I hope that will clear up as soon as our database catches up. No fun to purge that many files by hand.:) --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 06:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Request: Change in description of many photos: RESOLVED
I need to change description of many photo: string (template) {{Mediagrant III|Události}} to {{Mediagrant 2018|Události}} in the following categories (including subcategories):
@Stribrohorak: Signing your posts on talk pages is required by Commons:Signatures policy. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:44, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:44, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Replace {{FlickrVerifiedByUploadWizard|(whatever)}} with {{flickrreview}}.
Yeah, yeah, it's a bug somewhere, but nobody is going to fix that. Just put a band-aid on it. In the end, client side license checking? Probably not a good idea anyway. - Alexis Jazzping plz 13:45, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
What exactly is the problem? 62.276 files involved. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 01:58, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
"License review by non-Image-reviewers". Should only work on new uploads and ignore anything with "crop" in the filename or {{Extracted from}} on the file page. - Alexis Jazzping plz 02:17, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
@TheSandDoctor: Only for new uploads that are tagged with License review by non-Image-reviewers and the bot should ignore anything that has been created using the crop-tool. You need to get a bot flag before operating a bot here ->Com:BRFA, you know the drill. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 08:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
@TheSandDoctor and Hedwig in Washington: the immediate problem should be solved now as extended uploaders have been excluded from the abuse filter. Still, we should move to server side (either by bot or MediaWiki software) license checking. But I believe that if my proposal finds support, phab:T89131 will be fixed. Right now fixing T89131 would only make a difference for three users - a difference that's pretty much invisible now that the abuse filter has been adjusted. So, little incentive. If the proposal finds support, nearly 6000 users (okay many are inactive but still) will benefit. - Alexis Jazzping plz 23:04, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Well, I have been trying to do a proof of concept as I have to extend the API to deal with tags, but haven't been able to find a file which hasn't been reviewed to know if I am on the right track or not. Do you need any more help with this or any other bot tasks at the moment? I'm happy to help where ever I can Hedwig in WashingtonAlexis Jazz --TheSandDoctor (talk) 06:15, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Hopefully the bug will be dealt with. Gotta wait and see. Thanks for your help, tho. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 22:26, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Can any bot keep record of unresolved request pages [last] opened more than 60 days ago? I mean all pages of this prefix (except lists and redirects) which are currently open, not pages transcluded to various Commons:Deletion_requests/yyyy/mm/dd. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:25, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
May anybody do this job automatically? Multiple transclusion—aside of purely visual inconvenience—may be also used for a DoS attack as size of the rendered page grows quadratically. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:47, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
@Incnis Mrsi: , I have a bot that removes duplicate categories and templates from the description pages from recently uploaded files. The task you explained is conceptionally similar and I could easily extend it. Please help me understand, which pages should be monitored and in which frequency? -- Schlurcher (talk) 20:12, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
The main interest is the page of today deletion requests, Commons:Deletion_requests/2025/06/22, but other pages similarly susceptible to abuse of scripts could be monitored as well, especially those scripts which are enabled for default user. How frequently? Once in ∼ 5 min (and the last check some minute past 24:00 UTC), but the bot must check only few “current” pages. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 08:27, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Ok, I have completed the coding. Examples for the last 7 days are here:
Could a bot add {{delete|reason=Files from Youtube videos, no proof of permission.|subpage=Uploads by Z3greb|year=2019|month=January|day=27}} to the description page of each file uploaded by Z3greb (talk·contribs)? Thanks. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 15:56, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
@TwoWings: Done, except those files already subject to their own DRs. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:03, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Is there someone who could make a bot that maintains a "current events" box, like on User:Alexis Jazz/Proposal incubator? (that box is static and only to illustrate the general idea, what exactly will be in it is up for debate)
A proposal to put such a box on top of the village pump would still have to be made, but there's no point if nobody can actually create it. Actually, any local VP could also adopt it, so if someone can create it it's unlikely to go completely unused. - Alexis Jazzping plz 14:30, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Replace template
Hi,
could you please for:
files from this list by user Petr1888 created in 2018 replace {{Fotíme Česko|grant=Mediagrant 2018|podtéma=Vodstvo|rok=2018}} by {{Fotíme Česko|tiket=1618|rok=2019|podtéma=Vodstvo}}
files from this list by user Petr1888 in created 2018 replace {{Fotíme Česko|grant=Mediagrant 2018|podtéma=Vodstvo|rok=2018}} by {{Fotíme Česko|tiket=1617|rok=2019|podtéma=Vodstvo}}
I'm not sure how this can be automated. How would a bot be able to help identify these cases? --Schlurcher (talk) 12:44, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
A weak heuristic may be the \d+px\.{extension} format. --grin✎ 17:17, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
If tasks can not be automated perfectly, they typically can get nearly or semi-automated. Instead: plain manual work will be tantalizing and more error-prone anyway.
First step is compiling a list of that files.
A synopis page should view the heuristic found original and size-derivates, so it can be checked by human eyes. And so on... --Itu (talk) 19:10, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
user:Túrelio is hunting such files (wasn't helpful for the demonstrating object). Maybe he will explain his concept for the work. --Itu (talk) 19:05, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
The table with current name->new name can be found -->here<-- (note that some of the new names already exist as redirects).
Additionally, if possible, Commons category(P373) in the wikidata elements tied to the categories should be updated too, with the new category name (NB: subcategories don't have wikidata element, I've kept them apart in the table). Thank you, -- Syrioposso aiutare? 12:13, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks a lot @Steinsplitter: ! For the wikidata part, should I asked directly there? -- Syrioposso aiutare? 19:54, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
I am not really familiar with Wikidata, so yes:). --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:22, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Steinsplitter (talk) 18:47, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Cultural heritage monuments in Italy - overcategorization
Hi! I'm working on emptying Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Italy and I've noticed that a lot of items are already in its subcategories. Could someone remove the category from files which already have a subcategory of it? Cat-a-lot can find these cases of overcategorization, but (I think) cannot automatically remove the superfluous Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Italy; if I'm wrong please let me know how. Thank you very much, --Epìdosis 14:45, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
Done --Kanashimi (talk) 09:32, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Finding images with captions
Examining the current API, I have a Pywikibot script running which takes all members of a category and checks if they have captions, but it's a stupidly slow linear way of doing it. The way I have is to:
get the category member,
ask for its pageid,
turn that into a mid (by string adding M),
then doing a wbgetentities from the Site using the mid
I'm thinking there should be a way to up front pull only files with captions (i.e. not "missing") from a category, without having to check every file separately. Anyone have some example code out there? --Fæ (talk) 12:26, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
The answer is no, which is frankly nuts. --Fæ (talk) 07:48, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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Encoding errors in filenames
Many (a few hundred?) files in Category:Images from Cleveland Museum of Art are afflicted with encoding errors in the filenames, and it's impeding categorization of the images because the misnamed images are being missed in searches. The errors are repeated in the information templates, which also foils insource: searches. Are bots permitted to do mass renames? If so, would someone consider having their bot rename the affected files and correct their information templates by making the following substitutions? If anyone knows of a way I can do this myself in a semi-automated fashion, that'd be fine too—any alternative to doing them one-by-one.
Thanks! —Rrburke (talk) 16:15, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Rrburke, thanks for notifying! A quick scan found 539 hits, maybe there are some more. Pinging Michael: Thank you very much for your bulk upload of great images! Might it be possible to fondle the pattypan a bit for to avoid breaking up the encodings of these special characters? Regards, --Achim (talk) 16:59, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
It's MacRoman encoding. Scanning the range from U+00C0 to U+00FF made these 525 files. --Achim (talk) 21:17, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, @Achim55: . Thanks for doing that! Is it possible to repeat it for the information templates within those files as well? —Rrburke (talk) 15:07, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Working I haven't forgotten about that. There are some more donkeys to be combed, as people say over here in Thuringia;) --Achim (talk) 21:15, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Done, not sure if I got them all, maybe a few might be left over. --Achim (talk) 17:46, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Achim (talk) 17:46, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
I am requesting for a bot operator to start archiving all external links on Wikimedia Commons using the InternetArchiveBot script as could be found here:
Maybe a bot operator could draw some inspiration from the page "User:Fæ/Wayback" developed by Fæ. Personally I'd prefer if the bot would try to archive links from the oldest files with external links on Wikimedia Commons to the newest, note that there exist a very large amount of files on Wikimedia Commons that have lost their "original website" and their licenses aren't as well documented anymore (see the top link). --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 10:16, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Considering the size of this task, a proposal is needed for community discussion. --Fæ (talk) 10:47, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
The proposal has received a fair amount of support with no opposition and has heen open for quite a while, after it'll be closed I'd advise the Bot-operator to try and archive links based on the oldest first, but as there are +/- 25.000.000 (plus-minus twenty-five-million) media files 📁 with external links on Wikimedia Commons I'd probably say that Fæ's suggestion of targeting high risk links first would be the wisest option. Anyhow as there's a huge backlog and linkrot has already been infecting a large number of files it would probably be best for someone who works a lot with external licenses like Fæ to do the directing (if they're interested, of course). Let's just hope that not more (unreviewed) licenses will be lost in the meantime, also maybe already (human- or bot-)reviewed licenses should go last(?), I'm not an expert. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
@Fæ: do you know when this project could be launched now that there's consensus for it? Will only one bot be archiving links or hasn't it been resolved who'll run the bot for this? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:19, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Correct, "who" has not been resolved, so "when" is indefinite. Not only do I need to focus on other things, what time I have left would be better spent thinking about content creation rather than fighting entropy. Plus, at some point, the community may want to see me take on some sysop related tasks. --Fæ (talk) 19:55, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
I will put it up in the general village pump then, also I was planning on nominating you for adminship but thought that a more trusted user could do it, good luck with that by the way. I will also contact Cyberpower[forgot the numbers] to see if they're interested otherwise will file a Phabricator task. I'll ask in the village pump first how I should procede. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:59, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Adding OTRS permission
Hi, I would like to ask someone to add the following wikitext {{PermissionOTRS|id=2019040310009792|user=Michal Lenc}} into all 6 390 photos (to the |permission= box) uploaded in this category Category:Renovation of the Old Town Hall Tower (Prague). A valid OTRS permission has been provided with number ticket:2019040310009792 (only in Czech and only for OTRS members) and as an OTRS agent (you can verify here) I can confirm that it´s ok. Thanks in advice, --Michal Lenc (talk) 18:39, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
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http external file link replacement
With the search insource:"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:" there is up to 10,706 results. In file space, with external links ending in .jpg .png .gif .svg please replace all of these with the correct wikilink.
It will add files Category:Files with broken file links or category within, which will list cropped or sourced to files since deleted that we can review.
Thank you.--BevinKacon (talk) 15:56, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
I have that already on my to-do list. I will include this in the next update as part of my general fixes. --Schlurcher (talk) 17:47, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
I have implemented this. Please see my testing environment: It will now run on the file search. I will then add this to my daily routines. --Schlurcher (talk) 16:06, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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I checked the first 100. There are still some issues . I will continue once fixed. --Schlurcher (talk) 16:29, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Tool that corrects erroneous dates, by extracting the right date from EXIF
I noticed a large technical category in which the "date=" property's value is wrong due to a ancient bug (since resolved).
A solution would be for a bot to:
Extract the real date from EXIF
Compare with the date in "date={{According to EXIF data|____-__-__}}"
Fix if erroneous, and also remove the "Hidden categories: Photographs taken on ____-__-__" if present
Is there an existing bot or combination of bots that could do that? Thanks a lot for any insight, and if you are interested in this task please contact me for details!:-) Syced (talk) 05:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
@Syced: Do you have any example images that I could take a look at? What is the name of the category? --TheSandDoctor (talk) 04:41, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
@Syced: I am fairly confident that I have a working solution, but will do some more (non-editing) trials with it today if possible and get back to you with an update over the weekend, okay? --TheSandDoctor (talk) 13:28, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
@Syced: Sorry for the delay, I've been bogged down in finals. EXIF DateTimeOriginal is regarded as the "correct" version which should overrule date={{According to EXIF data|____-__-__}} should they disagree, correct? If so, I am basically ready to file a bot request for approval. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:17, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
@TheSandDoctor: You are correct, EXIF DateTimeOriginal is the correct value, and the value currently in date={{According to EXIF data|____-__-__}} is often incorrect. Thanks a lot and good luck with your finals:-) Syced (talk) 03:27, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
@Syced: Altering the date in Template:According to Exif data appears to update the hidden category as well. The only way I see removing it to be to remove the template? Or did you just mean to update it? --TheSandDoctor (talk) 03:05, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying Syced. I had been saving 2 test edits in case a change was needed around this, but have now completed them while writing this and will be reporting on the bot request momentarily. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 13:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Me and Dan checked the 10 edits, they are all good. We are favorable to running the bot on the whole category. Syced (talk) 15:25, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
That bot seems to do similar things indeed, but it would have required a few changes: 1) ArndBot does not overwrite if there is a date already 2) The ArndBot description does not say that it can be restricted to a particular category. Syced (talk) 02:44, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Syced, i think i can update the bot accordingly. But i need some time since i am in vacation soon. Is it very urgent? --Arnd (talk) 16:42, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Just read that it is somehow done be another bot. Btw, instead of the category also a file list can be used generated by an appropriate search such as or similar.- --Arnd (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Cool, you bot seems to be quite versatile. For the present task TheSandDoctor's bot is already ready to go, but I wish you a lot of successes with your future tasks:-) Syced (talk) 02:47, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Question I made for example this picture and I'm really sure, that it was made on the day before uploading (22. Jan. 2019). But what will a bot do, if it see in EXIF, that my camera has the wrong date (20. Jan. 2018)??? Habitator terrae🌍 16:17, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
The bot is expected to work only on Category:Uploaded with Mobile/Android. Your picture is not in this category and thus not affected by the bug of the application and thus will not be processed. --Schlurcher (talk) 17:44, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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Fixing some links
For all pages in File: namespace with a link that starts with this exact string up to the double slash: http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p// , convert the double slash to single slash, i.e. replace http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p// with
http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/ . Example edit. Thanks in advance for any help, MartinPoulter (talk) 19:37, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
I now have AWB permission so I'll do this myself. MartinPoulter (talk) 12:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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List of all permanently blocked media files
Hi, does anyone have a current list of all permanently blocked (edit-protected) media files on Commons or does know how to generate one? --Schlurcher (talk) 08:10, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
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Remove CFD templates where CFD is closed
In some cases when a CFD discussion is closed, the {{Category for discussion}} template doesn't get removed from the category(ies) being discussed. This can happen when a discussion is for more than one category and the person who closes the discussion doesn't realize that there was a {{Category for discussion}} template on multiple categories. It might also happen for other reasons. Can a bot do the following?
For each category in Category:Categories for discussion, find the CFD discussion(s) it links to (there could be more than one). I think a bot should be able to construct the discussion page name by looking at the parameters of the {{Category for discussion}} template on the page. (If there is no {{Category for discussion}} template on the page, or the bot can't determine the name of the discussion page, flag the category for inspection by a human.)
Examine the linked CFD discussion page(s) to determine whether the discussion(s) is/are closed. If closed, or the page doesn't exist, add the category to a list so that a person can check the category and take appropriate action. (I don't think the bot should remove the {{Category for discussion}} template because some additional action might be needed, depending on the result of the discussion.) Most closed CFD discussions would have a {{Cfdh}} template at the top.
It might be helpful to run this kind of check regularly, maybe once or twice a year or quarterly, or maybe more often if it doesn't use excessive resources.
Let me know if I can provide more info on what I am requesting. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:17, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
I thought about it some months ago. It's a bit more complicated as there are tagged cats that do not show up in Category:Categories for discussion (see Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/10 and Category:CfD 2013-10 for example, I didn't fix the cats), so one had to trace all of the CfD <month> categories. In addition, there are closed requests that don't contain a {{cfdh}}/{{cfdf}} pair. But I think the whole thing is feasible. --Achim (talk) 17:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
@Achim55: Thanks! I'll work on them. Is it OK if I mark the ones I resolve somehow? I could move the false positives to a separate section. I could either do the same with the others or strike them out. Or I could handle them however you prefer. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:44, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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Create category-structure for Swedish municipalities
Hello! So, to create some structure among the Swedish municipalities, I would like some help in creating some categories. I would like the categories:
[[:Category:Bodies of water in XXX Municipality]] as a subcategory to [[:Category:Bodies of water in Sweden by municipality|XXX]] and [[:Category:Nature of XXX Municipality]]Done --Achim (talk) 20:15, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
[[:Category:Nature of XXX Municipality]] as a subcategory to [[:Category:Nature of Sweden by municipality|XXX]] and [[:Category:XXX Municipality]]Done --Achim (talk) 15:41, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
[[:Category:Nature reserves in XXX Municipality]] as a subcategory to [[:Category:Nature reserves in Sweden by municipality|XXX]] and [[:Category:Nature of XXX Municipality]]Done --Achim (talk) 21:24, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
A list of municipalities could probably be fetched from Category:Municipalities in Sweden. I will then put the categories within the correct county manually and try to look for errors afterwards. Would this be possible? //moralist (talk) 08:39, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Comment: Take care, there already exist some "Nature of XXX Municipality" as well as "Nature in XXX Municipality". --Achim (talk) 16:48, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
I have taken care of that now. All existing categories are now called "Nature of XXX Municipality". //moralist (talk) 17:13, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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Batch update links
Hello,
there are 89 links pointing to 1886.u-bordeaux3.fr domain. The university name changed some years ago and u-bordeaux3.fr domain is not active anymore. All links have to be updated by replacing u-bordeaux3.fr by u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr.
If any bot owner can run a task to fix that it would be great!
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author field in info template
I'd like to replace the author field content in all files (~17400) in Category:Files by C.Suthorn, but none of the files, that are in subcategories only, from
@C.Suthorn: Doing… However, I think after this replacement, it will not a good idea to modify User:C.Suthorn/author frequently. --Kanashimi (talk) 05:32, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
@C.Suthorn: Done I have replaced all token exactly matched |author=[[c:Special:EmailUser/C.Suthorn|C.Suthorn]] of pages in Category:Files by C.Suthorn. --Kanashimi (talk) 08:28, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a log of the number of the edits? (I know that some files will have been left out (i.e. files with an art template instead of info, and with the count of bot edits, I can check, if I found all of the affected files and manually fix these). --C.Suthorn (talk) 10:42, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
I may replace |Author=[[c:Special:EmailUser/C.Suthorn|C.Suthorn]] too. If you need, please tell me. --Kanashimi (talk) 12:24, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Yes, please. It is author / photographer instead of Author --C.Suthorn (talk) 13:14, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
So I will replace |Author=[[c:Special:EmailUser/C.Suthorn|C.Suthorn]] and |Author=[[c:Special:EmailUser/C.Suthorn|C.Suthorn]] → |author={{User:C.Suthorn/author}}, is this right? --Kanashimi (talk) 13:34, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
|author=[[c:Special:EmailUser/C.Suthorn|C.Suthorn]] and |photographer=[[c:Special:EmailUser/C.Suthorn|C.Suthorn]] → |Author={{User:C.Suthorn/author}} if I haven't got it wrong. --C.Suthorn (talk) 15:20, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Done Well, all files listed above is also replaced. There is no exception now. Please check again. --Kanashimi (talk) 22:13, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
looks fine. --C.Suthorn (talk) 05:56, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:40, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
And its content (6897 pages) being moved to a single different cat. I don't see the benefit. --Achim (talk) 10:00, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
any other solutions? The categorization of 6000+ images is a huge work--Estopedist1 (talk) 15:48, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
That's true but it doesn't become less if we moved it from A to B. --Achim (talk) 06:36, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
@Estopedist1: Mostly done. I did custom replacements using VFC. But I couldn't use it on over 700 pages so you'll need to do it manually or run a bot. Masum Reza📞 23:08, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
It would take quite a while to do it manually so I'd appreciate if someone would do it with a bot. Note that a few files already may have the template.Jonteemil (talk) 17:46, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
I don't think we need a bot for this. It can easily be done with VisualFileChange. The licence replacement doesn't seem to be controversial either. De728631 (talk) 23:12, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
@De728631: Sorry, I have zero experience in using that tool. Can you do it or guide me how I would go about please?Jonteemil (talk) 00:06, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Sure, I can do that. I just wanted to wait for some feedback on this licence replacement. De728631 (talk) 15:32, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
@Jonteemil: From the wider community of users. Changing an established licence template usually needs consensus. So before starting a mass edit, you might want to ask for approval at Commons:Village Pump/Copyright. I do think your proposal makes sense, but we should get some more input. De728631 (talk) 20:10, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
On a second thought, this change is not going to remove the PD status of any such file, so I'll just go ahead and replace the PD-old templates. De728631 (talk) 16:29, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
@P170: Has OTRS permission already been sent for these files? Do you have a ticket number? I'd prefer to tag them {{OTRS recieved}} instead of just spraying (mostly meaningless) OTRS pending tags everywhere. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 16:40, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
No permission yet. I will now ask the rights holder to send the mail at OTRS-team. Thank you for your information that the pending-tags are not necessary. --P170 (talk) 18:10, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
I think there is a Bot tasked to automatically add the {{OTRS recieved}} once a ticket is received. I forgot the name of the bot, though. --Schlurcher (talk) 17:02, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Apparently I do. See Commons:Bots/Requests/Krdbot 4 for reference. According to recent bot edits, Krdbot is performing this task as expected. --Schlurcher (talk) 17:14, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
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Let's see...by "some files", you appear to mean about 2100 files: . At what point in the 15-minute Cat-A-Lot run did you notice something was wrong? --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:01, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
After the run, I checked my contributions and found those errors. I was trying to move files from a redirect category to its target category, since I can't use CommmonsDelinker, I thought I would run cat-a-lot. I am so sorry about this. Masum Reza📞 12:01, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
@Masumrezarock100: This isn't a bot task, this is something YOU need to work through manually and resolve, keeping those files that are correctly categorised in the Category:Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark III and Tamron SP AF 70-200mm F2.8 Di VC USD category and at this stage, I would say you should now be creating appropriate categories for those files taken with different models of camera, but I suppose restoring them to the parent category would be (barely) acceptable. Nick (talk) 16:52, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
I see. I was thinking about the custom replace (like in VFC). The bot would do replacements of category. I tried to do fix some myself using Cat-a-lot but it's still a huge work. Masum Reza📞 23:40, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
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Change in template documentation
Hello!
I suggest a change on all pages in https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Convert_to_SVG/layout&namespace=10&limit=100 except the notification pages and the /fr and /ru documentation. The change is Commons:Media for cleanup -> Commons:Media for cleanup#PNG or JPEG images that should be SVG however I am unable to do it, unless I would do it manually which would take quite a while. For the languages that have [[Commons:Media for cleanup|/translation/]] I suggest [[Commons:Media for cleanup#PNG or JPEG images that should be SVG|/translation/]] and for the languages that have [[Commons:Media for cleanup]] I suggest [[Commons:Media for cleanup#PNG or JPEG images that should be SVG|Commons:Media for cleanup]]. Some languages doesn't even link to COM:Media for cleanup (i.e. zh-hant) so you know. Thanks!Jonteemil (talk) 02:33, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
You could probably do it using COM:AWB. Masum Reza📞 00:00, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Any link to a CAT: shortcut has now become a categorization. I can't fix these with VFC because VFC can't load non-file pages afaik. - Alexis Jazzping plz 15:51, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I have just approved an e-mail containing permission for files in Category:Files by Martin Brož (2000+ files) which were all nominated for speedy deletion (no permission tag).
Please add:
{{PermissionOTRS|id=2019111810003845|user=Mates}}
to all files in specified category. Thank you. --Mates (talk) 12:15, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
I'm helping a little. - Alexis Jazzping plz 14:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
@Fæ: shouldn't the bot also tag its edits as PermissionOTRS? - Alexis Jazzping plz 14:23, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
As far as I know, edit tags are supposed to be added/triggered by the system, not the bot. If you mean the edit comment, there are no guidelines as to what these should be and this may vary by tool and user. @Krd: any view? --Fæ (talk) 14:48, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
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A bot to recognize animations/non-animations
Earlier there was a bot (User:JarektBot) to recognize animations (an example: ). Today there are not? Why? Should be. And because there are many gif-files which are not animations, there should be a bot which add there template {{BadGIF}}--Estopedist1 (talk) 12:39, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Estopedist1, JarektBot does not have set tasks . I just use it when I have some repeated tasks, and apparently at some point I was sorting GIF files. I found this SQL query which apparently I used as one time task of adding Category:Animated GIF files to animated GIFs. Now few years latter we have 11k gifs which should be added to that category. I can run this process again. --JarektBot (talk) 19:49, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
I don't know, but really thanks for the query!--Estopedist1 (talk) 21:23, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Since VFC works only on files, and I do not know of another tool for other namespaces, I ask for the help of a bot.
In about 100 categories I want to change {{Object Location dec| against {{Object location| (lc "l" please).
The now deprecated template redirect categorizes these categories to the (not defined!) Category:Maint:locdec. An amount of just 100 I can do manually – but I would be very pleased if a bot can do it. -- sarang♥사랑 09:51, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
A lot of files uploaded by Kotoko09032 are screenshots from YouTube but do not have a license review template. Would appreciate if a bot can add {{LicenseReview}} to the files there aren't checked yet. Approx no. of files is between 600-700. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 11:55, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Done using VFC. Please check, the feedback on VFC is not great. --Fæ (talk) 13:56, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Significant amount of files from other sites such as tistory. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 14:17, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Missed files seem to be because of different templates. Now doing the youtube ones only. Otherstuff you may need to specify again, if the numbers are worth it. Processing will probably be finished in the next hour, running under my main account at about 2/minute just see my contributions. PS this search may be useful later. --Fæ (talk) 15:13, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Will wait for you to finish clearing the youtube ones. I'll add the rest by hand if there isn't a lot of it. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 15:23, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for clearing the ones from tistory too. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 09:25, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
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}} missing in 200+ descriptions
Yesterday's upload in the category:Photographs by Gerard Martinus Versteeg have a missing section end in the field Description.
The nl| part is not correctly finished, the en| part starts without finishing the previous language.
It does not concern the entire category, notably the files containing "RV-A103".
Leaving out the }} results in a messy page...
Help would be much appreciated!
best regards
Riezelaar (Richard van Alphen, Nationaal Museum van WEreldculturen)
Comment Did about 45 of them with VFC, replacing "1904{{en|" with "1904}}{{en|". Had to stop in between due to conflicting edits (undoing my re-categorization) and seems like there are about 205 files left. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 14:35, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
That is marvellous! it has done the trick, structure is back in place. Many thanks to you 大诺史
best, Richard.
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mass edit
In SVG Deutsche Einheitskurzschrift it seems useful to replace the {{Information}} of ~530 bytes by a transclusion of just 19 byte (could have been shorter but I selected a descriptive template name). Using VFC, I changed the first 1000 – but there are 12,811 total! Can it be done by a bot? The requested change can be seen where it has been done. -- sarang♥사랑 10:00, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
While I appreciate the good intentions, this does not make any sense. We do not care about the amount of size of each file page in bytes. You cannot remove all content from a file page including section headers and replace it with a single template just to cut down on bytes. {{SVG DEK infobox}}must be substituted if you are adding it to pages. I have reverted the changes you have made by your unapproved bot. ~riley(talk) 19:26, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
+ Just because a page has low byte count in wikitext, doesn't mean the rendered html page would have low byte count as well. We use w:en:WP:SUBST for a reason. Masum Reza📞 19:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
@~riley: {{SVG DEK infobox}}must be substituted if you are adding it to pages For what reason? de-duplication is a thing and if we need to change the description (say, add a translation) of so many pages, we can do it once on the template rather than on 12k places. No, template isn't just about reduction of size. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 02:12, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
If @Sarang: wishes to have the file pages say the below, then I have no issue:
== {{int:filedesc}} ==
{{SVG DEK infobox}}
== {{int:license-header}} ==
{{PD-ineligible}}
[[Category:SVG Deutsche Einheitskurzschrift]]
However, there is no good reason to completely remove the section headers and license from the page by having the page contents only include the template. If this is the direction Sarang wants to go, there should be community consensus to support this approach. ~riley(talk) 02:22, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
One other major concerns to discuss: File descriptions are expected to describe the file. This template is generalizing 12,000 files and the last sentence in the description literally translates to "The meaning of the word can be found in the last part of the file name." Referring readers to the file name, quite frankly, is lazy work. This is not how we do mass uploading. @Fæ: What are your thoughts on this? ~riley(talk) 02:30, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
there is no good reason... the template I don't get this. What is the difference, aside from... perhaps aesthetics? Referring readers ... is lazy work. This could probably be solved by some sort of pattern matching in lua. However, this does not change the fact that at the moment every description is exactly the same; I don't see how whether it is a template transclusion or substitution would change anything about it. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 02:42, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Removing this information from the file page, and into a generic template, restricts the ability to modify it. For example, the uploader has put date "2019" because the template format prevents them from being specific about when the files were created. If I want to do a translation, specific to that file (as they should be), I cannot do that with the template. The concern about the description being the exact same is seperate from my concern about template transclusion or subsitution. My concern with not subsitributing is that the uploader is removing section headers and licensing information from the page. As long as that information is on the page, it doesn't matter to me if they transclude or not. This seems poorly thought out. ~riley(talk) 03:20, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Modification of the description is doable with template parameters. The "2019" one could be done with a |date = 2019. The description is indeed a more complex matter, However, the description in German is exactly the same. Since you pointed out "The meaning of the word" is pointing to the filename, I don't think it would be hard to have German description pattern match firm the filename and have every other language provide the 'meaning' from a template parameter. Something like:
|description =
{{de|..... The meaning is: {{#invoke:....}}}}
{{#if:{{{meaning-en|}}}|{{en|..... The meaning is: {{{meaning-en}}}}}
This has the added benefit of uniformity of the description and the clarity of what meta-information is to be excepted on this set of files.
removing section headers The section headers is in {{SVG DEK infobox}}. Could you explain the concern with that?
licensing information The licensing information is also in the template. I can see that it could potentially break automated processes from reading the license. If that is the concern, could you name the automated process that would be affected? I could think of two programs that reads license: VFC, which uses categories (search for mdLicenseRecognization), and MediaViewer, which uses span tags. Nether would be affected by this change.
removing section headers - TBH, I have never seen any file pages without wikitext sections. We have been using this format since old times, if someone wants to change it they should get community consensus first. Either via a RFC or a proposal at VPP. Also if we use a generic template to transclude the header we lose the ability to amend it freely.
licensing information - I don't think any automated process would be broken because of this. That said there's no reason to assume that all files would have the same license. Licensing information can be disputed and which is why we have deletion process.
A newbie who is used to seeing a normal format of wikitext in file pages can easily get confused by this. They would have to read the documentation and know new template parameters and their values. Waste of time IMO.
That's what I think anyway. Please ignore my comments if I am being unhelpful here. Thanks. Masum Reza📞 05:36, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Ok you do have a point regarding newbie friendly and same license assumption. Though, I have never seen any file pages without wikitext sections Oh, we have too many :P. Not saying it's a good thing.
Responding to ping, no this is not the way this should be done. The wikitext on the page itself, must be parsable by tools, bots and users. Failures this type of information hiding using transclusion would create are:
If someone wants to find images related to writing systems by license template using insource in the standard search, these images would be invisible
Standard tools like cat-a-lot will fail even in the current layout which unnecessarily embeds conditional statements using #if within the category, these should be removed
Templates designed for talk pages like {{U}} should not be used within image text pages, again this makes parsing of basic data unpredictable
Obscuring categories by either embedding them in custom templates or by using conditional statements should be avoided as other contributors will be effectively locked out from changing categories unless they are prepared to invest the extra time to de-program the customized logic. Though templates like credit templates exist, these rarely contain anything more complex than credit or permission text and a simple bucket category.
These problems are easily avoided, a mass edit can apply completely standard searchable and editable information to the information boxes, information that any newbie can understand if they press "edit" and examine the text, rather than being faced with a unique template that literally says nothing because it has been designed to obscure information and make the image page hard or impossible to edit. At the end of the day decisions on more templates should keep in mind that this project is a wiki that "anyone can edit", not just old timers and programmers. --Fæ (talk) 06:38, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Ok, I see that this is not wanted, because of different reasons - at least it is much more complicated than I thought. Thanks to all for the information!
My intention had been to pull out (by a template, possibly using Lua) that "last part of the file name" and to display it directly by in the description instead of mentioning it. Because everything in the file page is the same for thousands of files, and possible future changes are easy to perform by parameters in a template, I took all into it; including the section headers.
BTW, I know about another template (at least one), transcluded currently 16,236 times, which contains everything (including section headers) and is the only content of all the file pags; since 2006. When it is absolutely necessary to have even this cases searchable etc., some changes have to be done. When I shall have some time for that, I will discuss it with Masumrezarock100. -- sarang♥사랑 09:15, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: -- sarang♥사랑 06:48, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
@大诺史: If the more more specific name is correct, then that is better. If we aren't sure then the more general is preferable to getting it wrong I think. 00:07, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
@Thryduulf: Done. Moved it to the general name. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 03:59, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
What need is there for this categorization? We primarily use the year categories for sorting chronologically; I don't see any likely use case for categorization by the first day of the year. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:37, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
If at all (I have no opinion on whether these categories are useful), they should be added in {{Yearcategory}}, which makes this and any further change easier by eliminating the need for a bot (although the template can be edited only by admins and template editors, but it’s still easier to find a willing admin than a willing bot owner). I’m closing this section as not a bot task. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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Category:Uncategorized images of rail vehicles (3 200 files)
That's weak evidence of a consensus, however it makes no sense to have an unsorted category under what is probably a diffusion parent. Try adding {{diffuse}} to the Istanbul category and put the subcat up for discussion. Files moved. --Fæ (talk) 16:38, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
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Now mostly done. Exceptions are archive pages and project page translations which force updates via the translation tool. --Fæ (talk) 14:43, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Fæ for the help. Rest I will find a way to do manually. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:44, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
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Mass-revert DannyS712 bot
Hi! Some of User:DannyS712 bot’s 1,800 yesterday edits are wrong (not many, I don’t think more than a few dozens of pages, probably even less), but finding the bad ones is pretty painful manually, and the bot owner is unwilling to help. I suggest to revert all edits (where the bot is the last editor), as a later run will redo the correct edits anyway. If someone tries harder to algorithmically find the bad edits, that’s even better. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:56, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Requesting input from the bot operator @DannyS712: . Most of those edits looks good, so I don't think we should revert all edits. Masum Reza📞 08:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
I believe that I and others have already reverted the problematic edits. Contrary to the insinuation above, I was willing to help, and spent an hour doing so. @Alexis Jazz: also helped, and I believe that reverting the edits this way would not be beneficial --DannyS712 (talk) 08:48, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Upload each of the 56 new images as a new file, numbered sequentially, as "Horace Mann Livens - sketchbook of figure, character and subject studies - page 01.jpg et seq, retaining the original category
Add a two-image gallery to each original mage, containing the derivative images
I'll then see to fixing rotation, categorisation and "depicts" statements. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:58, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: Done semi-manually as it would have probably taken just as long to write code to do it. Used imagej for the image processing, commonist to do the upload, then cleaned up by hand and with vfc. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:24, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hi! Many files from Pixabay are not uploaded in the max size. Is there any way to make a list of all files where size on Commons is not = max size on Pixabay? --MGA73 (talk) 13:17, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
@MGA73: The Pixabay Terms of Service prohibits the use of any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods and Large scale or systematic copying of Content, including using any of the methods referred to above, is prohibited except as expressly authorized by Pixabay. This applies to all Content, including Content made available as part of the public domain. For this reason, running a bot to pull information from Pixabay, even just the original resolution, is not a good idea. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:31, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
@AntiCompositeNumber: The world is a dangerous place. All we need is someone to take a chance;-) It would be a one time run. --MGA73 (talk) 19:36, 29 February 2020 (UTC)-
We don't like it when other people violate our terms of use. It would be rather inappropriate to violate the ToU of another website simply to make our jobs easier. It being a one time run is irrelevant. --Majora (talk) 19:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
And if a museum take a photo of a 200 yr old painting and put it on the web and says it is copyrighted we do not add PD-art? --MGA73 (talk) 19:54, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
That's...quite a good example of a false equivalency actually. You're comparing two completely different things with totally different circumstances. You are asking someone to actively violate another website's terms of use just to check to see if we have the largest resolution of a file? Something that can easily be done by hand. This isn't some example of upload or don't upload, have the image or not. We have the image. You're asking for something totally different. Hence, false equivalency. --Majora (talk) 19:58, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
Why don't you do it? quarry:42632 might help you. No one is going to do it by bot though. Running a scraper on a website that prohibits it would violate the WMF Cloud Services terms of use if done from Toolforge/CloudVPS, and it's a bad idea and just plain rude in any case. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:17, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
@AntiCompositeNumber: Thank you for the list. As to the question why I don't check 4,628 files by hand? The obvious answer is: It will take a lot of time! --MGA73 (talk) 22:35, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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These all have some sort sort of "Unidentified" category. Btw, spiders are not insects you know.. - Alexis Jazz 23:06, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Comment @Ymnes: Try Suriname -insource:/Category:.* Suriname/ -insource:/Category:.* Curaçao/ -insource:/Category:.* Paramaribo/ -insource:/Category:Suriname.*/ -insource:/Category:Curaçao.*/ -insource:/Category:Paramaribo.*/. It's not perfect but maybe it helps. - Alexis Jazz 10:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Done 41 moves. I have a custom way of doing these, but someone did write a tool to do mass renames. It's in the archives of this noticeboard somewhere. --Fæ (talk) 11:48, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Oppose @Akademie věd České republiky: That would mean adding a Share-Alike restriction. Your {{Cc-by-3.0}} licenses are irrevocable. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:59, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Approved. See Commons:Bots/Requests/Cewbot 5 --Kanashimi (talk) 11:44, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
--Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 08:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Question I made for example this picture and I'm really sure, that it was made on the day before uploading (22. Jan. 2019). But what will a bot do, if it see in EXIF, that my camera has the wrong date (20. Jan. 2018)??? Habitator terrae 🌍 16:17, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Doing… However, I think after this replacement, it will not a good idea to modify User:C.Suthorn/author frequently. --Kanashimi (talk) 05:32, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
OK solved--Estopedist1 (talk) 09:07, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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