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I have a large series of photos I want to upload, mostly of Shinto Shrines in Japan. I would like to mass upload them with similar names (say Immanuelle 2024 Japan trip photo x.jpg) and then rename them en masse after.
The reasoning behind this is that the folder I have is currently rather disorganized, and the tools provided here on wikimedia commons are very helpful for figuring out where the photo was actually taken. Because I can see the metadata pretty well here and look at the coordinates on the map provided to identify which shrine the photo was of, or similar.
If you're using Upload Wizard, it will use the file name it obtained from your source device, then present the opportunity for you to give the files another name during that process. Is that what you're looking for, or were you trying to rename them after they were uploaded? RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 19:29, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@RadioKAOS renaming them after they were uploaded. My files are all named like this, and the upload wizard does not allow me to view the metadata. I need to upload the file and then look at the stuff in the description. The upload wizard also is too unstable to upload any amount of files and fill in the information properly. Some of them are ones I can easily identify the location like IMG_3274 is at Mount Omuro but others are impossible without looking at the map linked in the description. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me)19:45, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have several pictures of Dexter Very (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Very) that I'd like to upload, but I'm not able to do so. They were in my father's memorabilia from this school where he attended and then was an employee for most of his career.
@Williampeck1958: You cannot cross-upload images to Commons when you are on Wikipedia, because your Commons account is too recent. You can upload your images when you are here on Commons. After you upload them on Commons, then you can use them on Wikipedia. -- Asclepias (talk) 12:47, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Williampeck1958: There needs to be some rationale for the photos to be free, in the sense of Commons policies. If they were published at the time (such as if they are scanned from contemporary newspapers), the needed 95 years since publication would have expired, and the 'licence' would be {{PD-US-expired}}. If, on the other hand, they were never published in the legal sense, but just ended up in his collection, it is trickier: the photographer would need to have been dead since 1953 (if they lived to 70, they would need to have been older than 21 at the time, etc.). If the photographer is unknown and the photo unpublished, copyright expires in 1926 2026. In these cases the template to use is {{PD-US-unpublished}}. –LPfi (talk) 08:11, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are some other even trickier cases if they were first published 1 March 1989 through 2002 (or published with notice 1978 through 28 February 1989), where they would be protected 95 years from publication.
Conversely, not that it matters much here, but most things published in U.S. newspapers, yearbooks, etc. up to and including 1963 will have expired (even if they are far less than 95 years old) because almost no one except a handful of newspapers renewed their copyrights, as they then needed to to retain them. - Jmabel ! talk18:04, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, true. Perhaps Williampeck1958 should consider whether first publication in those time spans could be likely. However, if there are no specific reasons to believe some of the photos could have been first published 1978–2002, I think we can ignore that scenario. Likewise, only if we think a photo could have been first published 1929–1963, we have a reason to check for non-renewal. –LPfi (talk) 07:00, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I want to make a article on possible characteristics of a pre Greek substrate language. Only problem I cant confirm it will be super accurate. but I would like try to help spread some information on the subject. Should I add a a disclaimer. Or should i not do it entirely Storm9711 (talk) 04:30, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can I do this? And do I have to state that it was rendered using AI? I want to know because I am thinking of doing this to a few photos I found of low quality. ElMexicanotres (talk) 07:16, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi ElMexicanotres. There's some general information on this at Commons:AI-generated media. However, in addition to copyright related concerns, some of the various language Wikipedias may have their own policies and guidelines in place related to encyclopedic concerns associated with using such images. So, you might find that even if an AI enhanced image is OK for Commons from a copyright standpoint, there's could be a consensus established on a local Wikipedia project not to use it for encyclopedic reasons. How an image is used encyclopedically isn't really of concern of Commons per se, and is often something that needs to be discussed on relevant talk pages of the local Wikipedia project where you want to use the image. English Wikipedia's en:Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence, for example, states: "the community consensus is to prefer human decisions over machine-generated outcomes until the implications are better understood." This seems to imply there's still a lot of uncertainty regarding the use of such images and also perhaps quite a bit of resistence to using them. You might ultimately have to resolve things on a per image basis until relevant policy becomes more settled. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:52, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For what usage do you need this file? Copyright is no problem here but the question is whether this is in scope or not. GPSLeo (talk) 05:40, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For profile picture in my userpage, it is a great picture so others can also use it for whatever purpose. And if it is against the guidelines, please let me know! ~redmyname31~💬09:28, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Redmyname31: You appear to be active enough to upload one image for personal use on your user page. Presuming the image doesn't violate someone's copyright, it should be fine. - Jmabel ! talk18:46, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I want to add a version to this image which does not have so much whitespace. Silly question: how do I upload it so it becomes an alternative version of the original rather than creating a whole new entry. Ldm1954 (talk) 19:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alternative versions are not supported by the software, but you can upload a cropped version of the image under a different name and add a link in the description template with a new line |other_versions = [[the other version]]. Commons:CropTool was made specifically for this purpose and will losslessly crop a JPEG file. --rimshottalk21:08, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mostly correct, but rather than just [[the other version]]:
When I try to Publish Page, it tells me "Error: The text you have submitted is 2,331.298 kilobytes long, which is longer than the maximum of 2,048 kilobytes. It cannot be published."
I also found a bug ticket that the problem is caused when the geoJSON gets prettified during upload. It says you can upload by API, but I think this is beyond my skillset.
Hello, I'm looking for a specific picture of Hohenzollern Castle that I saw on wikimedia commons a long time ago. Back then there was a category "views of Hohenzollern Castle" which contained every photo of views of hohenzollern castle, whereas now there are many categories, one for each year (see here: Category:Remote views of Hohenzollern Castle by year) I am struggling to look through these. Then I tried to use the "incategory" search function:
"incategory:views_of_hohenzollern_castle"
But this returned only categories in this category and not files in every category in this category.
My first question: how do you search every file in every category in this category "views_of_hohenzollern_castle"
My second question:
I want to put every photo in both categories "remote views of hohenzollern castle in 20XX" and "remote views of hohenzollern castle" for others' convenience. is that the wrong way of categorization? what are wikimedia's rules for that? Henrysz (talk) 03:56, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Henrysz: for your first question, I've made a gallery page at User:Matrix/castlegallery for your convenience (feel free to move it into your userspace). For anyone looking, the method I used was what you can do is go to PetScan, click "Commons" at the top, change the depth to some very high number (like 1000000) then in the categories box enter "Views of Hohenzollern Castle" (w/o quotation marks). After that go to the "Page properties" column and only tick the "File" checkbox. Uncheck the blank checkbox. Then click "Do it!". If you want the thumbnails, you can check the thumbnails option.
Thznk you so much for the fast reply, this was very helpful. Petscan is so useful, especially considering that commons' search tool is pretty bad, and google (with appended site:commons.wikimedia.org) leaves out a lot of pictures. I found what I was looking for, thanks again. Henrysz (talk) 06:27, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Buongiorno, vorrei richiedere la cancellazione della foto corseavuoto.jpeg per possibile violazione copyright.
Me ne scuso, ma data l'inesperienza ho commesso questo errore. F.Bruno91 (talk) 06:12, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good afternoon, is it permitted for me to upload a screenshot of a RT.com live to Wikimedia Commons? It states at https://www.rt.com/terms-of-use/ that:
Use of Materials
We encourage free re-use of its materials for non-commercial purposes. All content published on the Site and/or in our Products, such as texts, articles, official publications, and other documents, with exceptions listed below, can be reused without any payment or written license, provided that:
- the source is indicated as rt.com and the hyperlink is provided;
- when re-use involves modifications to the content or text, this must be stated clearly to the end user of the information.N niyaz (talk) 07:33, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@N niyaz: The wording is ambiguous: they encourage re-use for non-commercial purposes, but nowhere do they forbid commercial re-use. The statement that the material "can be reused", given some specific requirements, isn't explicitly restricted to non-commercial purposes. They may or may not have intended the statement to include commercial purposes. We tend to interpret such statements very conservatively, erring on the side of caution. –LPfi (talk) 07:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a forum in the Village Pump, Help boards, etc., either here or on other Wikimedia sites, dedicated to requests for identification of photo subjects, in particular in service of structured data tagging? I'm trying to identify a piece of military equipment to tag in a historical photo, and I'm not sure if there's a particular place to ask. Nicknimh (talk) 02:34, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hola, buenas noches. Quisiera saber si es que puedo subir a Wiki Commons bajo la licencia CC-by-3.0 este archivo del escudo de la Municipalidad de Surquillo:
¿Donde indique que la licencia CC-by-3.0 aplica al escudo ese, y quién ofrece la licensia? Yo no lo veo en la página indicada. - Jmabel ! talk04:41, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Adamant1: I think the reason why a simple intitle: search won't find slashes is that, like the body text search, title searches work on the text after it has been normalised by removing punctuation. mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Full text search has an immense amount of detail on this. The suggestion by Matrix above kind of works in that it finds over 1800 results before giving up, but mw:Help:CirrusSearch advises against doing this because of the load it causes on the Wikimedia servers.
For this kind of odd question about page titles, I usually turn to Quarry. It requires a bit of knowledge of SQL, but does allow for asking interesting questions of a copy of the database underlying Commons. For example, quarry:query/84375 gets the first ten categories with '/' in their names. There are apparently over 150,000 of them in total. --bjh21 (talk) 09:21, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the usage of materials from Ansar Allah (Houthi) Military Media website.
Hello, this has been really frustrating. The website https://mmy.ye/ is the official website for the Houthi (Ansar Allah) Military Media to upload speeches/announcements and operations. I've contacted the website administrator two times, one via Telegram and one via Twitter. They have stressed that the materials from https://mmy.ye/ and its affiliated accounts (X account, Telegram channel) is free to use, and explained that it's why they do not put a copyright notice on their footer. Unfortunately they aren't able to use emails under that domain due to fear of cyberattacks and phishing. So I want to ask people that are familiar with this matter, if the website admin (via X messages) said it is free to use with the website footer not mentioning anything whatsoever about copyright, will it be able to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? Thank you. N niyaz (talk) 08:53, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@N niyaz: Copyright notices aren't really required anymore under the copyright laws of most countries (I think); so, not having any such notice, might do the opposite of what the website admin thinks it's doing. It might be better for them to clearly state somewhere on their site that all the content or certain content is released under an acceptable COM:CC license as explained in creativecommonswiki:Marking your work with a CC license. As long as, a CC license that doesn't place any restrictions on commercial or derivative re-use is used, it should be OK for Commons. One important thing, though, is that the content has to be the originally created content of the Houthi Military Media; they can't takes someone else's creative work, add to their website and then claim it's released under a free license. They also need to be careful re-licensing any COM:DW they might have on their site since Commons would free all the elements of the work to be acceptably free. Now, something you might want to be careful with as the person uploading the content is COM:NCR. Such content may be OK from a copyright standpoint, but you should make sure uploading it doesn't violate any real world laws where you live. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:21, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why does Wikimedia reject material 95-and-a-quarter years old as "still in copyright"?
Today is 2024-07-25 and I am trying to upload a newspaper cutting from 1929-04-29. This is more than 95 years ago so out-of-copyringht and I was expecting that Wikimedia will accept it. However the latest date I can upload is 1928-12-31. Please, why does Wikimedia not accept it? - thanks in advance for your time! Best regards Jamie Jamie 20th C (talk) 11:48, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If a US work, see {{PD-US-expired}}. US publications through 1928 are expired; the 1929 works will become PD next 1 January. Some more recent US material might be public domain for other reasons (eg, didn't comply with copyright registration or renewal required decades ago), but specific info would be needed to show that. See Commons:Hirtle chart for more details about US copyrights. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 20:21, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,
i'm a newer user here and yesterday i tried to upload myfirst foto ( i didn't know that i had to choose a free licence to do that.. i'm sorry).
Now the picture for my new profile was deleted from the administrator, may you please support me to recover the foto and help me to insert the correct "free licence" i have to use before publishing my firt photo please?
Thanks a lot
BR
Carlo Neto Carlo Neto (talk) 12:26, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Carlo Neto: I assume this is about File:Carlo Neto.jpg. It wasn't deleted over a licensing issue. It was deleted because it was a personal file by someone with no significant prior contributions. Once you've made 50 or so other edits or uploads here (that aren't about yourself!), bring the matter to Commons:Undeletion requests and it will almost certainly be restored.
Again: please don't start by uploading a bunch of stuff about yourself. I'm going to have to delete File:My own Profile.jpg on the same basis. Genuinely sorry, and this can be restored once you show that you are an active contributor, if you then want to use it on your user page, but imagine what the site would be like if absolutely anyone could come along, upload their own picture, and then walk away. - Jmabel ! talk18:17, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello dear, sorry i'm very new here so i have to learn a lot about Wikipedia. If i good understtod i can upoload my "Own profile pitcure" only when i will become "Contributor" correct?
In the same time i would like to know when i will can do it? Ho much time it will occur? May i put in my sandbox page other photo that don't represent my self?
To switch from "Sandbox page" to a "real page" visible for everyone if i good understood i have to wait "7 days" and i have to make "50 changes"; it's correct?
Thank you so much and sorry for several questions i asked...
There is no firm rule here, but we allow a reasonable number of personal pictures (images that would not normally be in Commons' scope) from people who are active contributors, for use on their user pages here and/or on other WMF sites (the various Wikipedias, etc.). There is no hard-and-fast rule on what makes an active contributor, or what is a reasonable number, and we don't tend to be super-strict about it, but so far your only contributions have been to write about yourself and upload pictures of yourself. This is not a social networking site. You are very welcome to be here and make genuine contributions to the project, but if your main focus is yourself, there are other sites for that, such as Facebook. - Jmabel ! talk21:52, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Issues with attribution non-commercial share-alike license 2.0 generic
I wanted to upload this image of Titica, but when I put in the flickr link it said it doesn't accept that license. Why? The image isn't being used commercially and it's use on Wikipedia would not violate the terms of the CC license. I've had this issue with other images with that license too. Urchincrawler (talk) 16:21, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We want that our readers can use the Wikimedia Commons media files freely – even for commercial purposes. Freedom of knowledge is the essential principle this website is built upon. --Geohakkeri (talk) 16:37, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Bertan Asllani adlı İngilizce sayfa düzeltme şansı ve uyarı verilmeden silindi. Nasıl geri getirebiliriz? Ayrıca sayfanın Türkçe alternatifi bir türlü kayda değerliliği karşılamıyor. Nasıl halledeceğim konusunda bilgisizim. Bağımsız ve güvenli kaynaklar ekledim fakat hâlâ sorun var. Ambriella (talk) 16:24, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've written a draft article on an artist and want to incorporate images of individual paintings. I have permission from the artist's wife to use images on their website. How do I do this? Evbless (talk) 20:16, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Evbless: "I have permission from the artist's wife to use images on their website." May I guess from your edits that this is about Peter Stilton? Is his wife the heir to his intellectual property? Does the permission she gave consist of a specific license explicitly allowing commercial use and derivative works, with her granting of the license publicly visible somewhere online? If so, could you please link it; if not, could you better explain what you've got? - Jmabel ! talk21:58, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Evbless. You might want to take a look at COM:L, COM:LRV, COM:REUSE and COM:ENFORCE for general reference because Commons (as posted above) requires licenses that place very few restrictions on re-use. The better you understand what this means, the better you'll be able to the artist's wife. Even better would be to ask her to consult with whoever's in charge of the artist's intellectual property rights to make sure releasing the content is such a way is the best thing to do. Once something has been uploaded to Commons under an acceptable license, it's hard to get it removed at a later date and it's hard to control how it's going to be reused by others. You might want to upload the images to use in some English Wikipedia article, but it will be very hard to stop others from using the images in other ways. So, you might want to make sure the artist's wife understands and is OK with this before uploading anything to Commons. An alternative to Commons would be to upload the images locally to English Wikipedia as en:Wikipedia:Non-free content. This won't guarantee someone won't still try to reuse the images, but a non-free license is way more restrictive and makes it much harder to do so. Anything you upload will need to comply with English Wikipedia's non-free content use policy, which can be tricky; for example, you may not use non-free content in drafts. Once the draft you're working on has been approved as an article, though, you should be able to upload one or two of the artist's more notable or criticaly acclaimed works as representative examples. You won't be able to upload the artist's entire catalog as non-free content, but one or two which might be OK. Finally, since you seem fairly new to English Wikipedia editing, you might want to ask for advice about your draft on the talk page for en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts. Images aren't a requirement for a Wikipedia article, but you will need to demonstrate that artist you're writing about meets en:Wikipedia:Notability (people). The members of that particular WikiProject might be able to help you with that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:03, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for showing me a way forward! I'll ask Stilton's wife about the license and try uploading as non-free content. You make the point that before adding images, I need to get this approved as an article. I'll ask for advice from the page you recommend. (I know I need to show where the resumes I've used are coming from.)
One more question: it appears that to save changes, I click "Publish." What is the difference between this and the draft being an article?
@Evbless: "What is the difference between this and the draft being an article?" Barely related. You'll notice that on this page, when you make a comment, the label is "publish changes". "Publish" in this case just mean "write to the wiki." When the draft is published (yup, same word) as an article, that is really a matter of moving it from the "Draft" namespace to mainspace. - Jmabel ! talk
Hi Grojasp44. File:Deutsches_Apotheken-Logo_mit_Lebensrune.jpg looks like it would fall under COM:CB#Noticeboards and signs. It's also looks unlikely to entirely be the original work of the person who uploaded the file; in other words, the uploader owns the copyright on the photo, but they don't necessarily own the copyright on what they photographed. So, if the sign itself is something that is either no longer eligible or never was eleigble for copyright, you shouldn't really need to attribute the person who took the photo at all. In the English Wikipedia article en:Algiz#Modern usage where the file is being used, there's a link to this website which discusses the history of the sign/symbol. If the symbol is now considered to be in the public domain (sorry I don't read German), then you should be able create a SVG tracing of it yourself. Now, you may have to provide two copyright licenses (one for the original symbol and one for the tracing) if you upload it to Commons in a way similar to what those who create SVG emblazons of COM:COA do. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:42, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I have uploaded my first file and I am having trouble properly editing its metadata.
In particular, I would like to move the phrase "For further information on copyright, see IETF website." into the Licensing section or an appropriate parameter in the summary box - additionally, I am having trouble getting the {Created with Inkscape} template to put the information into the appropriate place (was I supposed to use it during file creation, not after?).
Looking more closely, though, I think you are wrong about the permission here. At your linked IETF website "Am I allowed to reproduce extracts from RFCs? … It is common to use extracts from RFCs that are in the form of computer code by incorporating them in software. This is the only usage formally allowed by the current IETF rules (RFC 5378). Generally speaking the IETF Trust will tolerate fair use of other extracts, but you must indicate the source of the extract and you must mention the original copyright statement if present."
While the website has the information for all RFCs, RFC 2828 (see pg. 211) has the relevant statement. I altered to use {attribution} and include the required excerpt.
We don't really have much of a standard for where a "Created with …" template goes. I usually just make it part of the description; see File:Gas Works pano 01.jpg for an example. If you want to do it with "other fields" in {{Information}} there are a few ways to do it; a typical syntax would be Other fields= {{ InFi | Row caption of your choosing |{{Created with Inkscape}} }}. - Jmabel ! talk00:55, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Tule-hog: no idea what you mean by "auto-sorting feature" but, much more importantly, I don't see how the permission statement you quote allows us to keep this file. It allows only "derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation". That is not much beyond "fair use", though it is a bit more capacius. It does not allow arbitrary derivative works, so I believe it does not qualify for Commons.
That would be more than sufficient to upload it to en-wiki for use in an article there under the policy explained at en:Wikipedia:Non-free content, but not for uploading to Commons. Possibly you could argue that this diagram is so simple as to be below the threshold of originality and is therefore in the public domain and we can keep it on that basis, but if we are accepting the copyright as accurate (and it seems you do), it does not have a license that is useful to us. - Jmabel ! talk15:51, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to reach out as I am having trouble with an item I would like to add for a school project. It is an image I took from two items at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame of a purple floppy disc with the Artist Formerly Known as Prince symbol on it and a letter from Paisley Park enterprises explaining what is on the floppy disc.
I think this is a copyright red flag, but I really want to submit this for a project, so I thought I would double check before moving onto something new entirely.
If it is relevant for your school project, it is probably fair use there (especially so if your school project is not online), but that has nothing to do with Wikimedia Commons. Please don't upload it here. - Jmabel ! talk17:53, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone. I am a beginner in using Wikipedia Commons. I've never uploaded files to Wikipedia Commons before. I edited this [2] map using Inkscape but having trouble uploading a new version of this file. The problem is "Source URL:". I tried pasting [3] and [4]. But it's not working. I thought one of these two is the source. I can't find the "source". So maybe I'm not understanding something here? What exactly should I write there? Can anyone teach me to correctly fill in that "Source URL"?
Two questions: (1) are you trying to overwrite the file, upload a new version under a different name, or do something else entirely? (2) when you say "fill in that 'Source URL'?" are you talking about doing something in Inkscape, in some particular (unspecified) context on Commons (maybe in the UploadWizard?) or somewhere else?
@Denzilhan: I assume you mean File:ÜMİT PAMUKÇU.jpg. When you upload a photo, you normally have only 7 days to change your mind, but I see that this is nearly identical to File:Ümit Pamukçu.jpg, which you also uploaded (it looks like probably a lightened version of the same image). Neither is in use, and there is really no reason to have two versions of this. So are you saying you'd like the former deleted, but the latter should remain? I think that would be easy to do on a courtesy basis (I'd just turn the former into a redirect to the latter). - Jmabel ! talk18:23, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi,
I am the owner of https://www.bomengids.nl/ a website on trees. I have about 15000 botany photos I would like to donate, but I cannot do that by hand of course.
Is there a script or something So I can automate uploading, adding the right license and making sure the image is filed under the right species and subject.
please contact me at hanscees [at] hanscees.com if this is possible. 213.233.217.13808:41, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a database describing the content (and, in particular, listing the species) or does this have to be done by site-scraping?
Please set up an account here and use it when communicating. It makes it much easier for people to notify you; also to know that they are consistently communicating with the same person. Given that you want people to email you, add an email address to your account. It is not our normal practice to email users outside of our regular system. - Jmabel ! talk15:59, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. What do we do with images that are uploaded as own work and has a license template, but are clearly not own work? I was going to tag it with {{Nsd}}, but I thought own work images don't have to have a source. The image in question is File:Lombok abad 19.jpg, thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs)12:25, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Trade: Bring it into the graphics program of your choice (I use GIMP, but for this even Microsoft Paint will do, as of course will GraphicsMagic and ImageMagic from the command line). Save as a PNG. - Jmabel ! talk16:32, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The above might sound simple enough, but it is not and very frustrating when there is nothing telling me what the 4 errors are and I have spend the last hour trying to go back and double check and figure it out but I still can't work out what the error message is and hence I cannot submit and finalise my work. I am hoping that you can advise what the typical "errors" that lead to this message are so that I can double check? Rabbitoh101 (talk) 23:50, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Screenshots from audiovisual works (such as films, television broadcasts, video clips) are often the property of its producer or creator and they may not be uploaded to Commons unless the work itself is in the public domain or released under a free license or unless the copyright holder is willing to release the screenshot under a free license. But if you got that cleared and the screenshot will be educationally useful, you’re good to go. Always remember to credit the author, provide the source and state the granted license. --Geohakkeri (talk) 22:29, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The source site for the file does not state the claimed free license you placed on the file. Do not assume something you find on the web is free licensed unless that is specifically stated. It seems over COM:TOO India, too complex to be PD. As to the article, ask on en:Wikipedia. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 03:26, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Wolfpack1999. Do you want to upload a crest or a logo? They might seem similar, but they're treated differently. If you're asking about a logo, you can only upload it to Commons if its licensing complies with COM:L. Commons doesn't accept fair use content of any type per COM:FAIR so anything you upload will either need to be too old or too simple to be eligible for copyright protect, or will need to be released by its copyrigh holder under a free license that Commons accpets. Anything else should probably be uploaded to English Wikipedia as non-free content, but only if its uses satisfy English Wikipedia's non-free content use policy. If, on the other hand you're asking about a crest, then things get a bit more complicated. Images of crests are quite similar to images of coats-of-arms in that they're visual representations of written definitions. As explained in COM:COA, this written defintion (referred to as the "blazon") is almost never considered eligible for copyright protection, but correspoinding visual representations (referred to as "emblazons") almost always are. So, you can't upload a crest you find on the school's website to Commons unless the school gives their consent to do so, and this usually means someone at the school emails Wikipedia VRT and verifies they've given their consent. Uploading such a file to English Wikipedia is almost never allowed because anyone can create their own visual representation of a crest based on its defintion, and they could then upload a freely licensed version of their representation to Commons or English Wikipedia to use instead of any non-free one found online. You could try and get the school to give its consent by following the guidance at en:WP:PERMISSION if you want; or, you could ask someone at en:WP:HERALDRY or COM:GL/ILL to try a create a freely licensed visual representation for you to use. Either of those could be uploaded to Commons and would be preferrable any non-free version of the crest you find online. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
it seem complicated to have an image upload on wikimedia due to strict license unless it is your own creation. Thank you for clarification. Wolfpack1999 (talk) 05:04, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Obviously. By claiming that a photo is under a free license when it's obviously not is a form of fraud (which is illegal) Trade (talk) 22:12, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ich möchte ein Bild hochladen bzw. speichern, habe dies vor 4 Monaten bereits versucht, klappt aber nicht, es wird das Bild nicht angezeigt, was kann ich tun? Was mach ich falsch? Was muss ich beachten? Status19a (talk) 10:42, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Was meinst du mit „es wird das Bild nicht angezeigt“? Du hast exakt eine Datei hochgeladen, und die zweimal: am 12. April und nochmals heute. Das ist File:Harald Koschik.png. Diese Datei wird in meinem Browser ohne Probleme angezeigt. Gruß --Rosenzweigτ12:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I just created an account in attempts to get registered as a 3rd party so that my company can add people to Wikipedia. Please advise on how to get started.
I need to insert an image into a first column that is in the middle of a long chart with many others. Image was successfully uploaded onto via upload wizard. Help needed! TheBaronezz (talk) 17:45, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@TheBaronezz: It would help a lot if you linked the page you want to edit. It's not obvious what would be even slightly difficult about this, so it's not obvious what help you need. - Jmabel ! talk23:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Nbadraan. Only a Commons administrator can delete a file, but you can request deletion as explained in Commons:Deletion policy if certain criteria are met. What files are you referring to? Why do you think they need to be deleted? Are these files you uploaded yourself? Were they uploaded by someone else? If you can provide some more information about these file, someone might be able to give you a more specific answer. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:15, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(Which is true: I read online that images generated with the help of AI are not subject to copyright, which I assume is the same as "public domain". Maybe that doesn't apply here because the AI only helped with the technical details of implementing my precisely worded design as an SVG?)
Also I had trouble figuring out what to put in the author field.
Anyway, the ideal license for this would be CC0. Is that a possibility?
And I'd love it if you fixed your form to not force me to put an incorrect date.
@Jruderman: Hi. I have corrected the date manually. And I think this file could fall within the public domain of simple geometry even though it is created with the help of AI. I have updated the file descriptions which is likely to make it better. Cheers. Cypp0847 (talk) 05:49, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Cypp0847. This is an improvement.
What changes do you recommend for the upload wizard to make it less confusing for others in the future?
@Jruderman: I think you can upload the file under CC0 or other free licenses which would not force you not to choose the date of today. And even wrong particulars were inputted, you can still alter it in the file description page. The upload wizard is primarily trying to be hassle-free and therefore its functions are less comprehensive. Cypp0847 (talk) 12:53, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Am I allowed to slap CC0 on something that isn't copyrightable? I kind of assumed I had to be the author in order to do that. (I suppose I could have argued that I was the author, because the AI contribution was merely technical.) Jruderman (talk) 23:19, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can't put CC-0 on someone else's work. If it's your own work, and it's so simple that it is PD in the U.S. and whatever country you are from, but possibly above the threshold of originality for copyright in some other countries, it can be a good idea to add CC-0 to clarify any doubt for people in those countries. - Jmabel ! talk00:18, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think I'm missing something here. I presume this is about the Upload Wizard, which I never use. Does choosing "I read online that this is public domain" actually mean that you cannot accurately add a date, or was the original poster here confused? If it does really have that limitation, we probably should open a phabricator ticket. ATTN: @Sannita (WMF). - Jmabel ! talk20:27, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's what the error message said. I suggest changing it to a soft warning like "if you're claiming it's public domain but the creation date is recent, you better have a good reason that it's public domain that isn't 'thing old' ". Jruderman (talk) 23:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jruderman Please, open a Phabricator ticket about this, so that we can evaluate what is the problem. If you have problems with doing so, please let me know and I can help you with that. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:50, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cypp0847: I'm not sure what you mean by "override", but I'm guessing you mean "replace" and not COM:OVERWRITE. Commons is mainly concerned about the copyright status of the content it hosts and whether said content falls within its scope. How Commons files are used encyclopedically by the various language Wikipedias isn't something that Commons has any say over per se. The different language Wikipedias are separate projects with their own policies and guidelines; for example, image use on English Wikipedia is based on en:WP:IUP, but it also depends on en:WP:CONSENSUS. So, if you want to replace the older flag with the newer flag in some English Wikipedia articles, you will need to sort that out on English Wikipedia. You can try being en:WP:CAUTIOUS or try being en:WP:BOLD depending upon whether you think replacing the flag image is going to be considered contentious by others. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:12, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Marchjuly: Sorry I do mean COM:OVERWRITE. Sorry for the confusion. There are some concerns that the old flag lacks details and thus "inaccurate". But I do understand the overwrite can only be carried out those empowered to do so and would be consequential. Cypp0847 (talk) 12:49, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Mac Edmunds: Commons doesn't really enter the picture here, and I don't offhand know the context of the particular phrase you are quoting, since you don't provide a link. I'm guessing the template in question is en:Template:Non-free use rationale. About a quarter of the way down that page, you can find an empty template that you can copy and paste. - Jmabel ! talk20:33, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To revisit the question, file pages can be edited just like all other wikipages. You can upload the image and then, if needed, edit the page and add the correct templates. It’s not very complicated, really. --Geohakkeri (talk) 08:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A soccer team, Westchester SC, does not have a wikipedia article. I am creating one for it, but I don't think there is an image already uploaded of a logo for the team. I am not sure what to do, whether I should upload it or not, as it isnt my own work. Shmego (talk) 13:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Shmego: Is there reason to think the logo is either in the public domain or (very unlikely) free-licensed? If not, then it doesn't belong on Commons.
If you need it you can, but not to Commons. You can upload it as a non-free image here. Select the option "Upload a non-free file" upload the file and fill out the form, in the third step select the option "logo". You will have to explain the method of use, I recommend copying:
"The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing Westchester SC, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey."
Once an image is uploaded, it can only be used in one article. I also recommend that you do this when your article is ready, because non-free files cannot be left unused for too long. Swiãtopôłk (talk) 21:12, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Obaje.josh: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload png images as a new user. Such uploads of png images are not allowed at all. The following applies to each image. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a png image, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but if you were not the original image designer or photographer, that person may need to post permission on their official website or social media, or send it via VRT with a carbon copy to you. Also, it will look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744), so you may want to upload a jpg or svg version, too. If you can't get compliant licenses, the images may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter. You have also triggered Special:AbuseFilter/156 by trying to upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes) jpg image as a new user. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:47, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I uploaded a picture I took of Gregg recently and I was trying to make it his main picture when you go to his page. It got placed to a group of other pictures. How can I make the one I just uploaded his main picture on his page?? Thank You. Mike Drums (talk) 01:42, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Mike Drums. Did you take File:Gregg Bissonette, 2014 Music City Drum Show. Nashville, TN.jpg yourself? I know you posted this above, but I just want to make sure because Commons most likely can't keep the file if you didn't. The COM:EXIF data for the file indicates that it comes from some Facebook page? Did you take the photo, upload it to Facebook, download it from Facebook and then upload it to Commons? The general liceasing for Facebook images is not free enough for Commons purposes; so, there needs to be some way of verifying that you're the person who took the photo. Did you add a {{Cc-zero}} license to the photo posted on Facebook? Can you provide a link to the Facebook page where the image was uploaded so that someone can verify its license if you did? If you didn't, then you're probably going to need to either use COM:RELGEN or follow the instructions in COM:VRT#Licensing images: when do I contact VRT? so that your copyright ownership of the photo can be verified. I wouldn't worry about adding the image to en:Greg Bissonette until you're able to sort out the above. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:58, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I took about 20 pictures and he picked the one he liked best. I forwarded the pic from my phone to my instant messenger and downloaded it from there. So it's not on a page, just in my IM's so it would be accessible from my laptop. Couldn't figure out how to do it on my phone. Mike Drums (talk) 22:49, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’m doing this from my phone and the format is a little different now so I apologize if this is in the wrong spot. I was with Gregg a couple weekends ago at a drum show in Nashville and he asked me to take some pictures of him and he wanted to pick a picture that was current represented himself and the kid that he uses currently on tour with Ringo Starr. The picture that’s on his main page with the seafoam green drum set is from a few years ago so he wanted to just personally get it updated and asked me to do that when I was with him. Thank you. Mike Drums (talk) 17:25, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Marchjuly: I'm sure this is legit, even if we have some hoops to leap through.
If this is a recent picture, why "2014" in the file name? Very confusing.
It's inconvenient that you first posted elsewhere, because it makes it harder to demonstrate that you were the photographer. Is it on a public posting on Facebook? If so, could you arrange whoever posted it to add an explicit credit to you there? Then you can provide me a link to that, and I can sort it out from there. (If that's not possible there are other ways, but they are more cumbersome.)
I didn’t even notice I put 2014. I just hit 1 instead of 2. Should be 2014 as it was July 21st last month. 2024 would be correct. And it was never posted anywhere. As I mentioned I couldn’t figure out how to do it on my phone, if it’s even possible, so I forwarded it to my IM. Myself, Gregg and ppl here are the only ones that have seen this picture.
I sent him 18 photos to pick from and this is what he picked. Just trying to make that the main page pic at his request. Thank you Mike Drums (talk) 10:43, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MikeDrums: Thanks for clarifying you took the photo. Probably the best thing for you to do here would be to use COM:RELGEN to help verify your copyright ownership of the photo. Another option would be to send a COM:CONSENT email to Wikimedia VRT for verificaiton purposes. Before you do any of that, though, you might want to take a look at COM:LRV, COM:REUSE and COM:ENFORCE just to make sure you understand what it means to upload one of your photos to Commons. It's better to know what you're getting yourself into because it's kind of hard to undo things if someday you change your mind. As for adding the image to the article, you first might want to take a look at en:WP:COI given that you do seem to have some kind of more than casual relationship with Bissonette and do appear to be doing this per his request. Please understand that this isn't because you've done anything wrong; it's just to let you know about English Wikipedia guidelines that might apply to you with respect to editing/creating content about Bissonette. Commons is mainly concerned about the licensing of the content it hosts, and not so much how it's being used on the various language Wikipedias. If got any questions specific to English Wikipedia policies or guidelines, you can ask them at en:WP:HD or en:WP:THQ. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:54, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
User:Anas1712 always likes to add categories for every single thing visible in a picture, but they are a few relatively small things in the background like a gas station (see: file 1) and convenience stores (see: file 2, file 3). Is this considered to be the case for over-categorization?--125.230.85.4108:44, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can't really make out the gas station in #1 (either I don't recognize it, the resolution is too low or something else), but the categories #2 and #3 don't strike me as unreasonable. One could use the images to illustrate where these are located. (Photographers just photographing a single store tend to not provide much context, which can make it difficult to locate the store). Enhancing999 (talk) 18:11, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good to know, but in all cases, it's not incorrect to say the categories are technically not wrong. For me, overcategorisation is like the cases of many HK photos, where there are so many pictures are both present in multiple mother-child categories. But for my info, can we add:
For file 2, the 7-Eleven category ( I'm not sure if it's the Zhonggaotie Store, I've not yet stopped in Taichung)?
For file 2, the FamilyMart category (also not sure it's the Taichung New HSR Store, for the same reason)?
Hi. I am trying to login to accounts using python pwb.py login, but typing my password gives the error ERROR: Username 'C1MM' does not have read permissions on commons:commons.
Incorrect password or confirmation code entered. Please try again.
Not logged in on commons:commons.>br>
What is the reason behind this? For reference, typing the exact same password (or copying/pasting it) allows me to log in to my wikimedia account with no problem in Firefox, so it seems to be a pywikibot specific problem. C1MM (talk) 03:57, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HeminKurdistan: I can't speak to the thumbnail issue, but CropTool has had all sorts of problems lately. It looks like someone may finally be taking it over.
Are you saying you want to upload it to Wikipedia in some language (not our issue here at Commons) or to Wikimedia Commons (this site)?
Can you be more specific about what the manual covers and what your organization is?
Accounts are supposed to be for individuals. Here at Commons, we allow account names like the one you have, but many of the Wikipedias will consider an organizational name like that inappropriate. You might want to consider changing the account to something like "Person's name (Fertilizar Asosiación Civil|)"
I are creating a Category for Oxalis bipartita i Uploaded the file and now if i try create a Category the predefinition shows this Source no exists but the source exist what i Do? Gamesplaystory2 (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I’m not completely sure if I understood the question but you can try to create the category with {{Wikidata Infobox|qid=Q15349029}}. Does that look right to you? --Geohakkeri (talk) 16:34, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Geohakkeri and Gamesplaystory2: Geohakkeri's advice here was actually kind of backwards, but I've fixed it: [5], [6]. Normally, the item-category link should go from Wikidata to Commons, not from Commons to Wikidata. Wikidata is the single nexus for tying everything together, rather than have the connections be scattered across the affected sites. - Jmabel ! talk18:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Uploading postcards and bank letterheads to Wikipedia Commons
I have scans of old documents and postcards. What is the legality of uploading these? The bank letterhead is for this bank: en:Bank of Dyersburg so I am inclined to think that it would be worth trying to upload. The same goes for the postcards. These are 1940's era. Might be too recent, but I thought I would ask. Krelorian1917 (talk) 18:29, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Location of printing isn't the issue, it's location of publication. Pre-WWI, a lot of U.S. postcards used German printers. (Not so much after that, though, even in peacetime, so maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.)
Do they have copyright notices (assuming you can see both front and back of the postcard, and the whole of the document)? If not, then for anything from the U.S. before 1977, they are certainly in the public domain. - Jmabel ! talk23:20, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, yesterday I uploaded a file under an incorrect title, now kindly corrected by a relevant person following a "rename request" - old/incorrect name was at File:St Mary's College-1.jpg, new one is at File:St Mary's Convent-1.jpg. Currently this file is used only on a single Wikipedia page (at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lismore,_New_South_Wales) plus my own user page. I note that as part of the rename process, either the renamer or the software has created a redirect page on Commons from the old filename to the new one, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:St_Mary%27s_College-1.jpg&redirect=no ... I am thinking that this is really just "noise" now since the usage under the original name was so brief, and perhaps serves no useful purpose in the longer term, so am wondering whether it should or could simply be deleted... also who can do this if it is indeed sensible.... Thanks in advance, Tony Rees Tony 1212 (talk) 19:45, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. ~redmyname31~💬 19:47, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
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Done I deleted it as a copyvio Gbawden (talk) 08:31, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
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