Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 17

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Category:Collections of Leiden University Library (uncategorized)

Category:Collections of Leiden University Library (uncategorized) is incredibly overfull (167k!) but the vast, vast majority of the media in that category are actually already categorized within the Leiden University Library category system. Could a bot crawl through Category:Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV), Leiden University Library (a child category of 140k images) and remove any media with the 'uncategorized' category? There is a lot more sorting to be done after that but I think that's a simple enough task. --- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:29, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

@Ricky81682: Hi. Just to confirm, these are the target images: incategory:"Collections of Leiden University Library (uncategorized)" incategory:"Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV), Leiden University Library". And you want the category Category:Collections of Leiden University Library (uncategorized) removed? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Also for a file like File:KITLV A142 - Paviljoen met Europeanen te Soerakarta, KITLV 67068.tiff, is it still not uncategorized as it doesn't have any category describing the content of the image? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes, the category refers to uncategorized within the collection categories, not generally uncategorized images. Many of the images just contain one of the collection subcategories and do need further categorization but that needs manual review. I think there are other “uncategorized” images in other categories but I suspect there could be like 100k that overlap. It’s a large overlap. - Ricky81682 (talk) 18:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

BadzilBot started work on your request. It's going to take a while to complete. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 18:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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Corrected by Jacek Halicki

Could a bot run through files uploaded by User:Jacek Halicki and add Category:Corrected by Jacek Halicki to all files that are not in Category:Images by Jacek Halicki? I've tried to fulfil this request myself by using pywikipediabot's listpages (by using a list of files from logevenets), but don't seem able to filter out files that are now redirects. Adding @Jacek Halicki so that he can keep an eye on this. odder (talk) 19:30, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi. Do you want to consider only the initial upload or subsequent uploads too? For example File:Tablica wyjście powstańców do niewoli przy ul. Lwowskiej 2a w Warszawie.jpg. I also see 188 files with "Author Jacek Halicki" not in Category:Images by Jacek Halicki (search). What should happen to these? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 21:39, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform: Many thanks for the speedy response. The 188 files can be added to Category:Images by Jacek Halicki. As for the first question, I think it would mostly be overwrites anyway, but original uploads can be processed, too. odder (talk) 00:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

I've added the 188 files to Category:Images by Jacek Halicki. I ran a small sample of images. Can you check that things look OK in Category:Corrected by Jacek Halicki? Once I get confirmation, I'll start running the script for real. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 02:05, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform I checked all the photos and they are all OK. Thanks. Jacek Halicki (talk) 19:52, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. I'm starting the process. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 20:01, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Please stop editing. See Revision of 728338035 I've reverted the edit two times. --XRay 💬 21:47, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

@XRay: Thanks for bringing this up to my attention. The script I'm using did not take this case into account. When I get a chance, I'll rerun it to verify if there are more cases where Jacek Halicki's upload was replaced afterward. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 23:46, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

I've updated the logic of my script and it's correcting pages where Category:Corrected by Jacek Halicki should not have been added. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 20:26, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

This is done. Only files where Jacek Halicki's version is live are now categorized under Category:Corrected by Jacek Halicki. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 01:23, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

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Category replace request

Hi, can I discuss the complete request with a bot owner who can do it: when a special categorization is specified, and the parameter value for source is just {{own}}, the category should be removed and a string should replace the own. Always the same text strings (no regex or so), but a greater number of files. -- sarang♥사랑 17:04, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

@Sarang: : If you're still looking for help, could you give an example of a file that needs work and what changes you're looking to do? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:37, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Resolving in absence of response.

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Bollywood Hungama

Hi, Could someone replace "author=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com" by "author={{Institution:Bollywood Hungama}}" on 14K files on Category:Files from Bollywood Hungama. Please check all variations of "author/Author", and "https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/" with or without trailing /. Thanks, Yann (talk) 12:27, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi Yann. I've started working on this. I'm only finding roughly ~400 files with the "Author https://www.bollywoodhungama.com" (trailing slash doesn't matter for search): search Are there cases that I'm missing? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:41, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

There are 5794 files with "Author http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/" (no s after http) XxakixX (talk) 15:45, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

I've started work on this with BadzilBot (talk · contribs). I'll get as far as I can today and will be AFK until next week starting tomorrow. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 22:31, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

I did as many files as I could find. Let me know if there are patterns I missed. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 03:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

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TC Track maps 2

Could a bot please add Category:Tropical cyclone track maps with the original scale to files already located within Category:Tropical cyclone track maps with command as input code, Category:Tropical_cyclone_track_maps_with_no_input_code, and Category:Tropical cyclone track maps with track data as input code? Hurricane Noah (talk) 01:02, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Done with the exception of File:Michael 2018 track.png which is protected. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 18:26, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Hurricane Noah (talk) 18:46, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform: Actually, I found out there are over 2000 more at Category:Tropical_cyclone_tracks (in the main category only) that need to be placed within that category as well. Hurricane Noah (talk) 21:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

This can easily be done with Gadget Cat-a-lot:

Search for incategory:"Tropical cyclone tracks" -incategory:"Tropical cyclone track maps with the original scale".
Expand results to 500.
Using Gadget Cat-a-lot, add the category to the first 500 results.
Wait a few seconds for the changes to be propagated to all servers.
Refresh the search page.
Repeat steps 3 to 5.

This should take 2 to 3 minutes to do. Faster than what I can do with a bot. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 13:27, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

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rerequesting emoji redirects

relisting of /Archive 16#redirect from emoji categories to U+1FNNN form Arlo James Barnes 22:03, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Arlo: I attempted to create Category:🏺 with my bot but am seeing TitleblacklistError: Page [[commons:Category:🏺]] is title-blacklisted.. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 14:11, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

In that case, {{protectededit}} may be necessary. It seems to derive from the line

.*[^\0-\x{FFFF}\p{Han}].* <casesensitive|errmsg=titleblacklist-custom-hidden-char> # Very few characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and CJK Unified Ideographs are useful in titles

in mediawiki:titleblacklist. Arlo James Barnes 15:58, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

{{protectededit}} only works for pages already created. In this case I'm unable to even create the page, and unsure how my bot would be able to get past the blacklist. Maybe another contributor can advise if my bot needs additional permissions? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 16:25, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

After poking at this a little more, it looks like only admins are able to ignore the blacklist. So you may want to get in touch with them: COM:AN. If it turns out that there is a solution for my bot to create these pages, I'd be happy to do this for you. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 20:21, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I have made a request there. Arlo James Barnes 12:47, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Marking this as resolved for now. Please re-open when there is a way to bypass the blacklist. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

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Mass categorization of Wiki Loves Monuments Poland photos

Hi! I'd like to have 50k files from Polish Wiki Loves Monuments added to categories for voivodeship (province) they were taken in. It will help with arranging GLAM partnerships that involve Commons uploads. These categories are hidden and are part of the contest category tree (like WLM in 2022, Featured photos from WLM etc.).

I've prepared 16 lists of files. Every list applies to one category, linked in a header on top of the page:

Msz2001 (talk) 18:10, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

@Msz2001: I've filed bot approval request for that Commons:Bots/Requests/AmmarBot 2 – Ammarpad (talk) 12:18, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

I've started working on this. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:01, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform: , but you can see clearly there's a pending request to do just that. – Ammarpad (talk) 20:42, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

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Photos of Czech president Petr Pavel

Photos File:Petr Pavel photo 6474.jpg and File:Petr Pavel photo 6474 cropped.jpg, which are quite widely used in various wikipedias, are going to be deleted soon, see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Petr Pavel photo 6474.jpg. Could a bot replace them with File:Petr Pavel (2023-02-14) (cropped).jpg, please? -- Jan Kameníček (talk) 20:43, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

This request needs to be done at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 04:24, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

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Bulk-inserting a category to files

I want to insert a user category (Category:Baleswari Odia pronunciation by Subhashish Panigrahi) to keep track of progress. I could find all the files (here) using Petscan. However, I can't figure out how to use something like cat-a-lot to include the category "" to all these files. Will really appreciate any help. Psubhashish (talk) 03:05, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

The equivalent search is incategory:"Baleswari Odia pronunciation" -incategory:"Baleswari Odia pronunciation by Musamani Panigrahi" (search). Since it's a little tedious to use cat-a-lot for thousands of files, I'll add the category for you. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 04:19, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much. The advanced search option is helpful. Really appreciate your quick help with the category creation and sharing this tip. --Psubhashish (talk) 14:12, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

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Help for review needed files

Hi. My request is related to reviewers and some news agencies files. For example: We have 13866 from Tasnimnews, 1554 from Farsnews and 1664 from Mehrnews that review needed. But I'm sure We have more than files form these websites that review needed but upladers didn't follow the guides and forgot to add {{License review}} template and related category like [[Category:Mehrnews review needed]] ! For example : This file is from Tasnim and this file from farsnews without License review template and category. So please run the Bot and add this template and related category to any files from news agencies that dosen't have {{License review}} template with related category. (Please don't add this template and category to License review passed files.) I think U can run ur bots on all of this website's files.--Mehdi^Talk 10:16, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Mehdi. I started taking a look at this request, specifically for the Mehr News Agency to start with. Here are the files I find which should have {{License review}} added: hastemplate:Mehr -incategory:"Files from external sources with reviewed licenses" -incategory:"License review needed" -incategory:"Extracted images". Does this look good to you? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 16:53, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform: Hi dear.Excellent. OMG, we have more than 4300 files without reviwers template just mehrnews category. (Sum:8500)

--Mehdi^Talk 06:17, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

I've add Category:Mehrnews review needed to all files which already had {{License review}} with cat-a-lot. I'm now adding both the category and the tag to the files listed above. I'll take approximately one hour to complete. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 14:33, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Category:Images from websites of Iran is the parent category containing more CC websites from Iran. Hanooz 14:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm done with Mehr. Final count is ~14k files needing review. I will stop here for today, give a chance to everybody to comment or find bugs in the logic used by my bot. Tomorrow I'll continue with Tasnim News. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 16:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm proceeding with files from the Fars News Agency: Category:Farsnews review needed. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 13:28, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

If I understand everything correctly, license reviewers now have to remove two indications when reviewing these files: they have to remove {{LicenseReview}} plus [[Category:Farsnews review needed]]. While we could already easily see how many we had to go. That's asking for mistakes. Or do I overlook something? Vysotsky (talk) 14:05, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: No. We do not remove {{LicenseReview}} Template. We complete this template ;-) --Mehdi^Talk 16:00, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Vysotsky is right in pointing out that the license reviewer needs to remember to also remove files from Category:Farsnews review needed (and similar categories for other agencies), and that this can occasionally be forgotten. I don't see this as much of an issue as such files can easily be found by searching for: incategory:"Farsnews review needed" -incategory:"License review needed". Alternatively one could modify Template:Fars (and Template:Mehr, Template:Tasnim, etc.) to behave like Template:BollywoodHungama so that a separate license review tag and category is not needed. For now I'll continue proceeding with marking files needed license review. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 18:09, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-LicenseReview.js automatically removes the category. See line 145. Hanooz 21:24, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform: Please check this diff. This file is not from Tasnim. The source of files is IAWF and i don't see any copyright for this website. --Mehdi^Talk 08:29, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I made a best guess based on the description. I don't speak or read Farsi so I may be wrong. Not sure why Tasnim News is mentioned there. Feel free to revert. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 17:50, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm continuing with files from the Tasnim News Agency. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 18:15, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm done with Tasnim. This concludes this request.

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Category:1870s photographs of Brazil

Could a bot help sort out the images at Category:1870s photographs of Brazil which is a child of Category:19th-century photographs of Brazil? The images though don't have the information within the file so it will need to conduct queries within Wikidata to move them into the relevant month and year subcategories. You can probably remove the 19th-century century category since the 1870s ones is a child. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:30, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

I've started work on this. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:53, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Image stacks

The template {{Imagestackcat}} has been added to more than 100 files, which are now directly in Category:Image stacks. But the template is only for categories. A single image is not a stack. Can someone please remove them? Watchduck (quack) 22:22, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Done. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 04:08, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

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Replace Date=1970-01-01 in Structured Data of Wikiportret uploads

In some Wikiportret uploads a date of 1970-01-01 was added. I've already fixed the file information templates for the files, but Visual File Change can't fix Structured Data. Can someone with a bot fix the structured data? It's all the files I've edited 15 March 2023 20:15 CET. Correct data wasn't provided by the person that uploaded the photo, so the date is unknown. Mbch331 (talk) 19:20, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect SDC removed. Eventually the correct dates will be added again. In some distant future, my bot will be able to do this syncing directly. --Schlurcher (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

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viralzone

Hi, Could someone please add a meta category to all images uploaded from https://viralzone.expasy.org/, i.e. [1]? These are under a free license, and it would be much easier to check them all with a category. Thanks, Yann (talk) 08:18, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Done by Yann himself. I added the remaining 6 files to Category:Images from ViralZone. --Achim55 (talk) 08:38, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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Creation of many "[year] by topic by country" categories

Example of category name: Category:1700 by topic by country Page content of the category: {{DMC|1700|topic|country}}

These categories are redlinked to, especially so in the more modern years. Lowest I found was 1313 but it will probably suffice to go from ~1700s to modern day. If you need more explanation on why these categories need to be made I can elaborate further. Thank you in advance. OmegaFallon (talk) 19:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm on it. Creations are listed here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=BadzilBot&namespace=14&tagfilter=&newOnly=1&start=&end=&limit=50. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 21:56, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

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Commons:Top 200 images which have a vector version available by usage

Possible to restart this report? --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 08:12, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Minorax, not exactly the same but very similar: User:Achim55/SVG replacements. --Achim55 (talk) 12:32, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

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WTTC ITB Berlin 2023

Please can someone rename all 265 images in Category:WTTC ITB Berlin 2023 by prepending to the exiting file names the string "World Travel and Tourism Council - ITB Berlin 2023 - ".

(Or tell me how to do so using the MassRename tool.) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Andy, with or without redirect? --Achim55 (talk) 21:08, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Achim, without would be fine, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:36, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Done. --Achim55 (talk) 12:16, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

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Delete or change a textphrase in over 16.000 images

Hi, this is my first request. I work for the Commons:WikiProject Postcards. There we have section Search postcards by filetype with this Searchlink: TIF-images with a word "postcard" and no postcard-category. Normally there is under 1000 images to deal with. But now this search is flooded with images of the Category:Photographs by Frank Scholten. Because over 16.000 of this images has the text phrase "The dating has come into being with the use of the postcards." - Can a bot change or delete this useless text phrase? At the moment not one of this image is a postcard.@Mr.Nostalgic and Adamant1: FYI. sk (talk) 18:35, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi sk,

The dating was established via postcards that where send by him. This is just an explanation why the date field was entered with their values.

If you want to remove that sentence then there is the option of "visual filechange" for example. There you can change content of files by replacing strings. This can be done with about 3000 files at a time.

Regards Mr.Nostalgic (talk) 06:45, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@Mr.Nostalgic: It is ok for you, when I delete this phrase? Then I will do this. Thanks for the hint with "visual filechange". --sk (talk) 08:12, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi sk,

I will not object to your actions, it is just that i do not want to have the responsibility for this. The files that i uploaded were on request of @Vysotsky.

Maybe you could contact him as well, just to be sure that no discussions start to arise.

Regards and succes, Mr.Nostalgic (talk) 08:56, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@Mr.Nostalgic Thanks for this info. @User:Vysotsky: I want ask you, is the deleting of this text a problem for you? Best regards. --sk (talk) 08:59, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

No prob at all. Vysotsky (talk) 12:08, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn:

Working. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:10, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn:

Done. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:26, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Many thanks for your work. --sk (talk) 15:30, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

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Replace "developwoment" with "development" in multiple categories

I've found that there are multiple category pages about men and women by stage of human development which were created with up to three instances of the word "developwoment" instead of "development", such as Category:Men brushing their teeth, Category:Adolescent boys cosplaying, and Category:Young women wearing flip-flops. This includes broken Wikipedia links. Although I've manually fixed a few of these categories, there are too many of them, so a bot would be needed to do the job. Sabbut (talk) 14:16, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Done. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 19:04, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

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Category renames

Can someone please rename the categories Interior of the D.A. Sturdza House, Bucharest to Interior of the Dimitrie Sturdza House; D.A. Sturdza House, Bucharest to Dimitrie Sturdza House, and automatically transfer all the files from the categories to the new names? I would also want to move all the files from Category:D.A. Sturdza House, Bucharest to Category:Exterior of the Dimitrie Sturdza House because they are just with the exterior of the house--Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 15:17, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

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Bulk category renames

Can someone please enact and apply Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/03/Category:Russo-Ukrainian War by day. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

On it. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 14:49, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Done with Category:Russo-Ukrainian War by day. I'll do Category:Euromaidan in Kyiv by day on Monday if nobody gets to it before then. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 17:31, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Category:Euromaidan in Kyiv by day is done too. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 13:40, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

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WikiLoves Earth Wales

Good morning everybody! I'm one of the organisers of WLEarth (Wales) this year. A batch of > 343 images needs the following template: {{Wiki Loves Earth 2023|gb-wls}} please. The images are in Category:Nature of Wales. If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful. Many thanks! PS Here's an example.

NOW NOT NEEDED. THANKS! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 08:30, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

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Null edits

Due to edits to SDC-generated templates, there are a large number of pages in Category:Media contributed by the Digital Public Library of America with unknown institution and Category:Digital Public Library of America files missing required SDC statements that need to be purged. Currently, nearly all of these categories should be depopulated once purged, since the required SDC is not missing. Is there a bot already available that will perform these null edits, or someone able to take this on? Dominic (talk) 18:55, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

I will do this now. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:59, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

@Dominic I have both of these running now. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:03, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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Category move

Please move all results of Special:Search/incategory:"J. League" intitle:/Kit/ from Category:J. League to Category:J. League kits. Jonteemil (talk) 04:20, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:35, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

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Images by Gail Hampshire

We appear to have over 30K images by Flickr user "gailhampshire". Please can someone catgorise these in, say Category:Images by Gail Hampshire? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:39, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

There is Category:Photographs by gailhampshire Kanashimi (talk) 09:09, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

I've categorized as many pictures as I could. Also created and filled Category:Videos by Gailhampshire. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 12:49, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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Captions edit

Please help me changing the captions in Category:Luka pona in Sutton SignWriting. "TPSL" should become "LPSL". I was able to change it for the description with VisualFileChange, but I am not having an easy time figuring out how to batch edit structured data. Thanks to anyone who can have a look. Retsamys (talk) 13:37, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Did it manually. Retsamys (talk) 13:18, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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Delete inaccurate coordinates from sets of photos from the Brno Exhibition Centre

Please remove all {{Location}} templates and Structured Data coordinates from file sets by Sevela.p.

Ca 654 files affected. The coordinates are very imprecise, scattered at a kilometer distance from the exhibition center. It can be assumed that even for those photos that have a defined position inside the exhibition center with coordinates, the coordinates are inaccurate and do not correspond to the actual location. The number of mislocated photos in a wide area around the fairgrounds makes it impossible to find correctly located photos in this area. (I pointed this out to the uploader on his talk page, he didn't comment. This year, his activity on Wikimedia projects is minimal.) ŠJů (talk) 11:42, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

@ŠJů: I've done some of this. I've used VisualFileChange to remove some of the {{Location}} templates, but VFC can't remove structured data so that's still present. For Category:Autosalon Brno 2011 it looked to me like some of the co-ordinates were clustered around three distinct buildings on the map, so I've preserved those ones and deleted the rest. Maybe someone knows some tools to apply my removals to structured data as well. --bjh21 (talk) 13:32, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

I would have assumed that Help:Gadget-ACDC is capable of this. As far as I see though, it is not, so I raised this on the discussion page. If there is no quick response, I can do this with my bot, but this would require at least some coding, so I'll wait first for a response. --Schlurcher (talk) 11:23, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

It has been confirmed that this is not doable within AC/DC. --Schlurcher (talk) 09:32, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Removed the SDC information with my bot. Please remember that by bot will eventually add that information back if the coordinate information remains in the file descriptions. --Schlurcher (talk) 10:10, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Shutdown of Computer-aided tagging: Mass revert needed

As agreed in this now-archived discussion, we need a bot, please, to revert edits made through the Computer-aided tagging tool, with an explanatory edit summary.

Can someone advise, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:11, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I actually looked into this while the request was still open. What I'm already failing to find a way in any of the APIs to get the 1'500'000 revisions tagged with the Special:Tags for computer-aided tagging. --Schlurcher (talk) 20:47, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

@Mike Peel: Surely the developers behind SDC can handle this. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:52, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: If you run bots on Toolforge, you can make direct queries to replica databases, so you can use the following:

SELECT ct_rev_id FROM change_tag WHERE ct_tag_id = (SELECT ctd_id FROM change_tag_def WHERE ctd_name = 'computer-aided-tagging');

(don’t forget to add a LIMIT clause to the outer SELECT while testing!). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Thanks that worked: https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/78860 With this list, I would know how to proceed. However, I may find the time to do so only next year. Maybe someone else can pick up. --Schlurcher (talk) 10:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Making progress. Please see the expected actions for the first 100 revids (all claims without errors would be removed). @RZuo: : You suggested to use autopatrolled and above as a quality indicatior. Even on this limited set it does not seem to work. Please have a look. --Schlurcher (talk) 22:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

I'm currently thinking, exceptions from this mass removal should be restricted to people that regularly check other editors: i.e. administrators, patrollers, and rollbackers but not autopatrollers. --Schlurcher (talk) 18:06, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: That looks like a reasonable avenue of research. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:10, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

RevID	File	Claim	User	Message
375975365	File:1 rue Malby - Nancy -WP 20160920 025.jpg	architecture (Q12271)	User:Mhollo	Error: Claim already removed.
375975366	File:1 rue Malby - Nancy -WP 20160920 025.jpg	arch (Q12277)	User:Mhollo
375975368	File:1 rue Malby - Nancy -WP 20160920 025.jpg	door (Q36794)	User:Mhollo
375975369	File:1 rue Malby - Nancy -WP 20160920 025.jpg	building (Q41176)	User:Mhollo
374182433	File:Piñata in tree.png	tree (Q10884)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: User on excemption list.
374182435	File:Piñata in tree.png	sky (Q527)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: User on excemption list.
374182500	File:Tunnel at Highland Station.png	tree (Q10884)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: User on excemption list.
374182503	File:Tunnel at Highland Station.png	infrastructure (Q121359)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: Claim already removed.
375137185	File:Atractomorpha lata which copulates 08Oct4.jpg	plant stem (Q134267)	User:Nightcrafter
375137187	File:Atractomorpha lata which copulates 08Oct4.jpg	insect (Q1390)	User:Nightcrafter
375137189	File:Atractomorpha lata which copulates 08Oct4.jpg	Orthoptera (Q167810)	User:Nightcrafter
375137232	File:Eiskristall Pfosten 2.JPG	freezing (Q108000)	User:Nightcrafter
375137234	File:Eiskristall Pfosten 2.JPG	winter (Q1311)	User:Nightcrafter
375137236	File:Eiskristall Pfosten 2.JPG	snow (Q7561)	User:Nightcrafter
375195296	File:PL Kowrozek kapliczka 02.jpg	field (Q188869)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195336	File:Piers Sellers spacewalk.jpg	astronaut (Q11631)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195370	File:20100919 Marmaritsa beach Maronia Rhodope Thrace Greece panorama.jpg	cliff (Q107679)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195372	File:20100919 Marmaritsa beach Maronia Rhodope Thrace Greece panorama.jpg	sea (Q165)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195374	File:20100919 Marmaritsa beach Maronia Rhodope Thrace Greece panorama.jpg	headland (Q191992)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195415	File:Birchwood Slavnoe 2012 G1.jpg	snow (Q7561)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195425	File:Christopher Michel in a U-2 Dragon Lady.jpg	astronaut (Q11631)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195459	File:2017.06.05.-01-Anglerteiche-Rimbach--Grosse Pechlibelle-junges Maennchen.jpg	plant stem (Q134267)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195491	File:3 Resistors.jpg	resistor (Q5321)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195539	File:3766 - Gornergrat - Aster alpinus.JPG	flower (Q506)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195658	File:Misty morning03.jpg	cloud (Q8074)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195709	File:Agrostis gigantea ligula.jpeg	plant stem (Q134267)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195739	File:Chkalovsky-3020.jpg	tree (Q10884)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195740	File:Chkalovsky-3020.jpg	snow (Q7561)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375195794	File:La Caleta R10.jpg	coast (Q93352)	User:Sadads	Error: User on excemption list.
375237547	File:Juliette Lewis f1728239.jpg	music artist (Q1294626)	User:Bittakea
375237548	File:Juliette Lewis f1728239.jpg	singing (Q27939)	User:Bittakea
375237549	File:Juliette Lewis f1728239.jpg	performance (Q35140)	User:Bittakea
375238346	File:Calopteryx splendens LC0076.jpg	Anisoptera (Q80066)	User:Bittakea
375238387	File:Red billed gull-10.jpg	seabird (Q55808)	User:Bittakea
375241013	File:Marsa Alam R10.jpg	beach (Q40080)	User:Bittakea
375241014	File:Marsa Alam R10.jpg	vehicle (Q42889)	User:Bittakea	Error: Claim already removed.
375241021	File:Elmo 8V BW 1.JPG	camera (Q15328)	User:Bittakea
375241885	File:Dijon - tour de Philippe le Bon - gargouille.jpg	art of sculpture (Q11634)	User:Bittakea	Error: Claim already removed.
375241889	File:Dijon - tour de Philippe le Bon - gargouille.jpg	architecture (Q12271)	User:Bittakea	Error: Claim already removed.
375241890	File:Dijon - tour de Philippe le Bon - gargouille.jpg	gargoyle (Q215194)	User:Bittakea
375242046	File:Josephskirche Rheinfelden.jpg	tree (Q10884)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: User on excemption list.
375242048	File:Josephskirche Rheinfelden.jpg	building (Q41176)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: Claim already removed.
375242053	File:Josephskirche Rheinfelden.jpg	sky (Q527)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: User on excemption list.
375242055	File:Josephskirche Rheinfelden.jpg	snow (Q7561)	User:MarkTraceur	Error: User on excemption list.
375243513	File:Loxodonta africana (Rush for the water).jpg	wildlife (Q241741)	User:Mhollo
375243514	File:Loxodonta africana (Rush for the water).jpg	terrestrial animal (Q3248864)	User:Mhollo
375243515	File:Loxodonta africana (Rush for the water).jpg	mammal (Q7377)	User:Mhollo
375243519	File:Loxodonta africana (Rush for the water).jpg	elephant (Q7378)	User:Mhollo
375244146	File:Chopin polonaise Op. 53.jpg	music (Q638)	User:1Esk19	Error: Claim already removed.
375244191	File:Trametes hirsuta - Baumpilz 080210 1.jpg	Polyporales (Q1343309)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244193	File:Trametes hirsuta - Baumpilz 080210 1.jpg	Agaricomycetes (Q27720)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244195	File:Trametes hirsuta - Baumpilz 080210 1.jpg	organism (Q7239)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244197	File:Trametes hirsuta - Baumpilz 080210 1.jpg	fungus (Q764)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244199	File:Trametes hirsuta - Baumpilz 080210 1.jpg	mushroom (Q83093)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244527	File:Absolut Icebar.jpg	freezing (Q108000)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244528	File:Absolut Icebar.jpg	blue (Q1088)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244533	File:Absolut Icebar.jpg	architecture (Q12271)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1	Error: Claim already removed.
375244535	File:Absolut Icebar.jpg	ice hotel (Q1317609)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375244540	File:Absolut Icebar.jpg	ice (Q23392)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375245305	File:Thomas Bresson - Acces-est (by).jpg	ruins (Q109607)	User:Nightcrafter
375245309	File:Thomas Bresson - Acces-est (by).jpg	architecture (Q12271)	User:Nightcrafter	Error: Claim already removed.
375245311	File:Thomas Bresson - Acces-est (by).jpg	arch (Q12277)	User:Nightcrafter
375245316	File:Thomas Bresson - Acces-est (by).jpg	wall (Q42948)	User:Nightcrafter
375245317	File:Thomas Bresson - Acces-est (by).jpg	grass (Q643352)	User:Nightcrafter
375245438	File:2006-01-28 Drop-impact.jpg	liquid (Q11435)	User:Nightcrafter
375245446	File:2006-01-28 Drop-impact.jpg	drop (Q185789)	User:Nightcrafter
375245451	File:2006-01-28 Drop-impact.jpg	macro photography (Q272444)	User:Nightcrafter
375245454	File:2006-01-28 Drop-impact.jpg	water (Q283)	User:Nightcrafter
375246005	File:Megalopotamos Brücke 01.jpg	arch bridge (Q158438)	User:Mhollo
375249465	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	recreation (Q184872)	User:Diablanco
375249469	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	snowboard (Q2000617)	User:Diablanco
375249471	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	individual sport (Q2755547)	User:Diablanco
375249472	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	extreme sport (Q309162)	User:Diablanco
375249474	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	sport (Q349)	User:Diablanco
375249475	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	sports equipment (Q768186)	User:Diablanco
375249478	File:Shakedown 2008 Figure 4.jpg	boardsport (Q911069)	User:Diablanco
375249592	File:Stranahan House 1.jpg	house (Q3947)	User:Diablanco	Error: Claim already removed.
375249596	File:Stranahan House 1.jpg	building (Q41176)	User:Diablanco	Error: Claim already removed.
375249919	File:MonasterioDeSantaCatalinaBell.jpg	bell (Q101401)	User:Diablanco
375249920	File:MonasterioDeSantaCatalinaBell.jpg	historic site (Q1081138)	User:Diablanco	Error: Claim already removed.
375249922	File:MonasterioDeSantaCatalinaBell.jpg	architecture (Q12271)	User:Diablanco	Error: Claim already removed.
375249923	File:MonasterioDeSantaCatalinaBell.jpg	sky (Q527)	User:Diablanco
375251411	File:Amsterdam Canals - July 2006.jpg	canal (Q12284)	User:1Esk19
375251436	File:Way into the sea new.jpg	sea (Q165)	User:1Esk19
375251437	File:Way into the sea new.jpg	sand (Q34679)	User:1Esk19
375251441	File:Way into the sea new.jpg	beach (Q40080)	User:1Esk19
375251444	File:Way into the sea new.jpg	shore (Q468756)	User:1Esk19
375251612	File:Horyu-ji36s3200.jpg	historic site (Q1081138)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1	Error: Claim already removed.
375251613	File:Horyu-ji36s3200.jpg	architecture (Q12271)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1	Error: Claim already removed.
375251614	File:Horyu-ji36s3200.jpg	Japanese architecture (Q1422874)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375251634	File:Sunflower head 2015 G1.jpg	common sunflower (Q171497)	User:1Esk19
375251635	File:Sunflower head 2015 G1.jpg	flower (Q506)	User:1Esk19
375251638	File:Sunflower head 2015 G1.jpg	plant (Q756)	User:1Esk19
375251721	File:Golden Gate Park San Francisco December 2016 006.jpg	waterfall (Q34038)	User:1Esk19
375251799	File:Oktava319.jpg	microphone (Q46384)	User:Thefreeencyclopedia1
375252154	File:Autel cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Toulouse.jpg	cathedral (Q2977)	User:1Esk19
375252183	File:Bucegi 2009-07 7.JPG	terrain (Q186131)	User:1Esk19
375252184	File:Bucegi 2009-07 7.JPG	hill (Q54050)	User:1Esk19
375252187	File:Bucegi 2009-07 7.JPG	grass (Q643352)	User:1Esk19
375252314	File:Patočkova hora.jpg	field (Q188869)	User:1Esk19

@Schlurcher: File:Patockova hora.jpg has no logs and is a redlink; special:diff/375252314 instead refers to File:Patočkova hora.jpg. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:58, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Jeff for highligthing. The internal processing did use the correct title, only the package I used to generate above table did not handle the character correctly. [now manually corrected] --Schlurcher (talk) 11:33, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: You're welcome. I'm glad you got it sorted. So what is the 6th column? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:32, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

The variable for the sixth column will contain the error messages of the actual edit api call. As this was not the goal yet, it's empty. --Schlurcher (talk) 18:03, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

I've finished the coding and surrounding documentation. We can continue the discussion here: Commons:Bots/Requests/SchlurcherBot12 --Schlurcher (talk) 13:48, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

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Change my photos to creator-template and ISOdate

Hello, I had uploaded over 9.569 images. Now I want the Creator:Stefan Kühn in all of this images. All images could found normally in the c:Category:Photographs by User:Stefan Kühn or a subcategory. Optional, can you add in the date-field of all images the Template:ISOdate like {{ISOdate|2010-08-18 08:15:30}}. Many Thanks. --sk (talk) 10:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn: The first part of this looks like it could be fulfilled with the use of {{Creator}}. Do you have a file description page that the bot maintainer could use as a prototype of how such pages should look? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:23, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Jeff G. Simple replace. Like this change. --sk (talk) 13:27, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn:

Doing…. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn:

Done, Creator:Stefan Kühn now has 9,887 transclusions. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:56, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Many thanks. --sk (talk) 10:53, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

@Stefan Kühn: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:59, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

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Template:Location for Category:Stadtbildfotografie Dresden

Several thousand images of the city of Dresden are available thanks to Stadtarchiv Dresden, photographer Albrecht Voss and @Stefan Kühn: . Could a bot add the position data from the EXIF to each file (Template:Location)? Thanks, --Polarlys (talk) 17:03, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Will take a look. --DB111 (talk) 21:24, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Done --DB111 (talk) 15:09, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

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Picture of the same thing

Please change

with

on all pages of Wikipedia where it is used.--Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 20:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Done: Added to COM:CDC. --Achim55 (talk) 21:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Adding colour space declaration to images

Hi. There are a few hundred uploads by User:ThailandPhoto that have the colour space undefined or incorrectly defined, resulting in weird colour rendering on many browsers. See the original version of File:Bangkok Benjakiti Park 2.jpg, for example, which shows up like this. It seems like the fix should be a fairly simple matter of editing the metadata to have the correct colour space declared, which should be possible to batch process using a command line application, but I have no idea how to actually do that. Given that this will involve many images, is this is something that can can be handled by a bot? --Paul_012 (talk) 17:59, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Delete unnecessary licensing information from files

Hi. Would it possible to have a bot remove some pointless licensing information from a bunch of files related to Allentown, PA? I think there's like 65,000 files that all have the same information. It's not really necessary though and just screws with searches for anything semi-related to things that are mentioned in the details. One example is the licensing information in File:1929 - Allentown - Bethlehem Gas Company - 31 Mar MC - Allentown PA.jpg and Category:Newspaper advertising in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which the file is in, would probably be a good place to start. Thanks. Adamant1 (talk) 01:39, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, could you please show a manual diff of the expected change that should be repeated over the category proposed? --Schlurcher (talk) 11:26, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: Yeah sure. Here's one. I want essentially everything in the yellow block of text to be removed. --Adamant1 (talk) 11:32, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

@Adamant1: There not that many in the category you mentioned. So you would need a larger net. Maybe you want to give it a try, I've used Commons:AWB for this. --Schlurcher (talk) 16:20, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: I'll look into that. If you check out this search it gives 67,248 results, most of which are caused by the paragraph that I'm trying to get rid. I don't really have the time or knowledge to deal with that many instances even if I'm allowed access to the tool. So I'd still prefer it they were just fixed with a bot as opposed to me doing it myself and potentially screwing something up because I'll be in a hurry and not know what I'm doing. --Adamant1 (talk) 18:03, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

@Adamant1: I've now removed these statements from 4'500 files with my bot. --Schlurcher (talk) 09:29, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. That's at least an improvement. I'll see what I can do on my end when I have the time. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

POTD - Interwiki transclusion

Hello! Is there any bot operator willing to help in achieving this idea here? - Klein Muçi (talk) 00:06, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Sounds reasonably easy. Could you show the steps manually that you expect to do the bot on a daily basis? --Schlurcher (talk) 11:25, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Schlurcher, thank you for your interest!
Just so I don't accidentally lead you astray, I believe @Tacsipacsi can explain better the exact steps needed to be done.
I'm assuming the bot daily checks the photo of the day and converts the template for it into tabular data which then can be interwiki transcluded? — Klein Muçi (talk) 23:03, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

I have no exact steps, it’s up to the bot owner how exactly to do it. It needs to contain two things for each day:

the file name from Template:Potd/YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. Template:Potd/2023-11-01: Muelle Monroe, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-20, DD 10.jpg; can be got by expanding the wikitext {{Potd/YYYY-MM-DD}} in the context of API),
all captions from Template:Potd/YYYY-MM-DD (xx) (e.g. Template:Potd/2023-11-01 (en): View of quiet Monroe Harbor in fall at dawn, [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]], Illinois, USA., Template:Potd/2023-11-01 (fr): Soleil couchant sur le ''Monroe Harbor'', un port de [[:fr:Chicago|Chicago]] (États-Unis).; can be got by expanding the wikitext {{Potd/YYYY-MM-DD (xx)}} in the context of API).

It should be stored on .tab pages in the Data namespace, with periodically (e.g. monthly or yearly) new pages to prevent the page to be loaded getting too large, and have licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 because of the captions originating from CC BY-SA 4.0 template pages. That’s the requirements.

An implementation idea is to use the following schema:

{
    "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
    "description": {
        "en": "Picture of the day data for November 2023"
    },
    "sources": "[[Template:Potd/2023-11]]",
    "schema": {
        "fields": [
            { "name": "date", "type": "string", "title": { "en": "Date" }},
            { "name": "filename", "type": "string", "title": { "en": "File name" }},
            { "name": "caption", "type": "localized", "title": { "en": "Caption" }}
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        [
            "2023-11-01",
            "Muelle Monroe, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-20, DD 10.jpg",
            {
                "en": "View of quiet Monroe Harbor in fall at dawn, [[:en:Chicago|Chicago]], Illinois, USA.",
                "fr": "Soleil couchant sur le ''Monroe Harbor'', un port de [[:fr:Chicago|Chicago]] (États-Unis).",
                ⋮
            }
        ],
        ⋮
    ]
}

—Tacsipacsi (talk) 11:32, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok, that's more involved than I thought. Maybe someone else has the time to get this working. --Schlurcher (talk) 16:57, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

I’ve created a Pywikibot script at https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/tacsipacsi/pywiki/-/blob/main/potd_tabular.py. Unfortunately it turned out that localized columns cannot be longer than 400 characters per language, and some captions are longer than that (some language(s) on November 15, November 27 and November 29 in this month – the error message doesn’t include any details other than the row and column numbers, which translate to days and the fact that captions are affected), which make the saving fail. I don’t know why the limit is 400, maybe it could be increased if not entirely removed. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:34, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Tacsipacsi, maybe a temporary ugly workaround would be to just have the minimal necessary tabular data that make interwiki transclusion possible while meanwhile asking for that limit to be changed? Or is that part unavoidable? — Klein Muçi (talk) 03:16, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi: It depends on what you consider “making interwiki transclusion possible”. I could just not include any captions, which would technically make it work, but I don’t consider a picture of the day without caption useful. While I could also make the script only drop (or truncate) captions longer than 400 characters, I don’t want to do that because it would result in unpleasant surprises: since most captions in most languages would work, people would assume that everything’s okay, and then one day readers would be presented an English caption despite having a translated one, or a truncated caption. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:39, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Move files to another category

Hello. I need to move files from Category:Photographs by Petro Hruhko to Category:Photographs by Petro Hrushko. Thanks! Maks (talk) 07:51, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot --Krd 08:17, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Максим Огородник:

Done, I finished this for you. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:31, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Remove Template:WikiProject Aviation from file talk pages

See also: Commons:Deletion requests/Template:WikiProject Aviation. The template was a somewhat foolish attempt at adding an en-wiki style WikiProject banner template to the talk page of each and every aviation-related file. Luckily, that never took off, but there are still about 200 file talk pages that have that banner. If someone could remove them so we can move on with deleting the template, that would be great. Thanks, El Grafo (talk) 16:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

@El Grafo:

Done. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:23, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! El Grafo (talk) 08:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@El Grafo: You're welome! — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:00, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Change an image with another of the same thing, but better

Eyo! Please change File:VAM Nisaba Lagasch.jpg with File:Vessel fragment depicting the goddess Nisaba (?) and an inscription from Entemena, ruler of Lagash, circa 2430 BC, chlorite, Pergamon Museum, Berlin.jpg Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 20:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Neoclassicism Enthusiast: Do you want to swap filenames between File:VAM Nisaba Lagasch.jpg and File:Vessel fragment depicting the goddess Nisaba (?) and an inscription from Entemena, ruler of Lagash, circa 2430 BC, chlorite, Pergamon Museum, Berlin.jpg, or do you want to just modify the 21 uses on 17 projects? Please use internal links. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 20:16, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Just modify the uses Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 20:30, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Neoclassicism Enthusiast:

Done in mainspace. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 20:44, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Remove template from cat talk pages

remove {{Source category}} from cat talk pages in Category:Source_categories_(flat_list). issue had been raised before https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Multichill&oldid=837480410#Source_category . RZuo (talk) 11:34, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Medallions in Bucharest

Please move all the files from Category:Medallions in Romania to Category:Medallions in Bucharest, except the few files that start with File:Romanian Revival box of matches, made with the occasion of the 1922 Coronation at Alba Iulia --Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 06:59, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@Neoclassicism Enthusiast:

Done with Cat-a-lot. Please use internal links like Category:Medallions in Romania and Category:Medallions in Bucharest. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Switch author to creator template

Please change in this 940 images the text

from: |author=[[User:Jörg Blobelt|Jörg Blobelt]]
to: |author={{Creator:Jörg Blobelt}}

This is a wish of Jörg Blobelt. All other 26.000 images had this creator-template. --sk (talk) 17:27, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jörg Blobelt: can you please confirm this is your wish?--RZuo (talk) 09:57, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@RZuo: Hello RZuo, I don't know if Jörg speak English. I organize the monthly meeting in Dresden, Germany (de:Wikipedia:Dresden). There he life and often ask for help in person at this meeting. In the last meeting we discuss this and he agree to this change. I will him ask in German that he write his OK for this action. --sk (talk) 11:47, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jörg Blobelt: Hallo Jörg kannst du hier bitte mal höchstpersönlich dein "OK" zu der Umwandlung geben. Der Link auf die Benutzerseite soll ersetzt werden durch die Creator-Vorlage, wie am Stammtisch besprichen. Danke. --sk (talk) 11:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

i trust you guys. no worries. users should feel free to post anything anywhere in their languages. commons is multilingual. :) --RZuo (talk) 11:51, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@RZuo: Bitte Änderung durchführen. Danke. --Jörg Blobelt (talk) 09:37, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

done. see https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=File:%20insource:Blobelt%20insource:/%5C%5B%5C%5BUser%5C:J%C3%B6rg/ .

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RZuo (talk) 11:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Polona Upload categories

Special:WantedCategories has a large number of red-link categories resulting from book uploads by the National Library of Poland/ User:Polona Upload.

For example:

Category:Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei (1562)

which includes, again for example:

File:Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei 1562 (101891719).jpg

It should be possible to create and populate those categories, using information from a sample file's {{Book}} template, which gives a year of publication, author, langauge, etc.

Would someone like to look into doing this, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Beaux-Arts doors

Plase move all the images from Category:Beaux-Arts doors in Romania to Category:Beaux-Arts doors in Bucharest--Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 20:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

@Neoclassicism Enthusiast: Please use a leading colon to make your category page link visible per "Visible link to a category page" at mw:Help:Links#Internal links, like I did above. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:33, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

@Neoclassicism Enthusiast:

Done with Cat-a-lot, which you could use yourself. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 19:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Change author in my photos to creator template

Hello, I had uploaded over 6000 images (see here). Please replace in all of the images with

|author=[[User:PaulT|PaulT (Gunther Tschuch)]]
|author=[[User:PaulT]]

in the template Information the author with the template {{Creator:Gunther Tschuch}} (like in File:Tyniec Abbey and river Vistula 01.jpg). Please avoid changes in my uploads with other author names like in File:Vang Stave Church bell Lob Christi 01.jpg or in File:Chinesischer Pavillon Dresden 2010.jpg (PaulT, but Christine Tschuch). Thank you very much. --PaulT (talk) 10:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@PaulT: i replaced 457 files, then i realised i didnt know how to use regex in com:jwb, so i couldnt account for the special cases to avoid. sorry i cant finish your request.--RZuo (talk) 23:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Is there anyone who can solve the problem? Do you have another idea? --PaulT (talk) 19:13, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Tiles

Please move all the files from Category:Tile floors in Romania to Category:Floor tiles in Bucharest, and delete Category:Tile floors in Romania--Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 17:28, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@Neoclassicism Enthusiast: What did I tell you about internal links? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:06, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Not done, user is unresponsive. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:39, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Creation of categories "Videos taken on YYYY-MM-DD"

Code for each category: {{Videos taken on navbox|YYYY|MM|DD}}

Intended range: 2014-09-01 to Present day. Very few of the created categories, if any, will be empty.

OmegaFallon (talk) 19:52, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. Pinging for simple bot work request. OmegaFallon (talk) 15:30, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@OmegaFallon: Sorry, nothing in my toolbox can create categories automatically. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Understandable, thank you for the response! OmegaFallon (talk) 15:13, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@OmegaFallon: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:59, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@OmegaFallon: - is this something you still need done? And is it correct to assume that it would range from Category:Videos taken on 2014-09-01 to Category:Videos taken 2024-03-04? Can you create or link to an example indicating exactly what they should look like/contain? Any example with the correct wikitext (for instance any templates you wish to have added to all the categories) and correct parent categories to deduce the proper scheme will do. --Askeuhd (talk) 17:17, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, still needs doing, if it isn't too much trouble. Category:Videos taken on 2024-02-11 is a valid example of the format. OmegaFallon (talk) 18:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@OmegaFallon: Please check 5 most recent contributions: SchlurcherBotT (talk · contribs) -- Schlurcher (talk) 08:13, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

@Askeuhd The 5 contributions done are good, no problems. Feel free to fill in the whole range. OmegaFallon (talk) 17:38, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

No problem, I'm out over the weekend and will do probably continue Monday --Schlurcher (talk) 17:46, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Done --Schlurcher (talk) 19:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

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Remove the category Datei:attribute from my transferred files.

These are vestigial from their previous dewiki state, so please have an automated program remove these red categories from the file. Grandmaster Huon (talk) 03:01, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Grandmaster Huon: I can find no such instances of "Category:Datei:*attribute*". — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 08:39, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

i suggest, while replacing "Category:Datei:" with "Category:", also tag the files with Template:Check categories. RZuo (talk) 08:54, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Grandmaster Huon and RZuo:

Done to ~683+185 files using VFC to replace /\[\[Category:Datei:[a-zA-Z]*\]\]/g or /\[\[Category:Datei:.*\]\]/g with {{Check categories}} per special:diff/857698929. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:28, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Organspendeausweisr%C3%BCckseite.png&diff=prev&oldid=857704951

Category:Dokument redirects to Category:Documents.

now that info is lost. what's there to "Check categories"? by removing all categories dont you realise you should use Template:Uncategorized?

and you dont know or see "Note: Use {{subst:chc}} for images, which automatically adds the date."?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ RZuo (talk) 09:36, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@RZuo: That info is still in the history, Grandmaster Huon wanted it removed. I used {{Uncategorized}} and removed duplicates of it. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:59, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Grandmaster Huon: ~~I can find no files you uploaded containing "attribute" but File:Annual circulation of Amazing Stories.gif, where it is in context.~~ Please be more specific, including an example. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Need hard touch on files in a category

Hi. I need to someone with pywikibot to hard touch all the files in Category:Category pages with broken file links to force that category to update, as that cat is refusing to update unless the files are edited. Purging is failing. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I am not sure if this is what you wanted, but I went to PAWS, logged in, clicked "new" and "terminal", then ran "pwb.py touch -family:commons -lang:commons -cat:Category_pages_with_broken_file_links" to touch the files and other pages in that category (but not subcategories). It just finished after touching 35 pages. —RP88 (talk) 00:34, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, and I am an idiot, I meant that categories, not the files. If you could do that for me, I would be much appreciated. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

OK, doing that now. —RP88 (talk) 00:40, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Magic, that cleared away the dregs so I could find those that I can action, Now waiting for the cleanup of template:lettercombo to further resolve. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

...and the job has finished, all 677 subcats have been null edited. The command I used was "pwb.py touch -family:commons -lang:commons -subcats:Category_pages_with_broken_file_links". —RP88 (talk) 02:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I believe an automated process was set up to do this kind of thing for the subcats in Category:Non-empty disambiguation categories. Is that somethings that would be helpful here? I don't know how to do it myself, but it seems like the same kind of thing. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:04, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Auntof6. Seems that @Mdaniels5757 did that recursive touch and put it on a cronjob after a discussion here. I used to do that, however, I don't have ready access to the tools machines at this time to set one up. I can probably manually manage the new cases, if push comes to shove. [I need to get around to getting my new PC, just so short on time.] — billinghurst sDrewth 10:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Billinghurst Done, it will now run pwb -family:commons -lang:commons touch -subcats:Category_pages_with_broken_file_links daily. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:32, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 Thanks. Could you also add pwb.py touch -family:commons -lang:commons -subcats:Non-empty_disambiguation_categories another maintenance category that is needing a helping shove. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:38, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Why are backend processes failing so often and so consistently for those cats and Category:Incomplete deletion requests and children that such touching needs to be done? I have to touch Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage‎ and everything in it so frequently that this is the default state of my AWB. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:32, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Billinghurst I already have that running daily. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:39, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. it is the nature of the beast for (back)link tables, and how these categories can be passively populated or de-populated. We have had to touch and purge forever, and these mega categories just fail sometimes. For full explanation you will need to ask over at mediawikiwiki or see if someone can address through phabricator. Not a battle I wish to pursue, I am being solutions focused, and I know what I need. — billinghurst sDrewth 20:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Category:Photographs by Daniel Kruczynski

Good evening! Please automatically assign this category to all files from his Flickr account. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 19:09, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@MasterRus21thCentury:

Done with Cat-A-Lot. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Replace coodinates in file descriptions with {{Location}} template

Most files within Category:US National Archives series: Digital Photographs Relating to America's Byways have the exact location of the camera within their "|description=", such as "Location: Oregon (44.099° N 121.725° W)" on this file. It would be good if someone could convert this to use the standart {{Location}} template. I don't know how many files this affects exactly, but it are definitly multiple thousands. Further, many files have "Photo by XYZ" within the description, but the |author= parameter is empty, resulting in "Author: Unknown author or not provided" which could be fixed too. TheImaCow (talk) 14:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Distribution of photographs by year

Hello! I ask you to distribute photographs by year in the following categories of Wikimedia Commons:

MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 08:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Add coordinates to images

prologue

There are many images listed on Commons:Files used on OpenStreetMap that lack coordinates, but have them on OSM. A bot could add {{Object location}} to file description pages.

This was previously suggested by another user to the maintainer of the lists, but they have other things on their plate. @Herzi Pinki and Bjh21: Enhancing999 (talk) 09:21, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

You could try User:Herzi Pinki/GeoTools to do this manually. best --Herzi Pinki (talk) 11:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Funny. An estimate how much time that would take? Enhancing999 (talk) 11:32, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

You can write a bot yourself, find someone who will do it for you, do it manually, or keep it as it is. It takes less than a minute per image using my scripts (I have done 6 now in 4 minutes: [2]). Do you have an estimation how many images are still missing location info? best --Herzi Pinki (talk) 20:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

The purpose of this page is to find a contributor who is willing to do it by bot. You might want to redact your comments accordingly.

There are about 175 subpages. I checked one, it had 1000 images with 60% without coordinates. Enhancing999 (talk) 21:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

You asked for an estimate. best --Herzi Pinki (talk) 10:10, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Can you elaborate and explain on your other suggestions. I consider them off topic.-- Enhancing999

related discussions
See Commons:Village_pump Enhancing999 (talk) 17:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

For files listed on the >175 subpages at Commons:Files used on OpenStreetMap, please add {{Object location}} to file description pages.

These subpages include approx. 1000 images. On one page 60% were found not to have coordinates. Enhancing999 (talk) 17:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

HandleCommonsOnOSMBot has taken up this task.

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Fl.schmitt (talk) 16:07, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Removing a redundant parent category from 100+ images

Most (maybe all?) of the 111 images in the category Category:Los_Gaiteros_de_San_Jacinto are also in parent category Category:Cumbia music groups from Colombia. Would someone be able to remove the parent category from those images? GanzKnusper (talk) 11:41, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

GanzKnusper: That was quite a simple request and does not need a bot to do it. I've done them and used the "Perform batch task" that you find in the left side panel of pages. I used it on the files in the category and did a simple replace of Category:Cumbia music groups from Colombia with a "space" though two of the files did not have to be changed as you suggested. This is something you can do yourself but be cautious as it is a powerful tool with many options and easy to make mistakes. There seem to be more files that should be in Category:Los_Gaiteros_de_San_Jacinto, so simple text replacement will do the job for you replacing one category with another one. Good luck. Ww2censor (talk) 12:14, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that! I wasn't aware of VisualFileChange.js, which adds the "Perform batch task" option. I'll cautiously try it out! GanzKnusper (talk) 12:48, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ww2censor @GanzKnusper for changing categories it's even easier to use com:catalot. RZuo (talk) 08:00, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I assume that this task is solved, too - if not, please comment.

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Fl.schmitt (talk) 18:04, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Add Template:User category (CL)

Please add {{User category |1=Chris Light}} to the user categories of @Chris Light: . This ensures they are in Category:User categories (flat list) and marked as hidden categories.

To find them: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=28135244

I fixed the few inclusions that weren't user categories (or shouldn't be): sample. A few are still to fix:

About 60 are currently not hidden categories: sample. They will be once the template is added. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:49, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

This can be easily done using AutoWikiBrowser (see example diff). Getting the categories into AWB is quite easy - in Petscan, select "Wiki" as output format and save the result as txt file. Now, in AWB, you can use that file to generate a list by selecting "Text file (UTF-8)" as source. The only problem is that a bot-enabled account would be useful for this, otherwise you'll have to manually confirm 4540 edits... Fl.schmitt (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

I have a bot account at DaxBot, I can take on this work. Let me know -- DaxServer (talk) 14:33, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@DaxServer: Would be great - thanks a lot! I'm not sure if a bot additionally needs AWB access. I've got AWB access, but my bot was approved for different tasks... Anyway, after AWB approval, creating the task in AWB is very easy - since the only modification required is prepending the User category, no regex, no replacements or deletions. Fl.schmitt (talk) 15:22, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@Fl.schmitt My bot was approved for different tasks too and will need to apply for approval for this one-time task. I'd use the https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/scripts/main.html#replace-script to replace __HIDDENCAT__ with {{User category|Chris Light}}. If the template is already inserted, I'll skip. Here is the command:

pwb replace -subcatsr:"Image by Chris Light" -summary:"Summary goes here" -ns:Category -excepttext:"{{User category" "__HIDDENCAT__" "{{User category|1=Chris Light}}"

I'll check the petscan query after the run and handle the missed ones. How does this sound? -- DaxServer (talk) 17:34, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@DaxServer: Sounds great, thanks a lot for the explanation - i'm still learning! I didn't think about using one of the pwb standard scripts - that's really useful! Fl.schmitt (talk) 19:05, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Cool. Filed it Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (4) -- DaxServer (talk) 19:35, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

I added -titleregexnot:"C(hris )?Light" to the command so that categories like Category:Hazards_(LTNP) are skipped. -- DaxServer (talk) 15:22, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I've been making corrections as I return to existing categories. If it can be automated, great. You've got my approval. Chris Light (talk) 21:51, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Test run is done (edits) -- DaxServer (talk) 15:15, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm running the bot since yesterday at ~3 edits/minute. It'd take about a pair of couple more days to finish. I'll ping once it is done. -- DaxServer (talk) 12:47, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
@Enhancing999 It seems to have done already. About 50 or so need some manual intervention. If you'd be able to verify some random cats and check if all is good, we can mark this resolved. -- DaxServer (talk) 13:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. I will check once the Petscan query updates. Enhancing999 (talk) 13:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Somehow petscan isn't updating.

show that it's mostly done. Eventually some more cleanup should be done, but at least now most categories are in the "user categories" tree.

Thanks for this! Enhancing999 (talk) 10:45, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

PS: Petscan updated shortly after or before my post above. It's fixed for all but 5 categories. Enhancing999 (talk) 18:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

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Template:Unknown

The IP range 64.189.18.0/24 has been blocked for removing the template:Unknown may times (example). I was reverting tens of these edits, but there appear to be hundreds. Could a bot operator revert these edits? Wikiwerner (talk) 17:18, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

@Wikiwerner:

Done, I rollbacked 90 of them in these edits for you. I didn't need a bot, just the rollback right and en:User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback and the associated .js. Thanks for asking. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:48, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I just have browsed all remaining edits not containing the 'reverted' tag and undid these when appropriate. Wikiwerner (talk) 14:46, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

@Wikiwerner: You're welcome. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:57, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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Fl.schmitt (talk) 07:30, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

DGJ file descriptions from Flickr

Files like this have some duplicated text and content that is of interest mainly to Flickr users. In the past, I cleaned up some pages myself, but there are actually plenty of them, see Special:Search/"PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED." (about 10000). Also Category:Dennis G. Jarvis and Special:Search/"Dennis G. Jarvis" (27000).

Possibly Creator:Dennis G. Jarvis template could be added at the same time. Enhancing999 (talk) 07:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Enhancing999 Do you have example diffs of the cleanup? -- DaxServer (talk) 19:40, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

I omitted a sample, wanting to leave it to the bot operator. In the meantime, I made Creator:Dennis G. Jarvis.

Maybe this: diff

deletion of part of the "Description" in "en": "PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks."
deletion of the notice twice in "Permission": "PLEASE, no multi invitations or self promotion in your comments, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR."
addition of Creator:Dennis G. Jarvis

Enhancing999 (talk) 15:05, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Is there a template we could use for the "it would be nice if you let me know"-part? Enhancing999 (talk) 15:13, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I personally do not know, I'd suggest asking in the Commons:Village pump - someone might know. -- DaxServer (talk) 15:35, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I went through the templates, but only found a few user specific ones, Special:Search/Template: let me know finds some.

We could solve this by adding something to Creator:Dennis_G._Jarvis. Makes it also easier to update if needed. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:22, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

I added it at Special:Diff/905603933. Enhancing999 (talk) 11:04, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Enhancing999. I'd also remove the link to Creator's Flickr as it is covered by Wikidata [3] -- DaxServer (talk) 15:20, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

@Enhancing999 Here are the test runs. Here is the Pywikibot command I used:

pwb replace -recursive -nocase -summary:"DaxBot Task #6 test run" -search:"PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED." -ns:File -grep:"\[https://www\.flickr\.com/people/22490717@N02 Dennis Jarvis] from Halifax, Canada" -regex "\[https://www\.flickr\.com/people/22490717@N02 Dennis Jarvis] from Halifax, Canada" "{{Creator:Dennis G. Jarvis}}" "Quote from photographer on numerous files|((Quote )?{{Quote\|)?PLEASE, ?\*?(no )?(multi )?invitations((, glitters)? or self promotions?,?| \(none is better\))?( in your comments(,|\. Thanks\.))?( THEY WILL BE DELETED\. *My photos are FREE( for anyone)? to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks\.?( - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR\.)?)?( I AM POSTING MANY DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON ALL - JUST ENJOY.)?(}})?\n*" "" "=( *)\n+( *)\|" "=\1\n\2|" "1=\s+" "1="

The regex matches these texts so far:

Quote from photographer on numerous files
{{Quote|PLEASE, no multi invitations or self promotion in your comments, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR.}}
Quote {{Quote|PLEASE, no multi invitations in your comments. Thanks. I AM POSTING MANY DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON ALL - JUST ENJOY.}}
PLEASE, no multi invitations, glitters or self promotion in your comments, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR.
PLEASE, no multi invitations (none is better) in your comments. Thanks.
PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.
PLEASE, *NO invitations or self promotion in your comments, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR.
PLEASE,invitations or self promotion in your comments, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE for anyone to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR.

If you find other texts, please let me know. -- DaxServer (talk) 11:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Looks good.

I went through the output of the test run. It seems it caught almost all of it. 3407985788 has "PLEASE, no multi invitations (none is better) in your comments. Thanks. " in the description left.

Possibly it could also add {{en|1= }} around the description if {{En}} isn't present. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:07, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Nice catch! I'll add the en template, can you confirm if all the descriptions are in English? -- DaxServer (talk) 09:25, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

In the sample, I think all were, plus, as far as I recall in the ones I categorized for Lucerne. I think it's a reasonable assumption. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:29, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Some already have {{En}}. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:30, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Below some searches with current number of results (just to compare later).

Notes
- ~~Special:Search/"I AM POSTING MANY DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON ALL" Jarvis: 740~~
- ~~Special:Search/"no multi invitations" Jarvis: 13132~~
- ~~Special:Search/"self promotion in your comments" Jarvis: 12780~~
- ~~Special:Search/"THEY WILL BE DELETED" Jarvis: 19,148~~
- ~~Special:Search/"NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR" Jarvis: 12,684~~
- ~~Special:Search/insource:"let me know" Jarvis: 19,558~~
- ~~Special:Search/"Quote from photographer on numerous files" Jarvis: ? (later 63)~~
{{En}} missing:
- Special:Search/File: "Dennis G. Jarvis" -hastemplate:"en" -incategory:"Media lacking a description": 17,486
- Special:Search/File: "Dennis Jarvis" -hastemplate:"en" -incategory:"Media lacking a description": 18,813
Name/Creator/User category

Enhancing999 (talk) 11:32, 22 July 2024 (UTC) - updated later

BTW I'd use {{en|1=some description}} instead of {{en|some description}} to avoid it breaking when the text includes a "=". Enhancing999 (talk) 10:47, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

It's nicely progressing. Enhancing999 (talk) 21:46, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

@Enhancing999 EN template missing search results now seem to have a different language, ~500 of them. I think all that can be done by bot is done. If there's nothing else apart from this, this can be marked done. -- DaxServer (talk) 14:39, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks for your help. (I think we went already much beyond the initial request.) Enhancing999 (talk) 15:34, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Bot requested filed: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (6) -- DaxServer (talk) 11:47, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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Rename and move files from category

Rename and move files from category Category:Black and white Bielsko-Biała to Category:Black and white photographs of Bielsko-Biała. Eurohunter (talk) 20:36, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

@Eurohunter: "rename" - in which regard / according to which pattern? Fl.schmitt (talk) 05:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Move: done. Fl.schmitt (talk) 05:56, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Fl.schmitt: Danke. Eurohunter (talk) 20:22, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

De rien... :)

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Fl.schmitt (talk) 17:10, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Tokyo and Shibuya day photographs categories using a wrong template

Hi, many of those day categories at Category:Photographs of Tokyo by date and Category:Photographs of Shibuya by date (Shibuya is a subdivision of Tokyo) unfortunately use the wrong template Template:World photos, which is originally intented for use on country level, not on city and city subdivision level. Using {{World photos}} categorizes Tokyo and Shibuya at this time on world level, which is not correct. I have recently set up the Template:Tokyo photographs taken on navbox for use both on Tokyo level as well as on the level of it's subdivisions. It will properly categorize on Japan resp. Tokyo level. Thus I'm kindly asking for a bot substituting the full content of those day categories by {{Tokyo photographs taken on navbox}}. I have done a few of those categories manually for test purposes, but there are more than 200 left in Category:Photographs of Shibuya by date and about 300 in Category:Photographs of Tokyo by date. Thank you very much! --Kleeblatt187 (talk) 09:35, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

There are also quite a few empty categories there. I have no idea if they got created by mistake or if they are suppossed to be filled with files soon, so I'm not sure if we should keep them or delete them. Tokyo photographs are not within my working field. But we definitely need to remove the wrongly used {{World photos}} code, either by deleting those empty categories or – as suggested – by substituting the category text with {{Tokyo photographs taken on navbox}} in order to remove the wrong categorization at world level. Thank you, regards, --Kleeblatt187 (talk) 09:35, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@Kleeblatt187

Done in 543 categories -- DaxServer (talk) 14:06, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Great, @DaxServer: thanks for cleaning this up! --Kleeblatt187 (talk) 14:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

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sorting files

Please help me sort files in the subcategories of Category:Photographs in the Golestan Palace Library by number. Sortkeies should be in three digits as there might be more than a hundred files in each album. Hanooz 15:18, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@Hanooz: this seems to be done, too - is this correct? If not, please comment. Thank you!

Section not resolved| (talk) 10:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)}} Fl.schmitt (talk) 10:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

It's not, unfortunately. Hanooz 16:10, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

OK, i've removed the resolved template (sorry, i didn't understand first that you want to sort the files inside the subcategories, not into the categories...). --Fl.schmitt (talk) 17:07, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@Hanooz Is this the format - [4] [5] ? -- DaxServer (talk) 19:39, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

008.2 (or 008-2) for File:Golestan Palace Album No. 100-8.2.jpg and 008.1 (or 008-1) for File:Golestan Palace Album No. 100-8.1.jpg. What comes after the dot (1 or 2) is recto/verso. Hanooz 19:59, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@Hanooz Here is what I gather: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DaxServer/sandbox&oldid=899125871 from Petscan https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=28923652 I omitted the first few which do not have the pattern "Golestan_Palace_Album_No._" in the title. Please edit them manually setting the desired sortkey. If the table looks good, I can file for the bot and can do the edits. Let me know -- DaxServer (talk) 13:58, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Looks great to me. Thanks. Hanooz 16:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Filed Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (5) -- DaxServer (talk) 20:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
@Hanooz I believe the sorting is done. Can you verify and mark this resolved? -- DaxServer (talk) 13:33, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Yes. Thank you for your assistance. Hanooz 14:07, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Pleasure! -- DaxServer (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

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Missing "-" in coordinates (MX)

Some of the Mexico images by a former contributor show locations in Asia [6]. This seems to be due to a missing "-" in the coordinates. Sample fix: Special:Diff/905615293. I fixed a few myself. Enhancing999 (talk) 10:18, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Done ~74 edits, I did it with pwb replace using my normal account -- DaxServer (talk) 12:08, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

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Automatically removed closed requests from Deletion requests/mobile tracking

When I started a deletion request it got automatically added to the bottom of the page, which had gotten so long that the latest requests were no longer loading in properly (you can scroll to the bottom to see what that looked like). I went ahead and removed the closed requests manually, but this seems like the sort of thing bots could take care of as well. ReneeWrites (talk) 15:12, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

@ReneeWrites: You could ask Krd if some of his bot's functionality could help with this. Archival of the page has been a problem for 11 years. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:25, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Done --Krd 18:38, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

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Remove double headings created due to a mass-message

I sent a POTY message to targetes listed here, and unfortunately the heading was duplicated. Most likely because it existed on the "page to be sent as message" and the message tool asked to supply a subject line. Could someone run a bot and have these duplicate instance of the heading removed? _Regards,Aafi ^(talk) 17:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@Aafi: Revision #931176428 Is this ok? Fl.schmitt (talk) 18:01, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

If yes, I can run the same edit on the other affected User talk pages. Fl.schmitt (talk) 18:01, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@Fl.schmitt, yes. This perfectly fixes the issue. _Regards,Aafi ^(talk) 18:09, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Great - I've started running pwb replace, may take some while to complete.

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Fl.schmitt (talk) 18:18, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Since it's more than 3k pages, i'll file a bot request - this will take some additional time since i'll have to wait for the new bot account to be autoconfirmed. Fl.schmitt (talk) 18:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

P625 to P1259

i just made mistakes of adding coordinate location (P625) to files. is there a bot already running that automatically migrates p625 statements to ~~location of creation (P1071)~~ coordinates of the point of view (P1259)? RZuo (talk) 10:37, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

made a mistake again. it seems p1071 is meant for wd items of actual places, not coords.

Commons:Structured data/Modeling/Location, important info.--RZuo (talk) 11:29, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

OpenRefine can do that. I can help if you'd like. -- DaxServer (talk) 10:58, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

manual is easy, but this should be a continuous bot job.--RZuo (talk) 11:29, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

See Module_talk:Coordinates#Usage_of_P625?. Multichill (talk) 17:21, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm working on this on an ongoing basis. --Schlurcher (talk) 06:42, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

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Convert Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith to JPEG

Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith is an excellent Library of Congress collection of very good images. Unfortunaly, all those images are in TIFF format, which means that the average file size is 100-300 MB, which is incredibly large. It causes long loading times of even the preview image (let alone the actual file), and TIFF file format is not supported by most browsers or general applications. Wikipedia discourages using TIFF files for those reasons, and this reduces the likelyhood of those excellent images being used.

Therefore, some bot should convert those TIFFs to JPEGs, copy the descriptions/categories and make sure the files reference each other. Further, the categories from the TIFF files should be replaced with Category:LC TIF images with categorized JPGs TheImaCow (talk) 21:59, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

@TheImaCow Thanks for finding this. I've filed for a bot Commons:Bots/Requests/ImageConverterBot -- DaxServer (talk) 15:13, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

I didn't expect someone to reply to this so quick, thank you!

I came across this series via Category:Aerial photographs of the United States and subcats, which contains many poorly categorized images from this collection. TheImaCow (talk) 16:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

LCCN2013631230.tif shows a jpg and several jpg-sizes are offered. Is this really needed? Enhancing999 (talk) 18:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, I didn't notice that. It seems it is not necessary after all -- DaxServer (talk) 20:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Maybe I'm blind, but where are those files offered? It's not the "Download/Use this file/Email a link" bar, all resolutions there only download the same low-quality preview generated by the Mediawiki software (which is shown on the file description page) TheImaCow (talk) 21:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Below the image, there is a line:

The last one matches the tiff. Enhancing999 (talk) 21:52, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh thanks I see. However this is very obscure and when embedding the file anywhere, it will always refer to the TIF version - so an seperate JPG should probably still be uploaded, like the 220,000 other TIF files in Category:LC TIF images with categorized JPGs (or the 58,000 Category:NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs)

But I don't have strong opinions on this. TheImaCow (talk) 22:11, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Loading a file to test this -- DaxServer (talk) 05:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Possibly support for tiffs was less developed when they were uploaded. I wonder how all those thousands of duplicates are curated and how much volunteer time is lost by handling two instead of just one copy of every image. WMF recently expressed their view on hosting files on Commons that aren't used on WMF sites [7]. Enhancing999 (talk) 09:22, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Well, in theory, those TIF duplicates shouldn't need any curation, as they are supposed to be dumped into the massive categories mentioned above, and only linked from the description of the maintained JPG version.

The use of TIF is something I think is generally not needed for 99.9% of files, modern compression is more than good enough.

(I don't oppose eventually getting rid of the TIF duplicates, but there is not even consensus to delete de-facto duplicates where one version is rotated differently by single degrees, or random low quality TIF scans of generic text documents, where the same scans are also uploaded as JPG, so forget it) TheImaCow (talk) 13:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Oddly, I can't figure out which one of the two maps is correct ;) Did you nominate the wrong one? For the text ones, I'd have nominated the jpg ones. The assumption that deletion doesn't save anything is incorrect: deletion reduces curation (even if theoretically none is needed, it still happens and wastes volunteer time), limits spamming of Special:search, can even save storage space as files can be purged (from non-public view) or wont be exported twice when requested.

As technology changes, I think views on this evolve. NARA's approach might have been the ideal 15 years ago, but other GLAMS that started only more recently use different approaches. Enhancing999 (talk) 12:13, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean. Both maps are exactly the same. JPG ones nominated instead? Ideally someone uploads a PDF and 307 files are replaced with one in the correct format for documents. I never said I oppose deletions, I said the exact opposite.

The NARA approach has actually changed - there have been at least two bulk uploads, one in 2011 and the other 2019.

The 2011 one uploaded nearly every image twice - one TIF+one JPG. The 2019 one uploaded only JPGs.

Looking at the NARA catalogue, files uploaded earlier have often TIF,JPG and sometimes GIF versions for download. Images uploaded 2019, presumably digitized later, have only high-resulution JPGs for download. TheImaCow (talk) 18:33, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

It's better to have the lossless files than a JPEG, as you can always make a JPEG from a lossless file, but you can't make a lossless from a JPEG. Still, while we shouldn't delete the TIFFs, we should make JPEG options. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:52, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

If we want to offer lossless files in a reasonable sizes (2MB vs 200MB), we might want to consider offering PNGs instead of JPEGs -- DaxServer (talk) 08:57, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

@DaxServer: Please don't, PNG images look fuzzy when scaled down (due to design decisions discussed in phab:T192744) on WMF projects. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:59, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

What should be done now? Is there any reason to not do what has been already done successfully with hundreds of thousands of NARA/LOC files? TheImaCow (talk) 11:57, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

What leads you to describe it as "successful"? How many edits had to be made because we have the same file twice? Enhancing999 (talk) 12:02, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

"successful" because the TIF versions are dumped into the massive TIF categories linked above and linked in the "other_versions=" parameter at the information template of their respective JPG version, in case anyone needs them. JPG versions are maintained, TIF versions are just there. And there hasn't been much of an issue with as far as I can tell.

Please show some nessescary manual edits that had to be done twice, because when done right, there aren't any. TheImaCow (talk) 17:02, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Any edit on the version you consider secondary is as waste of curation energy. Wouldn't professionally managed archives clean this up beforehand rather than waste our volunteer's time to clean it up?

Sometimes I wonder if they employ uploaders paid by the number of files uploaded. We seem to end up with books added page by page in duplicate copy from what should be a single djvu document. Enhancing999 (talk) 18:20, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

"Any edit on the version you consider secondary is as waste of curation energy." - Yes obviously and I fully agree on that. Thats why there are categories like Category:LC TIF images with categorized JPGs - these images have JPG versions which are being maintained, and the TIF files in this category are uncategorized besides being in that category/referenced from the JPG file description page. This means that there is no need to ever do any edits on TIF files in that category, as only the "categorized JPGs" are maintained.

(Topic Paid by files uploaded: I don't think so, this is simply the format those scans are stored, and with proper software to handle this, there isn't anything wrong - but Commons dosen't have the software, and i fully support efforts to convert single page uploads of books into PDF. The core problem is that Commons software is not designed to handle the same media in multiple file formats, like e.g. the Internet Archive which offers texts for download in countless different file formats from the same description page (random example.)) TheImaCow (talk) 20:03, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

These seems like an over optimization. Things work, they are a bit slower because someone thought having a very high resolution in a very badly compressible format was desirable. The side effect of very large originals is that it takes a while before the thumbnail is ready. But for 99.9% of the people that isn't a problem. Thubmnails are cached. If images are used, you therefor never have to wait for the thumbnail. You are in the .1% of people (Curators) looking at things that are NOT used. It's acceptable to wait a second in that case. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:47, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

"someone thought it was desireable" - The Library of Congress used an archival format to archive the images, but we are not the LOC, and have different goals - so we should use file formats better suited for our uses.

The motto of this site is "freely usable media" - this also includes not having to have very fast internet connections or special programs to process or even fully view the file (at least edge/firefox cannot show raw .tif files in the browser, e.g. when trying to zoom in further), and this list could be expanded endlessly. We shouldn't forget our actual end users, who in general have much less knowledge about dealing with such file types, or generally anything.

Another issue not yet mentioned is that TIFF files are not indexed by Google Image Search and presumably other search engines, which is bad for obvious reasons. (search for site:commons.wikimedia.org carol highsmith, and there are only a couple hundred images which have been manually converted to JPG, but not a single of the 30,000 TIFs, appending filetype:TIFF dosen't return anything at all) TheImaCow (talk) 17:02, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

If Google is broken than we don't want users at Commons having to fix it. Enhancing999 (talk) 18:22, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

This is fully intentional, as demonstrated plenty of times, TIFF is a format simply not suitable for general web use. TheImaCow (talk) 20:05, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Weirdly, it appears to remove jpgs, see #c-Enhancing999-20240701184400-TheImaCow-20240630215900. Enhancing999 (talk) 10:38, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Comment Yes, on Commons, we need JPEG. If the source may not be available in the long term, we should also upload the original TIFF versions, but that not the case here. Be sure to link both versions. That was not done for some other files uploaded from LOC or NARA, and it is now a mess. Yann (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

@TheImaCow, Enhancing999, Adam Cuerden, Jeff G., TheDJ, and Yann: I've started a discussion at Commons:Village pump#Should we convert all TIFFs to JPEGs?. I hope this would be the right place to garner a wider consensus on this -- DaxServer (talk) 16:46, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

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Sanborn maps (done 2024-10-28)

delete empty tif file description pages where a jpg exists

User:Achim55/File pages without files list ca. 600 file description pages. Many are tiffs, such as this that lack an actual file, but have a working jpg version exists (here). I think these tiffs can be tagged for deletion.
∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 11:14, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Not that it matters for this request, but some might actually have a "tiff" version with the extension ".tiff" and the above are just empty file description pages with ".tif" instead.
∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 20:35, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

The underlaying problem was a malfunction during file renaming. User:CAPTAIN RAJU might tell us how they moved the files technically. An example:

Step 1: The tiff File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine. LOC sanborn03429 003-1.tif is moved to File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, 1896, Plate 0001.tiff, OK

Step 2: The accompanying jpg File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine. LOC sanborn03429 003-1.jpg is successfully moved to File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, 1896, Plate 0001.jpg, but this jpg move changed erroneously the page/log/history of the tif file by overwriting the existing redirect of the tiff move.

Now the previously moved tif shows up again and

Step 3: is moved a second time but this time not to .tiff but to .tif File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, 1896, Plate 0001.tif, completing the mess.

If there is a .tiff of the same name the .tif can be deleted by bot or script. Anything else should be checked manually. Enhancing999 could not wait for my explanation and aleady tagged pages for deletion. That's cooperation I like... --Achim55 (talk) 19:35, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

I forgot: The initial redirect of step 1 has to be fixed as it now points to .tif instead of .tiff. --Achim55 (talk) 20:10, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Well, manual cleanup happens even when a bot would fix this more efficiently.

Is there an actual sample where you think it shouldn't be deleted? We shouldn't keep hundreds of empty file description pages around just because they might be useful some time when we already have jpgs for the same.
∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 20:31, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

This section is Done: 500+ redirects fixed, 500+ file pages deleted. --Achim55 (talk) 20:38, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Many thanks!
∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 08:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Remove all files from

Category:Jcb tem cat. thx. RoyZuo (talk) 18:28, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

I will do this with my bot. – Ammarpad (talk) 21:56, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: – Ammarpad (talk) 10:05, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 17

Category:Collections of Leiden University Library (uncategorized)

Corrected by Jacek Halicki

Category replace request

Bollywood Hungama

TC Track maps 2

rerequesting emoji redirects

Mass categorization of Wiki Loves Monuments Poland photos

Photos of Czech president Petr Pavel

Bulk-inserting a category to files

Help for review needed files

Category:1870s photographs of Brazil

Category:Image stacks

Replace Date=1970-01-01 in Structured Data of Wikiportret uploads

viralzone

Creation of many "[year] by topic by country" categories

Commons:Top 200 images which have a vector version available by usage

WTTC ITB Berlin 2023

Delete or change a textphrase in over 16.000 images

Replace "developwoment" with "development" in multiple categories

Category renames

Bulk category renames

WikiLoves Earth Wales

Null edits

Category move

Images by Gail Hampshire

Captions edit

Delete inaccurate coordinates from sets of photos from the Brno Exhibition Centre

Shutdown of Computer-aided tagging: Mass revert needed

Change my photos to creator-template and ISOdate

Template:Location for Category:Stadtbildfotografie Dresden

Picture of the same thing

Adding colour space declaration to images

Delete unnecessary licensing information from files

POTD - Interwiki transclusion

Move files to another category

Remove Template:WikiProject Aviation from file talk pages

Change an image with another of the same thing, but better

Remove template from cat talk pages

Medallions in Bucharest

Switch author to creator template

Polona Upload categories

Beaux-Arts doors

Change author in my photos to creator template

Tiles

Creation of categories "Videos taken on YYYY-MM-DD"

Remove the category Datei:*attribute* from my transferred files.

Need hard touch on files in a category

Category:Photographs by Daniel Kruczynski

Replace coodinates in file descriptions with {{Location}} template

Distribution of photographs by year

Add coordinates to images

Removing a redundant parent category from 100+ images

Add Template:User category (CL)

Template:Unknown

DGJ file descriptions from Flickr

Rename and move files from category

Tokyo and Shibuya day photographs categories using a wrong template

sorting files

Missing "-" in coordinates (MX)

Automatically removed closed requests from Deletion requests/mobile tracking

Remove double headings created due to a mass-message

P625 to P1259

Convert Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith to JPEG

Sanborn maps (done 2024-10-28)

delete empty tif file description pages where a jpg exists

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Remove the category Datei:attribute from my transferred files.