Commons:Hüfigi Froge
Die Site stellt di hüfige Froge vo de Allmänd mit re churze Antwort und/oder me Verwys uff d Hindergrundsite zämme.
Froge zum Projäkt
Um was goht's uff de Site?
D Alländ (Wikimedia Commons, churz au "Commons") isch e Mediesammelstell, wo nit vo bezahlte Künschtler, sondern vo Freiwillige gschaffe worre isch und verwaltet wird. De Name "Wikimedia Commons" chunnt vom Dachprojäkt Wikimedia, wo d Allmänd, d Wikipedia, s Wiktionary und no vyli anderi Projäkt leitet, und em änglische Wort "commons", wyl d Allmänd e allgemeins Projäkt für alli Wikimedia-Projäkt isch. Eso isch e zentrali Sammlig vo Fotos, Diagramm, Animatione, Musik, Tekschtuffnahme, Videoclips und allne andere Arte vo Media am entstoh, wo nützlig für jedes Wikimedia-Projäkt ßin.
Was isch d Zylsetzig vom Projäkt?
Lüeg uff Commons:Projäktfokus.
Chann ich Material uff d Allmänd lade?
Ja, nadürlig chasch des - genau säll isch, was mr vo dir wän. Fang eifach bi de Erschte Schritt a, um an dem Projäkt deilz'neh.
Was für Material chann ich uffelade?
Jedi Mediadatei, wo e freii Lizänz hät, cha uffeglade werre. Lüeg aber au uff d Urheberrächtsfrog für di nötige Lizänzbedingige.
Can I upload mobile apps that are suitable for teaching or demonstrating a concept?
No. See Commons:Brojäktfokus and Commons:Dateitype. Commons is not intended to be primarily a repository for software, it's intended to be a media repository. There are other projects (for example F-Droid, but see Category:Mobile software distribution platforms for more options) that may be much more suitable for sharing apps you have created.
Chann ich au Tekscht uffelade, wo ich de Autor devo bi?
Uff de Allmänd goht's um multimediale Inhalt (Bilder, Film, Dön), nit Tekscht. Wenn du aber dy Tekscht under de GFDL lizenziere wottsch, no chasch en je noch Form/Inhalt zu me andere Projäkt, z.B. zue d Wikipedia, em Wikisource oder em Wikibooks bytrage.
What are 'gallery' (main namespace) pages for? How should they be designed?
Galleries are a complement to categories (primary way to organize and find files on the Commons), as another way of displaying media. They allow files to be annotated with captions, shown at better sizes than the category default, organized in tables, etc. Typically they begin with short captions that briefly introduce the topic in many languages (these can be automatically generated using MultiDesc), followed by headed sections that typically use the <gallery> tag (see meta page for guidance).
The files should be followed by interwiki links (also generated by Sum-it-up) and at least one category. Gallery pages must be in at least one category.
A good way to design a new gallery page is to adapt an existing one from a similar topic. Species (plants/animals) pages will necessarily be different to location (cities/countries) pages.
When should I use a gallery or category?
Files should always be added to descriptive categories, since if they are only added to galleries, they can be easily removed from them and thus "lost". Categories are useful as indiscriminately large "containers" of images on a topic. Galleries (on article pages) are useful as showcasing the best, most illustrative, informative and interesting images of a category. They are also useful for presenting material in a logical order, something categories have a limited ability to do. For example, compare Tennis to Category:Tennis. Information on gallery pages can be presented in a hierarchical manner, such as Pronunciation of Dutch municipality names and United States.
This is just advice for if you feel totally lost. Some topics have specific guidelines for the organisation of media, such as plants and animals which fall under the WikiProject Tree of Life. Unless you are interested in helping out with such projects, don't worry too much about finding out what the 'rules' are until someone tells you -- the people who take part in the project will fix things up.
Urheberrächtsfroge
Welli Lizänze mien Dateie ha, wo-n-ich uffelad?
Du müesch sicherstelle, dass alles, wo dr uffeladsch, entweder isch, oder under re andere freie Lizänz wie de GNU FDL oder re Creative-Commons-Lizänz stoht. Für anderi Mögligkeite zur Lizenzierig lüeg uff Lizenzierig und Commons:Lizänzvorlage. Bitte sug dr nit e neui Lizänz uss de Finger. Au wenn dr de Inhalt uff em Netz sihsch, no heißt säll nit, dass er gmeinfrei isch.
Chann isch Scans oder Bilder vo andere, wo-n-ich gändert ha, uffelade?
Numme de Hersteller vo de ursprünglige Arbet oder dä, wo d Rächt an de Arbet verchauft worre ßin, cha e Arbet lizenziere. E Scan oder e Änderig isch kei eigeständigi Arbet. Des heißt, dass du dir nit eifach e Datei uss em Netz kralle und si mit re GFDL- oder CC-Lizänz verseh chasch.
Wiso hät's uff de Allmänd kei "fair use"-Inhalt?
Einer vo de Grundprinzipie isch numme freie Inhalt gßi. Säll wird sich nit wie d NPOV-Richtlinie uff de Wikipedia ändere. Denäbe variiere d Urheberrächtsgsetz vo Land zu Land. Eso variiere au d fair-use-Gsetz vo Land zu Land, wo au jedes Land sini eigeni Interpretation hät und vyli Jurischdiktione s "fair use"-Konzäpt au gar nit känne. Im Ändeffäkt cha fair use sälte usserhalb vo de Vereinigte Staate verwändet werre. D Inhaltvo de Allmänd sott mer in jedem Land verwände chönne, gsetzlig cha d Allmänd also kei "fair use"-Inhalt neh.
- Siehe auch: Commons:Fair use
Chann ich Material vo de Site usserhalb vo de Wikimedia verwände?
Jo, chasch. Wie au immer, du müesch uff de Bildbeschrybigssite lüege (indem dr uffs Bild klicksch), under weller Lizänz des stoht. In de meiste Fäll isch es in Ordnig, wenn dr d Autore- und Lizänzinformatione vo de Bildbeschrybigssite kopiersch und zämme mit em Bild oder de Datei veröffentligsch. Lüeg Commons:Witerverwändig für Einzelheite.
Git's für e optimali Bildbeschrybig e Paradigma?
Jo, du chasch e nätts Tutorial drüber bi Erschti Schritt finde. Du sottsch d Vorlag "Information" verwände, um d Beschrybig z mache.
Where do I get credit for my images?
Some of our accepted licenses require attribution. This means that a photographer has to be given credit every time their picture is used. Please make sure you put the name you want to have mentioned in the description page of the image. Within Wikipedia articles, people who click your image in order to enlarge it will see your name.
What happens if a Flickr license changes?
See also: Commons:Flickr images. Authors may change their Creative Commons licenses and sometimes do, but their license at the time of verification cannot be revoked. (See the Creative Commons FAQ: What if I change my mind about using a CC license?) If an upload from Flickr has a verified CC BY or CC BY-SA license, the file remains on Commons. However, the template {{Flickr-change-of-license}} might be added. Works identified on the image page as a new version of a verified file also remain. Verification appears in a FlickreviewR, administrator or trusted user notice on the image page.
I have uploaded an image, can I revoke the license later?
The short answer is "No".
Free licenses are designed in such a way that once you release the work under them, you cannot later demand that people stop using that particular license to distribute the work. This is done to protect the users from putting their time and energy making what you upload better or developing something around that work, only to find out later than their work cannot be distributed at all because you have changed your mind. Also see the official Creative Commons FAQ topic “What if I change my mind about using a CC license?”, more info.
Please think hard before you upload images to Wikimedia Commons.
Having said that, on some occasions, such as when it is clear that a mistake was made, and the uploader requests the deletion right after the upload, images are deleted. But this is not a loop-hole that you can use if your upload has resided on Commons for a week or more.
I am not the author, but I have permission
If you are not the author but you have their permission to distribute under a free license (COM:L) please see Commons:Volunteer Response Team#Licensing images: when do I contact VRT?"
Technischi Froge
Does Commons use a special wiki engine?
No. It is the same MediaWiki as for most other Wikimedia sites, but with galleries instead of articles in the main namespace (see the question above). But this site has many heavily customized gadgets and most templates are unique to Commons and developed locally.
Was für e Ufflösig sotte Bilder, wo-n-ich uffelad, ha?
See also: Commons:Preparing images for upload. D Ufflösig soll so hoch ßy wie möglig. Du müesch nit uff de Speicherplatz vo de Festplatte Rucksicht neh oder dr Sorge wäge de lange Ladezit mache, wyl d Software automatisch chleineri Versione (wie in de Artikel age) generiert und zwüschespeichert.
However, scaling of images may fail if the image is very large and rendering takes too much time or memory (in that case, either no scaled image is shown, or the full image is served to the browser, often causing it to lock up). For PNG images, a hard limit of 25 megapixels is in effect. Large JPEGs are only problematic if they are saved in progressive mode, since the entire image has to be processed at once. Use baseline mode instead.
In case the full scale original is too large to process for the software, upload it anyway, but then please overwrite it with a scaled down version (around 6 megapixels in size); the full scale version will still be available in the upload history, and you can add a reference to it in the image description.
Wie chann ich s Material in de Wikipedias diräkt verwände?
Verlink grad eso zum Dateiname vom Bild, wie wenn's e lokale Name wär. Beacht: 'S cha e Verzögerig bim Lade vom Bild vo de lokale Wikipedia us ge. Des litt an de zwüschegspeicherte Versione vom Bild und cha mit em Neulade vom Bild sälber, nit vo de Site, wo's druff isch, behobe werre. Lüeg au Commons:Ybette vo Medie.
How do I link to an image without showing it?
Use [[:File:Example.jpg]]. That shows up as: File:Example.jpg
Wie chann ich e Bild vo de Wikipedia uff d Allmänd übertrage?
See also: Commons:Moving files to Commons. Wenn s Bild under re freie Lizänz stoht, no ladsch dr di gröschtmöglig Version uff dy Rächner abe und ladsch's uff d Allmänd uffe. Wenn dr dodemit fertig bisch, no müesch d Bildbeschrybigssite kopiere und lüege, ob de Name vom Autor und/oder d Internetadräss vo de Quälle, s Datum und e Churzbeschrybig hät. Schrib d URL vo de Originalwikipedia dezüe und de Name vo dem, wo's ursprünglig uffeglade hät. Lüeg, dass licence tags und anderi Vorlage uff de Allmänd korräkt ßin.
Wie chann ich e Bild oder anderi Mediedatei umbenänne?
See also: Commons:File renaming. If you are the uploader and recently uploaded the file, review Commons:File naming and add the following template to the file description page: {{rename|1=new name.jpg|2=1|3=uploader request: please rename to fix .. }}, where |2= is a number from 1 to 7 (with 2=1 being for Uploader requested).
If you are not the uploader, check if the reason matches one outlined in Commons:File renaming. If yes, use {{Rename}} as well, stating the corresponding reason.
Galeryesite chönne vo agmäldete Nutzer mit em Link "move", iebligerwis obe uff de rächte Site (hängt vom Skin ab) umbenännt werre. Neui Nutzer chönne keini Site umbenänne; wenn dich des betrifft, no frogg öbber anders, ob er's für dich macht.
How can I rename or move a category?
Wie kategorisier ich e Site/Bild?
Bispyl: Wenn dr s Bild zum Bispyl in d Kategory "XXX" yordne wottsch, no schrib uff d Bildbeschrybigssite:
[[Kategorie:XXX]]
Si wird dänn automatisch kategorisiert.
Wie düen ich d Bilder/Site am beste kategorisiere?
Categorization should answer "W-questions", most importantly: What is it? Where is it? A file should be put in the most specific category/categories that fit(s). We don't use general keyword tags like "nature" or "architecture" to organize files.
There are several ways to find appropriate categories (or gallery pages).
- D Kategorisierig sott de "W-Froge" folge, am wichtigste: Was isch's, wo isch's? Zum e Kategory (oder Galerysite) finde, wo s Bild drybasst, lüeg uff de Hauptsite, uff de Süech-Site Commons:Süeche und s Kategoryebaumwerkzüg. Lüeg d Kategorye vo dört a und gang zu derre, wo's am beste anebasst. Deno lüegsch d Underkategorye a und süechsch dr eini devo us. Widderhol des so oft, bis dr zfryde bisch. Wenn dr unsicher bisch, no nimm e allgemeineri Kategory.
- === Wie erstell ich am beste e Galery vo mine Bilder? ===
- Du chasch entweder e Undersite vo diner Nutzersite alege (wenn dr de Nutzer XYZ bisch, no mach d Site User:XXX/Gallery uff) oder e Kategory (z.B. Category:Bildli vom XYZ) erstelle. Alli Galerye sotte in de Category:User galleries ßy - lüeg dört für Bispyl. Um alli Bilder z'finde, wo dr je uffeglade häsch, chasch d Site Special:Log/upload uffrüefe oder di automatisch generierti Galery verwände (änder numme s Wiki uff "Commons" und gib dy Nutzername y).
If unsure, choose a more general category. However, unless a picture has additional important elements to it that are currently missing their own subcategories, avoid categorizing pictures into both a subcategory and one of this subcategory's more general parent categories. See Commons:Kategorye for more information.
Why might a category list not be up to date?
Sometimes, pages are placed in categories not manually by Commons editors, but by means of a special editing tool called a template, which can be used to place identical information (including category membership information) on many different pages at once. When the information on such a template is edited, the pages containing that template are not necessarily updated immediately. This means that pages might not always appear in the most current categories. However, this problem usually affects project maintenance categories rather than the categories used for browsing.
Various other temporary delays may sometimes mean that lists of category members or subcategories, or the page counts given, are not completely up to date. So if you are editing Commons and find that your page hasn't yet shown up in a category or been removed from an old category, don't panic! The problem will probably resolve itself within minutes, or after a longer time in rare cases.
How should categories be organized?
See also: Commons:Categories. Try to copy the existing structure when expanding categories. Make sure each new category has at least one parent category. See if your area has a category scheme, or if there is one you can model yours on. Especially for species and countries, the structure should follow the conventions set by existing structures. For more information about categories on Commons, see Commons:Kategorye.
How do I best make a gallery of my own pictures?
You can create a user gallery either as a subpage of your user page (so if you are user Foo, put your gallery page at User:Foo/gallery), or as a category (called something like Category:Pictures by Foo). All user galleries should be in Category:User galleries, all user categories should be in Category:User categories – see Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories for details. To find all the pictures you have uploaded, you can use the upload log.
How do I create a gallery?
See meta:Help:Images#Rendering_a_gallery_of_images for information on how to create galleries the easy way – with the <gallery> tag. The page Commons:Galleries might give you information on common conventions of galleries here on Commons.
Wiso isch e alts Bild und nit s neuè uff minem Bildschirm?
Probier de Neulade-Chnopf us oder düe so, wie wenn dr d Site bearbeite wotsch, und benutz d Vorschaufunktion.
See Help:Purge, en:WP:BYPASS, and en:WP:PURGE for more details.
Can I upload video and/or audio?
Why can't I see some images?
It might be a thumbnail problem (see the question above), or you might run an ad-blocking software that mistakenly thinks the image was an advertisement. Can you see File:D-fructose.png? If not, then that's the likely cause of your problem. That image resides at the URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/D-fructose.png which contains the string "/ad/". Your ad-blocker is probably configured such that it considers all images with a URL containing this string to be advertisements. Change the configuration such that this rule does not apply to the .wikipedia.org and .wikimedia.org domains. That should cure the problem.
The file may be too large to give a thumbnail (e.g., a large JPG in progressive mode). See: Commons:Dateitype#Size and scaling.
Wie chann ich noch Bilder süeche?
Lüeg uff Special:Search und folg de Hywys und Links dört. Du chasch au im züeghörige Artikel in einere vo de Wikipedias goh und lüege, was er für Bilder verwändet. Au mithilf vo de Kategorye chasch Bilder zu me bstimmte Thema lychter finde.
Wie wird d Software für des Projäkt gmacht/abasst?
Lüeg Commons:Tools, Commons:Gadgets und Commons:Bugs.
Ich ha vyli Dateie; chann ich si im Stappellauf uffelade, ohni dass i's einzeln mache müeß?
See also: Commons:Upload tools. Yes. The UploadWizard allows you to upload a batch of files at the same time.
S Programm Commonist isch e Java/BeanShell-basierts Werkzüg zum Uffelade mit re Benutzeroberflächi. 'S sott mit Linux, MacOS und Windows laufe.
If you use Lightroom, Darktable or Digikam, there are even extensions for directly uploading (batches of) images from within your editing software available.
Für die wo sich uff de Unix-Kommandozyle uskänne, hät de Eloquencein Perl e Script zum Uffelade gschrybe, wo uff de meiste Unices, Unix-ähnlige-, Linux- und Mac-OS-X-Computer laufe sott. Du chasch des au neh, um e Freiwillige Dateie-Uffelader z'werre.
A file or page needs to be renamed or moved. Can this be done?
Galleries and other standard pages: yes. Accounts older than four days can rename articles by using the 'move' tab at the top of the page. Note that for different language titles, redirects should be created rather than moving a page.
Files (Images): Yes, but only by administrators or users with the filemover permission. Please see § How can I rename/move an image or other media file?.
Categories: no. If the badly named category is still a likely one (rather than a misspelling), the badly named one should be converted into a soft redirect by tagging it with {{Category redirect}}. The images in the category have to be manually changed to belong to the new category. (Cat-a-lot is a gadget which makes such mass recategorisation easy.) Note that due to technical restrictions, categories should all be in English.
When I tried to upload my file, I get this error: "." is not an allowed file format. See Commons:File types for more information.
Make sure that the file you're uploading has an extension and that it is one of the allowed types. Make sure also that you have not left a space either before or after the point.
Be sure to include an extension in the Destination filename: field as well. For example, write "Orange grove in summer.jpg" not just "Orange grove in summer".
What does the upload error This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browser. mean?
The file you tried to upload contains some HTML code in its metadata. Most likely, you tried to upload a JPG file, and the HTML is contained in the file's Exif data. Because of security concerns, such files cannot be uploaded.
You'll have to remove the HTML code from the file's metadata. You will need to have access to software that allows you to edit such metadata. One way to do this is via exiftool. This is a very powerful command-line program to edit image metadata. If you're using a computer running the Windows operating system, there is also a graphical user interface to that tool called ExiftoolGUI.
If the file you tried to upload is from Flickr, you can view (but not edit) the metadata on Flickr. For instance, this Flickr image does have HTML in its metadata and will thus provoke this error message. You can view the metadata by appending "/meta" to the URL: this image's metadata. The "Caption-Abstract" metadata entry contains HTML-code: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier,_New_Zealand#1931_earthquake">Wikipedia</a>. That's the bit you'd need to remove. (Yes, that's just a harmless link. But with HTML, one could try to do more nefarious things, and thus our software simply forbids any HTML in image metadata.) Download the Flickr file to your computer and then remove the HTML from the metadata.
Once you have removed the HTML from the image's metadata, you should be able to upload the file. (Do not upload this sample file from Flickr, though, it already exists as File:Central Hotel, Napier 05.jpg.)
I want to use a Commons image, but there is already a file at my local wiki with the same name which is blocking it. How can I access the Commons file?
Unfortunately at this time, the only options are to have the local file deleted, or re-upload the Commons image under another name, or ask for either the local image or the Commons image to be moved to another name. If the local image is renamed, the leftover redirect may need to be deleted as well.
How can I upload a new version of a file?
Firstly, you can only do this if your account is older than 4 days.
Secondly, consider uploading to a separate file unless the changes are relatively minor. See Commons:Overwriting existing files.
If you are still intent on uploading a new version of a file, you should have the new version of the file saved to your computer, then navigate to the image page here on Commons. Under the subhead "File history", there is a link that says "Upload a new version of this file". Click on this link. You will be taken to a page titled "Upload file". Scroll down to the middle of this page to a box labeled "Source file". Next to the words Source filename is a button marked Browse.... Click on this button and browse your computer to find the new version of the file. Do not alter the entry under Destination filename:. Under File changes, indicate what changes you have made (e.g., "hi-res version" or "removed background noise" or "fixed colour balance")— just one line is enough to say what changes your new version contains. Lastly, click the Upload file button. A warning will appear telling you that you are replacing an existing file— as that is what you want to do, you should continue.
Avoid overwriting images with different images of the same topic.
Where can I see where my file is being used?
Below the "File history" section are two "file usage" sections, one titled File usage on Commons and another titled File usage on other wikis. These two sections will list all instances on Wikimedia Foundation projects where your file is currently in use.
Why is the text of my new uploads corrected soon after upload?
In last couple of years Wikimedia Commons has been working hard on localization or internationalization (aka. i18n) of most of the text a user might see on any page. The goal is to show the content in the language of the user's choice. The current upload process, which creates a lot of new text visible on each page, was written before the current push for internationalization and creates all the headers and other standard texts in the language of the uploader, and since the software supports many different languages, new images are created daily with text in all those languages. In order to correct the problem, some automatic processes (aka bots) patrol new uploads, changing the text to code which will automatically show the text in the language of the user's choice. Some of the changes you might expect to see on files uploaded (using English language for these examples) are:
Summary→{{int:filedesc}}[[Commons:Copyright tags|Licensing]]→{{int:license}}Own work→{{Own}}
Can't the upload process be fixed so it creates the correct wiki-text?
As explained in the above section, the wiki-text of the new file uploads is created directly by the server-side upload program (a php script). It can only be fixed by changing the Mediawiki code. The problem is well known, but it is unclear if there are plans to fix it (as of Nov 2009). Some recent discussions on the subject can be found here.
Why did my image rotate after I uploaded it?
This is most likely the result of an error in the file's EXIF data (also called its "metadata"). See Commons:Rotation for information about fixing this problem.
How do I fix the orientation of an image?
If your image appears upside down or needs to be turned by 90°, click on the Edit tab on the top of the file page. Then scroll down and type {{Rotate}} somewhere in the edit window. This will add a "rotation" template to your file (if you know exactly how you would like the image rotated, add that information to the template per the instructions below). Finish by clicking Publish changes at the bottom of the page. After a couple of hours, a bot will automatically rotate the image (losslessly, if possible).
RotateLink is a default gadget to add a link “(
request rotation)” to file pages, which allows you to easily (automatically) request any rotation.
Manual way:
| Template | Rotation |
|---|---|
| {{rotate|90}} |  90 degrees clockwise
|
| {{rotate|180}} |  180 degrees
|
| {{rotate|270}} |  270 degrees clockwise (90° anticlockwise)
|
If you request a rotation by another value (e.g. 5°), the image will be placed in Category:Images requiring rotation for processing by humans. Maybe an editor will take the time to rotate it – can take some longer time.
My camera puts a timestamp on photos. Good?
No. Not good. Turn it off. It's much better to just let your camera store things like this in the file's Exif data – most devices will do that automatically.
What are the strangely named components in file paths?
And how are they computed?
If you go to some file on a MediaWiki installation, say File:Spelterini Blüemlisalp.jpg, and you click to view the full version, you may discover that the file resides at the URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Spelterini_Bl%C3%BCemlisalp.jpg. (The "%C3%BC" part is just the result of url-encoding the Umlaut "ü".)
- Where does that "/a/ae" part come from?
- The "a" and "ae" denote some subdirectories that are used to avoid problems with directories containing too many files. Imagine all the millions of files at the Commons in one directory! Some operating systems have problems dealing with directories with many files. (Try working with a folder containing a few thousand files on Windows…)
- Can it be calculated from the file name?
- Yes. It's the first and the first two characters of the MD5 hash of the filename (blanks replaced by underscores) without namespace part. The file name "Spelterini_Blüemlisalp.jpg" has the MD5 hash "ae1a26d34d6a674d4400c8a1e6fe73f8".
- MediaWiki installations can be configured on how to generate these filenames and directory structures. Any MediaWiki installation has one or more file repositories, which may be local or not. First, such subdirectories are used only if the global server-side configuration setting $wgHashedUploadDirectory is
true(or $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory for shared repositories). Then, for each file repository, there is a property calledhashLevelsthat determines how deep the directory structure shall be. If zero, no such intermediary directories are used. If set to e.g. 3, three levels of directories are used; for the example above, one would get "/a/ae/ae1". - This method of storing files has been in MediaWiki since version 1.1 (and possibly even earlier), though it became a bit more configurable over time; initially, it was hardcoded to use two hash levels.
- You can check what the file URL for a given file name will be at Special:FilePath. The file path can also be queried through the MediaWiki API using e.g. a query like https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Spelterini_Bl%C3%BCemlisalp.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url. Both these methods, however, work only for existing files.
- Online MD5 calculators differ in the way they treat UTF-8 input. Two that return values consistent with the way MediaWiki hashes UTF-8 strings are helloacm.com/md5/ and md5.cz.
How do I translate the subtitles on a video?
You can create a copy of the timed text page containing the transcribed subtitles, changing the language code in the timed text page to your language code. Then you simply translate the text. See Commons:Timed Text#Internationalization.
Internal error: bad token
When uploading a file you may see an Internal error: Bad token. error message. This will usually be fixed by logging out of Commons, closing your browser, and starting again. If not, you may additionally delete all cookies (or just the wikimedia.org cookie) and purge your browser's cache before trying again. If this still does not solve the issue, try turning off ad blockers or network filters (sometimes the token could look like an advert URL).
How do I close my account?
If you want to stop using Commons, then no special procedure is needed: simply stop visiting the site. Accounts cannot be removed completely, but some measures can be taken for privacy. See Right to vanish.
How do I request file deletion?
See the pages listed at Commons:Deletion.
Why can't I upload?
In some cases, uploads can be blocked by Commons:Abuse filter.
Froge zu de Gmeinschaft
Was isch e Administrator (Admin, Ammann, Ame) und wie wir ich eine?
Lüeg Commons:Administratore.
Wo chann ich Froge stelle?
Für Alemannisch chasch uff de Stammdisch goh, allgemein (Änglisch) uff Commons:Village pump und Commons:Help desk.
Wie schafft d Allmänd mit ähnlige Projäkt zämme?
Commons is very interested in working with projects that have similar aims. See Commons:GLAM for details.
Was müeß ich mache, wenn e Site oder Datei glöscht werre soll?
Lüeg uff Commons:Löschaträg und Commons:Löschrichtlinie.
Wiso werre nit alli Bilder vo andere Wikimedia-Projäkt eifach do uffeglade?
Am wichtigste: Mänki Wikipedias hän weniger strängi Lizänzierigsrichtlinie wie d Allmänd, drum chönne e baar Bilder dört uffeglade werre, au wenn si uff de Allmänd unzüelässig wäre. Am wichtigste isch, dass d Allmänd "fair use"-Inhalt nit erlaube cha, au wenn's anderi Wikipedias erlaube.
Was für e Sproch soll ich verwände?
Lüeg Commons:Sproche.
Lüt, wo nit güet Änglisch chönne, hän's uff de Allmänd schwyrig. Mr versüeche zwar, d Informatione in vyle Sproche bereitz'stelle, allerdings ßin di änglische Tekscht am ehste aktuäll. Au Sache wie d Kategoryenäme chönne no nit uff andere Sproche ßy.
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