As a rough guideline, administrators usually require editors to have made more than 500 useful non-botlike edits, and to have been active in the last thirty days. Patrollers and License reviewers don't have to request this flag.
I'm trying to upload some MP3 files of songs/live performances from a band that releases them on bandcamp without a copyright so people can bootleg them freely. Would it be possible to have my MP3 upload ability enabled? Scu ba (talk) 18:29, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's definitely not part of Commons aims to "bootleg" songs. Additionally, you were blocked for a 2nd time for uploading copyvios last year, and I see from your talk page that you had some copyvios from this year. That is definitely concerning to me. MP3s are also complex as far as copyright because the composition also has to be public domain or explicitly freely licensed in addition to performance and the recording. Abzeronow (talk) 18:39, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These are explicitly stated as having been released into the public domain by the band themselves. The "bootlegger" is the name of the website that the band runs. To quote the disclaimer on the website: If anyone wants to release these albums, you’re free to do so. Here you’ll find links to audio files and cover art. Feel free to get creative with it if you like - it’s yours. Scu ba (talk) 19:34, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what else I need to do to argue my case here, I would only need autopatrol status for like a month to get these files up. You can check the website here for their release notice if you don't believe me quoting it. above. Scu ba (talk) 22:53, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am all for people publishing free music on Commons, but I don't see any evidence that this music is free. The first album from your link only shows "(c) all rights reserved". Yann (talk) 17:43, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
reason: More than 1400 changes in Wikimedia Commons + more than 5000 edits across the projects + donated 2 featured images and 3 high quality Thank you. David Osipov (talk) 07:43, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the clarification. You may want to consider adding some more rationale when posing comments like that to avoid confusion. All the Best -- ChuckTalk18:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm on the fence about this request: good contributions, but as mentioned a copyvio from last month. I probably will wait a while before making a decision. Abzeronow (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@David Osipov would you like to tell us why you need autopatrol? What prompted you to request for this right? That would hopefully ease out things about whether this be given to you now or not. Thank you. ShaanSenguptaTalk08:38, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I don't need it to continue to photomap as an OSM mapper. I wanted these rights to ease the burden of admins and patrollers for them to concentrate more on vandals and other malware actors - the most relevant problem of OSM and Wikimedia projects. David Osipov (talk) 11:28, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It would make it easier for me to load improved versions, especially distortions and tilting buildings over the original version. Thank you. Thzht (talk) 21:14, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
a verified account of the German public broadcast; they need to overwrite Terra X videos on Commons from time to time, as contents may change. Sometimes other users uploaded their videos, so they may not be allowed to overwrite them --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 13:49, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to ask Wikimedia Commons community to kindly grant me the autopatrolling status. I process large archive of photos. I have uploaded some. More to be uploaded regularly. I would like to perform batch operations (like VisualFileChange) on the files upploaded by me. This, and possibly other activities on my own files, may require autopatrolling status. Thank you. UPF official (talk) 11:44, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear colleagues, please, advise. I make edits on my uploads requiring patrolling. More will come. I would like to understand if you see any harm in my activity or the delay in responding to my application is purely technical. Is there anything causing your hesitation in granting me the autopatrolling status? UPF official (talk) 06:39, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your response. The PermissionTicket id=2023112910010504 is valid for my uploads. Please, explain a bit more what issue is there to work on. UPF official (talk) 10:56, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The user's mistake is to use a content from {{Universal Peace Federation}} that was created for him instead of the template itself, and I really needed some rest from VRT so didn't answer in time when the questions arised; sorry, my fault (still can be tongue-tied, but there is no more opportunity to postpone ;)). From the point of view of authorship there are no known problems, and I hope we will solve everything other. Анастасия Львоваru/en19:30, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am sorry. All my mistake. Messed up. Thank you. Unless you pointed it out to me, I would have created thousands more photos with the wrong template. Waiting to upload. This conversation was the revelation of the year for me. I did it all wrong! You are all so patient... Thank you for your very tactful reaction. UPF official (talk) 20:10, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Its just been 8 odd days since the user has joined, has uploaded just one file. Nearly all the contributions show the desperate need to achieve 500 edit count anyhow. Also @Letav just bcoz you have over 500 edits isn't a valid reason to ask for the right. Thank you. ShaanSenguptaTalk11:00, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is an LTA sock (see global account information). If possible, other socks of this user should also be blocked. There are over 200 in total and they often come to Commons. 125.8.12.5008:11, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have over 1.9k+ edits on Commons and have uploaded 545 files. Most, but not all, of my uploads are files for use in Wikipedia or Wikisource. I sometimes encounter situations where an image or book uploaded by others needs to be overwritten due to missing pages, poor quality etc. I'm requesting autopatrol rights for that reason. Thank you. Ciridae (talk) 05:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm am trying to upload folksongs and stories which I recorded but the auto patrol filter is not allowing me too, I would like to have this resolved please Thank you. UMASOYE (talk) 06:35, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There was a copyvio earlier this year. And folksongs and stories have to be in the public domain as far as your recordings (folksongs definitely being a tricky area as User:Jmabel said recently.) Have you already researched the copyright status of the works you recorded? Abzeronow (talk) 17:19, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I have. Ekpeye folksongs and folk stories have been passed on for ages as oral tradition from parent to child. There are restrictions regarding the recordings which we (community) did. UMASOYE (talk) 17:39, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Umasoyee: can you explain a little better about the copyright status on the material you want to upload? I presume that the material is old enough to not have copyright issues, but could you confirm that? Are you the videographer? Have the performers signed some sort of release covering their copyrights (because it seems to me that otherwise you can't offer a license for their work)? What license do you intend to offer? I know this may seem like a bit of an interrogation, but the couple of things that got deleted don't fill me with confidence that you fully get the complexity of licensing materials other than simple photographs. I'd like to grant the relevant rights, but there is a very good reason we don't usually let less experienced users upload MP3s, because so many get it wrong.
Concerning my recent upload Etá (Ekpeye Wrestling) that was flagged for lack of license it was due to a technical error on my part, I uploaded that last video via video2commons and had not updated all the fields before hitting publish. When I logged in to commons to update the missing fields. I saw the video had already been flagged for deletion despite making the update.
I have now re-uploaded the video with the license. The case of the poster was a mistake on my part (didn’t have adequate knowledge then) same for the AI image (actually generated by me), it was supposed to be a temporary image to be deleted immediately as I was facilitating a wikicommons training and needed to demonstrate how uploads are done, my bad.
Regarding the MP3 materials which I plan on uploading they are indeed old enough to be in the public domain amd free to use. I am the recorder of the folkstories and songs which I intend to upload. I have the consent of the storytellers to share their work under the creative commons license.
I intend to upload the files under the CC BY SA 4.0 license with the following attribution, “this audio features storytelling by…..”
One common field of my editing are financial articles in German Wikipedia. There I want to update/exchange also grafics saved in Wikimedia Commons, which are used in multiple language Wikipedias. For this I need the right of "autopatrol" because the grafics I want to update are sometimes from other users. For example the file File:Target2%_20graph%_20-%_20%_20ecb%_20data(1).jpg by user Aishapats. The advantage is that I don't have to change the file name in articles of multiple language Wikipedias, where this grafic is already in use. I will always use the grafic of same source/origin, just an updated version in matters of timeline. Thank you. Weapon X (talk) 03:29, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear colleagues. I would like to try using AutoWikiBrowser on my files for typo fixing, category checking, find-replace. I think VisualFileChange will not cover all my needs. Please, grant me access if appropriate. UPF official (talk) 10:44, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose honestly, I'm not sold on the idea of you requesting AutoWikiBrowser access a day after you were granted autopatrolled. There was a lot of issues with your edits when you requested the simplest autopatrol right. On the other hand, AWB is much more complicated and needs to be handled very carefully. In my opinion, you should have waited some time before requesting AWB and getting familiar with the rights you were recently granted. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 20:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't say that's necessarily the proper procedure. It's more of my personal opinion and definitely one way to do it. I'd like to hear what others think about this too. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 08:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In fact this request is an experiment, Iwaqarhashmi. If you think it is not good I do not push for it. It will take me a while before uploading many more photos to really MASS process. Unable to know closely what AutoWikiBrowser is in practice, hard for me to judge if I need it. Thank you for your time. UPF official (talk) 09:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
UPF official: I'm not the one to say if it's good for you or not. I'm just a user like you, trying to help. Ultimately, it's up to the respectful admins to decide if it's something they want to allow. Best of luck to you! Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 09:32, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello admin, I would like to request right to upload mp3 files. I recently did and still carrying out a language and culture documentary and would like to record some of the recordings from my field work Thank you. UMASOYE (talk) 17:01, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably not, as this request for patroller was declined, with no comment on suitability for autopatrol, and a recommendation to apply for auto-patrol. All the Best -- ChuckTalk17:55, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, pretty much. Please read the patroller guidelines here COM:PATROL. It's mainly for those users who are involved in counter-vandalism work so they can mark the problematic edits of others as patrolled. However, autopatrollers' edits are merely marked as patrolled by default and can upload MP3 files and overwrite files as well. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 20:13, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As a rough guideline, administrators usually require editors to have made at least 1,000 useful, non-botlike edits or a large amount of justified renaming requests at Commons before they will consider granting the filemover right.
For maintenance of the large collections of images donated by of Naturalis Biodiversity center in the Netherlands, once uploaded by Hans Muller in several categories, (see over all Category:Media_donated_by_Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center), as well as for possible future donations, I would like to be able to rename files on behalf of Naturalis, to make meaningful file names consistent with actual attributions, identified species etc. For example I had to change 449 filenames recently due to reattribution. Luckily on November 2nd, Lucas Werkmeister was willing to help me out, but I have to do a second batch. Therefor I would like to be able to do that in bulk myself, without having to burden admins/filemovers with such requests. Thanks in Advance AHendriksen-collecties (talk) 14:57, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Iwaqarhashmi@Abzeronow Thanks, and understandable, so I did a request manually just now, but this request would be applicable for 449 files, how would you like me to request those as well? (while it is not an exact match with a specific category, but an intersection of two categories). Best, AHendriksen-collecties (talk) 14:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's a start. I've renamed the file for you, and you'll have to request renames for the other files individually. I know it's a bit of a manual process but you don't have to do all 449 of them, you can start with a few and we'll see how it goes. Best, Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 15:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for renaming this file. I'll do a few more, did one just now.
Hello everyone, requesting this right as I feel this is what I need the most at the moment. Many times, while uploading multiple files together I forget to give a proper name to the file. Then I have to request it to be renamed. Also I have come across files with a non-descriptive name. I believe I can help fix it. Thank you. ShaanSenguptaTalk15:56, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the suggestion @Iwaqarhashmi. I now find it easy to nominate files using the gadget. I believe this is available only for desktop users and not the ones on mobile. Otherwise I must have come across this someday. I hope the filter now shows some bcoz I just nominated a few minutes ago. ShaanSenguptaTalk07:31, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I will acknowledge your ping, and note that I've been following your request. 3 days is not a long time for a file mover right request. I was waiting to see if anyone else had feedback. Abzeronow (talk) 01:40, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I am Dadrik, I come to ask for the right of file renaming. Indeed, we have a project to rename and describe the images of Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire that were uploaded to commons and that were badly named. The project therefore consists of renaming them correctly in order to facilitate use. I will make good use of the tool. Thank you for the attention paid to my application. Thank you. Dadrik (talk) 12:20, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone! I've been on Commons for a few months now and feel confident enough to request access to the file renaming tools. I have carefully read the guideline regarding this flag, and I intend to focus mainly on files in the category Files from Flickr with bad file names, making them more descriptive. I'm open to questions if needed. Cheers, my friends!) 07:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC) Thank you. Web-julio (talk) 07:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm Ali, the coordinator of the Iraq User Group. We’re planning to launch a series of campaigns for our group, starting next month with "Wiki Loves Iraq". This permission will enable us to organize and run campaigns effectively on Wikimedia Commons. Thank you. Alli Khalil (talk) 20:14, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
See also: Confirmed users. 
Comment user uploaded a copyvio recently. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 09:30, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
supporting granting this user autopatrolled. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 17:37, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
Done for 3 months. Please reapply or message me just before the right expires. Abzeronow (talk) 17:04, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
Oppose until the file permission issue is fixed. Please contact: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org Krd 10:45, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
Not done for now. Please reapply once you've gained some more experience. Abzeronow (talk) 17:08, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
Strong oppose Its just been 8 odd days since the user has joined, has uploaded just one file. Nearly all the contributions show the desperate need to achieve 500 edit count anyhow. Also @Letav just bcoz you have over 500 edits isn't a valid reason to ask for the right. Thank you. ShaanSenguptaTalk 11:00, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
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Question: @Alli Khalil, have you familiarized yourself with the upload wizard guidelines at Commons:Upload Wizard campaign editors and mw:Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns? Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 08:54, 14 November 2024 (UTC)