Talk:Main Page/Archive 4

Legend of the Media of the day 2014-05-30 wrong

Sorry I cannont change it myself, though I am the author of the video. The difference between first and last frame is about 15 minutes, the difference between the frames is not constant, varying from about half a minute to several minutes. --Siga (talk) 06:36, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Spelling error in POTD June 2?

Is there a spelling error in the Picture of the Day caption? glas -> glass? 25or6to4 (talk) 19:11, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done, changed "glas" to "glass". --rimshot^talk 19:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Rotate PotY high rankers?

Not to detract from Steffan's achievement in the light-bulb pic, I wonder whether we could have some rotation of the most highly ranked images? One year—was it 2012?—the astronomical telescope winner stayed on the main page for soooooo long ... months, was it, till I made comments here. From the readers' point of view, a more dynamic rather than static approach would be appreciated, I'm sure. Tony (talk) 06:26, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Agreed. What image (or process) do you recommend @Tony1: ? -Pete F (talk) 00:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

That would be nice. Cycle them all through. All were worthy pics. Be nice to see a different one every time the page refreshes. Saffron Blaze (talk) 01:45, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Indeed; possibly with a little time-favouring of the winner and other highly ranked images. Tony (talk) 07:29, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Good suggestion. Pinging Miya, Mono, Beria and Rillke for opinion as those who mostly handle the POTYs. Jee 08:08, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

No reservations from my part. -- Rillke^(q?) 16:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

No problems for me as well, I even preffer that way. Béria L. Rodríguez ^msg 19:01, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

@Beria and Rillke: So could you please re insert that blurb with some code enhancement to randomly (or a timely switching or any other logic you prefer) to showcase all top 12 images one by one on the main page? Jee 02:31, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Created a template that can be transcluded once WLE is over:

|Announcement Text=
{{:Main Page/POTY2013}}

Information is fetched from Commons:Picture of the Year/2013/Results/R2/gallery using LUA parsing. Since the main page is purged once per day, the POTY image will also change. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:06, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

I can set up my bot to purge the page very 6 (?) hours, if needed^^ --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:03, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Rillke. Jee 10:11, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Currently it's using a random order; let me know if you think it should rotate +one per day. And, for the future, please share your thoughts about a possible implementation. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:13, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

My understanding from your comment above is that it will change everyday in random order. I think it is enough. Jee 10:21, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

I checked it by purging the cache, and it works as supposed to be. Thanks, Jee 10:26, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

So it is time to consider this as the other announcement is over. @Mono: , Rillke? Jee 02:15, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

{{Edit request}} Jee 17:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done

This section was archived on a request by: Rillke^(q?) 19:26, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Broken non-breaking space

There is a broken non-breaking space in the content box of the Main Page. I believe the "m" should be an "n". Dustin (talk) 19:19, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:24, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! Dustin (talk) 19:27, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Buttons

Moved from User talk:Steinsplitter. —Mono (how to reply) 02:08, 19 June 2014 (UTC) Hi, let's talk about the buttons on the main page.

The change I made did a couple of things:

• Fixed this layout problem
• Added an intuitive contact us button. (Buttons are much better than links for demonstrating to new users that an action can be taken.)
• Retained the upload button for logged in users

I was working on a way to only show the upload button to logged in users, meaning there would be 3 buttons at most visible at any time.

Does that sound like an acceptable solution to you?

Thanks, —Mono (how to reply) 19:56, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, There is a contact us link in the sidebar, i don't see the need to flood otrs with too much mail and i don't see the need to have two upload buttons on the mainpage. --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:01, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

There are 22 links in the sidebar and they all look the same, not counting language links. We could definitely replace the upload button with a contact us button. However, it makes sense to me to have a upload button in the 'Participating' section because that is the most obvious way to participate in Commons. —Mono (how to reply) 20:04, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

One upload button on the Main Page is imho enough (users are not blind) and no need for a contact us button, why a such button? --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:06, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

There is a need, it's very difficult to find that page among the 22 links in the sidebar. Plus, buttons are much better than links for demonstrating to new users that an action can be taken. —Mono (how to reply) 18:48, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Imho no need ;) I suggest you start a discussion on Talk:Main page. --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:03, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Moved from User talk:Steinsplitter. —Mono (how to reply) 02:08, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Link to Category:Media needing categories

Why not add a link to Category:Media needing categories with a short explanation to the Participating section? It's one major way of participating, and more categorizers are always needed. --Jonund (talk) 17:30, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

There is already a direct link to it under Category:Unidentified subjects. Isn't it enough? Jee 17:39, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

ImagesSoundsVideos

These three links at the top right need more space between them, as they are currently showing up (to me, on FF 17.0.9 for Linux) as all "one word". Suggest inserting either non-breaking spaces or vertical bar characters to separate them. - dcljr (talk) 23:29, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

@User:Dcljr I've increased the padding between these elements. Can you see if that works for you now? --99of9 (talk) 00:30, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Definitely separates the items, but now perhaps by too much! I think "0.5em" (or even "0.3em") should suffice, since the padding is applied on both sides of each item. - dcljr (talk) 02:33, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Ok, 0.5 it is. --99of9 (talk) 00:37, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Looks fine here. - dcljr (talk) 23:27, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Odd results Bing vs Google

I had occasion to throw "wikimedia commons" into Bing and was suprised at the top result. It was for this site but one of the sub categories offered was an eyebrow raiser. Curious I tried the search with Google and got the same top result and most of the same sub categories. There was one major difference. Why does Bing identify "Penis" as a major sub category for Wikimedia Commons? Saffron Blaze (talk) 14:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

@Saffron Blaze: That's odd. Maybe we should no index that category? —Mono (how to reply) 00:19, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

@Mono: But it needs a community wide discussion. Pinging Trijnstel for opinion. Jee 03:19, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Do we understand why it is happening? If not, no-indexing the category would be premature ejaculation. It could simply be Microsoft thinks Commons is a bunch of dicks? Saffron Blaze (talk) 04:17, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

It's most likely due to being linked to from several outside sites. Personally, I would favor noindexing it as such search results make Commons far more likely to get censored by outside agencies (or prudish parents). See Lmzimm's comment at Category talk:Nude women for example. Kaldari (talk) 18:40, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

@Saffron Blaze: Thoughts? Kaldari (talk) 17:24, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

@Kaldari: I tried turning on SafeSearch on Google, and submitting the query "nude women" site:wikimedia.org. This category did not show up (though it did, of course, prior to turning on SafeSearch). There was a small message that said: "The word "nude" has been filtered from the search because Google SafeSearch is active."

So, I'm not sure if no-indexing this particular category offers any advantage over what people can achieve already with Google. (I'd guess that Bing works much the same way.) -Pete F (talk) 19:38, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

@Peteforsyth: The issue isn't with searching for "nude women", but with searching for "wikimedia commons". If the first results returned by Google or Bing for "wikimedia commons" involve nude women, that's likely to raise some eyebrows and play into the hands of those who would prefer to block Wikimedia Commons entirely (schools, China, parents, etc.). (Not to mention just giving people the wrong impression of the site.) Kaldari (talk) 06:24, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I understand that. I guess I don't feel confident enough in my understanding of what would motivate an entity to ban access to Commons, to have much of an opinion on this proposal. There are of course a lot of reasons somebody might search on this term, plenty of them legitimate -- so enabling "noindex" does seem like a pretty extreme step to me. I don't know the best path forward. Carry on... -Pete F (talk) 17:55, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

!Silesian Page!

Hello, I have made a silesian main page: Przodńo_zajta, please add it to the box Krol111 (talk) 16:36, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 17:10, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

MOTD description

I can't edit it, but the description of the Media of the Day is incorrect:

"The video illustrates the behavior of the the propellers of a helicopter because of the effect soil produced by the wind which hit against the soil."

should be:

"This video illustrates the behavior of the propellers of a helicopter because of the ground effect produced by the wind hitting the ground."

--Slashme (talk) 19:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

 Done, I'm wondering whether anyone ever reads these captions before they go live. --rimshot^talk 20:58, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Pol-e Dokhtar Bridge

I'm not sure that it is the above bridge. Perhaps check that info. JMK (talk) 18:58, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Pictures of the Year

I am finding "Pictures of the Year" on the main page now a bit repetitious, it was great to see immediately after the vote, but I see no point in it still being here now. Now it just lessens the impact of the picture of the day. Time to switch back to the original layout. --Tony Wills (talk) 04:20, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Ref Talk:Main_Page/Archive_4#Rotate_PotY_high_rankers.3F. Jee 05:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Just don't show this app ad forever again, please … Maybe the most recenlty promoted FP?    FDMS  4    07:34, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

My preference would be to remove any extra image from that location except to highlight something special (eg at the end of picture of the year selection). Picture of the day is to highlight our contents (POTD are all FPs, no sense in having another FP either), and it is detracted from by having another image next to it. Just move "Highlights" and "Contents" up instead. --Tony Wills (talk) 21:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

And now picture of the day and picture of the year is the same image. Can we switch it please? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 22:11, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

I can echo the sentiments from several other editors. The POTY 2013 images have now for a long time now been repetitious to look at. I think it is time to remove them from the main page. --20:01, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, TheDJ! --Slaunger (talk) 15:42, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Commons app

I propose to stop advertising the Commons app on our main page. It's broken, the Foundation doesn't have the time to support it, volunteers are not stepping up for maintaining it either, the quality of the uploads is sub par according to many people, so we should just get rid of it. I thus propose to remove it from the main page. I have also proposed to WMF to pull the app from the store and I have updated it's Commons page to reflect it's current status. It was a nice experiment, but experiments need to end at some point. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:03, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

•  Support - it was a good idea but it should go into suspension until someone takes responsibility for fixing it. Green Giant (talk) 02:36, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
• I don't think it's something that needs voted on, just something that should be done as a matter of course. But if anyone wants to count then  Agree --Tony Wills (talk) 10:12, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
• Done. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:25, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

@TheDJ: Maybe check the main page after updating its template – you have destroyed the announcement functionality. Anyways, I (would) like to see the Commons App ad removed too.    FDMS  4    12:23, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Got it. I misunderstood how the functionality works... I note btw, that the page will not work, if there is NO announcement currently, so perhaps someone would like to think of something that we can display as a default announcement, for when WLM ends. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:51, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I did check the main page btw, it's just that I should have purged it, since it is cached. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:52, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

@DJ see preceding topic for a suggestion. --Tony Wills (talk) 22:08, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

See also the thread on mobile-l —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:17, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

•  Support Late to the party, but I definitely support dropping the app from the main page and from the app store if nobody is interested in maintaining it. -FASTILY 23:39, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

POTD 11th & 12th Sept

Ascalaphus sinister, male (left) and female (right).

These images are scheduled for 11th and 12th Sept as POTD. ( Template:Potd/2014-09-11, Template:Potd/2014-09-12) As they both are related, two genders of same species, can't they be displayed simultaneously? I remember English Wikipedia has done that sometimes. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 07:46, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Pinging @Jkadavoor: as I suppose you are active in POTDs and have created these two templates and are creator of these two images too. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 11:15, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

@Dharmadhyaksha: Hmm; they were scheduled long ago, and now set nominations are suspended from FPC. I don't know whether it is practical to reassign a new picture now as the date is very close. If possible, I've no objections. Jee 14:44, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

@Jkadavoor: We can simply shuffle few other nominations, bring the 13th Sept to 11th or so and buy time. If nothing is possible and the two images have to run separately, i would suggest parting them. For entomology-dummies like me similar images running consecutively is bit boring and further more might just go unnoticed as well. People might think we forgot to update a new image on 12th. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 17:25, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Too late, POTD's have already propagated into Wikipedias.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:37, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Dharmadhyaksha for your opinion. I will be careful in future. But, as Ymblanter commented above, we are too late in this case. There are a lot of translations too, done by other volunteers. So it is better not to edit POTD templates within 3 days unless there is a serious error. Jee 02:32, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

@Jkadavoor and Ymblanter: Never mind now! But can we at least push the 12th POTD to some later date? Just bring 13th on 12th so no more translation works are required, am guessing the 13th one is all set. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 03:49, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

@Dharmadhyaksha: This is not only translation. Every project participating in POTD have to transfer images and translations to their pages, and I guess most of the users doing this transfer will not notice that we have changed POTD on Commons.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:28, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks for the replies. Am not aware of where and how these templates are connected. Would keep in mind from next time that we need few days count to make changes in the queue. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 05:51, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Photo challenge link on main page

Hello All! I suppose that the not-so-old Commons:Photo challenge should be given some place on our main page. I propose adding it in the "Highlights" box as "You may also be interested in Picture of the Year and Photo challenge." Some other suggestions are also welcome. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 12:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

I agree that it would be good to be mentioned. The "Highlights" section seems currently aimed at people browsing for the first time and there isn't much to highlight projects aimed at contributing. Rather than wording this "If you are browsing Commons for the first time" in a way that starts off excluding lots of people, why not simply state that our best content can be found at Featured Pictures and other great material at Quality Images and Valued Images. How about:

Our best images can be found at Featured pictures, the cream of which are awarded Picture of the Year. Other great images include those at Quality images and Valued images.

Why not meet some of our talented photographers and illustrators, or join them and take part in the monthly Photo challenge. -- Colin (talk) 13:23, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

This sounds better. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 05:12, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I would have no problem with having it advertised in the top right where the commons-app was, and where wiki-loves-monuments is at present. I don't think Commons needs to encourage mass random low grade photos (as detractors suggest commons-app encourages), but prompting more people to participate via the photo challenge would be great. --Tony Wills (talk) 10:26, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

|Announcement Title=Photo challenge |Announcement Text= [[File:Camera2_mgx.svg|100px|right]] <div style="margin-left: 0.3em; padding-right: 0.6em; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 1.6em">Take some photos and upload them to meet our monthly thematic challenge, get inspiration and try new subjects! [[Commons:Photo challenge|'''Learn more about the challenges!''']]</div> <div align="center" style="margin: 1em;"> {{Clickable button|Commons:Photo_challenge#Challenges_open_for_submission|'''Checkout this months challenges'''|iconPrimary=ui-icon-circle-arrow-n|class=ui-button-green ui-button-large}} </div> --Tony Wills (talk) 10:45, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

• No much participation. Hence pinging known active admins. @Hedwig in Washington, Materialscientist, King of Hearts, Kaldari, and Dschwen: @INeverCry, Jameslwoodward, HJ Mitchell, Multichill, and Yann: @Túrelio, SarahStierch, Sreejithk2000, and Ymblanter: §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 10:28, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

I see no need, imho is a watchlist notice enough. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:37, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

The Photo challenge has a bit easier criteria than other competitions like POTY or even the FPs. This bit of leniency should encourage more editors to take part and hence additional highlighting through main page would be helpful. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 13:12, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

 Support. --Túrelio (talk) 12:37, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

 Support as earlier. Jee 15:03, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

 Support - Even after being an active user for so long, I did not know about this. This stuff has to be advertised. --Sreejith K (talk) 15:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

 Ok --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:04, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

 Support I am late, but I support. Yann (talk) 12:28, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 07:53, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

[OK] Great stuff :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 21:00, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Is the Photo Challenge box a permanent fixture? It's a good start. I'd suggest perhaps reducing the font size in line with the rest, and fewer exclamation marks!!! If there is room, then rather than the rather dull SVG of a camera, we could display a thumbnail of a previous challenge winner? -- Colin (talk) 21:18, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

I think it can be one of a number of alternative 'featured' projects etc displayed in that space. In that respect I think a different font helps differentiate it from the 'static' content. Suggestions of other projects to feature? I would prefer not to have other image content on the main page (eg past photo challenge winners, or even the previous box with POTY images) as that content distracts from the POTD/MOTD content and makes the whole page too busy. I do agree fewer exclamation marks!!! (I think I just copied that from the photo challenge page :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 09:11, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

What happened to the US government portal subpages?...

Hi ...Back in the July August time-frame I added a number of files to the US Department of Transportation page as well as adding some introductory material so that I could on this material for future Wikipedia articles... some editors on that site have asked me to use Wiki commons instead of loading files up on Wikipedia... the files that I added are still there but the page I was editing (Federal Transit Administration FTA) seems to be gone... has it been moved?.... any help would be appreciated... Thanks ...

Risk Engineer (talk) 14:08, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

• I saw only files (no gallery pages) in your contributions. Are you talking about Federal Transit Administration? Anyway, just ask at Commons:Help desk so that someone can look into it. Jee 16:10, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Motd/2014-10-13 - possible problematic content?

File:Yue Yue Accident.ogv

Excerpt of security camera video showing how Yue Yue was hit twice by vehicles, while 18 others pedestrians or passersby watched and/or ignored the girl laying severely injured on the street.

Looking backward I think it is necessary to ask for comments to my selection of Motd/2014-10-13. Maybe this kind of content could be an ethical issue for some people. I will post this announcement at the village pump‎ too. --Pristurus (talk) 21:50, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

WLM now closed

The WLM contest is now over, so the announcement needs to be removed from this page. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:47, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 07:52, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Want to edit description of today's Media of the Day

I just created English closed captions for today's Media of the Day, the Esperanto music video La fina venk' by translating the Esperanto subtitle file. The file's Summary Description is

English: Video clip for the Esperanto song La fina venk’ by i.d.c. (Éric Languillat).

I'd like to add an Esperanto translation of that, but when I try, I get

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:

This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following page, which is protected with the "cascading" option enabled:

• Main Page

The translation, in the format of the other-language descriptions I see in the source of the page, would be

{{eo|Video de la esperanta kanto ''La fina venk’'' de i.d.c. (Éric Languillat).}}

which comes out as

Esperanto: Video de la esperanta kanto La fina venk’ de i.d.c. (Éric Languillat).

--Thnidu (talk) 04:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

cache to upload

uploading media files on is a heavy task when working on slow/poor internet connections. it takes a hell of time and also the data uploaded is lost if the connection is lost before publishing. it would be better if a temp memory is enabled within the user's profile, so that the user i.e the contributor can have the uploads saved in his/her own profile, before they make it open for the world on commons, at any instant of time like as in google docs.this helps in real-time screening of the uploads and also retrieve the data if the connection is lost as the data uploaded is saved automatically at every instant. it also helps in saving time and data usage of the user, as the user want to re-upload files as there could be interruptions over internet connection or even any other works̴Raj.palgun13 (talk) 17:28, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Migration to new translation system

Maybe migrate this page into translation extension? This will simplify the centralized maintenance of all language versions, it will be easier to add new translations and all versions will be generally synchronous. Current scheme with localized page names will be saved.

Proposed next migration scheme

1. Template:Main Page Template remains as "design skeleton"
2. Template:Main Page is created as page marked for translations (with wiki-code from current Main Page; added link "translate this page")
3. All exist translations is migrated into "Template:Main Page/<langcode>"
4. Main Page and his translations with localised pagenames is changed to simple transcluding of "Template:Main Page/<langcode>"

Step-by-step

1. Current language versions moved into "Template:Main Page/<langcode>" names; new templates immediately transcluded in old pagenames (no changes at the user's look )
2. Created "Template:Main Page" as base for translations (based on Template:Main Page Template; added translation markup)
3. "Main Page" moved to "Template:Main Page/en" and it transcluded in the "Main Page" (no changes at the user's look )

   needed admin rights

4. "Template:Main Page" is marked as available for translations; after this all language versions temporarily become in English language (until to migration of translations)
5. For each translated page executes a migration (import) the old translation (through Special:PageMigration)

Questions & Known problems

1. What page should be assigned with current Main Page edit history? New base Main Page or "Template:Main Page" or "Template:Main Page/en" ?
2. Some mainpages like to add individual notices/style.

---

Proposed by: Kaganer (talk) 23:07, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

Oppose. Some mainpages like to add individual notices/style. And it is also a problem with all the individual protections. And it is creating /subpages like /de /fr but mainpages have a own naming here on commons, like /de = Hauptseite. Not a good idea imho. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:23, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Steinsplitter, thanks for feedback!

1. "individual notices/style" - not a problem, but a task ;) Added in list above for next researches. --Kaganer (talk) 00:16, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
2. "problem with all the individual protections" - please explanation for me. Any example? --Kaganer (talk) 00:16, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
3. By my proposal, in new scheme Hauptseite is saved as German-language main page, but his content is replaced into transcluding "Template:Main Page/de". See these same way in Meta-wiki (still without extension). If some individual page is very different, and language community is very much against migration, this page is saved "as is", with "old style". It's very simple.--Kaganer (talk) 00:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

And the Translate extension has a lot of bugs (including a lag)... Should not be used on the MainPage. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:32, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Known bug with lag has a workaround with additional "dummy" edit. This not a problem. --Kaganer (talk) 00:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit request on featured photo caption

Kings are crowned not coronated. Could this be changed?Charlesdrakew (talk) 08:38, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Hear, hear!--Andreas Philopater (talk) 11:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

COPYVIOL

Non parlo inglese, usate un traduttore.

Un utente, Michele Bassi, copia le foto da internet e le spaccia per sue, osando pure mettere il pubblico dominio sulle foto NON SUE che carica. Ricicla anche da Google Maps (streetview) senza avere il buon senso di citarne l'origine, ma sempre inventando che sono foto sue (e mettendo il pubblico dominio). Bloccate la sua utenza, bloccate il suo IP, cancellate TUTTI i suoi contributi. 71.6.55.146 21:51, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Category list on main page?

I do not see a reason or need for a category list at the bottom of the page. It looks awkward since other sister projects like Wikipedia, do not have the categories listed at the bottom of the main page. I think that a administrator should remove the categories at the bottom of the Wikimedia Commons main page. Thank you in advance. Doorknob 747 (talk) 13:44, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

 Done Hidden with css. --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:03, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Permission to Change Picture

Do I have The Permission to Change a Picture if Not How Do i Get Permission to do so

Don't do that! Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:22, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Request for announcing Wiki Loves Food photo contest

Hi, Wiki Loves Food photo contest is LIVE now. Requesting to add an announcement regarding this in main page under the photo contests section. Thanks. --Ravi (talk) 09:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Following is the announcement text:

[[File:Wlf logo 2015.png|100px|right]] <div style="margin-left: 0.3em; padding-right: 0.6em; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 1.6em"> '''[[Commons:Wiki Loves Food|Wiki Loves Food]]''', a photo contest of taking photos of Indian Cuisine, takes place in May - June 2015.</div>

No, please, I recall this being discussed before – "Wiki Loves Food" in its current state is a contest that only a very small portion of our users (with cameras) can participate in, and as such simply shouldn't be announced on our global main page (maybe in a geo-specific sitenotice or on Indian-language main pages instead).    FDMS  4    11:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Media of the Day ? Bellis perennis in Tokyo

Is that plant bellis perennis? A Google image search does not agree. Bellis perennis is characterized by single flower stalks arising from the ground-level crown with no branching. Richard Avery (talk) 06:17, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with Richard. This is not Bellis perennis. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:50, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you for pointing this out. Unfortunately that is my mistake and I misidentified it. I believe I have found the correct species now -- Annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus). I have requested the file be renamed. This flower is native to North America but is now widespread in Japan also. I will take more care in the future. All the best~ The Nature Box (talk) 21:30, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Misprint

Picture of the day. Is Towards not torwards, I think--Pierpao.lo (listening) 20:08, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done --rimshot^talk 21:10, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Translation

The page features an image of "Prince Bishop's Castle in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia". In German, its name is "Fürstbischöfliches Schloss" - would it not be more appropriate to refer to it as "Prince Bishop's Palace in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia", since a castle has fortifications and a palace serves for representative purposes mainly? ViennaUK (talk) 08:19, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Chemistry

Chemistry is a major project in Wikipedia. Wiki Commons might consider featuring a chemistry-related picture as the "image of the day". I have never seen one. Not trying to blow chemistry's own horn but to disclose to the readership that images are diverse. --Smokefoot (talk) 15:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Non-photographic images of all kinds get short shrift. Anyway, the images of the day are usually drawn from what has attained "featured picture" status... AnonMoos (talk) 11:26, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Kindly check deeply the request.

I understand the no censor in wikipedia. I think it's neutral if there're no pictures in the article prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and i request to removed the pictures.

Here is my reason. firstly, the privacy in photograph is also applied in drawing in the link i provided below, when the illustrator or photographer has no right or permission to illustrate therefore it is illegal. privacy right and the link i provided below. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people

Secondly, the issue that includes moral issue of illustrating. it stated in the link below. Moral issues Not all legally obtained photographs of individuals are acceptable. The following types of image are normally considered unacceptable: Those that unfairly demean or ridicule the subject Those that are unfairly obtained Those that unreasonably intrude into the subject's private or family life These are categories which are matters of common decency rather than law. They find a reflection in the wording of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Wikipedia:Image_use_policy.

according to islamic belief, in islamic history and history, all prophets in Islam never gives permission to any human being to illustrate them and never wants to illustrate them. they have the right not to show or depict their appearance. Kindly respect my request. Thank you. Trysandclean (talk) 02:32, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

We are not an Islamic website. Thank you for understanding.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:28, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

media file repository

there should be a very short intro in that page, what Commons is about. One sentence is enough. Newcomers don't know what Commons is about. Commons:Welcome could be placed there. --93.133.112.3 10:23, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Can we expect a decision on un-deletion soon?

A large number of files, essentially photos and scans, were nominated for deletion since 29 September 2015. One of the reasons given was "not own work of uploader although it is all labeled own work." Since then, you have acknowledged that, indeed, I am the owner of all photos myself or that they are taken as a "work for hire"

People have called my office requesting to use this image in a Wikipedia article about me. --Mlaucke (talk) 05:27, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Please file a request at COM:UDEL --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 10:59, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Make a link to Commons:Media by Time?( ▶ By time )

Hi, since a few years I help to start Calendar-date-Categories, boxes for photos or put them inside (add Cat's). But it is a hidden project (others work there too), if there is no Link from the Main Page up to e.g. October 2015. Many direct links from the Main Page are not a good idea, I think: So I have started a Page between, Commons:Media By time. Only 1 Link is necessary now, additional to "by location", "by type", "by author", "by licence", "by source": ▶  By time. Is it possible to make that Link? --LudwigSebastianMicheler (talk) 00:52, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Media of the Day

(before destruction in 2015 by barbarians from ISIL) - I am questioning the use of barbarians. It is clearly pejorative and is not NPOV. --Kiltpin (talk) 11:34, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Right, we don't need that, even if we agree. Yann (talk) 20:21, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Picture of the day 06-01-2016

Hi, why this photo has not been rotated ? Is it for PD-USGov-NASA status ? --Doalex (talk) 10:11, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Why do you think it should be rotated? Yann (talk) 11:26, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Because the river and the sea (on the top) are most visible, don't forget that original image on the website comports legends facilitating the immediate comprehension.--Doalex (talk) 12:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Yann Tu as une réponse mais pas moi, est-ce à cause des instructions NASA & Cie, qu'une photo ne peut-pas être modifiée même une rotation de 90° à droite ou à gauche ? --Doalex (talk) 11:27, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

@Doalex: As-tu demandé à l'utilisateur qui l'a importée ? Cordialement, Yann (talk) 11:34, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Non, ma question était générale sur les droits de modifications de ce type de photos, en fait maintenant peu importe, merci tout de même.--Doalex (talk) 12:19, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Latin names for plants

Hi, I think it would be helpful if the 'Mulan magnolia' (Picture of the day, 8th March 2016) was labelled somewhere with it's scientific name. The plethora of common names supports my point. Best. Richard Avery (talk) 08:50, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Uploading many pictures

Hi, Iwent to many big sport events last 10 years. I have 1000s of photo's from the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Summer Olympics, 2015 European Games and many more sports events. What is the best way to do that directly to Wiki Commons (without using Flickr)? I'm experienced but I don't know.. With the UploadWizard you have to label all the pictures 1-by-1 with titles, categories, description etc. I'm not going to do that. Is it not possible to have something for all the images? Many time when using the UploadWizard there is an error and you have to start all over again. Is there an upload system for the pictures on my Iphone? The UploadWizard for more than 1 picture is not possible with an iPhone, because it get's the error because they have all the same name.. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 22:10, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Sander van Ginkel, you might want to ask this question at either Commons:Help desk or more specifically Commons:Upload help. Given the potential number of images involved, you could also try Commons:Batch uploading. Best, --AWossink (talk) 09:10, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Obstructed improvements of file description

Regarding the long-standing problem with blocked description pages of files at the main page, see and support phab:T24521 bug request. --ŠJů (talk) 12:15, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

2016 JUN 30

{{Edit request}}Pink Tarantula - (caption) spelling error: "...aslo known as birdeater" Thanks, Tortillovsky (talk) 14:32, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Done. Killiondude (talk) 21:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

07-01 "Media of the day" caption grammar (and where to ask about it?)

{{Edit request}}

1. On today's/July 1st's "Media of the day", I think the grammar could be changed, maybe from:

A 3D animation which represent_ the second law of Fryette, one of the main basic_ of the modern osteopathy.

to maybe something like this:

A 3D animation which represents the second law of Fryette, one of the main basics of modern osteopathy.

2. I saw "Picture of the Day" has a link for edit requests, but I could not see similar for "Media of the day". Is this the right place for edit requests of "Media of the day?" Zeniff (talk) 01:01, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

I changed the grammar. I hope it's okay? I left the edit request on in case someone wants to check it and also because I'm not sure if I asked about Motd in the right place? Zeniff (talk) 01:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Stale request? The page is no longer protected. --Jarekt (talk) 12:42, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Thank you for letting me know:) And I'll use Commons:MOTD in the future. Zeniff (talk) 10:11, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Participating - wording

I think we should change using to reusing. Using this site includes browsing too, already covered by point above. The using point is about reusing. Let's be clear. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 03:54, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Good idea. While someone's at it, he/she could de-capitalise the "p" in Community portal as well.    FDMS  4    14:40, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Edit request

{{edit request}} Please remove an unnecessary space after "washing itself" on Media of the day.
Current text: (washing itself )
Proposed text: (washing itself)

Thanks! MB298 (talk) 00:54, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Done. --rimshot^talk 22:07, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Database v collection

{{Edit request}} Mainpage currently states, "a database of 34,813,311 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute". The word "database" is too narrow; it could mean a card catalog of 34 M media files. Commons is really a collection of media files; libraries talk about their collection or their holdings; they don't use the word database. So change the phrase to "a collection of ...". Glrx (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree. "Collection" is a much better, non-technical word. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:40, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree as well. --Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 15:24, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done because at least two native speakers support this change. --jdx ^Re: 20:17, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Photo challenge camera icon

I thik that the icon could be change for this one less ugly. What do you think guys? --The Photographer 18:15, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 17:17, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Two Files of Donald Trump - Exact Same Photo

The Files are called "Donald J. Trump Official Portrait.jpg" and "File:Donald Trump official portrait.jpg. Is there any way to merge the two? Yoshiman6464 (talk) 18:07, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

@Yoshiman6464:  Done Thanks. - Revent^talk 18:11, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Media of the Day not in mobile version

I was viewing the mobile version, and I don't see "Media of the Day" displayed. Are there reasons? --George Ho (talk) 04:11, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Media of the day has watermark

I thought commons deprecated this?

Rich Farmbrough, 13:24 27 March 2017 (GMT).

Pinging Karelj who added it. Jee 13:54, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Misspelling in Media of the Day

See wikt:en:instaled. FallingGravity (talk) 22:36, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

"The bridge, constructed between 1983 and december 1990" - capitalise December. Schwede66 18:26, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Misspelling in Picture of the Day

"Black Forrest" should be "Black Forest" MartinPoulter (talk) 11:01, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

"The bridge, constructed between 2008 and september 2015" - capitalise September. Schwede66 18:24, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Media of the day

"Papilio machaon" in the Media of the day should be in italics as a scientific name. Beautiful video by the way.SchreiberBike (talk) 17:34, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

 Done Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 17:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

English in Picture of the Day caption

Regarding the caption on Rotes Rathaus: "severe damages" is poor English. It should be "severe damage". - Bri (talk) 01:12, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Poor English in POTD 9 May

The English caption to the POTD of 9 May is full of incorrect usage, evidently produced by a thesaurus or machine translation. Examples: several (some); preys (prey); owing (due); leaves (causes...to); before (previously); switch (adapt); genuine food (proper....diet); waste (detritus); cadavers (carcasses).

A corrected version of the entire caption with these minimal changes would read:

In summer, some polar bears do not make the transition from their winter residence on the Svalbard islands to the dense drift ice and pack ice of the high arctic where they would find a plethora of prey. This is due to global climate change which causes the ice around the islands to melt much earlier than previously. The bears need to adapt from their proper food to a diet of detritus, small animals, bird eggs and carcasses of marine animals. Very often they suffer starvation and are doomed to die.

-- Deborahjay (talk) 06:29, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

 Done --jdx ^Re: 07:41, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Incidence maps

How are they made? I would like to make some for WP but not sure where to start. My target are all these colored maps that are so common around here, is it any app I can help with?--Neurorebel (talk) 22:46, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Caption in Media of the Day

"from the 2011 year." should be "from the year 2011." MartinPoulter (talk) 08:36, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

 Done (sort of) changed it to what I'd consider to be more idiomatic "The 2011 animated short film Little Tombstone". Thanks! Storkk (talk) 09:37, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

MOTD caption, June 24

The file description incorrectly states the video as being shot "in Vancouver" when the video itself says it was shot in Suquamish. It would be more accurate to say "near Vancouver". SounderBruce 21:05, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

 Done Although too late. --jdx ^Re: 00:40, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

REQUEST: Content Table Fix

Please edit the link in Content > By Location > Earth > Subdivisions to the correct new direct page: Category:Country subdivisions by country. --عمرو (talk) 14:53, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

 Done--Steinsplitter (talk) 15:35, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Global move of w:File:Modern_Mongolian_Language_Example,_2016.ogv

Hi, is there anyone who can successfully move this here, to Commons? Awesomemeeos (talk) 23:31, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Media of the day today is wrong

The Media of the Day today, which purportedly shows how to tie a w:bowline knot, is incorrect. If you tie the knot as shown in the video it will simply fall apart. The initial loop has to go the other way for a bowline to hold.--agr (talk) 04:05, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Support demoting today's media of the day and finding a replacement, but in the short time (2min) before I have to go to work, I cannot figure out how to do that without risking stepping on someone's toes. agr is correct as far as I can tell, and it's a embarrassing to have this as MOTD. Storkk (talk) 07:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
  •  Done. Storkk (talk) 11:54, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. For the record the video in question is File:Paso a paso de un nudo As de guía.ogv. I hope they can fix it.--agr (talk) 12:18, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Video Making of Manda Pitha is not appropriate to be uploaded on World Wide Web

I really appreciate the effort, taken by the uploader of this video, to enrich Wikipedia with such media files that showcase the tradition and culture of Odisha (a state of India). However, in my personal view, some contents of this video is not appropriate to be viewed by the people all over the world. The lady making Manda Pitha in this video is not properly dressed, which I think can create a false image of the culture of Odisha in the mind of its viewers since Odia tradition always emphasizes the proper dressing of women. Hence, it is my personal suggestion to delete this video, that can be recovered later by uploading another video which will be appropriate by all means.

--Rajmishra757 (talk) 08:34, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

@Rajmishra757: If you think the file should be deleted, please fill deletion request. --jdx ^Re: 08:47, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

@Rajmishra757: No, please do not start deletion requests unless you find a deletable policy violation. The fact that you object to something in the video is thankfully not among those policies, and I would speedy close any deletion request that you start on that basis as vandalism. Storkk (talk) 10:00, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Machine-readable description for main page media

Currently there is no machine-readable description for main page media (i.e. main page image and main page sound/video). It’s embarrassing, especially on Commons, after the Great File Metadata Cleanup Drive. The used templates—Main Page/potd and Main Page/motd—are protected, but I don’t even know which is the best way to fix this. Just copying and pasting the text appearing below the media is the easiest, but it makes the code even more unmaintainable. Maybe we should use a subtemplate for generating the description text, probably the same for both types. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 20:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

"spider on a leave"?

My understanding was that singular of 'leaves' is 'leaf'. Or is this some different word? Gone Postal (talk) 06:04, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

 Done. --rimshot^talk 06:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2018

Wiki Loves Earth 2018 is still underway in quite a few countries, especially those that have users who are observing Ramadan until Jun 14. Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2018/Participating countries Shouldn't this contest still be on the front page? Avery Jensen (talk) 19:39, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Pinging @Steinsplitter.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 20:45, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

I don't see when the Main Page had WLE earlier. What should it look like? --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 00:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

There was the photo challenge announcement at the Main Page. I am happy to confirm that no WLM related stuff has been removed. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:02, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

I thought that's where I found out about it, I guess that will just be less competition for me. Avery Jensen (talk) 08:22, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Photo challenge box

{{Editprotected}} Hi. In 2015 the Photo challenge box on the main page was modified to inform about the 2015 European Science Photo Competition. Now that we have another International Science Photo Competition, is it possible to do the same? I am a volunteer at Commons Photo challenge, so I can take care that they are alternated.

Last time, if I remember correctly, the link to the monthly photo challenge was totally removed, and that was not nice. I don't expect we do the same, quite the contrary, just to put them in a certain alternation. I ping also Jarekt.

If this is not the best place, where should be such thing discussed?--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

I cannot find how it was decided in 2015, but I am sure it was there on the main page, and it remained also in December when the competition was prolonged in certain countries.

We can just few line, logo with a link to website, and link to commons page in the text.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:24, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

it does have to be so drastic, we can write both.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:22, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

or we can have the last two weeks of November and the first of December, that would also work. Current monthly challange seem to work. we are asking less time than in 2015, and this tiem the event is global.

Should I link to the syosp page?--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:54, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2017 is now mulitlingual and provides basic information and we had banner but still not in all the countries so this would help to get decent upload where no campaign will occur.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:00, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

I suppose the text is something like that:

{{Main Page Template |langcode=en |Announcement Title=Wiki Science Competition |Announcement Text= [[File:Logo for Wiki Science Competition.svg|100px|right]] <div style="margin-left: 0.3em; padding-right: 0.6em; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 1.6em">Upload your scientific images during Wiki Science Competition 2017! [[Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2017|'''Learn more about the contest!''']]</div> <div align="center" style="margin: 1em;"> {{Clickable button| Commons:Wiki Science Competition upload|'''Upload an image to Wiki Science Competition'''|iconPrimary=ui-icon-circle-arrow-n|class=ui-button-green ui-button-large}} </div>

We only have 12 days left for Europe, I would ask for the whole infobox. Plus we have Asia and Africa in December so the best period could be from now to the first week of December. Than, we can put it back specifically for Africa at the end of the month if the upload is low, maybe.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:19, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#Modification_of_main_page got no reply as well, i will ping some syosp if necessary.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:20, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

User:Steinsplitter could you please update the infobox like you did for Wiki Loves Monument? Thank you.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:01, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

@Alexmar983: Done. Please ping me when the contest is over, so that the notice can be removed. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:36, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Steinsplitter great. The contest is over at different dates. Probably since Africa starts the first week of December, i will ask for few days after Dec, the 1st. I also ask the monthly theme page for coordination.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:40, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

User:Steinsplitter the new monthly challenges are here so you can switch back to the standard layout, for some days, so they can start with enough coverage. In the meantime we decide which country to postpone the deadline and we warm up Africa, than I'll ask you to put the WSC notice back. As i said, I am not thirsty, we should share the space! I have discussed with Jarekt in the monthly challenges talk pages.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:51, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Ok, Done. Thanks. --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:53, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

User:Steinsplitter after circa one week considering that some big countries ending on December, the 15th (netherlands, Norway, Malaysia, New Zealand) still have zero uploaded files, it would be nice if you can put the WSC2017 banner back. I'd say for another week at least.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

User:Steinsplitter just in case I was not clear, I meant one week from when we switched back, that is from the 1st. I would be nice if we can have it back the banner this last week of upload 7-15 in Europe, Asia and America.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:05, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Done. --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:35, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

User:Steinsplitter you can remove it. But we might decide to merge some empty category in the international one, if we arrange that upload might resume from certain areas, so I'll ask you the infobox back again. In the future, I will require a brainstorming for a more flexible style (including WLM and WLE)--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:06, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Done. --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:12, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

@Steinsplitter, Alexmar983, and Jarekt: why is the Photo Challenge not mentioned on the Main Page? -- Colin (talk) 15:09, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Template:Main Page Template has only a single "Announcement Text" which shows up in the green box on the top right, and it looks like each time there is some other competition going on Photo Challenge is temporary removed from that spot and replaced with other announcement. Perhaps we could rewrite Template:Main Page Template to allow multiple Announcements. --Jarekt (talk) 15:23, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) The Announcement Box is used during POTY Voting for announcing POTY, as every year. Multiple announcements are currently not supported. --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:25, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

I am not sure why I am pinged, my request was specific for December (like the previous one of 2015). What it is sure is that I am one of the only people Colin who pointed out the request openly. Usually, as far as I know, there is no calendar, no guideline, simply some people with the appropriate flag can change and remove a link with another one. I had to wait and ping to have this request processed... In any case, I support a general discussion to give space on the infobox to two challenges at the same time. That is WLE, WLM, future Wiki loves love (about communities and antropology, i think it's called this way), Wiki Loves Food and Wiki Science Competition, even the Asian month in November as far as I am concerned... with the monthly challenges I think they should share the space at the same time, and this new layout should be introduced. Or we need a more structured calendar in a subpage with specific request. We discuss sitenotices on meta, that's very similar as global impact (the main page has thousand of views per day). Whoever want to open an appropriate discussion, please ping me. Bye.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:33, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Every link transcluded from Wikidata regarding Google Maps geo-locations give a 404-error

Every link transcluded from Wikidata regarding Google Maps geo-locations give a 404-error.

For example, click on the Google Maps-link at the following Commons Category: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Garage

Hopefully this can be solved.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/ also gives a 404-error. https://tools.wmflabs.org/admin/tool/wp-world is still online. Please fix these issues.

Good luck and kind regards, Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 14:08, 13 July 2018 (UTC).

Now also reported on phabricator.wikimedia.org. Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 17:47, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: give the mobile home page some love

When you land on the mobile homepage for Commons, there is no visible Upload button, there's no 'Upload file' button available in the menu, and clicking 'anyone can contribute' takes you to a page on participation, which links a whole bunch of ways to contribute - but still doesn't offer any way to upload images! I had to Google 'wikimedia commons upload' to find the appropriate page.

Given that a lot of original photos nowadays originate on smartphones, it feels like offering a friction-free method to upload via the mobile site would be desirable.

CamTarn (talk) 10:28, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

I have been informed that there is a volunteer-maintained Android app for Commons. That makes sense. Not sure whether it could/should be linked to from the mobile site? CamTarn (talk) 10:56, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

When logged in, at least on Android, the app is linked at the top of the left-hand menu, both on Google Play and F-Droid. Storkk (talk) 11:01, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Permanent "Photo Challenge" box and optional "Announcement" box

I changed the Template:Main Page Template to make Photo Challenge box permanent and Announcement box optional. In the past we used announcement box to display periodic announcements and use it for Photo challenge otherwise. With the current system we could have up to two announcements on the top right and one on the bottom left. --Jarekt (talk) 14:33, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Change text of "Photo Challenge" box

Current English text is: "Take some photos and upload them to meet our monthly thematic challenge, get inspiration and try new subjects! Learn more about the challenges!". I think we should shorten it to "Participate in our monthly thematic photography challenge. Get inspiration and try new subjects. Learn more about the challenge". --Jarekt (talk) 14:33, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Category:Sound vs. Category:Audio files

The link to Category:Sound at the top should be replaced by a link to Category:Audio files, right? --Reinhard Müller (talk) 06:32, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Cross posted from an alternate language main talk page. Per my request to get more input on a proposed change to the main page. --Majora (talk) 23:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

 Support Seems logical. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ ✍ ⏿) 08:26, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

•  Support.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 10:07, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done Enough time has passed for anyone to make their objections known. Category changed in both places, top and under content. If you believe the label (Sounds) should also be changed that is a different issue entirely. --Majora (talk) 03:10, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

in an transcription

It says " in an transcription" on the media of the day. Victuallers (talk) 23:55, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Caption error (30th Jan 2019)

{{Edit request}}
...in "Media of the day". I imagine "in July 1017" should read "in July 2017". Hassocks5489 (talk) 10:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Also the sentence would read better if the date was at the end: "Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge leaving the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin in July 2017." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Voice of Clam (talk • contribs) 11:37, 30 January 2019‎ (UTC)

• @Voice of Clam: Signing your posts on talk pages is required by Commons:Signatures policy. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 15:46, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Ooops, I must be getting old - that's the second time I've forgotten to sign in the last couple of days! Sorry about that. O Still Small Voice of Clam 15:51, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! jdx ^Re: 15:32, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Translate "images from ..."

On Main Page, the following text, Images from September 24 is in the 'content' box. On the Spanish translation of the main page, Portada, how do we add Imágenes del 24 de septiembre, into the Contenido box? How do we do this for the other language home pages? Evrik (talk) 17:49, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Also, what about German, French, etc.?

All the pages can be found at {{Lang-mp}} Evrik (talk) 15:48, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

It’s added directly on the page. You can search for “images from” in Main Page’s source, and ask an admin to add [[{{#timel:F j|now|en}}|Imágenes del {{#timel:j "de" F|now|es}}]] to the same place on Portada. ({{#timel:j "de" F|now|es}} produces “30 de diciembre”; it may not be adequate if either preposition or the month name needs to be changed based on the current date. If it’s the case—and you can’t find a better format string yourself—, please describe the rules and I will try to help.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 11:10, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: your help would be appreciated. Evrik (talk) 17:11, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

What help? I’ve explained the situation and the possible solutions above. I’m not a Commons admin, so neither I can edit Portada. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:28, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

• Okay, thanks. Evrik (talk) 17:55, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
• Check out Commons:Village_pump#Translate "images from ...". Evrik (talk) 15:03, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

New Design of Main Page

Where do I find a rationale for the redesign ? IMHO, this is very ugly. -- Juergen (talk) 23:44, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

@Juergeen: You brought it up, it is up to you to find a rationale. What is so ugly about it? What would make it prettier?   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 23:19, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Business maths

I want 2 knw everything concerning it poly scheme of work 2019 Jayda jessie (talk) 07:15, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

@Jayda jessie: It appears you are asking on the wrong website.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 09:39, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi!

How do I work with Wikimedia? I want to make some constructive edits and assist the Wikimedia Foundation in whatever way I can. Do I add photos from my own camera, with copyright, I'd like to know. Thanks for the help!!! GermanGamer77 (talk) 18:13, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

@GermanGamer77: Please follow COM:FS.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 01:35, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

SVG competition 2019

I founded a notice in main page somedays ago about SVG competition 2019. Somehow i could not register my name. Now, i can't find the notice. Can anyone give me the competition's page link? Thank you in advance. Rafi Bin Tofa (talk) 03:27, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Main Page looks inconsistent before and after log in

I've found that the main page has sightly different page layout before and after log in. Here is the comparison:

• Before log in: https://i.imgur.com/Fv1sK0m.png
• After log in: https://i.imgur.com/dPywN2m.png

Since Wikimedia Commons introduced TemplateStyles, I suggest we can try to reconstruct this page by this way, we can make use of selector to set specific style sheets for mobile screen. --Great Brightstar (talk) 14:21, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

This is because your main page is not Main Page after logging in, as your Commons language is not English. The main page is special cased on mobile, but what the main page is depends on the interface language. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&uselang=en is the same as logged out. (Rewriting Main Page using TemplateStyles and disabling some of the special casing would be welcome, although it won’t eliminate all of the differences, only most of them.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:44, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

COM:ERRORS

Is there value in setting up an error-reporting system comparable to en:WP:ERRORS? If so, how should we do it? Nyttend (talk) 04:43, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

• In my opinion, no. Errors can be simply reported on COM:AN. English Wikipedia is overly bureaucratic. Let's not import all those unnecessary bureaucracies to Commons. 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:00, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
  • Bureaucracy? I'm just envisioning a section here for errors, plus (if convenient to set up) something that would appear in the admin backlog template if anything were sitting in the errors section. Finding Template:Motd/2019-05-08 (en) took a good deal of work, so instead of trying to fix a typo there yesterday, I was tempted to report it for someone else to handle, but I wasn't sure where best to report it. What could be wrong with a permanent (i.e. "do not archive") section here for error-reporting, or an automatic notification in the backlog template? Nyttend (talk) 01:04, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

    Notification in the backlog may not be suitable for Main Page errors, as they need immediate attention (obviously within hours), but we have heavy backlogs here on Commons and few people care (almost 6 month for DRs, years for CfD, 200 days for OTRS, many days for edit requests, etc.)

    Setting up yet another (sub)page to watch and monitor for some errors is also bureaucratic. How many Main Page errors get reported on average? I haven't seen many (if any) such reports. Therefore, I still think reporting errors to COM:AN is the best option to get things fixed. 4nn1l2 (talk) 14:32, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

    • It would be appreciated if you read proposals before creating straw men and attacking them. Nyttend (talk) 01:13, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

      I have read the proposal and I oppose it. It's as simple as that. It would be nice if the focus was on content, rather than people. 4nn1l2 (talk) 01:23, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

• The Main Page of Commons has mostly two Files displayed and hence just two caption sentences. I doubt we would be having too many errors reported for these two sentences daily to warrant for a separate dedicated page. If at all some error needs reporting, its directly on this very talk page. I fail to understand the actual intention of setting up a different page, which would mostly be unused.
  Currently our talk page asks us to creat a talk page on the Template of POTD and report error there; which i think is also useless and should be abolished. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 14:03, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Julian Mateos

Como puedo subir una foto del actor en su biografía, ya qué no tiene ninguna? L.u.t.Rio (talk) 17:08, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Julian Mateos How can I upload a picture of the actor in his biography, and what does he not have?
 

translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 23:39, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Primero hay que encontrar una foto de contenido libre, véase esta página para más información. La foto se puede subir a Wikimedia Commons usando Special:UploadWizard. Después se puede agregar al artículo de Wikipedia. —Granger (talk  · contribs) 00:13, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Wrong information

आपके पेज पे 9 मई के आसपास किसी ने जान बूझकर सिसोदिया सब्द एवं राजपूत शब्द को निकाल कर भील शब्द प्रयोग किया है तो उस पूरे एडिटिंग को निकाल दे। Jayrajsinh B Raol (talk) 15:53, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

On 9th May, on your page, someone purposely used the word Bhil by removing the word Sisodiya Sad and Rajput, then remove that whole editing
 

translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 21:21, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Difficulté d'activité

Bonjour, pourquoi je n'arrive pas à télécharger des photos !!! ? Je reçois le message suivant : l'opération précédente ne peu se terminer , problème de mémoire, pourtant je dispose de 4 Go de RAM et 64 Go de ROM. Aussi je n'arrive pas à ajouter des descriptions à mes photos !!! Les pages wikipedia se réinitialisent trop souvent ne permettent pas d'ajouter des photos ou descriptions!!! Djennane Taoufik (talk) 20:47, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Rectification, lire : Je reçois le message suivant: "impossible de continuer ... ,problème de mémoire.", pourtant je dispose de 4Go de RAM et 64Go de ROM !!! Désolé mon message précédent a été bizarrement tronqué . Djennane Taoufik (talk) 21:04, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

De nouveau tronqué !!! Il manque la partie " pourtant je dispose de 4go de RAM et 64go de ROM ". Djennane Taoufik (talk) 21:06, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

De nouveau tronqué !!! Il manque la partie " pourtant je dispose de 4go de RAM et 64go de ROM ". Djennane Taoufik (talk) 21:06, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Remove mobile special casing

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T227719

I would like to propose removing special casing of the main page on mobile. Currently only certain parts of the main page appear on mobile (e.g. the upload button doesn’t), and also those lack styling. (I admit the lack of styling is partly because of my recent edit request, but it wasn’t perfect before, either. What is currently missing was missing also before.) The differences can be seen by comparing the English main page using English interface language and the English main page using German interface language (or any other); this is the issue mentioned in #Main Page looks inconsistent before and after log in. If you think something should not appear on mobile, it can easily be hidden from the not special-cased version (the one seen with non-English interface language), so don’t hesitate to propose it, but the default (in contrast to the special-cased one) is to display everything. If there’s consensus to remove special casing, I’ll make the edit request for the switch. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:27, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Support. It would be much more handy with it. -- ato (talk) 06:06, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
• Very much in favor of removing the special casing yes. The special casing is deprecated, and it hides the fact that our content just doesn't work on mobile. By aligning and use templatestyles, it will be better and easier to deal with differences between mobile and desktop, as there at least is visiblity. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:48, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your responses! I’d expect a bit more activity on the talk page of one of the most important pages on one of the largest Wikimedia projects (with over a hundred recently active watchers, not counting several different-language main pages where I advertised this section), but if really no one else cares, I’ll go ahead and make the edit request. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:23, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

With help of TemplateStyles it's possible to rebuild the mobile special casing with responsive web design, which makes the page easier to maintain for administrators. --Great Brightstar (talk) 18:35, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Actually this page uses TemplateStyles since about a month. This is why turning off mobile special casing can be considered at all. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:49, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

OK, I understand, thanks, I also thought it's possible to simulate mobile special casing via TemplateStyles, which could gives you more rights to customize the mobile layout. --Great Brightstar (talk) 02:25, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

รูปภาพ

สวัดดีครับ ช่วยหาข้อมูล ของผม ใน Wikimedid Kitithat Phengaro (talk) 09:03, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

information@ข้อมูล

Hello Help me find information on Wikimedia Commons for me. Thank you. ช่วยหาข้อมูลของผมในวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนให้น่อยครับ Kitithat Phengaro (talk) 09:08, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

What information are you looking for? If you know the subject, I suggest that you start with a quick search (search bar is available on the top right). If it will not return much useful information, try finding a supercategory of what you are looking for. For example, if you are searching for Postal Offices (a topic that I am personally interested in) you can try looking at the media related to buildings, government buildings, photos related to mail, etc. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 10:53, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Media of the Day: porn instead of medical/sports content

Hello! I'd like to express my displeasure with the content of today's MOTD.[1] Whereas the caption reads "The lifestyle fair Venus Berlin showed various novelties such as TENS devices, which are controlled by bluetooth from a playlist on the smartphone or Virtual Reality as a means of recreation, but also activities like free solo climbing or a mechanical bull," the video shows VR porn. Although this is an interesting field in itself and I don't oppose Commons hosting this video, the video caption does not correspond to its actual content. I wanted to share this video on my social profiles (I post a lot on medicine and sports), but after having seen that, I will refrain from doing so. I will appreciate if you (whoever curates the MOTD) pay more attention in the future. Best regards, --Eleassar ^(t/p) 13:00, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

It also seems like a strange video to give as MOTD. Does it really highlight the best of Wikimedia Commons? If the central focus of the video is the two simulations/demos taking place on television screens, then that seems like it would be a copyright violation. Killiondude (talk) 00:22, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

@Killiondude: It is not a copyright violation.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 00:48, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Jeff! Could you answer my question since you're here? Killiondude (talk) 00:59, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

@Killiondude: I don't know, I didn't propose it for MOTD or see the caption.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 01:09, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

As a further follow-up, Eleassar, I'm not sure it was actually on the main page. It seems the tag was accidentally placed on the wrong image. See Commons:Media of the day#14 for the correct file. Killiondude (talk) 01:56, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) It looks like Jdx (talk · contribs) added the {{Media of the day}} tag to the above-linked file on 14 July 2019, but the actual MOTD on this day was File:Visual tour of Italy- Milan, Venice and visit with Pope Leo XIII, Summer 1896.webm according to Template:Motd/2019-07#14. I am thinking the tag addition was an error. Mz7 (talk) 01:58, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

This is extremely bizarre. According to the Internet Archive, the porn video actually was on the Main Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714120633/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Mz7 (talk) 02:01, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

That's because it was on the main page. The original was deleted with only a few hours left in the day. Every single time anything racy appears on any main page people get all bent out of shape. As always though, if you have a problem with something than you should participate in the selections. There is no point in continuing this conversation since it is past the 14th and the original MOTD was removed without comment by another administrator. --Majora (talk) 02:10, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

The correct measure to prevent this reoccurring in the future is not to participate in the selections. It is that the administrator(s) who are updating the MOTD should check whether the caption corresponds to the video content. This must be implemented in the workflow. --Eleassar ^(t/p) 02:18, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, media of the day is not done by administrators. Neither is picture of the day. The templates that control them are not protected until they actually appear on the main page and that is only due to cascading protection. You are more than welcome to keep an eye on COM:MOTD and COM:POTD to ensure that everything is as it should be. --Majora (talk) 02:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. In any case, it would be of benefit to streamline the process - add some instructions for editors. --Eleassar ^(t/p) 09:09, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

The interesting question is why Multichill deleted Template:Motd/2019-07-14 (en) and associated templates less than 5 hours before the end of the day. The reason he gave is This MOTD was removed, but hell, I don't get it at all. The video is still here, it isn't a copyvio and actually there is no porn at all. Then, about an hour later, Yann recreated Template:Motd/2019-07-14 (en) with a new content. Perhaps needlessly. @Mz7: While I was adding {{Media of the day}} the video was still on the main page. It was there for over 7 hours longer. @Eleassar and Killiondude: C.Suthorn is known from "strange" (very loosely related) descriptions he gives to "his" MOTDs. Anyway, please bear in mind that everyone can nominate or even change a MOTD. --jdx ^Re: 08:22, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

The video was of such a quality that I spent some time trying to figure out whether an administrator account had been compromised. Mz7 (talk) 02:55, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Well...it wasn't a featured item. The revival/creation of featured sounds and featured videos is rather new. The two projects only really started (or were revived) in May. There aren't enough featured media to meet the needs of that section yet and the proposal to restrict that section to only featured media was rejected until we have enough. I can assure you no admin account was compromised because featured media is not chosen by admins but by regular editors. You can participate in these selections if you wish. --Majora (talk) 03:11, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

@Majora: the original MOTD was removed without comment by another administrator — not really, the comment was Being bold and removing this trash from the main page. [2]. —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

 Comment Yes, Multichill deleted the initial MOTD template, and I recreated it one hour later. I agree that the initial video was not a good choice, but removing it without providing a replacement is IMO even worse. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:07, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

A request for opinion

During a voting there, we had differences about some topics that we couldn't resolve, even after filing a request for comment. We have came to the conclusion that an external arbitrage is needed. George Ho suggested m:SRM as a mechanism. As you have been involved with our project before, your suggestion will be very valuable too - as will be your opinion about the disagreement, should you decide to give it.

Thank you in advance, and please accept my apologies for wasting your time with this request. -- Григор Гачев (talk) 18:27, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Commons

Can I upload photos on Commons which I have Clicked through my cell phone TysonS 04:03, 15 September 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyson72th (talk • contribs) 04:03, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

@Tyson72th: Hi, and welcome. Yes, you can do that, but please follow COM:FS first.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 06:52, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Add a field to the topic list on the right

Computer under Science. What do you think? It's one of the most important field in 21st century. {{Edit request}} Btw

1. there's a bug displaying the line * [[:Category:Buildings by architect|Architects]].
2. I suggested that a link be added to tweet MOTD as well and a minor issue be fixed like special:diff/368680763.--Roy17 (talk) 00:15, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

 Done Thank you! -- User: Perhelion 17:30, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

WSC2019 in November and December

Hi, as occurred in 2017 we would like to require also on the English home page the box with the link to Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2019. We can alternate for few weeks, the most crucial week is the third one when almost all the competitions will be open, and than again the first week of December when few more countries start. The code is the same of last time, I can put it here.

Please let me know if somebody can process the request, or I will ping the sysop from last time. Thank you.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

I support the site banner request, as most of our entries last time around (818 from the United States alone) came from it. Antony-22 (talk) 05:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

The infobox is now already present in the home pages of some languages.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:31, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

The upload from Ireland and USA are suffering, before we get a sitenotice this would really help. Should I ping someone?--Alexmar983 (talk) 17:01, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

@Alexmar983:  Done -- Darwin ^Ahoy! 23:28, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I will ping you User:DarwIn to remove it on December, 1st when the new monthly challenges start.--Alexmar983 (talk) 23:38, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

User:DarwIn please change it back for the monthly competition for 3-7 days. They will have the final part of the month but it's good people see them.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:45, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

User:DarwIn please remove it... the competition is open in Spain, Australia and New Zealand and in the "rest of the world", but Spain closes soon and the "rest of the world" is mostly a "left over" category, there is no ractical point in showing off the template now. --Alexmar983 (talk) 06:22, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

@Alexmar983:  Done -- Darwin ^Ahoy! 00:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Typo on 'Picture of the day' caption

'Antelope' is spelt with an 'e', not an 'i', as in 'antilope'. ̴̴ ̴̴

Also, I seem to be unable to sign the above message by typing in four tildes. Let me try againː ̴̴ — Preceding unsigned comment added by JackintheBox (talk • contribs) 08:55, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

ːIt still doesn't workǃ Now let's try clicking the button with four tildesː JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 08:55, 14 December 2019 (UTC) ːˑ ?? It seems like I can't type punctuation properly here?? JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 08:57, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Punctuation that I cannot type properly hereː the tilde, 'at' sign, dollar sign, percent sign, asterisk, underscore, plus sign, curly and square brackets (both opening and closing), colon. Others seem to work fine. JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 09:16, 14 December 2019 (UTC) ːːːThe same goes with all other places where you can type, on Wikimedia Commons. This problem does not exist on Wikipedia. There seems to be a bug here. JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 09:18, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@JackintheBox: Maybe you enabled input methods? Try clicking the language name in the top of the page, then “Input settings” on the bottom of the popup, and make sure they’re off. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 11:03, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

~@$%*_+{[}]: @Tacsipacsi: Hurray, I've turned 'input settings' off ('IPA' was selected), and now I can type punctuation properly again. Thanks JACKINTHEBOX • ^TALK 16:44, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Restriction of POTD to Featured Images is nonsense and against the scope of Commons, Valued Images should also be eligible

Discussion moved to Commons talk:Picture of the day. --Podzemnik (talk) 18:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Editing the foto of a tortured in 1973

In the German Wikipedia of Torture, there is a chapter about Chile. There are quotations,no pictures. I would like to upload a picture of a person – before and after being tortured and assasinated. Generally there will be few fotos to show what is left after torture. So this foto could be unique and could be included in any language.

The question is, whether I am allowed to upload fotos of the death person. In December 1973 I was in Chile in an UNESCO function weeks before a military putsch against Salvadore Allende. After the putsch all foreigners were considered communists and UNHCR was responsible for them. So I accompanied the Chilean party including the wife of the tortured to fetch the body. In Chile dead persons are burried in zinc coffins. We choose on with a big window.

Therefore we could make fotos of the tortured. I possess the originals so I suppose they were made by me. I have copies of all declarations and denouncements. The death person was buried by the protestant church.

I would like to upload the foto – where ?– to be used on any page. The details of the tortured: He was vietnames, his father a North vietnamese general, grown up in Paris where he studied chemistry, with a doctorate in Canada. He later met Chilean president Allende in his home in Canada and once Kissinger. For working illegaly in Canada he was to be deported to South Vietnam and choose to find asylum in Chile. He worked in a fishing project in Chile.

I am told he had a black belt, so he could have tried to defend himself on arrestation. Visiting the Chilenian military police SIM, it seemed that everybody knew the case. --Cuauti (talk) 19:54, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

• Here are my thoughts: If you have taken the photo, then I believe that this would be a great photo to have uploaded. Now, you say two things: 1) You were taking photographs, 2) You have the original of this photograph. For me this is sufficient evidence that you are the one who took this photo. However, please keep in mind that anybody can still nominate the photo for deletion after it is uploaded, it would not be a personal attack on you, but rather a way that this community calls discussions of legality of keeping the photograph. If you want to make sure that there is less of a chance of that happening, you may want to follow the COM:OTRS procedure after uploading and placing {{OTRS pending}} template in the file description to show that you did so. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 10:37, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
  • One more thing, if this photograph has already been published elsewhere, then it is very important to follow COM:OTRS, as it is almost certain that somebody will nominate it otherwise. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 10:38, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

@Cuauti: We do not have restrictions based on the subject, as long as there are no laws prohibiting it, like with child pornography. And we do have Category:Dead people with photographs of corpses. However the photographs still have to meet our copyright restrictions, so it has to be a photo you took or a photograph for which you can determine that it is in public domain. --Jarekt (talk) 19:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Image of Rodolfo Guevara Dato not shown in page

Comment by Stephentalla moved to COM:VP (Special:Diff/421138580). Storkk (talk) 12:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

download public domain images

Hello, I would like to know if you can download the photographs from wikimedia, just like you can do with wikipedia and your kiwix project, in order to have the most beautiful images of the world offline.

thanks

--Makebos (talk) 19:13, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Makebos. Whenever you open anything labelled "File:" there will be a section below the image/video/audio explaining the license agreement. There are a few licenses: some will be fully public domain, some will be Creative Commons (which means you have to cite the original author), and some will be a limited use of a private domain work. In short, most things on Wikimedia Commons will need you to attribute the author. If you want a more detailed understanding of licenses, have a look at the Commons:Licensing page for more information, and at any license that is connected to the media you want to use. Hope thish helps! Bibeyjj (talk) 12:41, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

POTD captions

POTD captions are hidden behind a dozen of templates and the template system itself is an absolute nightmare. It's no wonder we constantly get horrible and plain wrong captions because there probably are just a couple of users that know or bother to discover where the captions are stored. I'm not even going to try to trace where that is. I've seen and commented on wrong species ID and other inaccuracies. And here again, we have a subspecies of a bird (Ceryle rudis leucomelanurus) under a photo of a flower! What the hell?! I'm talking about the POTD of 12 June 2020. --Exonie (talk) 19:19, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Redirect

{{Editprotected}} The "content" box on the main page advertises Category:Marine life, however that category appears to be a redirect to Category:Marine organisms. The link should probably be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Majavah (talk • contribs) 08:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

This is under "Contents" on protected Template:Main Page Template.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:58, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

 Done Thank you! Ahmad^talk 13:33, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: I also edited the said template, but apparently it doesn't affect the pages. A lot of our other main pages still use Category:Marine organisms. I can, technically, replace all those categories with AWB or some other tool, but the translations will still need to be updated, so I'm not really sure if it's a good idea. Ahmad^talk 13:39, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

@Ahmad252: Thanks. I would like you to replace all links to Category:Marine life, for all 238 of them, and at least semiprotect that page due to vandalism, but feel free to discuss elsewhere.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 15:42, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Augmented Reality Support within Wikiversity other Wikis

According to some test with 3D Modelling and geo-location based augmented reality is seems to make a lot of sense to support 3D model e.g. with Aframe and/or AR.js in Wikiversity (and may be other Wikis). Just like MATH for mathematical expressions in articles a tag might be introduced with MODEL3D or AR that wraps the XML syntax for a 3D model within Wikiversity. On other hand 3D models can be regarded as Digital Media and therefore place just like SVG-files in commons and can be embedded from Commons to any other MediaWiki of WMF. So authors would include 3D models directly from WikiCommons like audio, video or images. Wiki Commons stores SVG vector graphics which is of cource XML syntax defining the graphics. Embedding of 3D models could be performed just like embedding images from Wiki Commons. The only difference is, that 3D models need an additional Opensource rending libary like AR.js and/or aframe.js so that the XML-Syntax of the 3D model will be rendered properly on a MediaWiki article. In general the 3D objects ar wrapped with a A-SCENE-tag. The following example is a 3D scene with just one box:

 <a-scene>
     <a-box position="-1 0.5 -3" rotation="0 45 0" color="#4CC3D9"></a-box>
 </a-scene>

Are there any recommendation how to use 3D scene in the future that might need an import of OpenSource Javascript libraries like aframe.js or ar.js. Anyway this approach would allow us as authors/teachers in Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, ... to enhance resources in many ways, e.g.:

• Molecules or crystal lattices displayed on Markers,
• ancient site reconstruction on a marker like Forum Romanum in Rome Italy,
• attach Wikiversity learning resource to real geolocations,
• explore places with 360 degree equirectangular images.
• ...

Test 3D Model in Aframe	Place 3D Model on Markers
Water Molecule in Aframe - created with JSON3D4Aframe	Water Molecule with Augmented Reality AR.js on Kanji Marker - created with JSON3D4Aframe

See also OpenSource AR.js documentation. I do not know if that makes sense to you and it worth the effort. No worries if not, it is possible to store the 3D models on a Git respository and link them e.g. from learning resources Wikiversity to it.

Best regards and take care, Bert --Bert Niehaus (talk) 10:52, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Media of the Day

The caption is very poorly worded. The '75th anniversary of the liberation of Belfort' would make much more sense. No Swan So Fine (talk) 17:04, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

• @No Swan So Fine: Please consider participating at COM:MOTD. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 19:14, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Delete the image and roll back to the previous version

Hello admin. Please, please delete this one too. File:Empat Lawang Flag.png today and please return it to the version https://id.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kabupaten_Empat_Lawang&oldid=17412453 today!--Kiagus Muhammad Hanif Sirua (talk) 06:24, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

@Kiagus Muhammad Hanif Sirua: File:Lambang Empat Lawang.png is already uploaded. I do not see any reason to delete File:Empat Lawang Flag.png. See also Category:Empat Lawang Regency--Jarekt (talk) 12:50, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Media of the day - model is not spelt with two ls

Could somebody with the appropriate privileges please correct the spelling of model here. -- Chris j wood (talk) 12:25, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done --jdx ^Re: 13:07, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Missing media of the day causes main page corruption

The following text is currently displayed: Template:Motd/2020-11-19}}&via=WikiCommons&text=Check+out+today%27s+%23MediaOfTheDay+on+Wikimedia+Commons+at&related=WikiCommons,Wikipedia. I guess the logic needs another #ifexist somewhere. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:04, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

 Done See Special:PermanentLink/513438553#Homepage Broken. --jdx ^Re: 08:04, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Deletion

Can I remove my photos from wikimedia? Cb619619 (talk) 09:09, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

@Cb619619: Hi, and welcome. You may not remove them directly, why would you want to? Please see COM:DP. What does this have to do with the Main Page?   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 13:52, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

@Cb619619: , yes you can. If you are the original author or uploader the file meets the criteria for speedy deletion G7 if your file is unused. To request speedy deletion with criterion G7, place {{SD|G7}} on the file's page. Otherwise, make a deletion request.[3]

As Jeff G. pointed out, this question does not belong in this discussion page. This is not a place to ask help questions like this, rather a discussion about the main page of Wikimedia Commons. If you want to ask a question, please ask it in more appropriate places, like the Help desk -- YavBav09 (talk). 06:16, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

MLK

Please choose a thumbtime of 2:09. We should also add a note.

The audio of King's speech has been muted by the Library of Congress because the speech remains the copyright property of the King family.

Source: [4]

Thanks, the uploader. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 05:26, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Lateral panel button to upload

I suggest offer a lateral panel button to upload media, in a similar way to this code:

{{Clickable button|Special:UploadWizard|text=Upload <br> file|color=blue}}

to show:

Upload
file

In any case, I want it in my user's preferences.--BoldLuis (talk) 12:03, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

@BoldLuis: You can write a script to show that just for you.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 02:27, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: : can you provide a link to a help page about how to create and use it in Commons / sister wikis, please?. Thank you a lot ;-). --BoldLuis (talk) 12:06, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

@BoldLuis: I don’t really understand what you want. There is a blue upload button in the upper right corner of the main page, as well as in the participate section of the left-hand sidebar (visible on all pages on Commons). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:23, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Now I can see the bottom, smaller than convenient, but there BoldLuis (talk) 20:43, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Restore localised main page pointer

This was introduced in 2010 (Main Page edit 1, MainPages.js edit) but was seemingly lost by accident when in 2013 a new header was introduced (archived discussion, Main Page edit 2).

I'm leaving this message here to have a place to point to in my edits that will remove the broken JS related to this, and to my edit that attempts to restore a simpler version of it (based on Lua, instead of late and janky JavaScript code).

--Krinkle 02:04, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Krinkle: The very purpose of this JS solution was to use navigator.userLanguage instead of {{int:lang}} (or anything else that depends on the user’s Commons language settings). Logged-out users will often have their Commons language set to English even if that’s not their preferred language. You could insert all links to the main page in a hidden state (e.g. <div class="localised-main-page-link" lang="de" style="display:none;">[[Hauptseite]]</div>; instead of inline styles, you could use TemplateStyles as well) and dynamically show the one that matches using JS, utilizing the language fallback chain if possible. This would still mean an interdependence between Lua and JavaScript, but if you add a comment to the Lua module, hopefully it won’t be broken again. Unfortunately this can’t be solved on server-side without a massive amount of cache size growth (it would mean the output should be cached separately for each and every different Accept-Language HTTP header coming from clients, which would also open a door for DoS attacks using arbitrarily long language lists). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:29, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

As a side note, to optimize for maintenance costs, the list of main pages could probably be stored in JSON, which could be accessed by both JS and Lua, so that there’s one authoritative list of main pages instead of several ones that are bound to become out of sync. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:33, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: I understand that that was the original reason, but I think much has changed since then. We now have the AnonymousI18N gadget, which considers http referers (e.g. Wikipedia language), and navigator.userLanguage, to actively invite users to switch languages. This makes the server-side more useful than it would've been previously, I think. Plus, even without this pointer, people also get a localised link to their Main Page via the logo and sidebar, which I believe didn't use to work very well, but now does. During the seven years it was broken, there appears to have been no mention of it, either as complaint or as new idea, so maybe it's something we could even remove entirely, but I thought it'd be easy enough to keep in the template to make it a little more obvious to users once they switch that a localised version exists, since we don't do that automatically currently. Perhaps with a little more work, that could be done? E.g. have "Main Page" with "uselang=nl" render as Hoofdpagina. Of course, that would probably be confusing if they keep having different layouts, so if we want to keep that separate, then automation might be worse. Right now it requires two clicks if people follow the path of least resistance (first to switch languages, then to follow the pointer). --Krinkle 18:26, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Krinkle: If I was a logged-out reader, I would much less consider setting the whole site to Hungarian than just visiting the Hungarian main page (the first one is a permanent configuration—which, by the way, has performance consequences as uselang= URLs are less aggressively cached—, while the second one is a one-time decision that I don’t have to worry about how to turn off), so the two are different enough IMO that it makes sense to keep both as JS.

What do you mean by localised link to their Main Page: localized to their Commons language or localized to their browser language? I experience the latter, which only means that the current solution doesn’t make much sense, since this is the one that’s duplicated in the sidebar. The user agent-based solution still makes sense IMO, see above. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 18:47, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: I think the current link does have some value becausea typical user has no reason to believe the translated sidebar link will point to something other than the page they are already on. For special pages, file pages, and some translated pages, they would be right. There is one page and it is automatically translated if/when possible. The "Main Page" is unusual in this aspect, the localised pages are manually translated and only informally linked with each other. This pointer is... a pointer, an invitation to be clicked. The sidebar and logo are not.

If we find a different position for this pointer, one that doesn't cause a layout shift or other rendering delay, we could work on restoring the JS code, but I do note again that in the seven years it was broken, there appears to have been no interest in it, so I'm inclined to just let it be how it's been for the past seven years, with the small added bonus that anons using the AnonymousI8N selector (and logged-in users), get a pointer now, at basically no performance cost.

In addition, we also still have the collection of links at the bottom of the page with every language which can be followed by anons even without using the language selector.

If there is interest in improving Main Page navigation, I'd suggest making the Main Page itself render with a LangSwitch so that the same URL works for everyone. And that way, AnonymousI8N which is based on browser settings, will automatically get you to the localised Main Page (instead of showing you a localised sidebar and still the same English Main Page). That might be a bigger gain and more beneficial to all users. It could work either by forcing a single layout and translating text only like with other templates, or we could even keep the current system where content can change completely if we configure LangSwitch to render entirely different pages, such as "en=Main Page/en","nl=Hoofdpagina", etc. --Krinkle 19:32, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

@Krinkle: You might be right that the sidebar links are less obviously pointers than this one (however, I think your actual design isn’t really obvious, although I have no better idea); I admit that the links serve purpose already in their current form. But I still think that providing links based on the user agent’s settings is usually more appropriate.

We don’t need to find a different position for the pointer, we just need to make sure it doesn’t shift the content below it, which is quite easy—if you take my suggestion about the hidden links added by Lua, it’s enough to add min-height: 1.6em; to the links’ parent node (because of the line-height: 1.6 setting). This will avoid the layout shift as long as the actually shown link is not longer than one line.

I don’t think converting to LangSwitch has much value—every usual way to access the main page (sidebar, logo, going directly to https://commons.wikimedia.org/ etc.) already uses the user interface language, except for links that contain the page name hardcoded, but those ones are probably intentional and often hardcode a non-English page (e.g. links from monolingual sister projects). Also, providing substantially different content through LangSwitch can create quite some confusion. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:41, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Regarding the styling, I used the same style and position as it had in 2013 when it last worked. (I dug through the various histories to find when it last worked and then bypassed some of the code paths to get it to render something.)
Regarding the finding of a better position, I would consider your suggestion to reserve a blank line for this a logically new position. I suppose the downside is that it would reserve a blank line, which might look a bit unprofessional. I was hoping to find a position that naturally has white space already, but without it reserving a notable block in the layout. For example the space to the right of the site name. Having said that, that too would look akward I think, hence I haven't done either of those as of yet.
Regarding confusion in LangSwitch, I personally don't think it should matter that the source code of Main Page may be confusing to the small group of people that 1) are active wikitext editors, 2) have prior experience using LangSwitch, 3) want to modify this proxy page for the Main Page. Anyone else, e.g. people editing the template, or editing the actual page for any given language, would not see this. And we'd of course document it with an inline comment in the source code. Anyway, that's how I'd do it.

I did not realize that "going directly to commons.wikimedia.org" rendered a localised Main Page. Both as a user and as a MediaWiki developer, I must say that is very interesting. I think that means we have a really easy way to solve this problem within the AnonymousI8N code. So far, I had restisted the urge to hardcode any solution there, thinking it would require yet-another copy of the list of Main Page (bad for maintenance), or some clever logic with language fallback chains, or an extra AJAX web request (also bad for performance). But, using https://commons.wikimedia.org/?uselang=nl neatly cuts through all that. Watch this space! --Krinkle 02:00, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

@Krinkle: I tried hiding the text with visibility:hidden (hackish solution for the sake of testing), and I don’t think the extra whitespace is annoying there; if you want to make sure, we can add some margin at the very top of the page content area to make it more balanced.

LangSwitch would be more confusing to readers of the main page than for its editors, I think. For example if one has an account with a non-English interface language, but visits Commons logged out every now and then (from a public computer, from a mobile device etc.), they would get totally different result at the exact same URL. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:10, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

@Krinkle: I have just noticed the change and rather big "→ Strona główna" ("main page" in Polish) under small "a collection of…" looks horrible. And is a bit confusing at the first glance. Also I do not get the point of this, as there are links to the localized pages at the left side and at the bottom. --jdx ^Re: 07:53, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

"sea creature mask"

We might be able to be more precise; I think the sea creature the masker is imitating is a pufferfish. Meaning the mask could go under Category:Tetraodontidae illustrations. HLHJ (talk) 14:52, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

verwaiste Urheberrechte

Der Urheber einer ca. 1935 erstellen Photographie ist (erst) 1995 gestorben. Nach schriftlicher Auskunft des Einwohnermeldeamts hinterlässt weder er noch seine Frau Kinder. Andere Angehörige konnten nicht ermittelt werden. Mir ist klar: Eigentlich darf ich das Photo erst 70 Jahre nach dem Tod des Urhebers in Commons einstellen. Aber die Urheberrechte sind "verwaist". Es handelt sich um eine "ganz normale" Aufnahme: Mein Großvater sitzt in würdevoller Haltung an seinem Schreibtisch. Eigentümer des vom Photografen signierten und gerahmten Bildes bin als Alleinerbe ich. Frage: Spricht etwas dagegen, das Photo bereits heute in Commons einzustellen? --Hajo Lindner (talk) 13:01, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

The author of a photograph made around 1935 died (only) in 1995. According to written information from the registration office, neither he nor his wife leaves children behind. Other relatives could not be identified.

It is clear to me: Actually, I am only allowed to post the photo in Commons 70 years after the author's death. But the copyrights are "orphaned". It is a "completely normal" recording: my grandfather sits at his desk in a dignified manner. I am the sole heir of the picture signed and framed by the photographer.

Question: Does something speak against putting the photo in Commons today?

translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:38, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

@Hajo Lindner: Hallo und willkommen. Hatte Ihr Großvater einen Vertrag, der das Urheberrecht vom Fotografen auf ihn überträgt? Wer oder was hat die Rechte des Fotografen, die Negative, das Fotogeschäft usw. geerbt? Wenn Sie keine konforme Lizenz erhalten, kann das Foto dennoch in die englische oder deutsche Wikipedia gemäß en:WP:F oder de:Wikipedia:Bildrechte#Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist, weil wir hier keine Fair Use erlauben.

Hi, and welcome. Did your grandfather have a contract transferring copyright to him from the photographer? Who or what inherited the photographer's rights, negatives, photography business, etc. ? If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English or German Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F or de:Wikipedia:Bildrechte#Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist because we don't allow Fair Use here.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:38, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Jeff, thank you so much. In 1935 there were no license problems yet. In this time it was quite clear, that my grandfather could do with his photo whatever he wanted to do. Of course he didn't get the negative and the possibilities of reproduction were poor. So me too doesn't have or get the negative. But today I'm able to reproduce the printout in a acceptable quality. The link ... "Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist" doesn't help me, because I know the author, he has signed the printout. And his name is unforgotten in the community of my grandfathers living at that time. I'm not the heir of the photographer, I'm only the heir of the printout. So, as the photo dos not have a certain specific extraordinarity I propose to add the addendum to my photo that it may not get copied for any purpose, because it possibly doesn't met the standard of Commons. Would this be o.k.? Yours --Hajo Lindner (talk) 07:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

@Hajo Lindner: Sorry, not until 2066, per COM:Germany and COM:L.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 12:47, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Sisterprojects

@Izno has put together a version of {{Sisterprojects-en}} at {{Sisterprojects-en/sandbox}} that uses TemplateStyles and CSS flex boxes instead of layout tables. This improves readability for people using the mobile site, as the list of sister projects will reflow instead of bunching up or adding a scrollbar. It's also better for screen readers. On desktop screen sizes, there is almost no visible difference between the two. You can compare the two versions at Template:Sisterprojects-en/testcases. If there isn't any objection, I'd like to replace the current version with the sandbox version. It should work fine with the other language versions of the template, but will have to be manually copied over. The best way would probably be to use a layout template, but that would mean that every language has the same project order (currently not the case). AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:17, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: That works well in 5 browsers x 2 devices x 2 orientations x 2 toggles. Good job!   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 17:14, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

No, a layout template doesn’t mean that all languages have the same project order—only languages that opt into using that layout template. As long as these templates are not translated using the Translate extension (which I would prefer in the long run, by the way), nothing forces any language to use the layout template. I think an optional layout template would make sense even if some languages don’t use it in order to keep their order. (Probably in many of those languages actually it just happened to be different, and editors of those languages won’t have any problem switching to the same order as English.) Allowing to (optionally) override icons of projects having their own language domains (Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage and Wikisource) while using the layout template would be useful, though: some Wiktionaries use a dictionary excerpt as their logo and want to use that icon in this template as well; this may happen in other projects as well. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 20:41, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi That's true. I've put together Template:Sisterprojects/layout, and updated Template:Sisterprojects-en/sandbox to use it. I just made everything override-able, so language-specific logos and whatnot aren't a problem. You could change the order of projects by overriding everything with the other project, the parameters would just be named differently from the project. The interwiki links are localized automatically based on {{{lang}}} for every project but Wikidata, but can also be overridden if there's no project or main page in that language. Wikidata uses {{int:lang}} to translate their main page without a great way to specify the language other than ?uselang=. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 20:18, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Hearing no objections, this is now  Done AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 17:47, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

"File:VTS 01 2.webm" change to "Saber Mensur swordfight"

I want to rename this video "File:VTS 01 2.webm" to "Saber Mensur swordfight". Can you help me with that? Wname1 (talk) 20:08, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

@Wname1: Hi, and welcome. You may use RenameLink or {{Rename}}.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 18:50, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Help me

Can anyone help me by teaching me the appropriate steps and procedures of how to translate this main page of Commons into mni language (Manipuri language, aka Meitei language). Manipuri language has its own mni wikipedia and mni wiktionary. Do I need any special permission? Please tell me! Haoreima (talk) 11:47, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Media of the day

someone forgot to put the media --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael ^(marhata) 09:07, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

@Jeromi Mikhael: No, it was not forgotten, it was unfortunately vandalized. (The vandalism was reverted, although it’s midnight in the meanwhile, so it doesn’t matter anymore.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:02, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Audio Files in WikimediaCommons

Hello Wikimedians,

It is my pleasure to inform the general public in Wikimedia Commons about an upcoming project event, which We will like carry, this project will extremely focus on how to record, convert and upload audio files into Wikimedia Commons.

The fact that many users find it very difficult to convert audio files from mp3 to .ogg extension format, that makes users unwillingly to contribute with audio files into Wikimedia Commons.

Moreover, audio files are needed, so users to contribute with that are also needed, it will be my own pleasure if you join us in this course, read the page here in Meta, feel free to contact me in my talk page. Sadauki11 (talk) 15:51, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

@Sadauki11: Please see and help improve COM:AUDIO, and use internal links.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 17:16, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Picture of the day

This Wikipedia thread might be of interest regarding the caption of today's picture of the day. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 21:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Mark this page for translation

I think we should mark this page for translation, and the translated links of Main Page to Main Page/xyz, because:

• It's easier to search the translated version
• It can easily change the version

So we should mark this page for translation, and changing the old links to the new links. Thingofme (talk) 00:49, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Website

Hello, what type of license do the images on this site have? Can I use them in wikipedia? Your admirer --AngryBiceps (talk) 21:09, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

If there is no specific license stated for modern images on a website, assume they are copyrighted and not suitable for Commons. (English language wikipedia allows some limited "fair use" of copyrighted material, but not here on Commons.) Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 21:21, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

(ec) This is the wrong page, so I copied the question on VP: [5]. Yann (talk) 21:23, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Ok, much thanks :) AngryBiceps (talk) 21:24, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Typo in Media of the day for January 1st

It says "Loopend gif" instead of "Looped gif". —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:09, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 22:14, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Nope, you changed "looped" to "loopend" in the filename, which I've undone (including undoing CommonsDelinker's replacements of the file, including at my enwiki user talk page archive where I noticed this. I've also gone and fixed the typo properly at the description page and at Template:Motd/2022-01-01 (en). Graham87 (talk) 03:38, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Is Pixabay OK

Is the Pixabay license sufficiently open to allow pixabay images to be used in the commons? I specifically want to use a particular pixabay image for a Wikiversity course. Thanks!--Lbeaumont (talk) 14:23, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

@Lbeaumont: Sorry, no. Please read {{Pixabay}} and the links there.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Picture of the day typo

There is an extra sentence under the explanation section of the Picture of the day. Kindly fix it, regards...Ertly (talk) 12:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

I've removed it, even though it wasn't completely off-topic: the bird in question is Moroccan. --rimshot^talk 21:48, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Africa 2022 new deadline

Dear all,

On behalf of Wiki In Africa, the organizer of Wiki Loves Africa, I wish to inform you all that the deadline for submitting entries for Wiki Loves Africa 2022 themed Home + Habitat, has been extended to 30th April 2022.

Make your entries that are related to the theme and stand a chance to win awesome prizes!

Ceslause (talk) 19:32, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Someone should probably update Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2022 then. I was just about to request it to be removed from the Main Page. the wub "?!" 20:07, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to Episode 12 of WikiAfrica Hour, titled, "Who is Maryana Iskander?"

Hello everyone!

It promises to be an interesting conversation on community diversity, Annual planning, motivations, aspirations, as we sit with the CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, Maryana Iskander. Date: 22nd April 2022. Time:4pm UTC. You can drop questions via https://w.wiki/55Fs or ask them Live during the session Ceslause (talk) 10:44, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

日本語版に翻訳してくれたら嬉しいです

このページ&議論ページは日本人や他の国の人たちにとっても見にくい（いちいち翻訳しないといけない）から誰か翻訳してくれたら嬉しいです。 This page & discussion page is hard to see for Japanese people in other countries. I would be happy if someone could translate it from (I have to translate them one by one). --キリト キリト (talk) 01:03, 5 May 2022 (UTC)キリト キリト

The Japanese version is here: メインページ. Yann (talk) 06:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Monthly photo challenge

The monthly photo challenge does not have an upload icon. How can l get involved in the monthly challenge? Christmas videos (talk) 19:11, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

@Christmas videos: Again, please just upload as normal and then submit per COM:PC. After 10 uploads, you should know by now how to use COM:UW.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 23:38, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Improvement to Upload Wizard

Frequent users of the Wizard no doubt find it intuitive, but infrequent and dumb users like me might not. Namely, there are no descriptors on fields such as Description, Caption etc. that show where those fields will appear in the final product used in an article. When an infrequent and dumb user guesses wrong and finds the image doesn't display as expected, they don't have the ability to fully edit the file to tweak it. Naturally, this might lead an editor to delete the image and start all over, but deletion is not an option. So if the user tries to upload the image again to start over, they get a message the image already exists and the user cannot proceed. I presume there are reasons the system was designed to work this way, but it's not intuitive compared to similar systems I've used over the years. Soibangla (talk) 12:05, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

NCPUG TheWikiVibrance International Youth Day 2022 (Audio and Photography)

We are delighted to inform you the Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group NCPUG will be participating in the programs of WikiVibrance International Youth Day 2022, to bring you and the youth to the International Youth Day Campaign. Which is to be lunch at Wikimania August 2022 and other events afterwards, if intrested leave me message or a comment. Anass-koko^Talk 00:35, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

NCPUG_Happy_Birthday_Wikidata_10th_anniversary Local Event

Hello all,

This is to notify the general public that NCPUG is planning to hold a local event to celebrate Wikidata at 10, feel free to support or join us or leave us a message here, we provide happy birthday videos down here more detail videos from members and organizers is coming after the event.-- An@ss_koko^(Talk2me) 23:49, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Misspelling in MOTD

To whom it may concern, "gangster" is misspelled "gansgter" in Media of the Day.--Augusthorsesdroppings10 (talk) 16:54, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

 Done Fixed. Yann (talk) 17:04, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Uncategorized images

There are currently 1.55m uncategorized images on Commons. If uploaders can't be bothered categorizing their photos then are those photos worth having? I propose that all uncategorized images should be deleted and the upload page revised so that uncategorized images cannot be uploaded. Mztourist (talk) 06:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

@Mztourist: The proper place for such a proposal is COM:VPP.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 09:28, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Noted thanks, I have raised the discussion there. Mztourist (talk) 09:35, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Cropping

I have just started to use the cropping tool. In some cases I would like to use BOTH images, the cropped and the uncropped. I looked to see if I can rename a cropped image, which would solve this problem, but I didnt find that option. Thanks in advance. --Smokefoot (talk) 14:56, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

@Smokefoot: When using the cropping tool, you can choose between "Overwrite" and "Upload as new file". If you choose "Upload as new file", you can enter a new filename for the cropped image and it will be saved separately from the original. —Granger (talk  · contribs) 21:28, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

@Granger: A belated thank you for instructions. Very helpful.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:17, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Meet our restorationists

I don't want to poke too hard about this, but given the main page links Meet our photographers and Meet our illustrators, and given that it's been 13 years of leaving restorationists off the main page - during which I've created a few hundred examples - think we could maybe consider including it?

It's not very up to date, and there's probably a bunch more people that should be in the list, but I don't think that's any different to Commons:Meet our photographers. Did have more once, but this nasty little discussion caused people to pull out.

I'm not sure how many FPs I have on Commons. I know I'm approaching my 600th on en-wiki, though, so probably more than 1% of them on here, given there's about 16,000. (edit: Looks like about 360, so 2%.) Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:29, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Typo in Template:Potd/2022-10-11 (en)

Moved to Template talk:Potd/2022-10-11 per instructions at the top of the page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:16, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Fichier:Weißer Streifen.jpg

Fichier:Weißer Streifen.jpg : This file is incomplete: the image is not displayed. Is it possible to correct it please? Thank you for your help. Contributeur2019 (talk) 09:16, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Request to be closed without action. The problem is solved. Thank you.Contributeur2019 (talk) 10:25, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Possible tense error in MOTD

"...DART seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat." Shouldn't this be sought, since it ended? As far as I can tell, this wasn't a NASA caption written pre-impact. Augusthorsesdroppings10 (talk) 03:54, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2021

{{Edit request}} Please add a link to promote the Picture of the Year 2021 competition. GeorgHH • talk   17:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Caption of Picture of the Day mentions: "Nile monitor lizard (Varanus niloticus). Kenya gained Independence from the United Kingdom on 12 December 1963." I fail to see the connection. Vysotsky (talk) 08:40, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Picture of eel - Dec. 17

Could an admin change the caption on today's photo from "shot during a night dive" to "photographed during a night dive". Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:04, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Picture of the day

{{Edit request}} The picture is not visible without clicking it. Could someone please fix that? --TadejM ^(t/p) 00:44, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. --TadejM ^(t/p) 01:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

@TadejM: It appears that someone purged the right page, or an automated process finally got around to it.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:53, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Yesterday, it did not help to purge the page and the image was also incorrectly displayed in other language versions and on mobile. However, I was unable to find any template edit in Recent changes that would make it suddenly appear as it happened. Perhaps something changed at the server side. --TadejM ^(t/p) 11:58, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

@TadejM: Did you also purge {{Main Page Template}}, Main Page/potd, {{Potd/2022-12-21}}, and File:AucklandPano MC.jpg? Each day, POTD will be dynamically computed to show in this section at {{Potd/2024-12-30}}.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:09, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

@Jeff G., I only purged the Main Page and {{Potd/2022-12-21}}, but I doubt caching was the true reason. In case a page needs to be purged, it shows older content, not just a square icon like a broken image link (similar to this). The image was displayed correctly at the image description page. --TadejM ^(t/p) 12:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

@TadejM: Did you check the 500px thumbnail https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/AucklandPano_MC.jpg/500px-AucklandPano_MC.jpg ?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:31, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

@Jeff G., I didn't do that. --TadejM ^(t/p) 12:33, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Error in MOTD description

"...where the eponym character meets Santa Claus," should be "where the eponymous character meets Santa Claus", as it is an adjective. Heavy Water (talk) 21:24, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 22:29, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

POTD: Alder props

{{Edit requested}} Hi. The POTD supposedly shows "alder props (cones without seed)".[6] Why are they defined as 'cones without seed'? This seems like an error to me as alder cones do contain seed.[7] Also, is there any reliable source for the term 'prop'? --TadejM ^(t/p) 00:12, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

I've temporarily changed the description[8] pending confirmation that everything is fine here. (@User:Well-Informed Optimist) --TadejM ^(t/p) 00:18, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

I've copied the text from the image description. —Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 10:21, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. As there has been no clarification so far, I've tagged the image with {{Factual accuracy}} and asked the uploader to provide the relevant information to reassure us everything is fine here.[9] --TadejM ^(t/p) 10:28, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

The cones are open, so no doubt most of the seeds are dispersed. Not sure there is a English term for empty cones, I expect 'props' is just a transliteration from the Dutch. "Empty cones" would suffice. --Tony Wills (talk) 21:51, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I have now removed {{Factual accuracy}} and slightly rephrased the English description (replaced the unknown term 'props' with 'cones'). Feel welcome to edit it further. --TadejM ^(t/p) 00:23, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Picture of the day (20 January 2023)

"A owner of a old book selling store in Kolkata" - How did this get past the proofreaders? PeeJay (talk) 00:25, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

I thought something sounded terribly out of place. English troubles I guess. Although the uploaded caption reads 'The' OtuNwachinemere (talk) 02:52, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Still says "A" when it should be "An" Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 12:40, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

There is no proofreader, only volunteers. Fixed. Yann (talk) 12:43, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

POTD on Valentine's day

Interesting that Valentine day POTD is a picture of insects mating. Subtle? Wilson (talk) 15:33, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Media of the Day error (18 Feb. 2023)

"friendship between the U.S. and China" should link to en:History of China–United States relations, rather than en:China–United States relations, as the specified time (and friendship) was before the establishment of the PRC, which the article currently linked to refers to. DecafPotato (talk) 04:33, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Photo challenge

Hello guys. I wanted to promote the WLA challenge on the main page. But the WLF challenge is still under way and I can not find how to have both of them featured at the same time. Is there a way ? Otherwise, I’ll replace WLF by WLA Anthere (talk) 12:04, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

@Anthere, why did you link the 2022 edition which is already closed? Please fix it to Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2023. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 12:52, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

I see this has been fixed. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 12:53, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Yup. I saw I forgot to fix that after I edited the French page. Sorry about that. Anthere (talk) 14:27, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

By the way, thanks A LOT for the help on WLA and Africa Environment translation framework Anthere (talk) 14:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

@Anthere: I'm glad to know that I have been of some help here. I enjoy working with translation preparation and would be happy to assist wherever asked. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 14:33, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Error in POTD

"40 denier nylon stockings under a microscopes."

Suggested:

"40 denier nylon stockings viewed under a microscope."

(add "viewed" and remove "s" from microscopes) Safety Cap (talk) 16:36, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Typo in POTD's English description (April 1st)

Sic: (where half of all breedinmg pairs nest)

I have enough experience on Wikimedia projects to know that the frontpage content is cascade protected, that issues ought to be fixed before they go live AND that there's a appropriate procedure to handle the ones that get overlooked; because I did this too yesterday about EnWiki's OTD. But these things are best handled sooner than later and since I'm not familiar on the workings Commons' I'm doing it directly here on the Talk:Main Page. Mignof (talk) 12:42, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

it says sient instead of silent

the media of the day description says "sient" instead of 'silent" Teneab (talk) 11:38, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Weird to see that no admin has attended this request as of yet. @Mdaniels5757, can you please help fix this? ─ The Aafī (^talk) 16:48, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

@Teneab, TheAafi:  Done, plus I watched this page so I'll see these in the future. Best, —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

thanks Teneab (talk) 16:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Media of the Day error (21 April 2023)

There is no description of the media in question. No attribution, nothing. - Tim1965 (talk) 13:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit request

{{Edit request}} Please change [[Commons:Picture requests|request a picture]] to [[Commons:File requests|request a file]]. Thanks, --Matr1x-101^{Pinging me doesn't hurt!} {user - talk? - useless contributions} 17:28, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

How did the media of the day happen?

The file was tagged as no permission, expiring the day it was to appear, and it was just left there? And—listen to this file, and please tell me how it could possibly be below TOO. This needs to be removed ASAP. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 21:10, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

This is about File:Dongfanghong-1.ogg. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 02:30, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

@Snowmanonahoe: The file was deleted 04:59, 27 April 2023 (UTC). Thank you for your vigilance.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 08:05, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Straßburg?

The name of the city in the current Picture of the Day shows "Straßburg", which redirects to "Strasbourg". Please fix the spelling. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 04:57, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

"Template loop detected"

Big error message in main page, under "media of the day". Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 11:33, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Coming from Template:Motd/2023-05-20 (en) Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 11:40, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

@Q28: Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 11:41, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

@Mako001 In fact, this has been reported in Phab. The reality is that this situation will not be fixed, because it will be automatically fixed on Day 2. Q28 (talk) 12:10, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

I removed the redundant template. Yann (talk) 19:36, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Media file of the day (May 23rd 2023)

A stupid and sexist depiction of a girl/women is why? multimedia file of the day? Who's responsible for the choice? A bot? Grizma (talk) 13:10, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

+1 to Grizma! This is very unfortunate on a day where there is probably more traffic than usual, because of the picutre of the year (social media) announcements... Ki7sun3 (talk) 13:25, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

embarassing gif for our movement, please change it Medea7 (talk) 14:03, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I agree, Grizma. Sexism is not funny. Or should we introduce a new section: "Misogyny of the day"?--Helga Wiki (talk) 14:37, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I am so, so confused. How on earth is a gif of a cartoon character playing with a puzzle "sexist" in any way??? Di (they-them) (talk) 18:41, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Because she’s a w:dojikko and girls can’t be clumsy because that’s sexist apparently. Dronebogus (talk) 18:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Thänks for linking that article, I think it perfectly illustrates part of what is problematic with this kind of imagery... for a more up-to-date and complex perspective on kawaii characters I highly recommend the works of w:Yoshitomo Nara. --Ki7sun3 (talk) 10:35, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

This is all very interesting but I still think this is an extremely overblown controversy over a gif of a girl playing with a puzzle that was featured on the main page for one day. Dronebogus (talk) 17:00, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Your suggestions are all very good, and one person has combined your words into an image description of today's daily media. I chose this image at random and didn't expect the traffic to be so heavy today. In addition, the English description of potd is not maintained by anyone else except me. Can anyone else maintain the subsequent Potd description? Q28 (talk) 14:39, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

But why is it allowed on the commons? Cyberwolf434344 (talk) 17:46, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Because it’s a harmless gif of an unofficial mascot? Dronebogus (talk) 18:15, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I edited the description to make it consistent with other languages. Please suggest any changes here. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:17, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Who was responsible for vandalizing an extremely high-traffic page? Dronebogus (talk) 18:18, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

People mad that Wikipe-tan exists, probably. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 18:28, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, obviously, but how do you edit the media of the day description? Dronebogus (talk) 18:29, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Anyone can do that before it's on the main page, apparently (it's protected once it's on the main page). —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:31, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

That would seem to imply Q28 did it, since nobody else edited the page? Dronebogus (talk) 18:34, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Ooh, does this mean I can choose MOTD for June 21st, since it's my upcoming birthday? LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 18:37, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I’m not angry idk im irrational sometimes Cyberwolf434344 (talk) 19:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Please help create the following pages:Template:Motd/2023-05-24 (en), Template:Motd/2023-05-25 (en), Template:Motd/2023-05-26 (en), Template:Motd/2023-05-27 (en), Template:Motd/2023-05-28 (en). Thank you. Q28 (talk) 18:28, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Home page layout

Hi, the layout has been broken with the last change, I'm using the skin Vector 2022, boxes are overlapping the Tool menu on the right of the page, (preview). Can someone fix it, please?--Pạtạfisik 06:49, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

CC @AntiCompositeNumber: --Pạtạfisik 06:51, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 17:47, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

ːSomething is wrong here. Whenever I try to get into a category with categoryːfoo, I am placed into the images related to that category instead of the category page. I seems to have something to do with the international phonetic alphabetic icon that shows up. I even shows up when I try to sign this message when I try to sign it with four tildes, so I am unable to do so.

Never mind; I managed to figure out how to turn off IPA. Hmains (talk) 17:43, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

MOTD (May 8, 2023)

The caption for today's MOTD sounds quite promotional, not to mention that the file itself is subject to an active deletion request. The file should be swapped out or at least the caption changed to be more neutral; the MOTD should not be a vehicle for advertising. Yeeno (talk) 00:15, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Images Sounds Videos ... and?

On the home page is a sub-menu: "Images Sounds Videos". We need to add to this "Documents", "3D models" and "Data" (possibly splitting the latter into "tabular data" and "map data"; see Commons:Data). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 04:31, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

{{edit protected}} Please replace (see code) this:

By type

Images

• Animations
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Maps (Atlas)
• Paintings
• Photos
• Symbols

Sounds

• Music
• Pronunciation
• Speeches
• Spoken Wikipedia

Videos

with this:

By type

Images

• Animations
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Maps (Atlas)
• Paintings
• Photos
• Stereoscopic 3D files
• Symbols

Sounds

• Music
• Pronunciation
• Speeches
• Spoken Wikipedia

Data

• Map data
• Tabular data

Documents

Videos

--Pierpao.lo (listening) 12:41, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

I agree with this change; apart from 1) it doesn't include 3D models and 2) we still need to change the three-word entry higher up the page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:54, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Caption for Media of the Day

It appears that captions for Media of the Day have stopped being shown, or being entered. This has happened within the last week or so. Can anybody say if it is deliberate? Or is it a language selection thing? The captions are needed. Cheers. Rsteen (talk) 04:09, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

It looks like they stopped being entered – yesterday’s caption was entered at 16:32 UTC yesterday, so it was missing for 16.5 hours. For the remaining few days of September, all files and captions have been entered by now. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:18, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your swift reply. Yes, there are captions now, and that is a good thing. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 04:49, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, but this problem keeps turning up. If the media file is a movie, you might have an idea of what it could be, without the text, but if it is a sound file, you are completely stranded. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 03:57, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Picture of the day block on the main page of Wikimedia Commons is broken

Picture of the day block on the main page of Wikimedia Commons is stuck at some older picture of the day. In order to see it in effect you have to log out. It’s a serious issue of large scale that needs to be fixed – the majority of several hundred thousands daily visitors to the main page of Wikimedia Commons are non-registered users. Argenberg (talk) 09:56, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I don't see any issue. Try to clear your cache, and reload the page. Yann (talk) 10:07, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Yann, yes, at the moment it is updated. But this was certainly not the case before I had left a message here. I tried it in two different browsers on two devices with refresh. Weird. Argenberg (talk) 10:18, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Admin edit needed

Hello, I just created the template for the English description of today's MOTD, but I accidentally wrote Army instead of Navy. Can't change it now due to the protection, could an admin please make the edit? Cheers, BigDom (talk) 09:58, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done. --rimshot^talk 11:12, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

MOTD error

{{Edit request}} Could an admin fix the capitalisation of american [sic] in Template:Motd/2023-12-18 (en) please? Thanks Voice of Clam 08:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Now off main page. Fixed it myself. Voice of Clam 07:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Mistype leads to hyperlinking to the wrong page for the word 'Feast' in picture of the day

In the featured picture for the word 'Feast' it goes to Calendar of saint not Calendar of saints Chacabangaso (talk) 11:12, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 11:39, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Lopsided Main Page

{{Edit request}} Today's POD is in portrait mode (3,309 × 4,965 pixels), making the Main Page look lopsided (too deep on the left column). When this happens, can we rearrange the panes to put either the "Media of the day" or "Participating" pane on the bottom of the right column instead?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:46, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Stale. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:32, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Change needed to "Participating" block

Please remove "to the right" because direction is display-dependent (content referred to here is at the bottom of my tablet display) Blainster (talk) 20:02, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploading photo of someone else with permission

I was given permission to upload a photo someone else took and am trying to upload it to Wikimedia Commons. I intend to get the owner of the photo to send an email giving their permission for the photo's use and I tried to follow the steps as outlined here https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Giving-Consent-for-Images-on-Wikipedia.pdf but this information seems to be out of date, as using the tag "subst:OP" didn't work.

Any help appreciated. Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:36, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@IOHANNVSVERVS: Could you please share the file-link you are talking about? Matters related to permissions are however dealt on COM:VRT. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:56, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

This is the image I'm hoping to upload https://imgur.com/KroCfLx, for the article Big Lonely Doug. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 19:07, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

The COM:VRT link was helpful. Thank you. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 19:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

POTD is not updated daily

{{Edit request}} The picture of the day is updated quite unreliably. From February 9th till 14th it showed the same picture, updating only today (15th) to the correct one as collected in Commons:Picture_of_the_day. Can this be fixed? Zweibrot (talk) 11:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Typo on “Media Of The Day” Needs to be corrected.

“Warntag nation wide test alarm in Germany via Cell Broadcast, schedulued to start at 11:00 but starting a few seconds early”. “Schedulued” should be corrected to “Scheduled”. Vivbyte (talk) 13:29, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Typo at "Media of the day"

"situaded" should be "situated". Maproom (talk) 21:01, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the fix. —RP88 (talk) 21:13, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Panorama photography on Nigerian related articles

Hello all, we would like to announce a program we intend carry focusing on panorama Photography on Nigerian related, seeing that many articles in Nigerian settings lack panorama images we planned to go on photo walk to snap some of this images to bridge the gap of panorama images in Nigerian related articles,see the category here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nigerian_Panorama_Images where Nigerian Panorama are very few, so please leave us a message, feedback, recommendation,and suggestion to help us achieve the goal. Thank you. Sadauki11 (talk) 22:39, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sadauki11: This is the wrong place for this message. You should post it on the Village Pump. Yann (talk) 23:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Time to change the "Tweet" links for Picture of the Day and Media of the Day

DONE:

Per the clear consensus I will remove the link from the template. GPSLeo (talk) 09:11, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
I just removed the other one as well. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:35, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Twitter has changed quite significantly since these links were originally put in place, and it seems time to think about getting rid of them. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:35, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Support It would be best avoiding Twitter/X. Yann (talk) 10:38, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Support I really don't see a need. Let's just avoid X. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 12:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I would suggest replacing it with a link to the fedi-share tool, to promote sharing on the Fediverse. Legoktm (talk) 04:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

 Support Avoid Twitter/X. --Aristeas (talk) 08:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

 Support let's remove these. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:58, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Duplicate arguments in template calls

The following arguments of Main Page Template are duplicated and only the last values are used:

• Announcement Title
• Announcement Text

-- ato (talk) 12:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Because there are apparently two announcements? One of the WLA and the other WLF, and WLF appears at the last, so its values are used. ─ Aafī (talk) 14:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Exactly. And the Main Page landed in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, below Category:Pages with incorrect template usage. -- ato (talk) 11:21, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

@Anthere: FYI. ─ Aafī (talk) 11:26, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

noted... thanks Anthere (talk) 21:47, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ato 01, Sorted now. WLF ended on March 31, and I have removed the announcement stuff from main page. ─ Aafī (talk) 17:31, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Adding Wikifunctions to the sister project's list

Hi all! Is it possible to add Wikifunctions to the list of sister projects? Thanks in advance! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:11, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

 Support I looked into implementing this, but it seems to be a rabbit hole of many nested templates. Perhaps @AntiCompositeNumber: could implement it, since it looks like they set up the system? It seems logical to replace mediawiki with wikifunctions to keep a 4x3 array of links. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:58, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mike Peel, Sannita (WMF) Sure, it's possible. The complicating factor, as always, is that Commons has about 133 main pages, not just one. These pages are largely not standardized, with many not showing the same list of sister projects. I got through migrating a few dozen to use {{Sisterprojects layout}} before I got bored and found better things to do, User:AntiCompositeNumber/sisterprojects has the list. If you want to just change it on the English Main Page, then you can change |mw-name=, |mw-desc=, |mw-logo=, and |mw-link= on {{Sisterprojects-en}}. There's no need for the parameter names to match the actual link/content as long as you set all 4, there are multiple main pages that do that for sorting reasons. Changing it on every main page that uses {{Sisterprojects layout}} is a bigger task, and changing every main page that doesn't use the template an even bigger one. I can change the template if there's multilingual consensus to do so, but I don't really have the time to copy-paste translations into templates these days. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: Thanks for the background. Why can't we simplify this to just use a single template, and use existing translations from translatewiki.net? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:58, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mike Peel Some main pages use localized logos, some use language-specific sort orders, both of which make a single template more complex. Translations as MediaWiki messages would work, but using the Translate extension wouldn't because of the need for page protection. When I was working on this I did not seek consensus to significantly change the main pages and was trying to keep it as non-controversial as possible. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Shouldn't Template talk:Main Page Template redirect to here?

I just came across Template talk:Main Page Template - shouldn't that redirect to here? to keep conversations together? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:36, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Support Yes, it makes sense. Yann (talk) 19:46, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

The template is used on pages other than the English main page, and the various language main pages traditionally have been managed at least somewhat separately. This means that there is wide variation between the main pages, even among all the main pages that use the template. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:53, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Adding recently promoted quality images?

At Commons:Quality Images we have around 100 photos being promoted every day: could we highlight these on the main page? I can set up a bot script that will auto-update a list of selected images to show, perhaps on an hourly basis, and I've set up a demo of how it could look like at User:Mike Peel/Main Page. Thoughts? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Support This is a great idea, Mike. One thing I miss in Commons is to make great images more relevant and visible, so we can attract more photographers. I would add a link to the Quality Images section, so people know that this exists. Theklan (talk) 09:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Support I also support this. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 10:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mike Peel, I don't oppose but this creates a lot more space towards right bottom on my screen. Currently it is meagre and I don't worry - is there a solution? Perhaps move Participating part around? ─ Aafī (talk) 12:58, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Moved over to the right in the demo, does that look better? I think there needs to be a more general refresh of the homepage, including reducing text, but that's a topic for another day. ;-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Support A good initiative in my eyes, too. Poco a poco (talk) 13:19, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Support, this looks great and it will be really nice to have more frequently updating content. But agree it might be sensible to move the Participating section to the right column for balance, especially for when we don't have something like WLE running. the wub "?!" 13:48, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

•  Support yes, please. This would be so good for the community. --MB-one (talk) 18:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
•  Support I support this. Celestinesucess (talk) 18:36, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Support It's long overdue to make the Main page more interesting and lively. However, I oppose only new quality images being featured which biases it toward recently promoted images and excludes previous ones while not making use of other things that could be used to identify high-quality images to show there. Also it would be nice if it was changing the image every few seconds with there being a pause button as well as slideshow buttons. Please make it show the subject (as on Commons:Quality images) with a link to the relevant category for every image (it could be shown on hover like the file-title). Prototyperspective (talk) 22:26, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: I have in mind a practical way to implement this while QICbot does the work of promoting the new quality images, and changing things every hour is feasible. I have no idea how to include all quality images ever, nor how to update them here every few seconds. If you do know how to do that, please do so? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:05, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

There’s a mode="slideshow" for galleries, and I think mw.GallerySlideshow could be called from Common.js or a default gadget to display the next image every few seconds. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps on an hourly basis, but please not on the basis of seconds! [I'm sometimes working on bandwidths near 20 kB/sec..., and besides, my carbon footprint is already large enough..] R. J. Mathar (talk) 08:22, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I think the benefit of this would be that one could open the Main page and see many images rather than just one that is featured, which would make the page much more interesting and versatile to people's diverse interests. The two ways for that would be to click the arrows to see the next image or to leave the page and open and see the next image after a while (40 seconds maybe enough to read the caption) which would make people become aware of the arrow buttons which they may start to use a while thereafter.

Nothing else is dynamic on the frontpage except if there is an animated gif as motd and it would get WMC more users, raise awareness of its high-quality contents, and get its contents more exposure. I don't know if it's possible to check for slow Internet connection and only load further images for not super slow bandwidth. Lots of websites have slideshows and I think it loads only a scaled down version, not the full resolution. The carbon footprint note is beside the point, it would cause a bit more traffic but not extra emissions and in that regard is if anything a distraction, just like discussions about smartphone recharging are when a year worth of recharging is compensated by avoiding one <50 km car drive, that people still widely frequently engage in, and a miniscule percentage of people's spent monthly carbon budget.

Is there a way to make the slideshow only show for nonslow Internet connections? Also it would need to be lazy loading so the next image is only loaded a few seconds before the next image is shown. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:38, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

•  Question What happens now? Is there a quorum or when will this suggestion will be approved or rejected? --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 20:03, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Add space in caption of MOTD

{{Edit request}} A space should be added in the caption for today's MOTD, between "Spoon" and "an", because as of now they look like a singe word (Spoonan).

Should maybe have asked there, but probably no one would have noticed. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 14:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 19:40, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

MOTD caption

The caption says: Eqi glacier calving filmed in slow motion I suggest that the word "filmed" is superfluous and potentially wrong. The video plays in slow motion. Either way, one fix could be to omit that word. Schwede66 04:12, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done Thanks @Schwede66. I have omitted the word in English caption. It doesn't make any sense to me either. It also has cs, fr and uk translations currently available, but I don't know any of these languages, for locating this specific word and removing it. Anyways, thanks. _signed, Aafi ^(talk) 04:48, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Add Saraiki language

Please add Saraiki language here. Main page in Saraiki language is here Sraiki (talk) 08:19, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Proposal to link featured galleries and Atlas of the World from Commons main page

There is a discussion here, and a proposal to vote here, to include a link to Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World and from "Content -> By topic", at Commons main page. I propose a new topic, Maps, with the title linking to , and one link inside the new topic, for Atlas of the World.

Adding a link to featured galleries from main page has also been proposed (first there should be featured galleries, I think there aren't; the link should be in Highlights section, as is the link to featured pictures).

I'm including this proposals here as asked by JopkeB on Village Pump. MGeog2022 (talk) 18:30, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

POTD English caption, 2024-09-23

Hey! Noticed that today's English caption for POTD (Template:Potd/2024-09-23 (en)) doesn't make grammatical sense. The current caption is

Realistic Earth drawn from the 2016 global composite map showing the city's night lights.

but I think a better one would be

Realistic Earth drawn from the 2016 global composite map showing night lights from Asia and the Middle East.

Which is closer to the title article anyway. Pretzelles (talk) 14:38, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@Pretzelles  Done AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 14:48, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

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No en caption for MOTD 2024-10-03

Missing Template:Motd/2024-10-03 (en) Jnestorius (talk) 20:31, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for asking about it! I asked the user to add en captions to the files he adds to the MOTD and he did not reply nor was there any action so far by anybody else in regards to adding MOTD files without captions. I previously asked another user here but apparently it wasn't the same user. I think adding captions should be a requirement where the burden is on the person adding to the MOTD and those without captions should be replaced. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:41, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Is there something like an "annular eclipse"?

Isn't that title a bit misleading? ciao ̴̴̴ Pentaclebreaker (talk) 08:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

@Pentaclebreaker: Yes. Please see en:Category:Annular solar eclipses and en:Solar eclipse#Annular eclipse. Yann (talk) 09:31, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Somebody could replace annular here with annular (tooltip). There already is a wl to solar eclipse but not to that section and the term is not self-explanatory and not widely understood. Prototyperspective (talk) 09:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Uhps, my fault . . . I thought of annular as "yearly", not of annular as "circular". Ciao Pentaclebreaker (talk) 10:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Not your fault – if you don't understand something it's often likely many others do not understand it either and people are supposed to understand things on Wikimedia sites. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:27, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Edit request: add link= to Generic Camera Icon

{{Edit request}}

Please add link=Commons:Photo challenge to the camera icon. This not only opens the relevant page when clicking the icon, but also excludes the icon from the fullscreen media viewer gallery.

-|PhotoChallenge Text= [[File:Generic Camera Icon.svg|100px|right]] …
+|PhotoChallenge Text= [[File:Generic Camera Icon.svg|100px|right|link=Commons:Photo challenge]] …

Thank you! – Simon04 (talk) 17:51, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Done. Although I'm not sure how multilingual this approach is. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:34, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

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Understanding "free"

When looking for a link to explain to a Wikimedia reuser that Commons only hosts free content the Main page didn't help. The tag line "a collection of 109,788,247 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute" links to Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia which is irrelevant for Wikimedia reusers, who I assume are our biggest reuser. The second link is to Commons:Welcome. There, at the very bottom of the fourth paragraph (4 screens down on mobile) I found Commons:First steps/Reuse which suitably defines "free", it is somewhat burried though and has no dedicated wikilink.

Incidentally, I looked at a few of the major Wikipedias and they generally end up directing users to free content pretty quickly, I guess not adopted on Commons for multilingual reasons. Commander Keane (talk) 18:31, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Good point so which change would you propose – adding something to the top of Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia or changing what that word links to? I think it may be best if there was Commons:Using content on Commons which includes (maybe transcludes) the part about reusing it outside and starts with info about free/open content. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:10, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

I am not 100% sure what is best, just that an improvement would be good. Maybe change the link "freely usable" in the tag line from Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia to => Commons:Reusing content.

The Commons:Reusing content page would open with "Wikimedia Commons hosts freely usable content" and then have links to Commons:Using content on Wikimedia and Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia

Offtopic: The Commons:First steps/Reuse section "Embedding Commons media in third-party projects" (which is currently about InstantCommons) should be called "Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia" and the scope expanded.

Commander Keane (talk) 22:04, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

@Commander Keane: The canonical links are Foundation:Resolution:Licensing policy and https://freedomdefined.org/Definition/1.0.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:35, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Edit requests

{{Edit request}} I will make several edit requests in this thread (separately so they can be discussed individually).
1)

The page says Please use the search box at the top of this page or the links to the right. Feel free to subscribe to our syndicated feeds. but on mobile, which by now could well be how the majority of people land on this page by now, the links are not "on the right" but down.

Please change it so that it says "further down" on the mobile site (I think there already is something that does change the content depending on whether it's the mobile site) and link to that section with Template:Visible anchor (or something similar) so that the user can just jump to it to see what is meant. Being able to jump to/highlight the section is very useful for people who find the page confusing and don't want to search around to find what is meant. I mean {{vanchor|Content}} and [[#Content|the links to the right]] which should render as Content and the links to the right. I think the Content box is the most useful thing of the entire page and a bit buried by all the other tiles and texts. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:44, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Could somebody implement this, it's been 21 days and this sentence is clearly false for mobile users which may well be the majority of the site's users by now. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:09, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

I think this could be done with Extension:MobileDetect by which one could put the words into <nomobile> and ‎<mobileonly> tags. It doesn't seem to work on Commons and I don't know if there is an alternative way to show text depending on the viewmode (mobile or not). Alternatively, please simply change it to something like the links in the Content box (not specifying whether the tile is on the right or down). I think it would be best to highlight the box when clicking on that page section link and I don't know of a way to highlight the whole tile rather than only the header via Template:Visible anchor but that would be better than no highlighting at all because users may be confused what is being referred to. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:25, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Could you instead rephrase this as "or the content links section on this page" and link to the relevant section?

Generally I would discourage use of mobile only markup as my experience typically it is poorly implemented by templates.

Layout is evolving and can vary across skins, font size and browser zoom. In Vector 2022 for example layout is also impacted by whether you have both side menus open. Jdlrobson (talk) 09:23, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

This would also be good and maybe better. If making the text responsive to which type of device is used one may "use media queries and the skin classes and fix the templatestyles" according to the latest comment in the VP/T thread but I don't know how well or even if that would currently work. A problem I noticed only after my 16 Aug comment is that it may be the case that it's referring to not only the Content box but also the "Highlights" tile on the right. So I think either the Content tile should be highlighted regardless as it seems to be a closer and more comprehensive fit to what is being referred to (and also I think the most useful thing in the Main page content especially for people looking to explore or search) or the two tiles be put into one div and highlighted at once.

Alternatives would include merging the two tiles with highlighted media being directly above or below "By topic" of the tile and "Meet our photographers and Meet our illustrators" getting moved into the "Participating" tile. I think I would support that but it would be a larger undertaking than simply highlighting both tiles for now or the Content tile.

Maybe I should rather make these edit requests at Template:Main Page Template (please let me know if either is clearly preferred). Prototyperspective (talk) 16:55, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Prototyperspective,  Done using {{If mobile}} template. At least in English version. Please check if it works and ping me if further action is needed. --Jarekt (talk) 16:45, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! However, you changed something else – this request referred to the part or the links to the right but you changed the search box at the top which on mobile also is at the top of the page.

2. On desktop those are not at the top but at the right of the page.

3. Since there are many things on the right and the user, especially new ones, may be confused what exactly is meant I above suggested to link to the tile(s) that is referred to. This could be done via the vanchor template (here linking to #Content or other methods. I'd suggest to simply use the vanchor template and maybe improve it later on. Like this:

Please use the search box at the top of this page or {{If mobile|[[#Content|the links further down]]|[[#Content|the links to the right]]}}.

then at |Content=Content that would be changed to |Content={{visible anchor|Content}} which enables jumping right to it with highlighting wherever it is on the page. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:37, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Jarekt: It doesn't work as it's not the part I described with not "on the right" but down. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:26, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

@Matrix and GPSLeo: Please see above and correct this, this made the Main page text more inaccurate than it was before I made this edit request over a month ago. --Prototyperspective (talk) 17:07, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I would just write "use the search box" without anything about the position. If someone finds this tiny text the person likely already saw the search box. GPSLeo (talk) 17:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't know why people still confuse which part I mean to change. This is not about the search box and in the previous comment I just clarified it. I feel like the first paragraph underneath 1) is quite clear so I don't know how to make it clearer. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Prototyperspective,  Done I hope I got it this time. --Jarekt (talk) 02:32, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes, thank you! Now the only issue left is that it does not jump to the Content section when clicking the section link. This can be solved by changing |Content=Content to |Content={{visible anchor|Content}} – could you also implement that? I think Template:Visible anchor would get protected after the change and it would probably be good to set that template to protected anyway. I've implemented these changes at Hauptseite, a translated version of the Main page. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Please implement this and also the request by Aschroet (talk · contribs) to fix the Wikifunctions link at the bottom of the page. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:19, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

The link is dysfunctional. Could you please fix this now? It's been multiple weeks again. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:23, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

It's been months now without implementation and reply and no objections. Please implement this now, currently the section link is broken: please replace |Content=Content with |Content={{visible anchor|Content}} @Mike Peel: or Jarekt, Matrix etc. Thanks! Prototyperspective (talk) 13:23, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: "content" change done. - Jmabel ! talk 22:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Prototyperspective (talk) 10:18, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

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