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Description from file name

Hi Magnus! I am wondering if you know about any tool (maybe made by you) which can extract the "description" from the file name. Similar to how "What is that" or "Add information" work. The reason I am asking is that I added a lot of files via commonist but I find it too painful to enter each files description in that tool. What I did instead, was giving a very descriptive name to each file, added many tags and a caption in EXIF using Picasa, before uploading. For example, please check the file names in Category:Orăştie Ethnography Museum which I just uploaded.

Another suggestion is extracting categories from Tag names encoded inside the EXIF (also description from the caption in EXIF). I tried to add a lot of tags and a good caption to all my albums that I uploaded in commons. Flickr for example can read those tags which then makes the pictures very searchable.

Please check the tags/keywords in the extended EXIF info for this file for example: File:Orastie Ethnography Museum 2011 - Colander from Ardeu Dacian Fotress.JPG

BTW, I love your wikipedia and commons tools. They save sooo much time! Best regards --Codrin.B (talk) 19:00, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Salut, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panhard_PL17_Tigre_(1).jpg (und folgende) ist falsch betitelt. Das Auto basiert auf einer Panhard Dyna Z, erstes Modell, die PL 17 kam 5 Jahre später. Dieses zeigt den ersten PL 17 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panhard_PL_17_L1.jpg

Dann ändere es do entsprechend - es ist ein Wiki! --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Frage zu MediaWiki

Hallo Magnus Manske, auf meinem Rechner habe ich unter Ubuntu 11.10 die MediaWiki vers. 1.15 installiert. Meine Frage: Gibt es die Möglichkeit, die 2 MB Beschränkung der Bilder beim Hochladen auf einen höheren Wert zu setzen? Im Voraus vielen Dank für die Beantwortung. Grüße: Orchi (talk) 16:33, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Das ist eine Beschruankung von PHP, nicht MediaWiki. Google ist Dein Freund :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:45, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

...vielen Dank für die Hilfestellung, schnelle Antwort und den hilfreichen Link. Ich hoffe trotz der Beschränkung, mir eine Bestimmungsdatenbank für Orchideen mit Mediawiki aufbauen zu können. Grüße. Orchi (talk) 16:40, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

P.S. ...mit dem hilfreichen Link ist mein System nun auf 100 MB "gesupert". Danke! Orchi (talk) 18:25, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

COM:VP#Still having toolserver problems?

Hi Magnus. Are you aware of the fact that CommonsHelper has not been working for several days now? --Leyo 13:13, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

GLAMorous

Sorry, but I just can't see how to submit an issue in JIRA. Do I need to create an account? Anyway, the issue is really simple. At http://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php it says "For more information, see GLAMorous on meta.", but the link to meta goes to a page which doesn't exist. cheers, Rd232 (talk) 13:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

The link is auto-created from the tool title. Feel free to write something, it's a wiki! :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh I see! Well maybe I'll make a placeholder page at least. It's a bit misleading otherwise! Rd232 (talk) 21:52, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Well I did this. Hope you don't mind; I think it's better than an error page. Rd232 (talk) 23:02, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Wikipic file information (Internet Explorer 8).png

• File:Wikipic hover-tab (Opera 11.5).png
• File:Wikipic related images (Google Chrome 16).png
• File:Wikipic slideshow screenshot (Firefox 8).png

If you have a question concerning this process, answer below, or in case of a deletion request, on the deletion-discussion page. Do not ask on my discussion page. With best regards RE rillke questions? 21:54, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Author = Magnus Manske - Making a screenshot does not make you the author. -- RE rillke questions? 21:58, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Still missing image sources. -- RE rillke questions? 22:11, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

But I wrote where it's from! --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:37, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Whoops sorry I miss that. I added it here so it's fine now. -- RE rillke questions? 23:00, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

And here. BTW: Are you aware of derivativeFX? It is a great tool to upload images, which are derivatives of Commons images. -- RE rillke questions? 00:05, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't know derivativeFX, but in this case it seems a little ... overkill? It's a screenshot of some thumbnails of free images, most of which even I couldn't reconstruct in that fashion, or find the originals. I believe that's one of these "it's in the background"-issues, just as you don't need permission from people who are on your photo but in the background, not the object of the picture. --Magnus Manske (talk) 00:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

AFAIK, de minimis is not applicable to thumbnails, if that is what you mean. Copyright law is completely independent from personally rights. So why is google allowed to create thumbs? A court found that google's use of the images is permitted under fair-use claims, that are not allowed on Commons. And contrary to google search engine, that's crewlers can be stopped usig a simple robots.txt, the copyright-holders of the images in some of your examples could not prevent generating a thumb without any credit. So you can't rely on german law as well. These are just my thoughts (and I am not an expert) and I refrain from requesting more sources now, but you should be aware of the general problem which can (mayby) cause that you are sued by some of the copyright-owners. And last but not least: Freely licensed under CC-By-SA means that it is attribution required. Thank you. -- RE rillke questions? 08:43, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

This image has plenty of unsourced, copyrighted imagery in it. So does this one. Yet they were not deleted. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:36, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Hm... coming here via Rillke's RFA, your image issue seems resolved, but I can't see why those other images aren't breaches of copyright. I don't see that this has been tested in a deletion discussion for either one - perhaps it should be. (Or perhaps there's some kind of tag that can be added to explain why those images are OK?) Rd232 (talk) 13:31, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Bug with Commons Helper?

Hi!

I told the Commons Helper to move this revision from English Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons. The outcome was this revision. The stamp is in the public domain since it is a 1957 US stamp (everything before 1978 is free), as proven here. The problem is that the image, despite being in the public domain, had a fair use rationale, which I didn't notice until after the image had been imported:

{{Non-free use rationale
|Article = Whooping crane
|Description = 1957 U.S. postage stamp with whooping cranes
|Source = WildlifeStamp.com
|Portion = The full stamp
|Low_resolution = Low-res photo
|Purpose = To use in the article
|Replaceability = No, it is the only U.S. stamp with with the whooping crane
|other_information =
}}

Since it's in the public domain, it's not supposed to have a fair use rationale in the first place. However, shouldn't the Commons Helper protest or at least display some warning if a fair use rationale is used on an image it is trying to copy? I guess that en:Template:Non-free use rationale should be added to some list of non-free licences. --Stefan4 (talk) 20:23, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:40, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

CC problem

Please see Commons talk:Tools/cc. 90.190.114.172 17:51, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Todo

Hi Magnus,

recently someone encountered problems in MediaWiki:Gadget-Gallerypreview.js. More details are here. Feel free to bookmark or watch this page.

And I had a glad look at Wikipic-slideshow. Nice. One problem (not very likely) that could arise is if you request the original from the server, it could display in the wrong orientation due to Exif-Autorotation, a new feature in MediaWiki 1.18. Since most photos are bigger than the browser-window, this is actually not a "real" problem. Regards -- RE rillke questions? 13:50, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js

Please, could you check this problem? --ŠJů (talk) 01:34, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:02, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Vorschlag: RepeatTranswiki

Moin, wäre eine Vorlage {{RepeatTranswiki|en:example.jpg}} denkbar bei der ein Überschreiben der Dateibeschreibung unter Beibehalt der Kategorien automatisch erfolgt? Die händische Benutzung des Tools frisst sehr viel Zeit, auf der anderen Seite ist es aber sehr schmerzhaft transferierte Dateien wie File:Milladoiro en Narón.JPG einfach liegen zu lassen (da falsche Lizenzierung, schlechte Verlinkung, keine Versionsgeschichte). Wenn ich nun einfach {{RepeatTranswiki|gl:Milladoiro en Narón.JPG}} draufklatschen könnte, könnte ich mit wenig Aufwand beitragen, derartige Uploads wieder in die richtige Bahn zu lenken. Was hältst du von der Idee? Könntest du sowas basteln? --Martin H. (talk) 18:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Flickr Mass

Hi Magnus. Thanks for your tools and your work. I'm using this tool now and I find it really helpful now that I have figured out what to do. I am not sure if you've been notified that the uploader does its job but you have actually no way to know it and to understand when it's done, unless you don't check his contributions or the category you're uploading to, because the page keeps loading and loading and it won't show any result. This might be not true when a small amount of images is uploaded (ten or so). --Elitre (talk) 11:40, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I should add that the above is referred to my current task; the tool takes 4-5 minutes before actually uploading (the stream has more than 8k pics). Also it could be great if there was a way of stopping it, because if you mess with it you're going to deal with maaany dupes. --Elitre (talk) 11:58, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Could this tool prevent uploading files that are already here (dupes)? -- RE rillke questions? 14:05, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

The tool tries to prevent uploads of dupes by looking for Commons files that have an external link to Flickr, as is generated by all Flickr import tools. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:05, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

I assume a hash-search and user feedback what files were not imported is impossible? I had the feeling I was processing dupes uploaded by this tool. File:Altavilla Irpina (AV), 2011, Le miniere di Zolfo. (2).jpg was uploaded on 11:54, 21. Nov. 2011 before the link on File:Altavilla_Irpina_(AV),_2011,_Le_miniere_di_Zolfo._(11).jpg was removed on 13:15, 21. Nov. 2011 (diff) -- RE rillke questions? 17:39, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

CatScan2

Currently this gives me the error:

"MYSQL error : The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement [INSERT IGNORE INTO cat2 ( catname ) VALUES ( "..." )]

--  Docu  at 04:16, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

fälschlich nach links verdreht liegendes jpeg

Moin, wie dreht man ein solches hochformat-jpeg um 90 Grad im Uhrzeigersinn, damit es dort, wo es eingebunden ist, nicht querformatig liegend erscheint? (Siehe de.wp benutzer:Dietmar Simoner) Dank und schöne Grüße, --Machtjan X (talk) 08:32, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

COM:ROTATEFIX, Help:RotateLink/de -- RE rillke questions? 08:47, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Vielleicht hätte Magnus ja Lust eine Kopie von Rotatebot unter seinem Toolserver account laufen zu lassen, so dass es schneller geht. Das Bild ist ja bereits mit einer Vorlage versehen, so dass es der Rotatebot in den nächsten 7 Tagen abarbeitet. -- RE rillke questions? 08:52, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Danke, das war die fehlende Info: 7 Tage - die können wir gut abwarten. Schö Grü, --Machtjan X (talk) 09:21, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Commonshelper question

Commonshelper converts de:Template:Bild-frei into Template:PD-release. Shouldn't it be Template:Copyrighted free use instead? --Stefan4 (talk) 23:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Picture in need of border removal?

Hello, since you are an official user of the site it would be much appreciated if you could please remove the border surrounding the following photograph as I do not have the administative tools to do it myself here on the commons. The link of the picture is: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Publicity_photograph_Rue_McClanahan.jpg

Thank you and have a Merry Christmas66.194.51.34 17:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

upload files from local wiki

Dear Magnus Manske! I would like to upload some file from local wikipedia, so I follow the instruction to upload the file which is {{PD-self}} license. In the release right I choose the source is [file in vi.wiki], author is [Kien1980v who is uploader in vi.wiki] and the last one is Another reason not mentioned above is {{PD-user-w|vi|Vietnamese Wikipedia|Kien1980v}}. But, I can't go to the next step. Can you help me? Thank you in advance.--Cheers! (talk) 10:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Mein Foto einer Vanilleblüte

Ich habe soeben mein Bild Vanilleblüte1.jpg v.30.04.11 entdeckt mit dem Namen Magnus Manske. Es wurde von mir am 17.05. hochgeladen. Ich bekam den Hinweis, eine Lizenz zuzuordnen, habe es aber nicht geschafft u. dachte, die Datei sei nach 14 Tagen gelöscht. Jetzt wollte ich einen neuen Anlauf starten u. habe wie gesagt das Bild entdeckt. Was muß ich tun? Erbitte Antwort per Mail. bbkuhse(at)t-online.de

Du musst nichts tun. Nachdem du die Lizenz nachgetragen hattest, wurde das Bild nach Commons transferiert. --Leyo 23:16, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

I'm very glad to inform you that I have nominated one your[citation needed] finest images for! You can vote for it here! TrebleSeven (talk) 18:10, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

You did not look at the file description page carefully. --Leyo 21:36, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, I think this, esp. regarding to the upload count — the bot did great work. It is even credited in lots of cases :P -- RE rillke questions? 21:45, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

All the links to the licenses are broken on this web page anyway. --Leyo 21:54, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

File:An Italian Renaissance villa.jpg

Hallo Magnus, dieses Bild ließ jemand durch den User:File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) hochladen (Zeitpunkt: 19:19, 30 December 2011). Interessanterweiserweise hinterließ der Bot keinerlei Angaben, wer ihn beauftragt hat oder von wo er das Bild geholt hat. Stattdessen fand sich nur der Text

{{ Blacklisted user; images from that user's pages must not be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

auf der Dateibeschreibungsseite. Ich werde die Datei jetzt gleich löschen mangels Lizenz etc., wollte Dich aber nur wissen lassen, das da mal irgendetwas schiefgegangen ist. Viele Grüße und alles Gute zum neuen Jahr, AFBorchert (talk) 07:04, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Nur aus Neugier: Welche Liste nutzt Du als Blacklist. Alles Gutes im Jahr auch von mir. -- RE rillke questions? 09:52, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Seltsam. Der "Blacklisted user"-Text is in keinem meiner Skripte zu finden, und eine blacklist hab' ich auch nicht... --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:46, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

noch ein solches aber diesmal mit {{Rotate}}. -- RE rillke questions? 13:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Gibt es denn keine off-wiki-Logs zu Deinem Bot, der Auftraggeber und Quelle notiert? --AFBorchert (talk) 21:11, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Die Blacklist ist, nach meiner Erfahrung, schon User:FlickreviewR/bad-authors. Das zuletzt verlinkte Lexus Bild stammt von hier, der Benutzer 37102254@N00 ist gelistet, bei diesem Bild vielleicht zu unrecht, bei anderen Bildern [1] sicherlich zurecht. --Martin H. (talk) 23:02, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

• Der oben zitierte Text "Blacklisted user; images from that user's pages must not be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons." stammt von Flinfo, welches von Magnus' Bot benutzt wird, um die Dateibeschreibung zu erhalten. Allerdings macht Magnus' Bot zuerst noch selbst eine Lizenzüberprüfung (ohne Blacklist). Wenn dieser Test erfolgreich ist, geht der Bot davon aus, dass Flinfo tatsächlich eine Beschreibung liefert. Tut Flinfo aber nicht, wenn der Flickr-User auf der Blacklist steht. (Und ja, Flinfo verwendet User:FlickreviewR/bad-authors als Blacklist.) Für das Lexus-Bild liefert Flinfo z.B. diesen Raw-Output, oder diesen Php-Output. Mit "&format=php" könnte Magnus' Bot das direkt abfragen und es sich sparen, selbst zuerst noch eine Lizenzüberprüfung zu machen. Das Feld wiki.status gibt an, ob das Bild OK ist:

0 - Everything OK. License good, user good, file found.
1 - The server returned a failure.
2 - Internal error. Call to the server was not made.
3 - Bad license: the license at the server is incompatible with the Commons.
4 - Blacklisted user: ditto
5 - Invalid ID: the ID specified was not digits only, and it wasn't a URL containing
    a valid image specification either.
6 - Missing ID: no ID was specified in the request.

Lupo 10:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Another such file was File:Wayne Gretzky on the bench of Phoenix Coyotes.jpg. Flickr account 35124296@N00 (xgeorg00, canyonero) is blacklisted for flickrwashing. Lupo 16:48, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Please, your bot should not put some categories

I discovered this import done with your 'File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)'.
Could your bot avoid to add Category:Genera of Araceae (no picture is a genus of Araceae! Only genus categories and genus articles are intended there).
More generaly to add any Category:Families of XXXXXX, Category:Tribes of XXXXX, Category:Genera of XXXXX, Category:Species of XXXXX.
To help you avoid these categories, I created Category:Biology categories that should contain no files.
Best regards Liné1 (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Photos of Azizov

Hallo. How can I upload one of these photos? --Interfase (talk) 15:06, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

They are not under a free license. To answer your question: Illegally. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Ottilienkirche Bettringen 1.jpg

Hallo Magnus,

dein Bot hat mein Bild in Commons hochgeladen, worauf mein Originalbild nur zur Löschung vorgeschlagen wurde. Dies verletzt meine UR und ist von mir nicht gewünscht. Ich bitte dich die Aktion rückgängig zu machen. Ich lade es gerne selbst in Commons hoch, möchte mir aber auch dieses Recht vorbehalten. Bitte antworte auf meiner WP Diskussionsseite Talk Dankeschön. Sebbe xy (talk) 17:28, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Adding multilingual descriptions to categories/galleries automatically

I started a discussion here that relates to Sum-it-up and maybe you wish to pitch in. Regards.--Codrin.B (talk) 19:44, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

cat-a-lot autocomplete

Please see my comment at the bottom of MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js. peace - קיפודנחש (talk) 22:09, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

BaGLAMa

Could you please add:

• Category:British Library
• Category:Wallace Collection

Many thanks - great tool! Johnbod (talk) 22:30, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Johnbod (talk) 13:23, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Bot inexplicably placing licenses at the bottom of transferred images

This has been happening with thousands of images, and I didn't even bother saying something, assuming it would get fixed. It hasn't. See File:19th century chest.JPG. At the bottom of the text, it inexplicably places a license. It seems to do this on nearly every file uploaded. Please fix this ASAP, because it is posting incorrect information. Magog the Ogre (talk) 06:11, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Or take File:Prem Chand Pandey.jpg for example. The bot is just adding licenses to images willy-nilly. Magog the Ogre (talk) 06:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

File:Ybells.jpg: how is it even choosing these licenses? It's almost like it's purposefully choosing the wrong one to put at the bottom. Magog the Ogre (talk) 06:58, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Magnus, this is a real problem so I would appreciate if you could address it with me; thanks. Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi, the images were not transfered by my bot. It appears the text was generated by CommonsHelper2, originally written by myself and now mainly operated by User:Jan Luca, and then used in a manual upload by the respective user (in the file upload history). If these had been uploaded by the bot, that would be the "uploading user". I have not looked at the CommonsHelper2 code in many months, but it appears to be blocked (why, I don't know either), which would explain the manual uploads. If the bot added the categories, or if they were added manually by the uploaders, I cannot tell; anyway, it is their responsibility alone. Maybe Jan can shed light on the technical issue, though, if there is one. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

The thing is: I've seen this occur to thousands of images. This is not an isolated event where one user was appending it to the bottom; it's happened a ton. It's even so bad that I put code in my cleanup script to fix it. But (for whatever reason) it never occurred to me what a deep problem this is, given it's assigning licenses to files which users did not agree to. Magog the Ogre (talk) 01:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

File Upload Bot

Hi. It seems that bot stopped working two days ago. mickit 16:19, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Not sure if it's relevant but Commons Helper2 aborts with "Attention : Upload bot is blocked on Wikimedia Commons"  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

My bot is not blocked, and there is an upload from today. Not sure what the issue is, if there is one. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:32, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

The bot has not been working for me either for the past two days. Can you check the logs to see whether there are errors? --Sreejith K (talk) 13:34, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

If I use the standard commons helper it goes right though to the finish, says X is done and do I want to delete? I did that and found nothing had uploaded.... oops...  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

CatScan V2.0β

hist Toolserver status

The Toolserver shut down on July 1, 2014.

More information...

Hello Magnus Manske, CatScan V2.0β (mein großes Zeitersparnis-tool) läuft seit zwei Tagen nicht mehr. Gibt es z.Z. Probleme mit dem Server oder muss ich bei mir nach Fehlern suchen? Grüße. Orchi (talk) 23:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

It did work sometime this morning, but failed since. I just got the error message: "Could not connect to commonswiki-p.userdb.toolserver.org : Access denied for user 'magnus'@'turnera-bge0.esi.toolserver.org' (using password: YES)". --  Docu  at 18:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Works for me. The error message if a toolserver issue; there was a DB server fail, maybe that's it. If that's the case, it should "only" affect some wikis. Nothing I can fix. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:46, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

The form itself works indeed, but when trying to start a request on Commons, it outputs the above error. According to {{Toolserver}}, s4 is down. If Commons is replicated on another server, maybe it could be switched to that. In the meantime, I suppose I have to find another way to update New ships. --  Docu  at 08:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Good news: toolserver is back. It works again! Even with a replag of 0! --  Docu  at 19:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

....thanks, merci & danke!Orchi (talk) 11:36, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Lost TUSC password

Hi Magnus - I seem to have lost my TUSC password. Can you please reset it? Schwede66 19:54, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

I think it's sorted now. Schwede66 20:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, now that I have overcome that hurdle, I have trouble getting the Flickr2Commons tool to behave. I'm trying to upload this file and it tells me that it's got an unsuitable licence. Here's the string that it gives: "Checking license ... Unsuitable license : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <rsp stat="fail"> <err code="1" msg="Photo "o" not found (invalid ID)" /> </rsp>" Attribution share alike is, of course, one of the licences that is allowed. Any tips as to what is going wrong? Schwede66 20:07, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Try linking it with the front page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/houseofhall/6054130494/. Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, that got it to work. But will that result in uploading the highest resolution photo that is held on Flickr? I see that in this case, it does, as the front page photo has the same resolution as the 'original'. But what if that's not the case? Schwede66 22:06, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

It uploads the highest resolution provided. Magog the Ogre (talk) 23:20, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for pointing this out. Maybe you could put some explanatory text in brackets after the file input field in the upload tool for us lost souls: "Insert the base URL of the Flickr image; the tool will upload the highest resolution held of that file." Schwede66 23:37, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

en.wiki MtC drive

Go see your talk page on en.wiki. Ebe123 (talk) 14:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Reset Password

Hi, Magnus, Can you pls reset mu TUSC password...--...Captain......Tälk tö me.. 09:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:52, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Is I need to create one more tusc token..???pls advice..!!!--...Captain......Tälk tö me.. 19:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

You need to create TUSC logins per project. If you want to use it to upload files to Commons, you need to create one for Commons etc. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

usecommons, a Python library based on your code

Hi Magnus! I'm working on a simple Python library to aid with attribution when reusing content from Commons. You can find it here. I used your MediaWiki:Gadget-Stockphoto.js as a reference in order to handle all the special cases in the same way; some of the code is basically a line-by-line port. I'm now left with another licensing and attribution question: how I should license and attribute this code? Gadget-Stockphoto.js does not explicitly mention licensing. Is it GPL:ed like MediaWiki? I would prefer to license my library under a more permissive license, I'm thinking MIT/X11, so that it's maximally usable by as many as possible – if I get your (and Krinkles? I'm not sure who's the copyright holder here) permission.

Another question: are you still developing Commons:Commons_API? There are some problems with the wellformedness of the generated XML.

Thank you! I'll leave a note on User talk:Krinkle as well. /Skagedal (talk) 21:36, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Skagedal,

Attribution goes to the authors, those are mentioned in the @author section on top of the gadget file.

The license is not explicitly stated, however by saving an edit to a Wikimedia Foundation wiki one "irrevocably [agrees] to release [the contribution] under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and the GFDL.. So choose one of those (or both) as you like. Or we could come to an agreement for a third license. –Krinkle^talk 21:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

I for one am open to releasing my contributions there under a MIT-like license. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:20, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Me as well :) Hereby recorded –Krinkle^talk 06:46, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Great, thank you both! I have now edited usecommons.py accordingly, hope that works! /Skagedal (talk) 14:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Documentation for gadget authors

I saw you had done some work on a couple of gadgets. We are trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:38, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Licensing

This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on April 15, 2012 by the administrator or reviewer File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.

Category:Rome </nowiki> Error

--Yjenith (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Von Hand kolorierte alte Kupferstiche

Durch die Handarbeit entstehen kleine Abweichungen. Damit wird jedes Blatt zu einem Original, wie ein Fingerabdruck. Diese alten Kupferstich-Serien gleichen sich nicht wie Banknoten. Ich habe Deinen Namen als Bildgeber gesehen zu einem Foto von mir mit einem Blatt aus meinem Besitz. Damit machst Du Dich strafbar. Ich besitze 2 Exemplare dieses mit Wasserfarbe kolorierten Stichs, was die Variabilität und Individualität der Originale angeht. Wenn Du das Plagiat nichts löschst, beauftrage ich meinen Anwalt, gegen dich vorzugehen. Einen Plagiator hat er bereits beim Wickel. - - H.-P.Haack (talk) 06:52, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

@H.-P.Haack, nun mal mit der Ruhe. Du beschuldigst hier den Falschen. Magnus Manske ist lediglich der Programmierer des Upload-Progamms/bots. Wenn Dritte nun irrtümlich ihn als Urheber deklarieren, ist das zwar ärgerlich (passiert mir auch gelegentlich, dass ich, weil ich mal eine Datei umbenannt habe, von Dritten als Urheber benannt werde), aber nicht die Schuld von Magnus. --Túrelio (talk) 07:55, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Danke für die Korrektur. Lerne dazu. Bitte um Nachsicht und um Entschuldigung. Bin froh, dass meine Annahme ein Irrtum ist. - - 08:31, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Commonshelper

Hallo Magnus Manske Ich habe das Problem, das ich keine Bilder mehr mit dem Commonshelper verschieben kann. Die Meldung des Commonshelper lautet:"Everything seems to be OK. Log will be written to /tmp/chquaqsE-dir/debug.txt." Also eigentlich kein Problem. Ausserdem, und darum mache ich kein Ticket im jira auf, kommt der Fehler offfensichtlich nur bei mir vor. Denn auch heute hat dein Bot Dateien hochgeladen. Also funktioniert der Helper bei den anderen. Falls das dir noch hilft: Der Code der wahrscheinlich der Log ist siehst folgerndermassen aus: Querying CommonSense ...done.Querying image data ...done. Retrieving image description ...done. Used 551973 times since 2007-01-12 TUSC verification successful. DEBUG : ./upload_bot.pl /tmp/chquaqsE-dir

--Heubergen (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Guckst du eins drüber. --Leyo 23:29, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Dachte eben wegen des Titel es sei iregendetwas vom Flickr Tool, mein Englisch ist halt nicht gerade das beste. Also muss ich jetzt alles von Hand runter- und wieder hochladen....--Heubergen (talk) 10:49, 24 March 2012 (UTC) Schade

Oder du kannst warten bis Magnus die Probleme gelöst hat. --Leyo 13:31, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Das Tool braucht doch sowieso schon länger ein Update. ^^ Naja, ich würde bei Gelegenheit mal ein paar Anmerkungen machen wollen. Jedenfalls konnte ich immer nur den Text übernehmen, die Datei musste ich selber hochladen. -- πϵρήλιο ℗ 13:45, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Nachfolger ist hier. Multi-maintainer-project, Programmierer sind herzlich willkommen! --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:37, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Problem fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:54, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Mit MW 1.20 und upload_by_url hat sich das hoffentlich sowieso erledigt. Dann reicht schnödes JavaScript. -- RE rillke questions? 16:55, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

@Magnus: Vielen Dank!

@Rillke: Ist dir ein ungefährer Zeitplan für die Einführung bekannt? --Leyo 17:23, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

User:File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), Flickr images and Flickrreview tags

Please modify the added {{Flickrreview}} tags so that they use ISO 8601 date format 2012-03-22 and not March 22, 2012. This will avoid lots of reports of invalid tags from Slobot date normalizing. This may also apply to other tools used to upload Flickr files. --Denniss (talk) 21:39, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Simply use {{Flickrreview|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|{{subst:#time: Y-m-d }}}}. -- RE rillke questions? 21:51, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Done in Flinfo. (File Upload Bot uses Flinfo to get the description; don't remember off-hand if it also uses Flinfo's license tags or constructs its own.) Lupo 22:16, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for fixing the upload bots. -mattbuck (Talk) 17:26, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

File:Laleh park jonub.jpg

File:Laleh park jonub.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Americophile 11:24, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Flickr2commons broken

Your tool flickr2commons seems to be broken. It tells me it uploaded, and gives me the links, but it's a redlink and there are no uploads in the bot's name. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2012-March/006420.html Uploads need to send the wpEditToken. Lupo 20:50, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm code incompetent. Is there a workaround? Premeditated Chaos (talk) 03:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Save the image to your pc, then upload using info template from [wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php flinfo]. -mattbuck (Talk) 04:21, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

=P Bleh. I was kind of hoping for a quick and easy workaround. That seems too much like effort, haha Premeditated Chaos (talk) 09:46, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

I'll try to fix it later today. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:48, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Also the CommonsHelper has to be fixed due to this config change. --Leyo 14:05, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks mate. Flickr2commons is my only means of uploading due to a stupid university firewall. -mattbuck (Talk) 16:42, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:49, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

You're magnificent. Thank you! =D Premeditated Chaos (talk) 04:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it, but there seems to be a new problem now. It doesn't always load the view/edit links anymore. This one just happened to me:

Getting image URL ... http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4135/4789905658_0897953ea6_o.jpg Used 97279 times since 2008-04-08

Loading Peachy (version 1.0)... Logging in to http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php as File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), using a saved login cookie Getting image info for File:Brockenhurst_railway_station_MMB_05_444010.jpg... Getting page info for File:Brockenhurst railway station MMB 05 444010.jpg.. Uploading /tmp/f2c_K0aGBt-dir/Brockenhurst_railway_station_MMB_05_444010.jpg to File:Brockenhurst railway station MMB 05 444010.jpg..

When the links do load, the bot output is listed as "1". -mattbuck (Talk) 06:01, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

It now seems to be completely dead, says Loading Peachy (version 1.0)... Logging in to http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php as File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), using a saved login cookie Getting image info for File:File_Brockley_railway_station_MMB_01_319384.jpg... Getting page info for File:File Brockley railway station MMB 01 319384.jpg.. and then just stops. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:33, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

This is rather a curious thing. The two images I wanted to upload originally which it refused ([2] [3]) now correctly uploaded (File:Brockley railway station MMB 01 319384.jpg, File:Brockley railway station MMB 02.jpg), but another image [4] now refuses to upload. I also tried using the url2commons tool, and that failed as well. -mattbuck (Talk) 01:27, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

And now that image will upload... -mattbuck (Talk) 03:28, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Mascot name

Your bot added File:Jack, Jesse, Julie.JPG. The description says Juction Jack along side his family, Juction Jesse and Juntion Julie.. I am wondering if you knew if that last name might be "Juction Julie" in light of the other two? Or could all three possibly be "Junction"? Y12J (talk) 02:29, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I wouldn't know, but can redirect your keen eye to the following line in the file description page:

Transferred from en.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Methecooldude using CommonsHelper.

comment line should state Uploader

I suggest (with emphasis) to have the Uploader noted in the commentline by the UploadBot. cheers. --Itu (talk) 21:21, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

I do not understand what exactly you are suggesting. Maybe (or not) Magnus does. --Leyo 10:05, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Using the upload API, one apparently can specifically set the comment in addition to the description; these are the same for uploads through the wiki. I'll look into it. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:46, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Done for commonshelper, flickr2commons, url2commons. Nice idea! --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:58, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Even I got the difference now. I agree, nice idea.

BTW: What about using {{Original description}} (example)? --Leyo 23:03, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Done.--Magnus Manske (talk) 12:24, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I forgot to mention that the encoding needs to remain, which is important in cases like File:Wiesentalstadion + Wiesentalhalle Steinen.JPG. --Leyo 14:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Should be done (untested). --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:17, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

OK, that was a nice Response! Thanks and be sure this wasn't my last idea. --Itu (talk) 23:59, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Magnus, could you e-mail me with the change so I can make it on CommonsHelper on Labs? Thanks - Rich(MTCD)^T|C|E-Mail 22:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

What about removing

Transferred from [http://xy.wikipedia.org xy.wikipedia]; transferred to Commons by [[User:Xyz]] using [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php CommonsHelper].<br/>

in the source field, since this information is now contained in the history/log and next to the thumbnail? --Leyo 08:32, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

It's useful to have this information available on the file description page itself, not just in the history. Lupo 09:36, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

IMO it's completely redundant and distracting. What is then the Original upload log for? --Leyo 10:39, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Flickr/location/geo tags

Hi, Could you check and correct this bug in {{Location}} model ? Your bot misinterpreted the geo tags of the photo from flickr. Best regards.--Pixeltoo (talk) 21:33, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

File:Andrea Sawatzki and Christian Berkel - Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2009 (3964242954).jpg

File:Andrea Sawatzki and Christian Berkel - Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2009 (3964242954).jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Ices2Csharp (talk) 23:22, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hungarian wiki and Commons Helper

Hi. Would You add this (PD-ineligible), this (PD-self) and this (GFDL + cc-by-sa-3.0) template to list, please? -- Bojan  Talk  05:08, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Berlin hackathon invitation

Magnus, I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June in Berlin, Germany. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page at mediawiki.org. Magnus Manske (talk) 12:36, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

catfood

I am getting an error when I go to the RSS feeds for various quick deletion pages. Ex: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?category=Copyright_violations. Would you have time to fix this? --Sreejith K (talk) 18:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

File:George de Hevesy.jpg

File:George de Hevesy.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Leyo 11:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

wikia & others

Hi. I think commons should have an Upload-bot not only for flickr. E.g. for wikia there should be one.

The 'Vision' is to have a formular that asks just for an URL (plus TUSC-login) and then uploading the file, if possible. regards. --Itu (talk) 21:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

CommonsHelper (turkish licenses)

CommonsHelper does not add license templates during transfer from tr.wp (example).

• Şablon:Kişisel-1 = en:Template:Self
• Şablon:Kişisel-2 = en:Template:Self
• Şablon:GÖBL = en:Template:GFDL
• Şablon:GÖBL-Kişisel = en:Template:GFDL-self
• Şablon:Cc-a-2.5 = en:Template:Cc-by-2.5
• Şablon:Cc-a-bp-1.0 = en:Template:Cc-by-sa
• ...

-- Common Good (talk) 20:43, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

CommonsHelper (original upload date)

Please use {{Original upload date|2008-12-15}} instead of {{Date|2008|12|15}} (original upload date). -- Common Good (talk) 20:43, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

CommonsHelper (missing license translations)

lb.wp

• Schabloun:Bild-CC-by-sa/2.0 = en:Template:Cc-by-sa-2.0

hr.wp

• Predložak:JD-ja = en:Template:PD-self

-- Common Good (talk) 19:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Template associations

Hello! Could you please add following et.wikipedia template associations for commonshelper: {{Lubatud}} = {{Copyrighted free use}} ; {{AO-ise}} = {{PD-user-w|language=et|project=w|user=}} ; {{AO-anonüümne}} = {{Anonymous-EU}} ; {{AO-lõppenud}} = {{PD-old}} ; {{AO-autor}} = {{PD-author}} ; {{AO-sobimatu}} = {{PD-ineligible}} ; {{AO-US-Keskv}} = {{PD-USGov}}

I also tested url2commons here and noticed that it misses uploader's username on comment line. Thanks for your great tools! Pikne 05:29, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Import from Asamese Wikipedia

Please let me know, how can we import images from the Assamese Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commonns with the help of a bot. Bishnu Saikia, 17:02, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

CatScan2

Hi Magnus,

Recently CatScan2 times out when I run this. It used to work in the past. Is it that the categories got too large or is there some other problem? --  Docu  at 04:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

The problem seems to persist. --  Docu  at 07:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Finally it started working again. --  Docu  at 09:20, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

File:Myra 008.jpg

File:Myra 008.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Honza chodec (talk) 16:43, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

File:Uraniumdisstribution.jpg

I have nominated file that your bot transferred over to Commons, File:Uraniumdisstribution.jpg, for speedy deletion because it is under a non-commercial licence. If you don't want the image to be deleted, please contest it on the relevant talk page. C3F2k (Questions, comments, complaints?) 13:43, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

File:Six Vilayets (Western Armenia) ethnic groups.GIF

File:Six Vilayets (Western Armenia) ethnic groups.GIF has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

McZusatz (talk) 06:16, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar

Hi! My name is Edoardo Bit, I am an architect and also a “young researcher” of the University of Ferarra (Italy). I am writing a book on the “green walls technologies” and I have found very interesting some photos in your page. So, I would kindly ask you if I can use them in my book. Obviously, if you gently decide to grant me the permission, your name (or your nickname) and the link of the pictures will be correctly cited in the credits of my publication. The 3 photos which I would use are: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glechoma_hederacea_resize.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergenia_cordifolia_2007-06-02_(plant).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tropaeolum_speciosum.jpg Thank you very much! I hope you will attend my request… My e-mail is: edoardo.bit@gmail.com Bye, Edoardo Edoardo.bit (talk) 09:25, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glechoma_hederacea_resize.jpg#Licenza : Attribuzione: Algirdas at the Lithuanian language Wikipedia

-- RE rillke questions? 21:03, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

File tagging File:TIEM artikel Andrzej Hajdasinsky.pdf

This media was probably deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:TIEM artikel Andrzej Hajdasinsky.pdf. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:TIEM artikel Andrzej Hajdasinsky.pdf]]) and the above demanded information in your request.

 

Ices2Csharp (talk) 10:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

File:North Pier Apartments, Chicago.jpg

Hi Magnus Manske, Your bot recently uploaded this file from en.wikipedia. Some time ago, I removed a lot of incorrect classifications (cat:geographic information systems, cat:encodings, etc.) from building pictures. Do you happen to know where these incorrect classifications originate? Were they simply copied from en.wikipedia, or is the bot doing the moving the culprit? KKoolstra (talk) 08:41, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Koolstra, my tool can use WikiSense to auto-guess categories, if instructed to do so by the tool operator. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

File Upload Bot - Uploadzähler

Hallo Magnus Manske, wäre es möglich, für Dein Bot einen "Uploadzähler" für die Benutzer einzurichten? Mich würde mal interessieren, wie viele Bilder ich bereits verschoben habe... Grüße --Brackenheim (talk) 18:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Sempervivum name

I have chaned the name of two of your Sempervivum images, as the cultivar name was a synonym:

File:Sempervivum 'Dark Beauty' (Crassulaceae) plant (2).jpg File:Sempervivum 'Dark Beauty' (Crassulaceae) plant.jpg

Uleli (talk) 07:38, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki:FileComments.js

Hi, in addition to MediaWiki:FileComments.js there are three templates, {{Filecommentstart}}, {{Filecommentend}} and {{Filecommentfavourite}}. The templates are uncategorised (which is how I found them - Special:UncategorizedTemplates) and marked as test, and the script is uncategorised and undocumented, and hasn't been edited since Aug 2011. Is the script functional? What should be done with it and its templates? Thanks. Rd232 (talk) 21:25, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Picture of Ari Puheloinen

Hi, i see that you have uploaded the picture of Markku Koli, a Finnish Lt. Ger. Can you upload the picture of Ari Puheloinen and add it to Commons?--82.128.222.232 12:11, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

tr:Template:Bilgi and transwiking done by User:File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)

Hi Magnus,

I'm not sure if it's still absent, but at File:Asaritevfik.jpg your bot (and User:Miya who operated it) didn't recognize the a/m file description template and thus provided an incomplete file description page.

Per tr:Special:MostLinkedTemplates, the template is currently used about 7,595 times there. --  Docu  at 08:36, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Erroneous categories with bot uploads

Again, in June and July numerous pictures have been uploaded with your bot, having included erroneous categories (standard: geographic information systems, identifiers, encodings, etc. are included). You claim that you are not responsible for uploading, but that the uploader is using some automated categorization tool. Well, as you are the bot owner: can't you just stop this malfunctioning automatic category finder? And can't you help cleaning up the mess? It's a big job to do this by hand and it is very frustrating that bots can mess things up much faster than I can repair it by hand. It is also very frustrating that when bots mess things up, rarely anyone is wiling to take responsibility. As an example of an erroneous categoryzation of a picture, included by your bot: see File:Sawtooths from South 4.JPG. KKoolstra (talk) 07:09, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

And again, my bot is not choosing the categories. See my previous reply. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:16, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

But who choses the categories then? You say its not the bot, but a tool used by the bot. But who is responsible than for that tool? And is the bot owner not also responsible for the tools the bot is using? It's always the same with those bots: if they make mistakes, no-one seems to be responsible... It is your bot who is listed as the uploader, not someone else, so don't be surprised that I come to you for some explanation! KKoolstra (talk) 12:38, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Transfered from en.wikipedia by User:Fredlyfish4 using CommonsHelper is in the comment column. Of course help recourses (including screenshots) about how the whole process works and how CommonSense does it's category-guesses would be fine. -- RE rillke questions? 12:44, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Formatting problem with Geograph imports (sample)

Please see Commons:Bots/Work_requests#photograph_every_grid_square. --  Docu  at 08:06, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Jira tkt

Hi, instead of leaving a note here I filed my request as you explicitly ask on this page. Thanks for your time. --Elitre (talk) 15:03, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

And here is another one. Regards, --Elitre (talk) 15:48, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Ricinus Communis

Dear Magnus Manske, do you wish to be credited with " © Magnus Manske"? As it is not directly specified. Or do you waive any reference on your person? Thanks for your response.

Best, C. Eisner

Hello, which specific image are you referring to? There's quite a few of them on Ricinus communis. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:53, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Phantastica.jpg

File:Phantastica.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

FunkMonk (talk) 11:07, 29 July 2012 (UTC)