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Voting: Photo challenge/2024 - June - Mushrooms/Voting

Hello there Jarekt,

In previous editions of the Photo challenge, it has happened that entries have inexplicably disappeared from the competition before the voting. Now it has happened again! I'm not so much interested in knowing the reason why my two entries in round: Commons:Photo challenge/2024 - June - Mushrooms/Voting have disappeared, as that they will be up for voting in this edition of the contest. For example. File:Tropic fungus.jpg has been excluded for some reason? I photographed the mushroom on 27 April 2015 while visiting Taman Negara National Park on my trip to Malaysia that year.

Sincerely

Björn Söderlund — Preceding unsigned comment added by Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix (talk • contribs) 08:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC) Björn Söderlund, Sw3dPix

Tropic fungus Björn Söderlund (talk) 08:21, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Björn Söderlund I definitely did something wrong while creating the voting page. I apologize for it. I rerun the codes generating those pages and merged the results, and it seems quite a few entries were affected. Sorry about it. I will check the other voting page. --Jarekt (talk) 19:08, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh there they are, thanks!

I discovered the error quite early, no harm done.

Have a good day,

Björn Söderlund Björn Söderlund (talk) 23:15, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Unverständlicher Hinweis zur Lizensierung mit Verwendung eines Freigabe Tickets...

Hallo, warum ist das nur so umständlich????

Ich habe die Aufgabe übernommen, Bilder aus dem Stadtarchiv in Wikipedia Commons hochzuladen. Dazu ist ein Ticket erforderlich. Das Team vom Stadtarchiv hat heute endlich die Entscheidung getroffen, das man die Bilder unter cc by sa 4 freigibt. Ich habe das an Herrn Neumann vom Support-Team geschickt und erhielt diese Antwort: '''Guten Tag Manfred Beck, die geben Sie den Link auf das Bild an, für das diese Freigabe gilt. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alfred Neumann Wikimedia-Support-Team''' - ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.

Ich habe die Dateien vorliegen - es sind nicht "meine Dateien" ich würde an statt meines Nutzernamens (Stadtarchiv ...) eintragen. Alle Metadaten hinzu ... und wie funktioniert es mit der Angabe der Ticket-Nummer. Es gibt ein Template (Vorlage:PermissionTicket/de) ich habe gleich zum Beginn des Schriftwechsels eine Ticketnummer Ticket#2024............ von Hern Neumann erhalten, also kann ICH das Template selbst in die Dateibeschreibung einfügen oder bin ich dafür nicht befugt? Habe kein Beispiel oder Youtube Tutorial gefunden ... Bevor es schief geht und man meinen Account sperrt frage ich lieber. Viele Grüße EACC80 (talk) 18:56, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

EACC80, It is great that Stadtarchiv released the images under cc by sa 4, but how do you know about it? If they posted it on their website than you probably do not need VRTS ticket (although it still might be better), but if it was not published then they should send the permission to VRTS. How many files are covered by the permission? If only some than you can upload them and send the list to Herrn Neumann, but if couple thousand than it might be easier to create a license template, like for example Template:Walters Art Museum license. Sorry for not being able to reply in German. --Jarekt (talk) 02:32, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Support needed?

Hello Jarekt, I was wondering if you might need some help with the monthly photo challenge. I am not a programmer but able to check things by hand. Is there anything I can do for you? August Geyler (talk) 16:11, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

August Geyler Thanks for the offer. There is not much of check things by hand, but there are bunch of steps which can be split among multiple users. Most of them are outlined in Commons:Photo challenge/Maintainers Manual. Many tasks require running a precompiled code on your machine and fixing submitting or voting pages, another task is creating new challenge pages. --Jarekt (talk) 02:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

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A way to find redirects?

Hi Jarekt, File:15th-century unknown painters - St Ursula Announces to her Father her Departure on a Pilgrimage to Rome - WGA23745.jpg contains some statements that are redirects. Do you have an idea how to flag these with a tracker category? I could set up a bot to fix redirects every once in a while. Multichill (talk) 19:31, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Multichill, Module:Artwork tests for redirects and adds Category:Artworks with structured data with redirected digital representation of property and Category:Artworks with redirected Wikidata link category. Those categories take a lot of work to clear, as I did not come up with a fast way to do it. If you have some ideas, on fixing them by the bot it would be very helpful. However those categories do not apply to files like File:15th-century unknown painters - St Ursula Announces to her Father her Departure on a Pilgrimage to Rome - WGA23745.jpg where I already fixed "wikidata" field and digital representation of (P6243) but missed other fields in the SDC. The issue of redirects should be handled in some automatic way by the database, an issue I raised at phabricator:T237899. At some point I was also toying with extending this sdc query to include other properties or more files, but the sparql query times out easily. One could probably write some Lua code to test all SDC links in a given file and than sneakily add it to some often used template, but that would be putting a lot of strain on the servers (I would imagine). So I have a lot of ideas but none are easy-solutions. --Jarekt (talk) 02:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok, so for finding them I can use some of the tracker categories.

On Toolforge I also have access to the Wikidata redirects dump and the entities dump. I wrote a bot to remove duplicate claims and that works on the full dump. I could probably do something similar for the redirects.

So one way or another, we find redirects. The bot should probably check if the redirect is older than say 30 days before performing the replacement. I'll see if I can write something. Multichill (talk) 10:01, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Multichill, Tracker categories are only for digital representation of (P6243) / main subject (P921) and "wikidata" of Artwork templates, but redirects are probably more common in depicts (P180) and other SDC properties, and there is no tracking categories for those. Wikidata has a bot fixing redirects, I wonder if its code is published. --Jarekt (talk) 12:54, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

AFAIK that's a closed source bot running on some private server. Extremely unsustainable, but nobody cares too much about it. I'll see if I can write something. Multichill (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikimania?

Hi Jarek, coming to Wikimania this year? Multichill (talk) 11:33, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Multichill, I was planning to come, but I got invited to present on another conference devoted to Witkacy (Polish painter and playwright) about my pl:Lista dzieł malarskich Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza article and decided to fly to Poland for that one instead of Wikimania. I am planning to attend virtually, but that is not the same. --Jarekt (talk) 12:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

That's a shame, but flying twice seems a bit too much. The whole virtual/hybrid conference thing doesn't really work for me. Multichill (talk) 15:42, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

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