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File:Skupaj.ogv

Hi, I didn't upload this file, but the video just doesn't work. When I click on it I just see an X. I think it would be useful (though I don't know because I haven't seen the actual contents), so any help is appreciated. Wizard191 (talk) 12:59, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was an AVI file (Codec ID=FMP4) and not a Theora video. I have converted it to a playable Theora stream at File:Skupaj ogv q10.ogv (high bitrate), and at a slower framerate (and lower bitrate) at File:Skupaj_ogv_q10ifps2fr6.ogv. -84user (talk) 01:52, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much! Wizard191 (talk) 12:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Photo Upload

File:WME logo with tag.pdf
Caption and description

Hi, I'm creating a page and am using a photo that I created, yet when I upload it to my page all that shows up is the number 1 and a link back to the original pdf file, why can I not get the photo to directly show up on my page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Watermill333 (talk • contribs) 16:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To place a thumbnail on the project page, use [[File:WME logo with tag.pdf|thumb|200px|right|Caption and description]], which would yield what's shown of the right. ZooFari 23:20, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No idea how to upload file

I am new here, although I edit wikipedia, and I have no idea whatsoever on how to upload a file onto Wikimedia commons. Immunize (talk) 23:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Follow the procedures here. If the image you are uploading is not yours, be sure to familiarize yourself with the licensing on Commons and the applicable copyright tags that the image may fall under. ZooFari 23:15, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If you tell us something about the file you want to upload, we can help you navigate the many conditional branches. There are many cases depending on what the file contains, whether it is your work or someone else's, where it was published, etc. See Commons:First steps and COM:EIC#Copyright. The actual mechanics of uploading a file are simple; the hardest part is often figuring out the licensing, and secondarily categories confuse a lot of new Commons users. --Teratornis (talk) 02:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you upload any pictures that are not your own work? Immunize (talk) 19:40, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, if the creators licensed them freely, or the images are in the public domain. See Commons:Project scope, Help:Public domain, COM:CB, and Commons:First steps/License selection. If you tell us something about the file you want to upload, we can help you navigate the many conditional branches. Note that most of the images you might find by randomly browsing the Internet are not freely licensed. Usually to find free content you must specifically search for it. --Teratornis (talk) 01:52, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to revert an image to a previous edit

Someone replaced http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shark_Bay_Phytoplankton_in_Bloom.jpg with an unrelated image. How do you revert it back to the previous image? Cigarette (talk) 13:35, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is an "revert" button in the file history, the table at the bottom of the page on the file description. Users are not allowed to upload new versions of files - and maybe they are also not allowed to revert reuploads - untill their account is autoconfirmed, so thats the reason why you maybe can not revert yet and, I dont know, the revert link is not shown to you. I will revert the upload as the image is described in all wikis as a satelite photo. thanks for the hint. --Martin H. (talk) 14:08, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rename

Please, rename File:Desyat fresco.jpg into File:Desyat wall picture.jpg. I just new, it`s not a fresco but the painting on a piece of roof iron fixed on the wall. -- Дар Ветер (talk) 16:42, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Please use {{Rename}} next time. -- Common Good (talk) 19:11, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Categorizing from search results.

Is there any way to allocate many files at a time to a category? i.e. if I search for "RHIB" I get 400+ thumbnail images of "rigid-hulled inflatable boats", many of which aren't in a category. I can see from the thumbnails which one's aren't relevant - but see no way to categorise them without going to each image page individually. Hohum (talk) 02:03, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See the links under COM:EIC#Cat which indicate some tools. I've only used Hotcat, which is pretty good but not as efficient as you want. Maybe Cat-a-lot is better for what you want; see Special:Preferences, "Gadget" tab, "Tools for categories" group. --Teratornis (talk) 04:18, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Cat-a-lot seems to have a selection problem on search pages. However, Commons Commander does the job! Hohum (talk) 06:00, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Search engine results

File:Groundcombatvehiclelogo.jpg and other related images are not showing up in image searches on bing or google despite matching the keywords I put in. What do I do? Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (talk) 19:26, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When did you add the keywords to the image descriptions? You edited File:Groundcombatvehiclelogo.jpg 8 days ago. Google has a lag time before it indexes new edits on Commons, ranging from hours to days or even weeks in some cases. Searching Google for the file name finds this cached version, which says:
There is nothing anyone on Commons can do to influence what Google does, other than telling Google not to index a page at all (with __NOINDEX__). See Help:Magic words#Behavior switches. All you can do is wait for Google to update its snapshot of the image. --Teratornis (talk) 04:30, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help with {{Assessments}}

When this template is applied to an image and the parameter "com2" is given a value of 1, it displays the text of "This is a Quality image image and is considered to meet the Quality image guidelines." I'd like to change "Quality image image" to "Quality image", but I can't find the text on the template code, and I don't know how to find subpages. Could someone (1) edit the subpage to remove the duplicate word, or (2) point me to the correct subpage? I've been registered for a few years and made nearly sixty thousand edits, so it's plainly not an issue with the semiprotection. Nyttend (talk) 01:56, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe fixed. --Martin H. (talk) 04:02, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redcross insignia

I'm wondering if the Redcross insignia is considered non free content and if this image violates the fair use policy.–droll [chat] 03:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

see Commons talk:Licensing#Proposal to change this policy: Symbols protected by Geneva Conventions (red cross etc.), currently discussed. --Martin H. (talk) 03:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!
I hid the tab of my gallery, can you help?
thanks
Jhuguetr (talk) 16:05, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are missing it or whats the question? Maybe you activated the "Remove Image Tools" Gadget in Special:Preferences(Prefernces; Gadget tab; 3rd section: Maintenance tools)? --Martin H. (talk) 16:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Described an image, but the tag won't budge

I just added a description to the image File:DFZ2401 AB1504 Thornlie.jpg, but the "No Description" tag wasn't removed. I expected it to go automatically. What did I do wrong? PS, I know the image isn't mine, but I just thought I'd do something nice for the original poster and/or uploader. ----DanTD (talk) 02:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't do anything wrong. In fact, that was very nice. Just forgot to remove the "no description" tag on the file. I did it here. Killiondude (talk) 02:20, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inkscape Maps

I am trying to upload a map produced on inkscape, but it won't work. I've tried putting it into plain svg and changing the paths of the text elements, yet it still won't upload. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MJLRGS (talk • contribs) 11:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Commons allows any file from the permitted file types (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, xcf, mid, ogg, ogv, svg, djvu, tif, tiff, oga) as long as the file is below 100MB in size. The software not makes differences between valid or corrupt files, you can even rename a .jpg into .svg and upload it, the software will not care. So your problem is the uploading, not the file, or? --Martin H. (talk) 14:31, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Did you read all the pages linked from COM:EIC#Inkscape? Something there might help, or tell you how to ask for help. You should be able to save a PNG file from Inkscape and upload that. PNG files are raster files and thus are less desirable than vector files when a vector version exists, but at least you will then have a version of your map on Commons while you work out the problem with your SVG file. If you do manage to upload your SVG file later, put the {{Vector version available}} template on the raster version so people know to use the superior vector version. --Teratornis (talk) 19:24, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

detroit publishing 1898

I have a card KISS OF THE WAVE I can not locate anywhere. With Detroit photographic 1898 copy right — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.137.196 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a question? If you want to know whether the image on the card has entered the public domain, see Help:Public domain and Commons:Hirtle chart. --Teratornis (talk) 19:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

bot for images from flickr to commons

Hi, I am working on the Traktorenlexkion on de.wikibooks (basically a handbook about tractors). There are many tractors still without an image (see de:wbKategorie:Traktor_ohne_Bild which isn't even complete) and so I searched on flickr. Question: how do I get images like [1] onto flickr and into Category:Claas tractors? Is there some kind of bot for it? So that I can add it to de:wbTraktorenlexikon:_Claas_Arion_640? User Trekkerfahrer on de.wb.

Hello. You can use this tool to speed up the uploading process. The file you linked to looks fine to upload, so there should be no issues. –Juliancolton | Talk 16:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Julian. So I just need a new username since mine is already taken here. --88.70.230.128 16:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Worked :) File:Claas_Arion_640_tractor.jpg --Traktorenhandbuch (talk) 16:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Images of buildings

I am currently working on the Wikipedia article List of Liverpool John Moores University halls of residence[2]. I have searched numerous sites such as Flickr for images of these halls of residence but to no prevail. With the buildings being owned by certain companies, is there any way a photo of a building could be uploaded to Wikipedia just for use on that article to simply portray the subject (in a similar way to non free-use logos) - e.g. using a photo of Prospect Point from the website [3]. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Stevvvv4444 (talk) 17:18, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By default, everything is copyrighted and unfree unless the copyright holder explicitly declares otherwise. You can upload a copyrighted image to Commons if the copyright holder will agree in writing to release it under a free content license. See COM:EIC#Permreq for instructions on requesting copyright permission. If you can get permission, follow COM:OTRS. You probably cannot upload a non-free picture of an existing building to the English Wikipedia user a fair use rationale because as long as the building exists it is possible to obtain a free image. "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose."
Another option is to search for related photos with {{Flickr free}}:
  • Search Flickr for images with the keywords: John Moores University under these licenses: cc-by or cc-by-sa
There are some freely licensed photos of student accommodations such as Bull Ring - Top Floor. You can upload that particular photo manually with {{Flinfo}}:
or use one of the Flickr upload bots under COM:EIC#Flickr.
Check the rest of that photographer's Flickr photostream. Sometimes a Flickr user will not put the right keywords on all his or her photos to make them easy to find with search, so you may have to scroll through the whole photostream to find unlabeled photos. If someone is already taking photos of buildings in a certain area, you might ask that person to photograph some more buildings. And see:
--Teratornis (talk) 17:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:RuthAS

User:RuthAS has had a number of images marked as having no source and lacking copyright information when they clearly sourced as own work and licensed accordingly. RuthAS is a respected member of the en:wikipedia aircraft project and she has uploaded many rare aviation images she has taken herself in the 1940s and 1950s (some I believe did not have a licence declared but I understand members of the project are helping with that. Can we just remove these deletion notices if they are clearly wrong or does it need a process to rescue them. Withdrawn - has been sorted out by somebody else, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 19:24, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help me

I cannot upload images because I forget my password of this page. Please help me get my password. This is my Userpage. Thanks.

Did you try E-mail new password in log in form? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:06, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

exif geotags

Hi! Is the loader reads the data files of the properties geotags in EXIF?

User:DschwenBot handle coordinates from EXIF. Basically it converted to {{Location}}. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:04, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Commons:EXIF might provide additional background information. --Teratornis (talk) 03:13, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to delete pictures

i want to delete several pictures i have uploaded to commons.

how is this done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stackjones (talk • contribs) 16:35, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

COM:D. --Teratornis (talk) 18:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Colour blindness

I have left a note at File talk:Form of government parliamentary.png about the unfortunate choice of colours used in the map, insofar as those colours are difficult for colour blind people (well, me at least) to distinguish. Is there some guidance or policy on the appropriate coulours to use in charts to improve accessibility for colour-blind people that I could link to from the talk page, for the information of the file creator? -- 05:37, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Accessibility#Color. --Teratornis (talk) 09:07, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AC Cobra (Shelby Cobra) - new files on en:wp transferable to Commons?

In de:wp I would like to create / rework articles about the AC Cobra 260/289/427. On en:wp there are several new files from the Shelby American Museum and the Canadian International Autoshow here. All new files are not from Commons, just only on the en:wp. Is there a reason for this (concerning the licenses), I haven´t seen yet (or am I just the first to ask)? Are they transferable to Commons? If yes, it would be nice, if somebody could do this (sorry, my skills are rather writing articles than handling files and licenses). The right categories are: "Shelby vehicles" and "AC Cobra". You can answer in english or german as you like. Thanks. --Roland Rattfink (talk) 08:55, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A file such as File:Shelby AC Cobra 289 FIA Roadster.JPG appears suitable for moving to Commons. See WP:MITC and WP:EIW#MoveToCommons. The original uploader should have uploaded the file to Commons instead of to the English Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia users upload files to their local Wikipedia even if the files are freely licensed or public domain. This is usually because they are not aware that they should upload to Commons. These projects are so complicated that hardly anyone knows everything about them. Maybe no single person knows every last trick. --Teratornis (talk) 09:16, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have some notes about this in User:Teratornis/Notes#Move some images to Commons if you want to read about my adventures. --Teratornis (talk) 09:18, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the answers and the links. Up to now I have just categorized files and transferred some new files from Flickr. I´ve just tried to transfer File:Shelby AC Cobra, CSX2000.JPG, but it didn´t work right now. I seems that I had to read the instructions a little more detailed when I have time to. Maybe there is the opportunity to test it the next days. --Roland Rattfink (talk) 09:45, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Your talk page does not show that you have created a TUSC account which you will need to run CommonsHelper. My notes are detailed about all the steps. The first image you move is the hardest; further image moves will be easy. If you will move many images, you may want to create a template as a user subpage on the English Wikipedia to save typing by constructing the CommonsHelper URL with input fields prefilled, as I did with User:Teratornis/Notes/CommonsHelper. See for example my wikitext in User:Teratornis/Notes#Move more files, from Category:Wind turbines. --Teratornis (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A good forum on Commons?

Hi. :) We've received a release via OTRS (Ticket:2010031410022872) from Frederick Noronha permitting the importing to Commons of any images placed at [4] on or before 31 March 2010 under the license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. He does not wish to place this release on the images themselves or the website, but is pleased to permit Commons users to import what they please. (Though the images at the site are all tagged non-com, he understands that commercial reuse is possible.) I've placed notice of this at Free media resources, but I suspect it will not receive much attention there. Is there a good forum on Commons to publicize this kind of generous release so that contributors will have a chance to make use of these images? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Batch uploading ? -- User:Docu at 14:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That's a tough question. The inconsistent licensing on Flickr will defeat Flickr search via {{Flickr free}} which cannot know that the photographer has circumvented the noncommercial restriction elsewhere. It is hard to insure that everyone who might like to use one of the images on a Wikimedia Foundation project will be aware of them - this is hard for image search generally. If you or anyone else uploaded some of these images to Commons, you might create a category and a template on Commons to document where they originated. See for example Category:Images from PLoS Genetics and the corresponding {{PLoS}}. That would slightly increase the chance that someone who stumbled across one of the images already here might know where to find related images. Also consider mentioning them on the talk pages of any related WikiProjects. There is an added difficulty that (probably) only a small fraction of Wikipedia users know how to upload images from Flickr to Commons. --Teratornis (talk) 21:13, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Cartesian Theater.jpg

File:Cartesian Theater.jpg should be replaced by File:Cartesian Theater.svg in all projects. Please add this request to the proper bot page. -- Marawe (talk) 07:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing one filetype with another filetype is not possible for User:CommonsDelinker/commands. (also it is not Commons duty to assure, that projects reuse the best files ;) ). Replace must be done by hand. --Martin H. (talk) 13:38, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You can add {{Vector version available}} to the bitmap version. Currently the bitmap version has a link to the vector version, but it does not explicitly say to use the vector version. Adding the template will tell Wikipedia users who click through to the bitmap version to put the vector version in their local projects. --Teratornis (talk) 18:11, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fehler in deutscher Benutzeroberfläche

Auf der Seite Benutzerbeiträge (Special:Contributions) steht ganz unten ein Link Bearbeitungszähler (Edit count). Wenn ich als Sprache Deutsch eingestellt habe führt der Link zu: 

http://stable.toolserver.org/editcount/result?username=...

Dort gibt es nur eine Fehlermeldung "The content you are looking for was hosted on the old stable Toolserver, which no longer exists. Sorry." Mit englischer Spracheinstellung funktioniert es: 

http://toolserver.org/~vvv/yaec.php?user=

-- 92.230.101.211 07:25, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo, danke für den Hinweis; habe den Link im deutschen Interface entsprechend angepasst. Grüße, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 08:09, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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создал статью и записал её в Черновик(?). Хочу дальше ее редактировать, но никак не могу ее найти в своем Личном кабинете. Подскажите, плиз! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deyanov Ramil' (talk • contribs) 13:03, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributions show that you have uploaded several files to Wikimedia Commons, but the draft you mention in your question is not here. Did you edit something on the Russian Wikipedia? The file usage on some of your uploaded files shows a link to:
I don't read Russian, but Google translates it to English as Wikipedia: Project: Incubator / Articles / Line of the background of experimental data. Is that the page you are talking about? If you have a question about the Russian Wikipedia, you should ask on the Help desk there. Which oddly I don't see an obvious link to. Also:
  • You uploaded a mathematical equation to Commons as an image file - you should rather format it with math markup; see WP:MATH.
  • You uploaded several plots of functions or data as bitmap files; they would be much better as SVG files. Plotting software such as gnuplot can generate SVG files.
--Teratornis (talk) 18:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion

Where can I promote an image? And which possibilities are given in Commons-wiki?--A.Ceta (talk) 14:58, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may be interested in Commons:Quality images, Commons:Valued images, Commons:Featured pictures. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:07, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Video

I've uploaded a video [[File:Steinway piano - Duo-Art.ogg]] to use it at Wikipedia. When the video is not playing there is no picture, just a red cross and the text "File:Steinway piano - Duo-Art.ogg". Do somebody know what is wrong? Rerumirf (talk) 21:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That appears to be the default behavior - but I'm not sure on that. --J.smith (talk) 22:26, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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