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This is a place where users can communicate with administrators, or administrators with one another. You can report vandalism, problematic users, or anything else that needs an administrator's intervention. Do not report child pornography or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports@wikimedia.org instead. If reporting threatened harm to self or others also email emergency@wikimedia.org.

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New system message for UploadWizard

Hi all! This is a request for interface admins: we're working on a specific message for when users upload medias with a wrong title, that would appear as a pop-up message when clicking on a specific link.

We would like to create a specific system message, maybe called MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-filename-short, that only shows the examples for good and bad names taken from MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-filename. The reason for this is that the full text is too long to be shown in a pop-up, and may cause that the user won't read it.

Is it possible to do so? Thanks in advance. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:30, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to not show the other information in that message, to be honest… do you maybe have some mockups or something similar (perhaps on Phabricator) to see what this would look like? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 15:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mockup of new dialog message for wrong title of UploadWizard
Mockup of new dialog message for wrong title of UploadWizard
@Lucas Werkmeister: hi, sorry for taking this long to answer, on the right you can find the mockup of the potential message. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sannita (WMF): That looks ok, but doesn't mention the parentheses in the background. Will those be accepted? How about other matched delimiters like square brackets, braces, and quotes? Other punctuation?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:05, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. We are only copying the existing examples in MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-filename into the example (maybe not all of them in this mockup, but still this is the idea). Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking about the implementation for a moment – I’m guessing MediaWiki:Titleblacklist would need to gain support for something like |errmsg-short= in addition to |errmsg=? Or do you want to hard-code “|errmsg= + "-short"” as the title of the short message? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:19, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sannita (WMF): MediaWiki messages should be defined in the extension (or in core) and can have a local override. Why are you not doing that here? Do you have a related phabricator task? Multichill (talk) 17:12, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just to let you know that we're still deciding which way to go. I'm in contact with the devs to decide how do we want to deal with this. --Sannita (WMF) (talk) 08:57, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request for Template:PD-RU-exempt

I want to add Category:PD-Gov license tags to Template:PD-RU-exempt but the template is currently protected. Please help me finish this edit, thanks. Whisper of the heart (talk) 16:41, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done The template is included in a subcategory of Category:PD-Gov license tags. Abzeronow (talk) 16:59, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Images that needs reloading.

File:Ten Days of Weather (14184590652).jpg and File:New NASA 3D Animation Shows Seven Days of Simulated Earth Weather (14906862243).jpg are supposed to be animation of clouds by NASA over a period of 7 to 10 days according to the source. However, only the thumb images of the start of those loops have been uploaded. So the titles and descriptions are not related to what these image are. The images needs to be deleted and they should be replaced by the flicker loop at the source.

Pierre cb (talk) 16:52, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

File moving request

A moving request for File:Kyrgyzstani eVisa.pdf has been submitted for a long time but have not been finished yet. Please move the file ASAP, thanks. Whisper of the heart (talk) 17:25, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done although this didn't require an administrator to do it. Abzeronow (talk) 17:44, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for revision deletion

Please delete old revision of File:MerryDove.jpg, as the photographer doesn't want it to be used. See discussion at here. 0x0a (talk) 05:26, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. Uploader's request on uploading week. Taivo (talk) 07:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

EC-Audiovisual delete request handling

The Category:EU Scopes - Information and education only is currently at 258 files with 11 uploaders, ranging from 203 files to 2 files. How do we handle mass deletion for these files? I feel a bit uneasy informing a user that 200+ files they uploaded are not allowed.

Also, the content for this category will keep growing as files in Category:EC-Audiovisual Center review needed are processed and possibly identified as problematic. Note that we have had delete requests processed (and pending) already because of disclaimer on source page.

How should we proceed with this?

Thank you, and regards. // sikander { talk } 🦖 14:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do not understand that case. The linked copyright page on the sources makes clear that all content is under CC-BY unless otherwise stated. And the files I checked did not have a different license on their page. GPSLeo (talk) 15:04, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GPSLeo: It is confusing, unfortunately. For example
That is the problem and VRT ticket discussion led to EU staff just saying read the copyright policy. // sikander { talk } 🦖 15:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You mean they use the term scope as synonym for license or usage conditions? I would understand the term scope as the topic of the photo. If we have contact to them through VRT we should ask them to use a clearer term. GPSLeo (talk) 15:20, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I think so. Of all the files I've reviewed the "Scope" text on individual photo pages is the only data that matches the "unless stated otherwise in the terms of use accompanying each individual file" declaration in Copyright policy. At the same time, User Zoozaz1 disagrees (see Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:EU Scopes - Information and education only). What do you suggest next step should be? // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User persistently removing DR template

Hey, I've recently nominated the file File:Noah D'castellano.jpg for deletion here. The uploader has repeatedly removed the template ([1], [2]) even after I warned them on their talk, and now is resorting to disruptive behaviour such as this Commons:Deletion requests/User:Cakelot1. I have repeatedly told them the correct way to prevent the file being deltead (providing rebuttalsat the DR), but they seem unwilling or unable to. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 22:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cakelot1: Semi-protected for 3 months to prevent further disruption. @Alisha Yvonne: This is not acceptable behavior. Further bad behavior on your part will result in a block. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:34, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Blocked them for this + retributive DR filings (before I saw this conversation). The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@The Squirrel Conspiracy: I've just blocked Berkhey (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) as an obvious sock. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flickr review stopped working

It looks like that the Flickrbot stopped working again today again for 3 hours now. Just to let you know. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 11:54, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Open deletion requests (FOP cases)

I wanted to point to some open deletion requests I have started a while ago and which are in my opinion clear cases due to FOP issues, but noticed that there are even more requests. The ones I’ve started are all in category French FOP cases/pending, but only two of them are from me (coincidentally the two first ones in the moment). There is also the parent category FOP-related deletion requests/pending with indicators for non empty subcategories (these indicators could be coloured by CSS, but the string needed for this is unfortunately language dependent, so I cannot post a suggestion). I would be pleased, if someone would get active. — Speravir – 23:31, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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