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Renamed File:Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects.djvu. If you need these put in place for work at WS, then drop a line on my talk page, and I will attempt to expedite the rename process. By the way, for future files, it would be useful it you were able to lose the Google page at the front. I use DjVuLibre for the task (when I remember). — billinghurst sDrewth 10:04, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you! I should've cleaned up the file, but I wasn't quite sure of the usual practice. I'll do so, and re-upload it, before I start transcribing anything (so the page numbering doesn't get mucked up). — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 10:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]


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Left a message for you on your WP talk page. --Kelapstick (talk) 04:13, 20 March 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Also are you going to upload the picture you took at the train station? --Kelapstick (talk) 09:19, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Thanks, I've fixed it up now. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 01:13, 25 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
File:2013-08-04 1134 Freopedia plaque at Cantonment Hill.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.

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:20, 11 August 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:23, 11 August 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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[Question copied from DR]
"But the oval plaque isn't by a long shot the subject of the photo. Does that count for anything? I've no idea about the rules of how to feature copyrighted stuff I'm afraid. Surely it's permitted in some forms? I mean, you don't mention the other sign in this photo, so I presume that's okay?" Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 12:27, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, actually it does count for something, but not enough, see Commons:De minimis. The question here is "what is the subject of the photo". The filename suggests that it is the Freopedia plaque, but that is so small that it is certainly not the principal subject. The Freopedia plaque is there because the Moore Building is historic, so presumably the real subject of the photo is the Moore Building and its historicity. In that context, the plaque describing the building is an important part of the image, so Fastily and I agreed that it was not de minimis. I did not mention the other sign and the sandwich board because neither has enough on it to rise to the level of copyrightable.

There are no hard and fast rules on this and on any given image experienced editors may disagree. If a notable person had been in the image, then the plaque would, in my view, have been de minimis. But in assessing an image taken to show one information plaque you cannot ignore the other, larger, information plaque nearby.

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Thanks for the notification; I've updated to {{Cc-by-sa-4.0}} and removed the deletion notice. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 05:53, 1 January 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Have a look at my edits[edit]

I have created a few extra categories for when we upload photos from the trip - cheers JarrahTree (talk) 10:54, 13 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Have been adding cats randomly[edit]

Very 'unsystematic' hope you dont mind - it is one way to get a metric - as in total photos that get uploaded - and the potential for extra articles and things... North Wharf/North Quay seems a bit like Packenham/Pakenham - probably a few seealso/redirect might be in line... JarrahTree (talk) 10:24, 15 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JarrahTree: Oh, mind?! Not in the least! Of course, categorise away. :-) I've been trying to look up IMO numbers of the ships. Oh, and I may possibly have a chance to talk to a crew member of the RNZN ship later this week. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 10:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

IA-upload time from djvu creation to upload here?[edit]

The bot has done the creation according to the log, though 2½ hr later, still no upload. I am presuming that is not normal. I presume that I have to prod you, there is no instruction on what to do when things stall. Thx.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:58, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Billinghurst: yeah sometimes it hangs and has to be prodded. :-( There are currently no procedures about how to handle this, because I'm looking at it sort of daily to see what's going wrong and hopefully fixing the tool if that's what's at fault. The best thing to do to figure out why it's not uploading is to look at the log; there's a link on the homepage of the tool. What IA item were you trying to upload? I'll have a look at it. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 13:04, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
armaghclergypari00lesl and nothing there helpful to me to diagnose the issue.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:45, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Billinghurst: Hm, it looks like it's just running out of memory and not completing. 518 pages is a lot, unforunately. I'll see what can be done. (And it's a tricky one to make it provide better log info about, because it just bombs out and so can't give the script a chance to say anything). — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 21:43, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wasn't criticising, just indicating that I looked and didn't think that it said so. Can the system count pages and and proportionalately allocate extra memory for jobs? Or even a tick box at form time — when asking about front page y/n — indicating if page count is 400 > 500; 500 > 600; +++ ?  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:31, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Billinghurst: I increased the memory allowance of ia-upload and File:Armagh clergy and parishes.djvu got uploaded. Is it correct? In phab:T161396 I'll also add a 500 page limit, or warning. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 03:44, 7 April 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
After all of that, no text layer. <shrug>  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:19, 7 April 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

License tagging[edit]

Hi Samwilson, I love what the IA-upload bot is doing. One minor thing: I just made this change to the license tag on your example case. Any way to make such manual changes unnecessary, or to coach the bot/user through the process? LeadSongDog (talk) 21:53, 24 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@LeadSongDog: yes, great idea! I'm not sure about the death date parameter, because that's not very retrievable from IA, but the pre-1923 tag should be doable. Could you open a ticket in Phabricator?

The other thing I've been wondering about is linking the book template with Wikidata, so that if a Wikidata item exists for a given edition then that sort of info can be pulled from there. It'd have to be done via a wikidata_id template parameter, rather than a sitelink, but that should be fine. Then we could get author info, copyright info, as well as sitelinks to Wikisources etc.

Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 23:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not very phab-savy, it might be better if you raised it. Each IA entry should already have an extant OL entry linked, this could be harvested and developed. There's work going on, albeit slowly, to improve the links between OL and Wikidata, e.g. https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/144 which might pertain. Birth and death dates are usually available from VIAF (http://viaf.org/viaf/444796/ or https://viaf.org/viaf/27063124) or ISNI (http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000061343104 or http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000121251077), at least in the case of major authors. LeadSongDog (talk) 18:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I just used it to upload File:Don_Caesar_de_Bazan.djvu and noted a couple of issues. The template couldn't easily handle multiple authors, though I worked around that as best I could. The google first page issue should really be autodetected and autohandled, I got it wrong and others will too. Still, it was quick and easy. Thank you.LeadSongDog (talk) 20:41, 27 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@LeadSongDog: I removed the cover page. You're right, it shouldn't be manual; but for the time being I think I'm not going to have the time to do anything else (it'd be possible to run it through the Google Vision API logo-detection thingo, and delete based on that, I suspect; not sure if there would be false positives though, which would be bad). — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 23:47, 27 March 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

aamh[edit]

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Training at Fremantle[edit]

Peter to Sam - Hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterridgway (talk • contribs) 01:41, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Good Morning Sam 01:43, 17 March 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angus Callander (talk • contribs) 01:43, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Good morning again Angus Callander (talk) 01:46, 17 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikimedia/pedia Workshop — Thank you Sam, Tom and Jeremy!:-}[edit]

Thank you Sam, Tom and Jeremy!:-} — Preceding unsigned comment added by SallyMay2115 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 17 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Tables in file descriptions[edit]

Hi Sam. If you use editsource when looking at [[File:Thysanotus patersonii DistributionMap.png]], you will see that I have tried to insert a table into the description. Is there some way of doing this? Hoping you can help. Regards, MargaretRDonald (talk) 01:02, 4 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MargaretRDonald: It's a common problem: any time you need to use a pipe character | inside a template, it can confuse things. The ! magic word can be used instead (replace all the table-pipes with {{!}}) but probably the easier thing to do in this case is to move the table outside the {{Description}} template. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 01:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Samwilson: Thanks, Sam. (So where do I move it to?) MargaretRDonald (talk) 01:43, 4 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@MargaretRDonald: I made this change to put the table below the {{Information}} template. I think there's some incorrect formatting within the table though — where should the 'BRT' cell be? — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 01:54, 4 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks, Sam. All fixed now (and now I know where to put a table) Regards, MargaretRDonald (talk) 03:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

FYI[edit]

When you're doing the stats for w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/57, note that I'm uploading photos from User:Evad37alt (since Commonist doesn't seem to be compatible with 2FA). Cheers, - Evad37 [talk] 11:35, 28 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Evad37: Noted. The event is https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/programs/77/events/489 if you want to check it out. I'll update the meetup page with the stats tomorrow or the day after; give us some time to get more uploaded. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 11:40, 28 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Charlotte Davis Memorial Plaque[edit]

Re: [1] - Wouldn't inscription mentions be more appropriate than depicts? Mitch Ames (talk) 00:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mitch Ames: perhaps, but I'm not sure how to add any statements other than depicts; is there a UI for that? — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 00:35, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I have no idea - I've not done anything with Wikidata. I was notified of this change because my uploads are automatically on my watchlist, and I saw inscription mentions under depicts' "see also" section. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:53, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I think at the moment Depicts is all we've got. I'll hold off adding any more for now though, where there's uncertainty. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 02:22, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Depicts gives a property option of shown with, t=fill that field in for inscription Gnangarra 03:23, 27 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Do you have the skill set to update this map or know somebody who does? Calistemon (talk) 08:06, 5 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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@Samwilson: , since you created the category, I was wondering if you would consider renaming it, like for example: Category:Cossack Cemetery in Cossack or something else because there is also a Category:Cossack cemetery in Busha, Category:Cossack cemetery in Stina, etc... Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 15:02, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Lotje: Sure, that sounds fine. I think Category:Cossack Cemetery, Western Australia would be most suitable. It sounds less like it's a cemetery for/of Cossacks. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 07:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Lotje (talk) 13:59, 2 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Great, thanks! I also updated its Commons category (P373) to match. — Sam Wilson ( TalkContribs ) … 22:07, 2 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Curious about the history of exactly which licenses work on Wikimedia Commons, would love some pointers[edit]

Hi Sam -- we've connected on Mastodon, I'm the Community Manager for Flickr Commons and do some outreach for Flickypedia. I have been poking around this week looking at the history of the way Flickr's "no known copyright" (NKC) designation is or is not accepted on Wikimedia Commons. Here are the things I know:

  • if you use the WC upload wizard you can share NKC content from Flickr Commons with the "share images" button
  • if you use Flickr2Commons images with NKC it silently fails and I'm not sure if this is by design because of the odd status of NKC or just a bug (I did check here and it was not clarifying)
  • I read the discussions linked off of this page

Since this is not entirely my native habitat, though I am a regular Wikipedia user, I wanted to reach out and ask you if you think something has changed in terms of how WC accepts NKC licenses, or if this is just a quirky bug in F2C? If the former, something has changed, if you could point me towards a discussion so I could go read it and get my head around it, I'd be super grateful. We're stoked about the development of Flickypedia but really want to make sure we understand this aspect of the background and our partners at WMF suggested reaching out. Thanks for any info you have. Jessamyn (talk) 15:57, 12 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jessamyn: I'm not really sure of the history of it all, I'm afraid. It looks like the No known copyright restrictions license is listed here as a valid license in F2C (and nothing's changed there recently). I can't see anything that would be making it fail differently to other licenses. The licenses.setLicense API method says it can't be used there (presumably because it can only be set by Flickr Commons partners and not normal accounts), but that doesn't matter for Wikimedia Commons' purposes, and licenses.getInfo still returns it (not that either of our tools are dynamically looking up the licenses). Sorry I can't be of more help! Sam Wilson 01:27, 13 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No worries. Any and all information is helpful. Thank you. Jessamyn (talk) 15:46, 18 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]