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Update gadget

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Latest comment: 3 days ago7 comments3 people in discussion

Wondering if an interface admin can update the OWID gadget

Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:22, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Trying almost at random (picked an arbitrary part of the alphabet) to get someone's attention to this: @Matrix, Magog the Ogre, Mdaniels5757, MGA73, and Mike Peel: .
Is there a better place Doc James should have asked this? I'm not aware of one. - Jmabel ! talk 06:54, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ok, will do —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:38, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Doc James: ✓ Done —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:41, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Wonderful thanks Matrix. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:17, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Am needing another update of MediaWiki:Gadget-owidslider.js from MDWiki:MediaWiki:Gadget-owidslider.js, User:Matrix thanks for your prior help on this. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:21, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

✓ Done —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:24, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Student editing project about fish on enWP leading to mass copyvio uploads on Commons

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Latest comment: 1 day ago13 comments6 people in discussion

See en:WP:EDUN#Apparent student project on fish articles, uploading tons of copyvios to Commons. It appears that there's some unofficial student editing project going on that has students uploading tons of images to Commons under false or no licenses. I've tagged the ones I've come across that have false licenses, and the ones without license tags have been bot-tagged, but I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg since I'm only looking at Wikipedia articles that have citation errors.

Jay8g (talk) 08:36, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Yes, I have noticed these users looking at Category:Media uploaded without a license as of 2025-11, and there are indeed more. Yann (talk) 16:56, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

One more:

Honestly, I'm less concerned about the ones that are uploading images without licenses (since that's easy to notice) than the ones who are using obviously false licenses. Jay8g (talk) 08:15, 16 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

The issue is not the number of files, but the number of people. Each of them has only uploaded a few images, but the high number of people doing the same mistakes at the same time is a problem. Yann (talk) 08:24, 16 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Two more:

Jay8g (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Have we been getting anywhere with determining who it was who aimed so many people at doing this wrong? - Jmabel ! talk 06:57, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Honestly I don't even know where to start. None of the accounts have replied to talk page messages here or on enWP, and so far no one has answered my post on en:WP:EDUN. There was another class doing work on fish-related articles around the same time last year (which didn't seem to have the image copyright issue, but I don't remember if I checked on that then) which was apparently from UC Davis, so maybe it's the same class again. Jay8g (talk) 08:44, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Looks like y'all missed tagging File:Distribution map of Laphotidae family in Mediterranean Sea.jpg --Trade (talk) 01:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Another one: Leokoeh356 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) Jay8g (talk) 09:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

First user (User:Cicada'sbug)'s upload (File:Diagram of Zameus squamulosus (a) and Scymnodom ichiharai (b) teeth.png) appears to be somewhat fine? They tagged a ProQuest source but I was able to find the original document. The document did state CC-BY 4.0 and the data within is released as CC0. Perhaps the student simply made a mistake by reading the very last part of the rights and skipped the first part? If I upload this file and tag it with correct license, it would have stayed on Commons. OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:21, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@OhanaUnited: Why did you not correct the source and license? --Lymantria (talk) 14:09, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Because this is a volunteer project and I am not required to give any more time and effort than I wish to? OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:07, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Given that you have already done the research, unlike anyone else you could do this and take responsibility for it without re-researching. No, you are not absolutely required to do this, but it is reasonable for others to expect a certain level of collegiality. I gather you are an admin on sister projects, so certainly you understand that. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Science Photo Competition 2025 in Ukraine: Request for MassMessage

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Latest comment: 4 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi! I have a quick request from organizers of the Ukrainian edition of Science Photo Competition 2025 – we'd like to invite people who participated in this context in the past to join this year's edition

  • Text of the message (first line is the subject, everything else is the body of the message; I've already accounted for having a correct signature & timestamp)

Thanks! AntonProtsiuk (WMUA) (talk) 09:39, 20 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Doing. Ymblanter (talk) 17:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
✓ Done Ymblanter (talk) 18:06, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Similar types of copyvios uploaded by multiple accounts

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Latest comment: 4 days ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Fairly new to this so apologize if this isn't the correct venue here.

Seemingly new accounts have uploaded copyvios from Flickr with the correct author name. However, the sources all link to random .ru websites. Seems bizarre and there may be some abuse of multiple accounts going on. HurricaneZeta (talk) 03:33, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I opened a checkuser case over at Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Nyvelah to check if these accounts are related or not. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 03:52, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
The SPI is Inconclusive (from a technical point of view), although the timing of their edits makes me frown. --Lymantria (talk) 14:02, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Possible socks

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Latest comment: 5 days ago6 comments2 people in discussion

I nominated some uploads by Angpradesh for SD (see notices on User talk:Angpradesh, if they remove, plz see revision history). One of which is File:Angika Language Region of India.jpg. AP removes it at Revision as of 19:42, 20 November 2025. I revert him/her and tell him/her at their TP that they are not allowed to do so. Suddenly Samyo pops out and reverts the nomination, marking their first contribution in 10+ years (i.e. since registration). I don't think there is much left to say here. Shaan SenguptaTalk 04:39, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Just in case more similarities are needed, Global account information can be of great help. Both the accounts contribute on anpwiki, enwiki, hiwiki, incubator.wikimedia, meta.wikimedia and some more. Shaan SenguptaTalk 04:57, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • I had informed few of the community members, who are active in promoting offline activities of Wikimedia and working for Indic languages, of yours proposed speedy deletion of this file and also that I can not revert it back because I am the creator. It is this user @Samyo came to revert and inform that this is not a copyright violation and it is not a matter of Speedy deletion. What is wrong in it? Angpradesh (talk) 06:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Angpradesh noone other than an admin can remove the SD (or any deletion) tag, unless it is undisputed or comes from a vandal. At the same time, anyone can contest the nomination, not by removing the tag but by converting it to a DR, so that the community can discuss. Above all of this, what you said above means that you have, in some or the other form, indulged in off-wiki canvassing and metapuppetry. If this really was your own work, you would have rather sent proof to WMF (VRT) as I suggested but you chose to go the other way. I'll stop here (unless needed) and let admins decide. Shaan SenguptaTalk 07:44, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Shaan Sengupta I have sent the proof to WMF(VRT) as well. And because of the part of an active community members, the matter was shared and discussed with each others to find the right method to do so. Discussing the matter with the community to learn correct methods cannot be termed as indulging in off-wiki convassing or metapupperty as you mentioned. There are numbers of wikimedian communities across the world and in India as well to discuss such matter offline and help each others for growing of the wikimedia movement. We should show kind gesture so that more newbie could come forward and learn the correct method. Labelling someone with wrong thing is not fruitful for the Wikimedia Movement. Angpradesh (talk) 08:05, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Angpradesh, there is a reason COM:HELP exists. And discussing something offline which the people involved don't have access to and then someone comes in and does what happened, it is bound to be called as such. In case you advocate for transparency and haven't done it the wrong way, you may use {{offsite discussion link|1=}} to provide us the discussion link. Anyways that ai'nt necessary. Also, you can go through my contribution history, it would tell you about how much I help others. Its just that when I spot these types of files, I try to do the obvious. Now rest and let things happen. Shaan SenguptaTalk 08:23, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Timed Text Site - pls delete

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Latest comment: 5 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Could anyone pls delete this Timed Text site? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Jsbach_triosonate_e-moll_bwv_528_christoph_prei%C3%9F_st._andreas_wei%C3%9Fenburg_live.mp3.de.srt I can't do that somehow ("forbidden'" or the like). I did not found any solution so far. Thanks so much! --Subbass1 (talk) 11:20, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

✓ Done --Rosenzweig τ 12:37, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! --Subbass1 (talk) 12:42, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Are there problems with the protection for the Picture of the day?

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Latest comment: 4 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Whenever any image is used as today’s Picture of the day and appears on the Main page of Wikimedia Commons, ordinary users cannot edit it and will find the hint “This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators” at the top of the description page of the image. So far so good.

Today (2025-11-21) this photo is the Picture of the day, so I would assume that it is protected against any edits. But please take a look at the history of the description page: the description has been edited today (2025-11-21) by User:Drexcreatur203 (not an admin, but a vandal) at 02:42, 02:43, 02:44 and 02:48 UTC, by a temporary account (i.e., by an IP) at 05:21 UTC, and by User:Nylki (again not an admin) at 09:52 UTC.

I report this here because I fear that this could mean that there are technical problems with the protection for the Picture of the day. If not, i.e. if I just misunderstand something, please excuse this post! Then I just ask for a short explanation what “This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators” means if even temporary accounts can edit the page. Thank you, – Aristeas (talk) 12:33, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Aristeas Per point 3 of Commons:Village pump/Technical/Archive/2025/03#Tech News: 2025-10, since March 2025, the cascading protection in this case only includes upload protection, and doesn't include edit protection. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 12:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ah, thank you, Tvpuppy! This means that at least the notice template must be updated. Currently the notice which is shown on the current POTD and similar pages says (I have underlined the important parts):
This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators.
This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following pages, which are protected with the "cascading" option enabled: ...
and the “edited” and “from editing” is wrong, right? Best, – Aristeas (talk) 15:26, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Thanks for reporting this. As you have shown above, the previous situation (full protection) should be restored. Yann (talk) 16:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Yann – I agree 100% with you that it would be by far the best to restore the previous situation, i.e. to protect especially POTDs completely, because they attract vandalism. Only if that is not possible for technical reasons, at least the wording of the cited notice should be updated, to remove the contradiction. – Aristeas (talk) 18:49, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Guy give me a global locked

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Latest comment: 4 days ago5 comments4 people in discussion

Guy give me a global blocked on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Common. Miss Dumb (talk) 20:02, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Miss Dumb: If you want to leave us definitely you can request for vanishing on m:Special:GlobalVanishRequest. --Achim55 (talk) 20:09, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Of course, Agent Achim55 Miss Dumb (talk) 20:22, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
They only joined 5h ago, as I'm writing this, so their account was only 3h old when they opened this thread. Nakonana (talk) 21:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Not done. You can simply never use your account anymore. I closed your DR. Taivo (talk) 08:20, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bob Ross Air Force photo.jpg

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Latest comment: 1 day ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I believe I've established a case for speedy deletion here. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:39, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request to upload new version of File:Charles_Dorange_2017.png

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Latest comment: 2 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, I would like to upload a new version of this file: File:Charles_Dorange_2017.png However, the page displays the message "You cannot overwrite this file" and the “Upload a new version” link does not appear. Could an administrator please either: allow overwriting, or upload the new version for me (I can provide the file)? Thank you! JackLondon22 (talk) 09:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@JackLondon22 Please upload it as a new file. I have my doubts over the copyright status of this file. Is the new image you want to upload one you took yourself or has someone else published it with a free license? Gbawden (talk) 09:21, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

DR have been open for 16 years

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Latest comment: 1 day ago5 comments5 people in discussion

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Henry Louis Gates, Jr. mugshot.jpg

Could we give the DR the peace it deserves? Trade (talk) 23:24, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

gone. thanks Bedivere (talk) 23:39, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to you both! I presume that's a record for longest open deletion request... at least I *hope* it is. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:38, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
This DR is old enough to apply for a driver's license in some places. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:46, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to @Trade, the nominator will finally have the peace of mind they deserve. Shaan SenguptaTalk 08:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Question on admin being an "involved party"

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Latest comment: 7 hours ago3 comments3 people in discussion

I know that, in general, admins are not supposed to use their (our) admin rights in situations in which they are embroiled as a party, but sometimes it seems to me that this reaches the point of absurdity: you warn a user, they respond with a personal attack. Should this disqualify you from taking admin action yourself? Recently arose for me with Youmaywear (I warned, he responded by vandalizing the description of my self-portrait that I use on a subpage of my user page) and I see that after being blocked they Special:Diff/1121169240 used their talk page access to insult the admin who followed up and blocked them. Is that admin also now supposed to recuse, and then we need a third admin to decide whether to take away TPA? At a certain point, this becomes absurd. - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

For a disruptive user like this with little/no productive contributions, I don't think it's an involved action to block (or reblock). Personally I would have blocked much sooner both for personal attacks and spam. In any case, I've revoked TPA. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:24, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
I agree with Pi.1415926535 here. The block is clearly justified. Regarding TPA being revoked by "an involved admin", I think admins should be allowed to deal with these types of cases. And just for transparency, they can put out a thread here for other admins to review, just like COM:AN/BP# Block review: Dronebogus and COM:AN/BP#Block review - RodRabelo7. Shaan SenguptaTalk 06:38, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Re request Massive message request for WLE BR 2025 contributors

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Latest comment: 23 minutes ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi all, this is the secound time that I requesting, I need to send a request for feedback to the participants of the WLE BR 25, can you guys help me?

Preferable via "wikimail", if not possible, via their talk pages

Olá tudo bem?!

Queríamos agradecer sua participação no Wiki Loves Earth 2025! Se possível, estamos realizando uma pesquisa sobre o concurso para podermos melhorar para o ano que vem! Ela pode ser respondida de forma completamente anônima nesse link: link para a pesquisa, se possível, responder até o dia 30 de novembro!

Caso tenham alguma dúvida, contato@foto.wiki.br

Muito obrigado novamente, equipe foto.wiki.br

Thank you. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 12:37, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Could you please make a separate page with a plain bulleted list of users (no table), then it would be much easier to send a mass message (which would land on the talk pages, I do not know how to mass-send e-mails). Also I guess the subject of the message is missing. Ymblanter (talk) 20:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Ymblanter: here the list, the subject can be "Obrigado pela sua participação no Wiki Loves Earth Brasil 2025!", thank you in advance. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 14:07, 26 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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