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October 27

Category:Scientific journals of Russia

These are mostly categorised by templates, and the results do not fit into our category structure. Could someone please sort out the templates? Rathfelder (talk) 15:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

and the results do not fit into our category structure What do you mean? please sort out the templates What do you mean? Prototyperspective (talk) 18:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

For example Category:Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniya, 1849 is put by the template into Category:1849 scientific journals, not in Category:Scientific journals of Russia, 1849. Rathfelder (talk) 17:09, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Is this solved now? The example category now is in that category. If not, please explain what is missing. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:46, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Its still in Category:1849 scientific journals as well. Rathfelder (talk) 17:06, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Not anymore. Is it solved now? Also if you got more issues with templates, see #Commons:Template requests. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:47, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Very pleased to see a place where I can make requests about templates. Rathfelder (talk) 17:59, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

October 30

Image not replaced at Wikidata

When I changed the name of the image it did not substitute at Q16029247, was I supposed to leave a redirect behind? RAN (talk) 02:33, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

I changed it manually at Henry M. Sage (Q16029247). However, I'm not sure if a bot would have been able to identify the file move without a redirect. From Hill To Shore (talk) 02:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

(That's d:Special:Diff/2423530085) RAN, did you use the "Move & Replace" button under Tools to rename the file and if so did you check "Try to replace usage immediately using your user account"? Because if so it seems like a bug in the file replace function that should be reported for the Move & Replace tool. FHTS, the prior image link is a redirect; I think a bot does replace redirect file titles with the new file titles on Wikidata after a short while. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:14, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: The redirect was created after I made my previous comment. Without the redirect, some bots would treat the dead link like a deleted image and remove the entry at Wikidata, rather than update it. From Hill To Shore (talk) 20:43, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

RAN is blocked on Wikidata, so the tool cannot edit properties on that site. Omphalographer (talk) 16:56, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

• Ahh, that makes sense, I was permabanned without any warning after opposing the deletion of a group of entries. Then the rationale for the permaban was my complaining about the initial out-of-process ban. --RAN (talk) 01:52, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks for explaining. If this is accurate here is some info from your WD talk page if anybody here would like to request an unblock which if true seems adequate: A third party may relay such a request, but only if that request is civil and clearly in understanding of why their conduct wasn't acceptable.

Prototyperspective (talk) 12:07, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

I easily find a dozen errors a day at Wikidata but they go unfixed since the permaban. See: Q124851845, a simple spelling error left unfixed. Birth year only entries can be off by a year, but I have access to the WWI and WWII draft registration which has full birth dates and birth locations. I also had to stop working on finding missing middle names based on only a middle initial in Wikidata. I add them to Commons but they do not get fixed at Wikidata. I have a search I used to perform looking for year only birth dates and fill them out as full birthdates. I also can no long create entries for the Library of Congress project to identify people in the Bain Collection. See: File:AnakSociety1908.jpg It also put an end to the Mayors project. See Talk:Q106370185 for just one example. --RAN (talk) 14:37, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for elaborating further. It looks like wikidata user "Jasper Deng" disabled your ability to email admins but doing so is required because WD:AN is the only venue where [an unblock] can be decided and the user themselves must initiate the process by first emailing an admin to request restoration of talk page access meaning A third party may relay such a request. I'm willing to do so but it seems like this requires you to write the request somewhere (I suggest simply as a reply here but you could also mail me) and I just relay it. Please do so and I think it can be as short as "Please ask a Wikidata admin to restore my talk page access" for example but I don't know much about all of this (and would prefer if somebody else did all this if somebody here has more experience in that). Prototyperspective (talk) 12:04, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks, next time I will leave the redirect, and delete after I see that the pic has been moved. --RAN (talk) 15:55, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

October 31

Category:Publishing companies by country: inconsistent subcategories "Publishing houses from/Publishing companies of" should be renamed

Templates inside the subcategories should also be updated to reflect the new names. --Iketsi (talk) 15:42, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be moved to a CfD? Commons:Categories for discussion. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:26, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Display of cover of book

Is there a way to get this to display the cover, rather than the Google logo without downloading and deleting the Google logo? File:Views from the Mosquito Reservation, Nicaragua C.A.pdf RAN (talk) 18:23, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Only this way, AFAIK. Yann (talk) 18:56, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

mw:Help:Images#Syntax page={number} – Renders the specified page number (currently only applicable when showing a .djvu or .pdf file). RoyZuo (talk) 19:13, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Help:PDF#Page. RoyZuo (talk) 10:11, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, image thumbnails will always display the first page of a PDF or DjVu. I'm not aware of any way to override that. (And it's a pity - there's a ton of scanned books where it'd be nice if we could point the thumbnail to a title page.) Omphalographer (talk) 03:18, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Enabling to specify the page for the preview image via editing the file page would be a good wish for the m:Community Wishlist. Probably it would also be useful to have this for videos (specifying the timing of the thumbnail displayed). Prototyperspective (talk) 11:51, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

November 02

New category Speeches by presidents of countries by country

Please help populating the new Category:Speeches by presidents of countries by country – I think it's missing many files and that the contents and this criteria for organizing them are relatively notable. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:07, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

I didn't mean to say these files are very important but afaik there's many videos of speeches by presidents of countries on Commons but they aren't organized well. Before creating this thread and as of now, it only has Chile, Iran, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and the US which is quite few plus some of these are probably quite incomplete. I interpret this cat to be just for speeches of presidents during their duty, not for speeches of them at any time (maybe this should be clarified in a cat description?). Prototyperspective (talk) 11:48, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

COM:DIGNITY and attack ads

Is it okay to host media that goes against COM:DIGNITY if the media is an w:attack ad made by a political opponent as part of their political campaign? Trade (talk) 14:16, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

This totally depends on the individual case. A campaign against Trump is likely okay, the same against the mayor of a small town is not. GPSLeo (talk) 14:41, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

As that guidance says, you need to weigh up the educational merit of retaining the image, so it is impossible to make an ironclad ruling on a mere hypothetical situation. The issue will also be complicated if the subject is a living person. We host a large amount of historical propaganda that would struggle to pass COM:DIGNITY if made today. From Hill To Shore (talk) 14:42, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Feel free to take a look at Category:Attack ads and tell me if it passes Trade (talk) 15:09, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

In this case, I'd say the educational use of an example of what a flailing campaign like Andrew Cuomo's would use against a political opponent expected to win would outweigh COM:DIGNITY issue from Mamdani's side but I am biased towards Mamdami. I'd certainly welcome other points of view on that though. Abzeronow (talk) 00:19, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Template requests

On the new page Commons:Template requests, Commons users can request edits to templates, the addition of complex templates to pages, and the creation of new templates. Users experienced with templates can find tasks to work on.

So far, such requests could only be made on dispersed talk pages unlikely to be watched by users experienced with templates (and just very few if any users) and at Commons:Village pump/Technical which Template editors may not watch either and which is more broadly about any kind of technical problems. Moreover, on both of these pages, requests may have gotten archived without gotten implemented.

If you are skilled in editing templates, please help out there.

--Prototyperspective (talk) 14:44, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way to display stats like these (these current stats)?:

• 3 solved requests, 5 open requests (8 total)

Prototyperspective (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

November 03

Question about categorization

I have a question about COM:OVERCAT and how it applies to categories for Quality, Valued, or Featured images. Since these are hidden categories, are they considered a separate kind of category from mainspace ones? Specifically, if a quality image belongs to category X, can it be included in both "X" and "Quality images of X", or should it only be placed in "Quality images of X"? ReneeWrites (talk) 08:30, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

A problem of the overcat policy is that when files are located in one subcategory of a category but also belong into a or multiple other subcategories, they're gone from the category. For example, if people categorize files by say year but the files are then missing in the by subject subcategories. I think the same issue exists here – afaik so far no exceptions are made and when categorizing one needs to go through many or all subcategories, e.g. using the deepcategory search operator. Here, one could for example use deepcategory on the quality images of X category and -deepcategory for the subcategory the file should also be located in to find files still awaiting categorization into the latter subcategory branch. Furthermore, maybe these categories shouldn't be hidden to begin with. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:56, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Personally, I'd place them in both categories, exactly because one is hidden. Being hidden is one of the reasons mentioned for why user categories are exempted from this rule, so I'd think the same applies to other hidden categories by that analogy. --HyperGaruda (talk) 20:33, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Hidden categories are considered non-topical; OVERCAT with topical categories does not apply. - Jmabel ! talk 03:26, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, that's what I wanted to know :) ReneeWrites (talk) 09:49, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Hi there, I noticed File:Flag of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.svg got deleted, with rationale a broken redirect. When trying to fix this on an article where this was used, I found File:Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.png which has the description "English: Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.svg". Something messed up has happened here, my guess is that a few people had good intentions and now many wikis have broken links. (The file is a png, not a svg, and there was a redirect that pointed the svg filename to the png file. The redirect got removed, and now there's an issue. Can someone look into this? Milliped (talk) 11:27, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Hang on a minute. The SVG was deleted for copyright reasons; see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.svg. Surely those reasons apply to the raster versions as well? Omphalographer (talk) 19:09, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

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Is this image public domain?

I believe it to be PD, because it was made by AI and published by the White House (although I can’t find the link). Does anyone want to migrate it to commons? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115158096026629509 Victorgrigas (talk) 13:35, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Meh. Geoffroi 00:54, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't think it is clear that this is PD. The image was posted by Donald Trump, not the White House, and there are no indications that this is AI-generated. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 01:54, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

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November 04

Merging categories

There should be a guideline on how to merge categories. The Candlelight Master and Maestro del Lume di Candela should be merged, but small font text in {{Move}} doesn't make it clear what I'm expected to do. Qbli2mHd (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Not an answer to your question, but should these two categories not also be merged with Category:Trophime Bigot? --HyperGaruda (talk) 20:14, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

As I see it, the identification of the Candlelight Master with Bigot is contentious; Master Jacomo is another candidate, and all three are viewed as separate identities. Qbli2mHd (talk) 23:06, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Depending on the case, people create a category for discussion. Especially because it can take years until these CfDs get closed and because still only few people provide input / contribute to CfDs, it can often be better to directly implement things yourself. There merging can be replacing one category's content with {{Category redirect}} and letting a bot after a short time automatically move the files and subcategories accordingly or to also also move these yourself as well using the cat-a-lot tool. If the target category doesn't already exist, one would use Tools->Move where one can also uncheck keeping a redirect. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:38, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Adding footage

I'm not an expert, but is there any way to see if this footage is out of copyright? Looking for an image to illustrate the wikipedia:1949 PGA Championship page. Thank you,
Packer1028 (talk) 19:36, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Their website says it's copyrighted [1]. Such claims aren't always true though, but with footage from 1949 from a British (?) source it's likely that the copyright claim is true, I'd say. The footage is rather recent and most countries have copyright durations of "70 years after the death of the author", so, if the author died in 1949, then it would have been PD in 2019 (or 2020). But how likely is it that the author died in the same year as the footage was created? If they only lived 6-7 years longer, until 1955/1956, then it wouldn't be PD yet. Nakonana (talk) 23:19, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Please ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright instead of here. Prototyperspective (talk) 00:05, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Category naming help

I'm doing some cleanup of Speedcubing, and I'd like to make separate categories for different events (Speedcubing by event). However, many of the names of the events clash with the names of the puzzles. For example, I'd like to make a category for Pyraminx to hold Pyraminx, Estonian Open 2011.jpg, Speedcubing2.jpg, and similar. Pyraminx already exists for the puzzle itself, which makes sense, but media of the competition category is a distinct concept (on Wikidata: Q1322820 versus Q107065322). I'm not that familiar with category naming rules. Should this be a parenthetical, like "Pyraminx (event)", or maybe something like "Pyraminx speedcubing"? Eiim (talk) 23:12, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Thinking about it more, perhaps "Speedcubing by event" isn't the right supercategory, and it should be "Speedcubing events"? Not sure. Eiim (talk) 00:40, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

@Eiim: I'd name it "Pyraminx competitions". As for whether it's "Speedcubing events" or "Speedcubing by event", I would pick the latter. It sounds like speedcubing is inherently an event/competition, but "by event" clearly denotes a metacat. ReneeWrites (talk) 08:31, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

November 05

File error

I uploaded this file to Commons, however it says "The media playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the media used features your browser did not support." How can this be fixed? PublicDomainFan08 (talk) 19:43, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

On Firefox, I hear the audio fine, but see only black. - Jmabel ! talk 03:30, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure how to fix it. If an admin knows how to fix it, I'll be more than happy to help them. PublicDomainFan08 (talk) 03:32, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

yeah broken file. ffmpeg reports

:[vp9 @ 0x91f0b8380] zero_bit out of range: 1, but must be in [0,0].
:[vp9 @ 0x91f0b8380] Failed to read unit 0 (type 0).
:[vp9 @ 0x91f0b8380] Failed to read frame header.
:[vp9 @ 0x91f0b8380] Not all references are available
:[matroska,webm @ 0x91ec1c000] decoding for stream 0 failed
:[matroska,webm @ 0x91ec1c000] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: vp9 (Profile 0), none(tv, gbr/bt709/bt709, progressive), 1280x720): unspecified pixel format
:Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options
:

—TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:32, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Can it be fixed by any chance? PublicDomainFan08 (talk) 09:33, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Took quite a bit, but with some help (AI) noticed that the original file uses a pretty unconventional colorspace (gbr) and apparently this confuses the encoder. Made it work by specifying the transcode as: ffmpeg -i "(Clip_1.1)_MEDIA_REDACTED_91_I_95_N.mp4" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -pix_fmt yuv420p -colorspace bt709 -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc bt709 -c:a libopus output.webm —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:18, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Should have been asked / moved to Commons:Village pump/Technical. This is the wrong place. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:03, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

November 06

Categorization missing on Special:Upload

Has anyone else noticed the option to add categories to a file is no longer on Special:Upload today? - The Bushranger (talk) 00:17, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes. The three files I just uploaded a few minutes ago had to be categorized after upload. I use the basic upload form. Geoffroi 01:48, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T409400

The problem is reported. GPSLeo (talk) 08:57, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Should have been asked / moved to Commons:Village pump/Technical. This is the wrong place. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:04, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Data graphic resources?

Commons:Free media resources/Datagraphics is a relatively new page for databases with free data graphics like charts that could be uploaded to Commons.

It still only has few sites – do you know of any further ones?
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Recently added this resource but it's mostly just German-language data graphics. It would be great if somebody could upload the graphics from there that aren't yet on Commons. Until now, doing so was just in my private todos but I may never get to uploading more of these. For an example, see Category:Meat Atlas which contains charts and maps about meat consumption (not just in Germany but also worldwide; translatable).

--Prototyperspective (talk) 23:22, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

November 07

Category for WP bugs

I wanted to show an irritating bug in a screenshot, and I couldn't find an appropriate category for it, in the drop-down, then in the list of cats beginning with "Wikipedia...". It's self-evident I suppose, that an illustration of a bug speaks clearer than an awkward description. "Wikipedia [e.g.: – screenshots of bugs]" would be the most promising, intuitively most obvious beginning of a name for this sort of internal problems. MenkinAlRire (talk) 10:24, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Added Category:Screenshots of Wikipedia bugs. Bidgee (talk) 10:27, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

yeah, it's the name, there is no possible auto-complete, if you expect "Wikipedia" would be the leading word in the category title (since there have to be other internal cats that document internal affairs and may be affiliated to screenshots of WP [and] bugs) – and I think I searched for "Screenshots", too. But, ok, I am not sure, so anyway, thank you very much for the immediate response. I hope, not to forget again. MenkinAlRire (talk) 10:39, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

I searched for "Screenshots of" and waited, the proposals in the dropdown did show "Wolfram Alpha", but no WP or WC:

File:WC Category Search for "Screenshot" with dropdown of proposals (20251107 Firefox).jpg

Even with "Screenshots of W" it took some time to appear amidst other auto-completes. MenkinAlRire (talk) 10:53, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

That's something on your end – on mine, the autocomplete immediately appears. You could ask about it at Commons:Village pump/Technical. Would be best to check whether videos load slow (see the thread #Videos loading slow? there). Moreover, in 2014 already a redirect from Category:Wikipedia bugs screenshots was created so entering Wikipedia or Wikipedia bug should autocomplete to the correct cat. If the problem persists, please create a new thread or move this thread to VP/T. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:32, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

When entering "cat:Wikipedia bug" or "cat:Screenshots of Wikipedia" in the top search instead of the HotCat category box, it also autocompletes to the correct cat. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:35, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, for your advice. MenkinAlRire (talk) 11:36, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

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Is there a Commons category for “Victim of a miscarriage of justice”?

On the German Wikipedia there is the category Opfer eines Justizirrtums. In English: “Victim of a miscarriage of justice”, Dutch: “Slachtoffer van een gerechtelijke dwaling”. I tried to find a category in Commons, but I could not. Does such a category exist? Wouter (talk) 16:51, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

@Wouterhagens Perhaps Category:Wrongfully convicted people? Tvpuppy (talk) 17:02, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

That category was not linked with Category:People wrongfully convicted of a crime (Q9573520). Fixed. A broader category doesn't seem to exist (yet) but it could be created (went through the English Wikipedia categories to check). Prototyperspective (talk) 17:08, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Broader Category:Victims of Justice does exist though. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:09, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

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Uboot ---> U boat?

I found Special:Contributions/Mbarma993 which appear to be photos of U-boat bunkers. Do these need renaming? Can they he mass renamed? Thanks. Geoffroi 20:24, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

No, U-boot is just the German word for U boat. Per COM:LP, file names can be in any language. --HyperGaruda (talk) 20:41, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Why should e.g. File:U-Bootbunker Fink 2 WW2 shelter 12.jpg be renamed? That's around Hamburg, and "U-Boot" is the usual German word for submarine. There's no need to use a historicizing "U-Boat"; the COM:FRNOT explicitly mandates a decline for language switches. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 20:42, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought that might be the case. Geoffroi 21:00, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

The problem is that the filetitle is not entirely German or entirely English or both but a mix of German and English, in principle only fully understandable by the fraction of users who understand both German and English. Not good.

Moreover, the captions were declared to be German when they are actually in English – could somebody bulk-move them to the correct language / change the language for the captions? Prototyperspective (talk) 22:09, 7 November 2025 (UTC)