User talk:Alexis Jazz

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Some YouTube channels with Creative Commons content that Commons isn't using much from:

• The Scottish Parliament from ScottishParl
• World Poker Tour from TheWPT (note: not every video is CC)

Why don't you take some screenshots, import whole videos by downloading them with https://en.savefrom.net/ and import using video2commons, etc? Don't forget to tag your uploads with {{Licensereview}}! If you need help, just ask me! (or the folks at the helpdesk or village pump)

Wiki Loves Africa 2020

Contribute to Wiki Loves Africa and to how the world sees Africa!	Contribuez à Wiki Loves Africa et impactez la façon dont le monde voit l’Afrique!
Dear Alexis Jazz In the past, you contributed to the Wiki Loves Africa competition. This February, you have another opportunity to create beautiful photographs on the theme of "transportation" that could change how the world understands people and culture in your part of Africa. As with previous years, there are also many exciting cash prizes. Wiki Loves Africa is an annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Images from the competition have helped millions learn more about Africa and see Africa more clearly from an African perspective. Overall, nearly 5000 people like you have contributed to this photo contest, and contributed 18,000 images about Africa. When does it take place? The 2020 competition will start on the 15th of February 2020 and close on 31st March 2020. What should we contribute? Pictures ! audios ! videos ! The theme for the 2020 contest is... Africa on the Move ! This theme encompasses a host of approaches and is intentionally open to interpretation. It encourages the submission of visual representations of movement or transportation, whether by path, road, sea air, by self-propelled, animal or mechanical means, or the historical or contemporary structures that have been created to facilitate movement or the transportation of people, goods, or animals. In addition to the value your photos contribute to understanding and African visibility, there are several prizes on offer. The international prizes are: 1st prize: US$1000 2nd prize: US$800 3rd prize: US$500 Additional categories are: Culturally specific or traditional representations of transport or structures that facilitate transportation : US$500 Prize for best quality video: $500 Each winner will also receive a pack of goodies (proposed: a hat "I edit Wikipedia from Africa", a branded battery, stickers). Additional prizes will be available in some countries. For rules and information about how to participate, or to join the contest, click on Contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest. Warmest, Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team	Cher ou chère Alexis Jazz, Au cours des années passées, vous avez participé au concours photographique Wiki Loves Africa. Ce mois de février vous avez à nouveau l'opportunité de proposer de fabuleuses illustrations sur le thème du "transport", qui pourraient profondément modifier la façon dont le reste du monde voit l’Afrique et comprend ses habitants et ses coutumes. Bonus, comme lors des années précédentes, il y a plusieurs prix à la clé. Wiki Loves Africa un concours public annuel où chacun est invité à partager des illustrations via Wikimedia Commons, en rapport avec le thème de l’année, illustrations qui pourront être utilisées sur Wikipédia ou les autres sites de la Wikimedia Foundation. Les photos collectées par le passé dans le cadre du concours ont aidé des millions de personne à mieux connaitre et comprendre l’Afrique et à la voir selon une perspective africaine. Au cours des dernières années, près de 5000 personnes comme vous ont contribué au concours, un total de 18,000 photos sur l’Afrique. Quand le concours se déroule t-il? Le concours 2020 démarre le 15 février 2020 et cloture le 31 mars 2020. Quelles sont les contenus attendus? Des photos ! Des enregistrements audio ! Des vidéos ! Le thème du concours 2020 est ... Le transport. Ce thème englobe de nombreuses approches, il est aussi intentionnellement ouvert à l’interprétation. Le thème Transport ! encourage à proposer des représentations liées au mouvement ou au transport, que ce soit par la route, ou l’air, ou l’eau, de façon auto-propulsée ou avec l’aide de la force animale ou mécanique, ou bien également les structures architecturales historiques ou contemporaines qui sont à l’origine ou ont facilité le mouvement et le transport des êtres humains, des animaux ou des biens. En plus de la valeur intrinsèque que vos photos apportent pour une meilleure visibilité et compréhension de l’Afrique à travers le monde, il y a de nombreux prix à gagner. Les prix internationaux sont les suivants: 1er prix: US$1000 2ème prix: US$800 3ème prix: US$500 Catégories additionnelles: Transport ou structures de transport traditionnelles : US$500 Prix de la meilleure vidéo: US$500 Chaque gagnant recevra également des cadeaux supplémentaires tels qu'une casquette "I edit Wikipedia from Africa", une batterie portable, des stickers... Des prix supplémentaires seront offerts dans certains pays. Pour plus d'informations, règles de participation et pour participer au concours, cliquez sur Participer au concours Wiki Loves Africa. Bien à vous, Anthere, pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa

@Anthere: "In the past, you contributed to the Wiki Loves Africa competition."

I did? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:29, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Apparently you did... I did not establish the list of former participants myself, but someone else did. He used a query to create a list of every editor who ever uploaded at least one picture currently tagged Wiki Loves Africa. But I am a bit surprised by your comment so I am going to investigate to make sure that he did not include in the list people who might have edited those images but not uploaded them... Thanks. Anthere (talk) 03:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello user:Alexis Jazz. This message is to let you know that we have investigated the issue (the issue being... you got listed as a former participant to Wiki Loves Africa and subsequently received a message on your talk page to invite you to contribute again... but as you indicated, you actually did not submit any image in the past as part of WLA).
Some context... WLA is taking place for the 6th year. This year, we decided to do an experiment to test the impact of an invitation message on former participants. You may read more about this research here : m:CivilServant's Wikimedia studies/Wiki Loves Africa Recruitment 2020.
As part of this experiment, a list of all former participants (uploaders of images) has been established. Then half of those participants were issued a message on their talk page immediately after the launch of the contest. The other half did not receive any message. This list has been established with a sql query. You happened to be identified as a participant and were selected in the half to receive a message. What happened is that using the SQL technique that we've been using from the previous years, the creator of the image is the last uploader of a version. According to our records your have submitted this WLA image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musa_with_wheelbarrow.jpg. But in fact, you were not the original uploader, you just made a brighter version of the file and re-uploaded a newer version of that image. Checking our entire set, we could establish that this error of interpretation (of what a WLA participant is) in the sql query had two consequences...

1. some people were wrongly misattributed an upload, when they only updated a picture but were not the original uploader. Note that the majority of those are actually involved in WLA somehow, often as local team leaders. Altogether, 53 people were attributed, but only a dozen were really not involved such as you. And only one reacted to the mistake - yourself :) ;
2. and some people were forgotten on the original list set up, even though they uploaded an image as part of WLA. (actually, few were skipped though, since many uploaded several images, so were added to the list anyway due to the other uploads. We skipped 80 poeple).
   

Thanks to your report, we were able to react, investigate, and identify this mistake in the sql on our side.
We will remove from the research study those who actually did not contribute (such as you). And we will deal with the few forgotten to re-integrate them.
So... thank you for your involuntary help in making our experiment more accurate !

Cheers

Anthere (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@Anthere: Thanks, that was interesting to read! I improve images mostly regardless of subject. Cars, Harry Potter, politicians regardless of political view, food, cosplay, etc.. So yeah, I'm "involved" with all that, but not really. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 16:42, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

I hope you make this category one of your favorite avenue for the coming month :) Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2020. There is a lot to do ! Anthere (talk) 16:48, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

video2commons

Dear Alexis Jazz, At the top of this page, you ask the question: "Why don't you take some screenshots, import whole videos with video2commons, etc?" Answer: I stopped, because video2commons is in effect blacklisted by YouTube. Try to import this video, or 10 others. Vysotsky (talk) 12:58, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Commons talk on the subject. Going on for months. Vysotsky (talk) 13:01, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: I know, that section hasn't been updated for a long time. I added a link to savefrom.net, it's not ideal but it's something. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 14:46, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Fanclub1966MarianneFaithfull1.jpg

File:Fanclub1966MarianneFaithfull1.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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

World's Lamest Critic (talk) 23:40, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Kept. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 16:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

File:David Pham WPT.jpg

For whatever reason the Internet Archive's WayBack machine hasn't worked on my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL for some time now, could you check if this link confirms that this image falls under a free Creative Commons license? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 20:05, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Donald Trung: "This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License."

Niet specifiek voor dat plaatje. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 20:36, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Bedankt, ik denk inderdaad ook dat dit niet genoeg is om de afbeelding te behouden, sinds de tekst geïnterpreteerd kan worden als een licentie dat exclusief voor de geschreven inhoud van de blog geldt. Ik kan wel de snelle verwijderings-sjabloon vervangen met een nominatie om er meer ogen op de krijgen, maar ik weet niet of ik juist zo meer administrator tijd verspil. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 20:49, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Donald Trung: Die licentie is gewoon in orde, dit was één van de redenen voor Commons:Village pump/Proposals/Archive/2019/02#Acceptance of files from external sources without a license review. Heeft het met 9 voor (inclusief Yann) en 4 tegen (69%) schijnbaar op het randje niet gehaald. Ik trek mijn eerdere opmerking in trouwens, ik zie dat hij op het pokerplaatje uitkwam via de connectie met Vietnam. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 20:57, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Ik denk niet dat "de gemeenschap je voorstel heeft afgewezen", ik denk dat het waarschijnlijk gewoon is gearchiveerd nadat de discussie langzamerhand tot stilstand kwam. Wat nog erger is, is dat de enige externe links die nu automatisch gearchiveerd worden terwijl zij binnenkomen die van Google's YouTube en die van Vimeo zijn, en Alphabet ons heeft geblokkeerd, dus heeft het ook niet zo veel nut meer. Ik denk dat je gewoon in de (of is het het?) dorpspomp gewoon je nu gearchiveerde voorstel moet bespreken en dan denk ik wel dat een welwillende administrator het wil implementeren. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:08, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

File:His Excellency Mr. Sukavich Rangsitpol Minister of Education ThaiLand 1995-1997.jpg

I am copy from the above file to the website https://ru.citaty.net/avtory/sukavich-rangsitpol/

And the category;Education Reform should not be removed .

Sukavich Rangsitpol, education reforms goal to realize the potential of Thai people to develop themselves for a better quality of life and to develop the nation for a peaceful co-existence in the global community. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcrdaen/1/1/1_KJ00006742072/_pdf

The Other photo in the website is also from wiki, Sorry for your inconvenience. —Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2001:44C8:42C9:CF24:9CA4:722E:296C:A24E (talk) 04:18, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Google Translate really sucks. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 05:12, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Beeld & Geluid

41 images (incl. some very heavily used (+300 times) and several interesting photographs) were added to the B&G list. Check the source, if needed. I will check them all. Sometimes pointed questions are immediately rewarded. Vysotsky (talk) 00:16, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

This looks awfully familiar

Notice how much this looks a lot like this? (you're probably old enough to get the reference).

But in all seriousness, asking for your advice if creating a separate proposal for limiting the enforcements of these blocks, for example that any abuse filter block may be evaded if no actual vandalism can be demonstrated, something similar to the "escape clause" the Dutch language Wikipedia has would be useful? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 20:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Donald Trung: evade = ontwijken. Dus volgens mij bedoel je iets anders hier, want de ontsnappingsclausule heeft niks met het ontwijken van AF te maken. Het nummer Boten Anna herinner ik me nog wel, maar de referentie ontgaat me even. De Nederlandse versie vind ik beter. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 08:09, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Marnie the Dog celebrating St. Patrick's Day.jpg

File:Marnie the Dog celebrating St. Patrick's Day.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. The file you added has been deleted. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: The flickr upload appears to be a flickrwashing from the official social media account for Marnie the Dog [1] Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Masem (talk) 02:16, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

This is unfortunate, but I have to agree. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 12:50, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

"Promotional" logo?

Could you please see this, this was closed as being "promotional", I have no association with this organisation and have no idea why or even how documenting practitioners of Traditional Chinese medicine in the Netherlands would somehow make it "promotional", I want to request undeletion but stating that something is a national organisation with over 200 (two-hundred) members did not work the last time. I genuinely don't see how these images are supposedly "promotional". --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 04:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

They're not, it's just more bullshit from poorly informed admins. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 12:26, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

The problem I have with this isn't the nominated category by itself, but the potential of lost hours it may cause when this behaviour is applied consistently. Generally, I take photographs all over the Netherlands and if I see a store, chain of stores, or other kind of organisation that is active throughout the Netherlands I will create a category for this organisation. Let's use "Category:Ziengs Schoenen" as an example, it doesn't have a Wikipedia article and the only reason it has a Wikidata item is because I specifically stated that it's an example of a Wikimedia Commons category without a Wikidata item and someone made it to prove me wrong that Wikidata's current notability standards hamper Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC). I wouldn't have to worry about Scapino or Etos, but as Ziengs Schoenen has no Wikipedia article literally anyone can nominate these images as "promotional", "advertisement", and/or "spam" and say that a lack of a Wikipedia article means that they are not ready to be hosted on Wikimedia Commons, despite most of my images I see used on other websites are images that aren't used on any other Wikimedia website. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:26, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

@Donald Trung: you want me to fire the admins in question? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 20:37, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

LOL, no. This is not an individual issue, but a systemic one. The problem is that there should be a vague project scope that can exclude actual advertisers because otherwise the system could be abused by actual bad actors. The rule system is deliberately complex and contradictory, because trolls and other bad actors will try to wikilawyer themselves out of a very clearly defined rule system. The system needs to be reformed, but only in ways that still keeps abuse (by both bad actors and enforcers) to a minimum. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 20:45, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Just wanted to say many thanks for moving the list to DR as well as for your help today, Your help is greatly greatly appreciated so thank you very much, Take care, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:24, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Normalize file extensions

What happened to this proposal: Commons:Village_pump/Proposals/Archive/2018/12#Normalize_file_extensions_for_new_uploads?

I am especially interested in converting jpeg to jpg automatically. CropTool uploads files in jpeg extension, but Move & Replace script converts them into jpg (See history of File:JafarQoli Pirzade Nohuji 1354.jpg). This made my collection inconsistent. 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: it was accepted: phab:T213484 Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 72#Archived proposal, accepted? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 10:42, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Considering phab:T31284 which has been open since 2011, the implementation of this proposal may take a looong time :-( 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:51, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: yes, developers give high priority to Use static php array files for l10n cache at WMF (instead of CDB) which may result in a performance increase.. or completely break all the wikis. Either way nobody has asked for it, it's possibly nice to have (if it doesn't break everything), no more than that. They didn't test it properly and rolling it out on production was blocked only a few days ago. Disaster averted. On the other hand, many tasks that the community would be extremely grateful for are left to rot and even medium priority is reverted for no given reason. It's just sad.

At least CropTool we should be able to fix locally. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 10:58, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: I'm not sure what you did (ToolForge is dead), but I looked at CropTool and it doesn't appear to be at fault. Instead, when uploading a jpg file without extension it's MediaWiki that will append the ".jpeg" extension.

Stupid MediaWiki. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 11:17, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

That's it. I remove the filename (including extension) entirely and write it from scratch without an extension; then CropTool/MediaWiki uploads the cropped file in jpeg extension.

File:Ettelaat 14739, 1354-04-01, p.4.jpg --> File:Qodrat-ol-Lah Vahedi 1354.jpeg

File:Ettelaat 14739, 1354-04-01, p.25.pdf --> File:Ebrahim Chehrazi 1354.jpeg

I do this because the name of the original file is not appropriate/descriptive for the derived file. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:32, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: Phabricator has memes. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 11:54, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Let's keep it rational

I know you hate abusive admins, but no need to accuse them of sockpuppetry and ask for a checkuser. That's for serious cases and serious allegations. Let's keep the heat as low as possible and discuss it at COM:AN. Thanks. pandakekok9 14:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

@Pandakekok9: it's nothing personal. We've had really bad problems with admins and sources that I will keep anonymous have suggested there is still a socking admin active. If that's true, no idea. Who it might be, no idea. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 15:06, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Babbel

Your English box is green[2]. Are you a native speaker of English? 4nn1l2 (talk) 00:24, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: Ah Scheiße, I need a new color. Done. I don't want to assess my own language skill. All I can say is what I understand. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 01:38, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I like your English. You mostly use simple words and structures, but generate creative sentences with clear meanings. I would like to know if you have ever lived in an English-speaking country (and by that, I only mean US, UK, CA, AU, NZ, or IE)? If you don't feel comfortable responding to this question, you can email me or you can ignore me. I understand the importance of privacy. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 02:20, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

4nn1l2 (talk) 06:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)