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Category:Photo credit

Hi, Bidgee, would you kindly be able to alter the comment on the file history of this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bob_hoskins_filming_ruby_blue.jpg to remove the middle name of the author (myself) please? Many thanks —Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A02:C7D:C55F:2B00:959C:BB1B:C884:7384 (talk) 13:04, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Category:2012 Leeton SunRice Festival

Hi, Bidgee, I noticed your edit, though I do not quite understand what you mean when saying " makes it impossible to find". Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 10:05, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Well you'll need to jump though many hoops, by removing the main category (yes, not ideal having it but worse but not having it).

• Category:Leeton, New South Wales

• Category:Leeton, New South Wales by year

• Category:2012 in Leeton, New South Wales

• Category:April 2012 in Leeton, New South Wales

• Category:2012 Leeton SunRice Festival

I hope you get the idea above as to why I state "makes it impossible to find". Bidgee (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Buildings in Bathurst

I don't see why I should redirect Building in Bathurst to Building in Bathurst, New South Wales. Building in Bathurst could be at best a disambiguation page, since there are in the world at least three towns named "Bathurst", all of them with their own buildings. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 16:48, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't see the point in keeping the chronology of a category which has no copyright issues involved like in a wikipedia article (which is why we keep chronology), hence I don't even understand why you're still complaining about that. Anyway, since you seem to be passionate about the topic, I saved the category's chronology so I guess we all are satisfied now. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 09:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I didn't mean to be rude, but as we know the main rationale of keeping chronology is for copyright issues, which is not much an issue for categories -- Ok, hereinafter I'll move them. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 12:25, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

McDonalds

Hi there, the actual restaurants of McDonald's are categorised in Category:McDonald's restaurants. This again is categorised under Category:Hamburger restaurants, which is a subcategory of Category:Fast food restaurants. The overall Category:McDonald's on the other hand, also contains museums, office buildings etcetera and it is therefore that I feel that it should not be categorised under Category:Fast food restaurants. - Takeaway (talk) 23:59, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Rodger that, I wasn't too sure why it was removed (I did have an edit summary but seems it didn't show) and have a bit on my mind ATM. Bidgee (talk) 11:56, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

I used HotCat to remove the category, and unfortunately HotCat doesn't give much of an edit summary. Regards, Takeaway (talk) 12:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Sydney Japanese International School

Are you interested in photographing the Sydney Japanese International School? It's at 112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084 Australia. It's unique among overseas Japanese schools since it actively includes Australian local children as students.

If you are interested in other ideas please let me know and I'll give you some others. Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 16:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Not sure when I'll be in Sydney next, quite busy with university and my other volunteering roles, which includes travelling to Melbourne and Nowra. Sorry. Bidgee (talk) 07:34, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I do have photo requests in Melbourne too if you're interested WhisperToMe (talk) 08:58, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Toyota Corona

Any reason for reversion of my edits to restore two Toyota Corona images back to factory specification? I note that you did not leave an explanation for your reversion which is odd considering the time I spent making the edits. OSX II (talk) 01:02, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you read COM:OVERWRITE. Bidgee (talk) 03:16, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Apis mellifera feeding on nectar from a Corymbia ficifolia flower.jpg

If you look in Category:Corymbia ficifolia you see it is a Myrtales flower. --Kersti (talk) 06:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

No need to be flipping rude about it, sheesh. To be honest, you need to brush up the use of the rollback tool or have it removed.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm done with this project. I'm not going to be contributing any further content. Bidgee (talk) 01:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Category:Supreme_Court_of_New_South_Wales

Supreme Court of New South Wales has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/07/Category:Supreme_Court_of_New_South_Wales. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

121.216.26.52 06:59, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

File:Wolf spider and egg sack.jpg

Why did you revert the changes on this file? This is by no means a wolf spiders. These carry their cocoons at their spinnerets, not under the prosoma, and their eye field is completely different. --Mhohner (talk) 11:33, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Food for thought

Wouldn't it be better to have

• Regional Express aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport

or

• Regional Express Saab 340 aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport [option 1, if disam is required]

or

• Regional Express aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport (Saab 340) [option 2, if disam is required]

Rather then;

• Aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport
• Saab 340 at Sydney Airport
• Saab 340 on final approach
• Regional Express aircraft at Sydney Airport

Just a thought... Bidgee (talk) 12:56, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

I see final approach, landing etc as an attribute of the aircraft model, not the airline. I.e. the destinations etc are an attribute of the airline, but flying characteristics are an attribute of the airplane type. An airplane type XYZ lands the same way for any airline. I think categories like Saab 340 landing at Sydney Airport would be over-categorization. I am available to discus this ! Rcbutcher (talk) 13:09, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

File:TempfileAusAthlete.jpg

File:TempfileAusAthlete.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!

P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Category:Scania K94UB

An explanation would not fit on one line, so I do it here. First of all I understand that we don't fully agree on what is best practice, based on earlier encounters. As you may have noticed, about one month ago I changed so that Category:Scania K-series and similar N and F are exclusively related to the current range (post 4-series). Despite my effort, I could not find one single use of the term "K-series" or similar by Scania officially prior to its introduction with the current range in 2005. (It may however have been used by some local distributor in some country prior to that, but local variants should not be considered at that level anyway.) Then it would be both historically and technically incorrect to use the current marketing name on the older ones, so I instead introduced the Category:Scania K chassis which even includes similar chassis before they were given the letter K at the introduction of the 2-series. (BR85, BR115 and BR145 in "0-series" and BR86 and BR116 in "1-series", but only one of these have been created yet due to lack of content.) Those updates were in line with my updates to the Scania article on English Wikipedia and the timelines that can be found at the bottom of the page there. However I was not sure what to do with K UB, K EB, N UB, etc., as they kind of fit both in the current range and to some extent in the 4-series. I have only found one source using N UB, K EB, etc. explicitly about the 4-series, which can be found here: Scania data sheets (choose Chassis range). Back then I didn't decide about it, but last week I decided that it would be best not to mix models from the 4-series and the current range within those cagetories. I am truly not sure what would be the best solution for this, but if the answer is that K UB should contain both 4-series and K-series models, my edits of last week should be reverted on the other models of the 4-series too. Bergenga (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

John Robertson

See John Robertson. Apart that there's several people named John Robertson, at least two of whom are politicians who come from New South Wales, the disambiguation was inconsistent. Usually the disambiguation is by occupation and, whereas two or more persons share the same occupation, by year of birth. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 15:28, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Lake george nsw.jpg

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 22:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Image reversion

I do not comprehend your comments at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MotorolaStarTAC.jpg ... I removed the ridiculous background cleanly and lightened the image, helping people to see the subject. Why do you feel you have the right to claim this was done badly and to destroy this work without so much as leaving a comment? Pratyeka (talk) 01:49, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I gave you constructive and valid criticism, that is your problem if you don't want to take that on board. Bidgee (talk) 08:51, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Category:Commons._YouTube

Commons. YouTube has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/03/Category:Commons._YouTube. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Riley Huntley (talk) 17:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Rio Olympics 2016

Hello, Bidgee!
I wanted to know if you are planning to do photo-journalism for Rio Olympics at en.wn? Laura Hale told me to ask you if you wanted some support there. Let us know about it.
acagastya  📷 16:11, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Category:VH-ZXB (Boeing 767-300ER)

Note your reversion of my edit. My edit was done as previous information was objected to by planespotters.net as being taken direct from their website without permission. They object to this throughout Wikimedia and many similar revisions will have to be made elsewhere as a result - hence my cutting down of the info to essentials. It would be good if you could revert to my edit and avoid conflict with planespotters.net which is a most useful info source. Ardfern (talk) 12:43, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

I take it as insult that "previous information was objected to by planespotters.net as being taken direct from their website without permission", when in fact I had sourced it from the FAA (along with FA and FR24) and the fact no one asked me(thought I had added it [as I have with others]) regardless PlaneSpotters.net do not own the information when it is already freely available on the FAA, therefore I will not revert it. Next time, don't use the "m" that isn't a minor edit and without an edit summary. Bidgee (talk) 12:50, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Help regarding FOP

Hello, Bidgee. I was thinking of Freedom of Panorama in India. I had a doubt. Since India has the right of FoP, is it okay for someone to charge money for taking photos of monuments like Taj Mahal? Is it okay for zoo owners to charge money for taking photos of animals? And is a person supposed to delete photos of a restricted area (some old monument) if the in-charge asks you provided you have taken the photos. Can you please clear my doubt?
acagastya  📷 06:23, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

File:CSIRO Cloud Seeding from Wagga Airport 1958 01.jpg

File:CSIRO Cloud Seeding from Wagga Airport 1958 01.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!

174.26.245.162 10:27, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

VH-JSO category

there is 1 citationJet and 1 TBM, the category can't be both. [1] --Marc Lacoste (talk) 09:29, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes I'm well aware of that but it isn't an issue. I will be separating them when I have my Mac working smoothly but removing those categories was the wrong thing to do. Bidgee (talk) 09:34, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

what to do then? if you're searching for TBM pics and you get a CJ or viceversa it's an issue --Marc Lacoste (talk)

It will be split, similar to Category:VH-ZXF (aircraft) has been done. Bidgee (talk) 09:48, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Logical, what is the good way to do that if I find similar situations? --Marc Lacoste (talk)

I've noticed some people have put some registrations that have the aircraft type in brackets as its own main category (eg. Category:N582C (Socata TBM 700), rather than creating a main category (eg. Category:VH-JSO (aircraft); which is the cat system I'm using) which has sister categories (means the Aircraft registered in and Aircraft by registration becoming full of of same rego). Hope I haven't confused you. Bidgee (talk) 13:17, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

er, I'm not sure indeed ;/ --Marc Lacoste (talk) 14:55, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Randwick barracks

Was interested in your shot of the former Randwick barracks. Where are they located?

Sardaka (talk) 07:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

considering s--- on en

It is always nice to see a helping hand on commons - thanks JarrahTree (talk) 12:27, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

No problem. With en, I just sigh and move on, there is no point in wasting energy and time if others aren't willing to step up. Bidgee (talk) 23:55, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Special:Diff/237974357

Hello, you might want to see en:User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback, which display a confirmation popup for every rollback attempt. I also accidentally click the rollback link too, and thanks to that script, I could prevent myself from accidentally rollbacking an innocent edit. Thanks, ★ Poké⁹⁵ 07:54, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

My error in a Baron file

I should have removed the "Category:Beechcraft aircraft" (= over-cat) iso "... at Avalon". Finger trouble - my mistake - sorry! --Uli Elch (talk) 12:19, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

International

Hi Bidgee. I thought to settle the question of the name of the trucks before moving on to the various sub-categories.

Don't you think it better to settle a principle? I mean like following / not-following a recognised naming system for the categorisation? If Australia wants to be different there is some justification because I think they later built purely Australian trucks but I must admit that is only my impression and it may not be what actually happened. I think Navistar / IHC also have or had an operation in Brazil which I suppose should be handled the same way as Australia. You won't know this so I'll explain that my particular interest in images of old things (in this case old trucks) arises from the habit of most editors to be concerned only for things in Their recent past - quite recent for a 20 year-old, less so for someone in their forties. There is also a tendency for contributors to dodge categorisation, I think often because they don't know how to handle it. Have a look at this pair of images which I managed to spring out of a collector yesterday morning. She was only prepared to categorise them as trucks and also part of her collection. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 23:28, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

I am not an expert on Wikipedia, therefore thank you for your tips

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File:F111C horizontal stabiliser on display at The Rock on the Avenue of Honour.jpg

Hi, Were there any indications of which aircraft this F-111C part had been removed from? It might be useful in the en:List of General Dynamics F-111 aircraft operated by the Royal Australian Air Force article. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 06:57, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Couldn't find anything that would give any clue as to what airframe it would've been on. Maybe something on the underside but was time limited :(. Bidgee (talk) 07:13, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

OK, no worries. I'd guess it's one of the aircraft listed as having their "Fin and rudder preserved at RAAF Base Amberley" in the article - given the number of aircraft with this status, it seems logical this was some kind of interim arrangement. Nick-D (talk) 10:00, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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Affected:

• File:Sculpture by the Sea 01.JPG

And also:

• File:Sculpture by the Sea 02.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 03.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 04.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 06.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 07.jpg
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 08.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 09.JPG

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Cessna aircraft at Wagga Wagga Airport

Hi Bidgee Your reversion of my edits re Category:Cessna aircraft at Wagga Wagga Airport and related Cessna 182 files leaves Wagga Wagga Airport out of step with other airports. The purpose is to ensure that the Private and executive aircraft category for Wagga Wagga Airport does become too crowded with individual files. This is the norm everywhere else. So please revert. Ardfern (talk) 14:35, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Putting unrelated aircraft (training, freight or other non-private/executive uses, which could be aircraft hire to skydiving) is incorrect categorisation. Two wrongs don't make it right (stating it is the norm elsewhere), so I will not revert myself. Bidgee (talk) 15:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Cessna 172S

Please note that for every other aircraft (see Airbus A320 etc etc) variants (eg Cessna 172S) of the main aircraft (Cessna 172) are not listed in a by registration cat. Only the main aircraft is in a by registration cat. Revert please as the Cessna 172S by registration cat is not required. Ardfern (talk) 21:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

So? Just because there isn't a category for the Airbus variants doesn't mean there shouldn't be. Using the "Bad Name" speedy delete was poor form from you, since it wasn't a bad name. No I will not be reverting. Bidgee (talk) 21:39, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Brilliant, just you keep on with your own little site completely out of step with the rest of aviation on Wikimedia. If you don't accept any of the norms or common practices fire away.Ardfern (talk) 21:47, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry but YOU don't own nor run Commons. Should we have hundreds or even thousands variants in a single category? I'm not saying every single variant should have one but at least say A320-200 (aka A322). Bidgee (talk) 21:50, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

You are so right I don't own or run Commons (and of course neither do you), but I do have very large and long term experience of working on aircraft categorisation and try to ensure that the standards and norms and common practices that have developed are maintained and developed. The objective is consistency so that researchers etc can easily find and view aircraft files. What you have done with Cessna 172S is completely inconsistent with the rest of Commons and even the rest of Cessna 172 variants (whether you think it is right or wrong). Your reversions have also now ensured that one cannot see a full list of Cessna 172 registrations in one place. With regard to Airbus A320 you can see a full list of all Airbus A320s by registration in one place. You can also see a full list of each variant (eg Airbus A320-232) just not with a by registration file name. This is simply what I wanted to do with the Cessna 172S ie the files all appear in the cat Cessna 172S and the aircraft also appear in the Cessna 172 by registration cat ie consistency. Ardfern (talk) 22:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Never said I did, I'm using commonsense and you're using your ego (by saying "but I do have very large and long term experience of working on aircraft categorisation and try to ensure that the standards and norms and common practices that have developed are maintained and developed"). So you want over-categorisation by having Cessna 172S and Cessna 172 by registration? With the latter being littered with hundreds of different variants? I've not had anyone else say to me that want what you want. I'll be happy if you opened up a discussion to other aviation contributors so that they can add in there thoughts on how categorisation should be (rather than just from our own prospective, because clearly we both have differing views). Bidgee (talk) 22:18, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Commonsense v ego, you are a laugh. Happy to have discussion opened. Go for it Ardfern (talk) 22:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Commas

I used brackets, not comma because that's what the WP article is even though I think that commas are correct, w:WP:COMMADIS would suggest that commas are correct. Oddly settlements in Australia are often disambiguated even when not necessary. Thanks for fixing it anyway. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

File:Fortitude Valley Police Station (1996).jpg

File:Fortitude Valley Police Station (1996).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!

  — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 02:31, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Spring 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Several Commons community members are working on ways to integrate Wikidata in Wikimedia Commons. While this is not full-fledged structured data yet, this work helps to prepare for future conversion of data, and helps to understand how Wikidata and Commons can work better together.
  • Thanks to Jarekt and other contributors, some Commons templates can now be filled via Wikidata: {{Creator}} (Phabricator) and {{Institution}} (Phabricator). Work is ongoing on the {{Artwork}} template (Phabricator).
  • Thanks to Mike Peel and others, Wikidata-powered infoboxes can now be added to Commons categories, with the template {{Wikidata Infobox}}. (Example)
  • Multichill is working on an experimental workflow to upload images to Commons via Wikidata (and using metadata from Wikidata). See a part of it here.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• Conversation about licensing and copyright modeling.
• High-level discussion on ontology for Commons.
• Review first designs for multilingual captions.
• IRC office hour, 13 February

Events

• Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20-22 April (+ Learning Days 18-19 April): several sessions and workshops around Structured Commons
• EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, 15-16 May: several presentations + a full workshop day on Monday 14 May about Wikidata and Structured Commons
• Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona, 18-20 May: Structured Commons as a focus area.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

• The research about GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons is concluded. A blog post on the Wikimedia blog provides a summary, and you can read the full results on meta.wikimedia.org.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 19:48, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata infoboxes

Dear Bidgee, Could you please add Family names in Wikidata before creating Wikidata infoboxes in Commons? And please do not remove Defaultsort in Commons unless a Family name is added in the Wikidata item. Otherwise sorting becomes a mess, see this category. Vysotsky (talk) 20:06, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

File:ACT in Australia map.png

hi, why File:Australia location map.svg is not the same map?
i think its excaltly the same map - please tell me why? thx
--Mrmw (talk) 04:54, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

File:ACT in Australia map.png highlights the ACT in Australia, while File:Australia location map.svg does not. Bidgee (talk) 02:09, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2018/05/Category:D_Ramey_Logan

Still sits open if you care to comment there as well. --Don (talk) 03:14, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.

• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.

• The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
• In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
• A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
• There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.

Wikimania 2018

• Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
  • Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
  • Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
• Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
• Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).

Research

Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:

1. Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 21:07, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix

Greetings,

The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:

1. m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.

- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorting categories

Hi Bidgee, In the past you created hundreds of categories for Australian politicians. Thank you for that. However, sorting within that categories proved a bit of a problem because "defaultsort" was lacking. I restored dozens, but I would appreciate some help. Could you either help to add "defaultsort" in the commons categories, or add Family names in the corresponding Wikidata items? For a start, this might be a category with names to be improved: Members of the Australian House of Representatives (and there are several others). Assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Vysotsky (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Bidgee, many thanks for the input just now. This person is putting my head astray and doing wholesale deletion of 'by airline' categories. If you get a chance you might want to have a look at discussions at Category:Beechcraft aircraft by operator and Category:Aircraft of Lufthansa, to other operator before my head explodes. Ardfern (talk) 01:57, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

thanks for

rephrasing the ceaegoires for consistency - I was trying to get more location based and more specific as i find the generic large clumps of crap from over 8 years rather messy... JarrahTree (talk) 06:18, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem. I went a step further to break it up by state/territory, since there have been events done outside the capitals. Also trying to follow some of the categorisation that is used on Commons. Bidgee (talk) 06:46, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

please feel to correct me if you see any errors - some uploaders dont have a clue either... - also I think there is a whole heapof mispelt categories as well in there - the general stuff below in the general moshpit of :-

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Australia I think should be more date/location specific

Beware the classic Wikimeda - :0 JarrahTree (talk) 06:55, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Noticed that, dunno how I missed it! Bidgee (talk) 07:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

gng has done it on some of the perth 2016 stuff as well i think. if i read the history right. JarrahTree (talk) 07:06, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for reverting my accidental rollback of Auntof6's edit. My apologies to Auntof6 as well. I am not sure how the rollback happened. —RP88 (talk) 09:57, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Tom Arthur

This.is.not.English.Wikipedia. Hope it's clear. Here nationality is not a criterium for disambiguation. Thanks for keeping it in count. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 22:04, 20 nOctober 2018 (UTC)

Pretty poor of you miss using your tools to prove a point, in fact pathetic. Show me we’re the (politician born xxxx) is used? As I’ve only see (Australian politician) used on Commons. Bidgee (talk) 01:13, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
  • Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
  • Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
• Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
  • Log for 4 October
  • Log for 1 November
• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

• Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
• Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
• Join the community focus group!

Since the last newsletter:

• Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
• "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
• Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
• Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
• Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)

Presentations / Press / Events

• Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
• Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
• Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.

Partners and allies

• The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
• We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
• The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 17:58, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Photo Permission

Hi Bidgee,

I'm having trouble finding your email to ask for photo permissions. My partner and I are creating a game and would like to use one of the photos you uploaded to wikipedia. It's current license is sharealike and as our game will be commercial we cannot fit it under the sharealike category. The photo is located at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:360_degree_panorama_from_Wetlands_Walk_at_Fivebough_Wetlands.jpg If you could contact me on robertsilberbauer@hotmail.com that'd be great.

Thanks, Rob —Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2406:5A00:E002:400:7C61:9FFF:91EB:3900 (talk) 07:56, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Clover Moore category

Apologies for adding Default sort; not even sure if it is used in Commons. I just found it odd that she appeared under C for Clover, while everyone else was C for their surnames. Oronsay (talk) 02:25, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Captions in January

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank You

I just wanted to say thanks for intervening with Modanung's edit warring, I really appreciate it. Rune370 (talk) 23:40, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Illegal graffiti on a wall in Wagga Wagga.jpg

Yours sincerely, Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 20:48, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikimeda_Australia_events_in_Adelaide

Category:Wikimeda_Australia_events_in_Adelaide has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at Commons:Categories for discussion/2019/05/Category:Wikimeda_Australia_events_in_Adelaide. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Scott (talk) 03:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

map of China 1912～1949

The original version was wrong. Taiwan was ceded to the territory of Japan before the Sino-Japanese War. China recognized it. File:1912 China map from National Geographic.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by A ba gazc (talk • contribs) 23:00, 30 May 2019‎ (UTC)

Please see this comment I left. Bidgee (talk) 23:04, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Wind farm photo

Hi Bidgee. File:Crookwell wind farm from the air.jpg has had the caption changed on en:Crookwell Wind Farm to say that it is actually en:Cullerin Range Wind Farm. I am not familiar with either location, but looking at Google Maps, I am inclined to guess that the changed caption is correct, and the photo is misnamed. Here is Cullerin Range website.[2] The photo appears to match the northern end of it (switch to satellite view and zoom in). Are you able to confirm or adjust the title. caption and use of the photo? Thanks. --Scott (talk) 01:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

File:Locator map of the ROC Taiwan.svg

@A ba gazc, Bidgee, Kanguole: Hello. I would like to suggest that the revert ([3]) back to the 2010 version of the File:Locator map of the ROC Taiwan.svg diminished the accuracy and usefulness of the map to Wikipedia readers. In my view, the open circles are better than the red dots, and furthermore, the township of Wuqiu is omitted from the 2010 version, which it really shouldn't be. Let me know what you're thinking. Thanks for your time. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 08:48, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Bidgee, was this intended as a revert of A ba gazc's replacement of the map, but you didn't notice that he/she had already reverted? Otherwise it seems unjustified. The tweaks I made to the map did not change what it depicted, but made it clearer. Kanguole (talk) 11:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Because of the ongoing overwrites and reverts, the file had to be protected and I restored it back to the very first upload. There could be a discussion on the talk page of the file in question but it would be unlikely that it will be unprotected, instead you will likely to told to upload as a new file (under a new title, that could be similar to the one that you're wanting to "replace"). I cannot unprotect the file as I'm not a Admin (Sysop), you may request at COM:AN/P but again I think you will find the same issue I raised that it will unlikely be unprotected. Bidgee (talk) 13:06, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Are we talking about the same file? (File:Locator map of the ROC Taiwan.svg) This was overwritten with a completely different version by A ba gazc, reverted by A ba gazc and reverted again by you, and doesn't seem to have ever been protected. Kanguole (talk) 16:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Important message for file movers

A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

Possible acceptable uses of this ability:

• To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
• To perform file name swaps.
• When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)

Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.

The malicious or reckless breaking of file links via the suppressredirect user right is considered an abuse of the file mover right and is grounds for immediate revocation of that right. This message serves as both a notice that you have this right and as an official warning. Questions regarding this right should be directed to administrators. --Majora (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Wagga Wagga Airport

Many apologies. I've been using the wrong process in all the cat changes I have made to Lockheed C-130 Hercules across a range of air forces, and most recently with the Transall C-160. Will get it right now. Thanks for the heads up Ardfern (talk) 04:36, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

No problem, though it is now possible to suppress the redirect (by unticking "Leave a redirect behind"). Did a test with one category by moving the one you created and suppress the redirect, then moved the other category. Bidgee (talk) 00:41, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019! Please help with this survey.

 

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Dear Bidgee,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.

To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 12:09, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

COM:AN/U

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Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#User:Bidgee. cats. Thank you.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Túrelio (talk • contribs) 11:01, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Must have missed it as I cannot see it, will look at the archive to see what it was about later. Only got back from a deployment. Bidgee (talk) 11:38, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey (Reminder)

 

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Dear Bidgee,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.

To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 03:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

File:Coulson Aviation (N130CG) Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules at Albury Airport.jpg

Hi Bidgee, this image of yours has recently found a lot of re-uses in newspapers, many with credit; see image talkpage. Incidently I found this. Please check for yourself, whether that's by you or a case of copyfraud. --Túrelio (talk) 11:17, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Photo of Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules N134CG

I did some researches to see what did you complaint for? You told me you did not post anywhere else but actually, you posted it in this link https://aviation-safety.net/photo/10498/Lockheed-EC-130Q-Hercules-N134CG on 09 December 2019. Yep, then a lot of sources reused your picture and claimed it belong to them. In this case, let say that admin is lazy or he made a mistake. Let try to search [4] and may be he saw a lot of versions spreading on the Internet. He made a conclusion that your picture (painful as an original author) is copyright violation. If I were him, I would do the same thing. In this case, calm down, discuss and explain to him instead of making a mess, edit wars, 3RR,... I recommend you should upload your picture in Commons at first before somewhere else. PS: from a ESEAP fellow!  A l p h a m a  ^Talk 11:13, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

I only ever uploaded the photograph to Commons (was uploaded after [13 December 2019] my first deployment in Nowra, since I had no way of editing and uploading it), I never uploaded it to aviation-safety.net and it would have been added on/or after 23 January 2020 (day of the crash) but they have used the EXIF date for the photo and failed to attribute back to the original location (on Commons).

After the season, the losses (Bomber/Tank 134) and the issues here, I'm disappointed, upset and honestly burnt out. The bad block (which is yet to be acknowledged by Sealle and noted as such in the block log) has killed any enthusiasm I had for Commons and the final straw that has lead to my retirement. While the bad block log remains, I will not be returning. Bidgee (talk) 12:14, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Just to jump in, any reviewing admin should have checked Bidgee's previous contributions when assessing whether deletion was appropriate. These clearly demonstrate that one of his areas of focus is photographing aircraft at Australian airports and that he was at the location where this photo was taken (with several other photos from there having been uploaded). The style of this photo is also entirely consistent with his standard approach to photographing aircraft. A little bit more digging would have confirmed that Bidgee is a highly trusted contributor, having received grants to support his excellent photography work. Nick-D (talk) 23:29, 13 March 2020 (UTC)