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Thanks for the barnstar[edit]

Thank you for giving me a barnstar. I really didn’t think it would, but it means a lot to me! Ariadacapo (talk) 12:04, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement[edit]

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open![edit]

2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 1 will end on . Click here to learn more and vote »

Thanks,
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You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2012 Picture of the Year contest.

Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement[edit]

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open![edit]

2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on . Click here to learn more and vote »

Thanks,
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You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

This Picture of the Year vote notification was delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:23, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement[edit]

Picture of the Year 2013 Results[edit]

The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear Senator2029,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

  • In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
  • In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

  1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
  2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
  3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

Thanks,
the Picture of the Year committee

You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:00, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Irrationally large SVG image[edit]

Hi Senator2029, you have marked my image “Welcome in sixteen languages.svg” as being “irrationally large.” I understand this and other drawbacks of the method used by me, and would really like to use the SVG <text> element thus reducing file size, making text searchable, etc.

On the other hand I want this image to look exactly as it does now and therefore cannot rely on the Wikimedia SVG fonts. The following fonts would be needed but aren’t present: “Gentium Plus” (or some other version of “Gentium”) for Latin and Cyrillic text; “FZKaiS-Extended” for simplified Chinese; “全字庫正楷體” for traditional Chinese; “EPSON 正楷書体Ｍ” for Japanese; and “Symbola” for the hand. (“Scheherazade” for Arabic is there.)

The SVG solution with the <text> element would be to define an SVG font in the same file using the SVG <‌font> element and its sub-elements (<glyph>, <hkern>, etc.). This is certainly feasible, but it would take me a long time to get it right — what is most difficult is to exclude redundant font information from the original fonts while retaining everything that is required for this image. As I do not want my efforts to be a waste of time my question is: Does the current MediWiki rendering software display embedded SVG fonts correctly? —LiliCharlie (talk) 16:34, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-35[edit]

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VisualEditor news

  • There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [1]
  • You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [2]
  • If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [3] [4] [5]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
  • After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [6]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-36[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [7] [8]
  • You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [9] [10]
  • A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [11] [12]
  • If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [13]

VisualEditor news

  • You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [14]
  • We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [15] [16] [17]
  • VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [18]
  • We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [19]
  • You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [20]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
  • There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [21]
  • You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [22]
  • You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
  • You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [23]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-37[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news

  • From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [24] [25] [26]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
  • You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [27]
  • You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [28]

Problems

  • There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-38[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [29] [30]
  • There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [31] [32] [33]
  • New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [34]

Problems

  • There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [35]

VisualEditor news

  • If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [36]
  • The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [37] [38]
  • You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [39]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
  • These changes are coming with the new version:
    • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [40] [41] [42]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

File tagging File:Security Now.jpg[edit]

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Leyo 09:00, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-39[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

Problems

  • There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
  • Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
  • There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [44] [45]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
  • If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[46] [47]
  • In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [48] [49]
  • The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [50]
  • The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [51]
  • There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [52] [53]
  • In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [54]

Future site changes

  • You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [55]

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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-40[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
  • Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [59] [60]
  • You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [61]
  • If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [62] [63]
  • The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [64]

Future changes

  • You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
  • JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [65]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-41[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
  • If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [73] [74]
  • We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [75]
  • On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [76] [77]
  • You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [78]
  • 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [79]

Future changes

  • You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [80]
  • More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [81] [82]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-42[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

Problems

  • 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [85]
  • Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [86]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
  • 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [87]

Meetings

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08:53, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

  • You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools)".
  • You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [91] [92]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [94]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
  • 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [95]
  • If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [96] [97]

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13:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-44[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [98]
  • There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [99]
  • There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [100]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [101]
  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [102] [103] [104]
  • VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [105]
  • VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [106]
  • The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [107]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-45[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

Problems

  • There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [111]
  • Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [112] [113] [114]
  • HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
  • Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [115] [116]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [117]
  • The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [118] [119] [120] [121] [122]
  • After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [123] [124] [125]

Future changes

  • The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [126]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-46[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [127] [128]
  • The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [129]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [130]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [131] [132]
  • The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [133]
  • The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [134]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Categories removed from File:Brokaw Bullet.jpg[edit]

Hi, thanks for your comment on my talk page. First, my edit to the image file followed the categorisation of two additional images of the Brokaw Bullet, that were previously only crudely categorised as "Aircraft". I assume that you are already familiar with the Wikimedia Commons policy article on Categories, in which the section COM:OVERCAT is located. The article explains how the primary purpose of categorising here is to facilitate the finding of files via a hierarchical schema (as opposed to a flat keyword schema). In the case of the subject image, Three-wheeled motor vehicles is inappropriate, because the Brokaw Bullet (eventually) comes under Aircraft, which already comes under Vehicles, and an aircraft is not classified as a motor vehicle anyway. Vehicles in Florida is inappropriate, because the image is already categorised as a type of vehicle, and the location is in a category under Florida. Blue and white aircraft is inappropriate, because it does not satisfy the aim of being able to find files; if that category is ever populated with all blue and white aircraft images (many thousands), it would not be easy for anyone to find what they might be seeking. In this case, and in the next few minutes, I plan to categorise the three Brokaw Bullet images into the more precise method we use for most aircraft images, and if you apply Category:Blue and white aircraft, I doubt that it would materially help anyone without the knowledge already contained in the category tree, such as aircraft make/model, configuration, registration, and exact location. Many people apply the categories of colour to aircraft images, and we often tolerate them to avoid conflicts, but the above parameters for aircraft makes colour redundant. If the subject were an item with no other useful context (eg blue and white balls), they might have a purpose, but not for aircraft in a highly defined schema for aircraft images. I hope this helps you understand my rationale. There are many aircraft images needing basic or comprehensive categorising, and I'm sure we would all welcome your assistance in categorising, eg all those that (should) come under Florida Air Museum.PeterWD (talk) 11:51, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-47[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
  • The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [135]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

  • The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
  • You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
  • You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
  • Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
  • You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [136]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [137]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [138]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
  • You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [139]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [140]
  • You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [141]
  • VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [142] [143]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

An update on the File metadata cleanup drive[edit]

Hello Senator2029,

I wanted to thank you for offering to help with the File metadata cleanup drive on Commons. We now have numbers to measure the amount of Commons files missing machine-readable information. Most of the files here have a license template, but there still about 500,000 remaining files (out of 24 million) missing an {{information}} template, and that's where your help would be invaluable.

We're currently trying to find groups of files whose description pages are alike, so that we can use bots to automatically take that information and put it into an information template. If you still want to help, it would be great if you could look at the list of files and see if you can find such groups. You can also use the no_information tool to limit the results by uploader, or the first characters of the file name; this can help identify batch uploads.

Once you find groups of files with information in the same order or format, you can add a section to the bot requests page, so that a bot can go through them and fix them all automatically (or you can do it yourself if you have a bot, or with VisualFileChange).

In 10 days, we've already managed to add information templates to over 10% of the 500,000 remaining files. I'm hoping you can help us keep this momentum and get through the rest so we can get rid of this backlog once and for all :)

Thank you, and I wish you happy end-of-year holidays if you celebrate them! Guillaume (WMF) (talk) 19:13, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

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