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Requests for Oversight rights

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Requests for CheckUser rights

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Requests for bureaucratship

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CptViraj

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CptViraj (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 00:00, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Dear community,

I would like to nominate CptViraj for Commons bureaucrat. CptViraj is admin since 2020 and also interface admin and translation admin, and as far as I see they are active in many different admin related areas, keeping the household together.

For one example only, they usually stand out for years by taking care of the preparation and handling of the semiannually admin activity reviews at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section, which can be considered a bureaucrat job, and is a quite difficult task which they handle well.

CptViraj has agreed to this nomination.

Yours, --Krd 11:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For record: I accept the nomination with gratitude to Krd, thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 11:46, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

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  1.  Support --Mateus2019 (talk) 13:16, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  OK modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 13:42, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Support --Adamant1 (talk) 14:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Support Good sysop, has a need for the 'crat tools. -- Abzeronow (talk) 15:36, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  5.  Support --Yann (talk) 16:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Support--Mohammed Qays (talk) 16:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  7.  Support--✝iѵɛɳ२२४०†ลℓк †๏ мэ 17:13, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  8.  Support-- I was under the impression that CptViraj was already a 'crat. No reasons to say "no". Regards, Aafi (talk) 18:44, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  9.  Support let's go. --A1Cafel (talk) 04:49, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  10.  Support I trust the judgment of Krd. --Stepro (talk) 08:13, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  11.  Support As Stepro. --Rosenzweig τ 20:11, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  12.  Support --Achim55 (talk) 20:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  13.  Support --Uschoen (talk) 07:23, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  14.  Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 07:24, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  15.  Support.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:49, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  16.  Support Gbawden (talk) 11:36, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  17.  Support // Kakan spelar (talk) 15:20, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  18.  Support --Mazbel (Talk) 18:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  19.  Support –TANBIRUZZAMAN (💬) 19:52, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  20.  Support The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:32, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  21.  Support All the best -- Chuck Talk 01:31, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

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Requests for adminship

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Requests for license reviewer rights

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Tanbiruzzaman

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This is a closed request for license reviewer status. Do not make edits to it.

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  •  Question Hello @Tanbiruzzaman: before voting, I would like to ask you some questions.

You come across the following files that need to be reviewed - Please give reasons as to why you would accept/decline each of the following:

  1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/whichpressoffice/27194404271/in/
  2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/152930510@N02/41519416844/
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDO98lMnZXA
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDJ-kmfo9c
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1bXT01Rm8
  6. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/14493547497/in/
Thanks,--Mazbel (Talk) 16:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Mazbel, Thanks for your question.
1.Decline: Screenshot of a tv programe of ITV News (Copyright owner). There’s no proof if ITV News released it under any free licence or not.
2.Accept: Acceptable license, and included metadata.
3.Decline: Mixing of many/random clip, which could may own by different holder.
4.Decline: There're some copyrighted music playing in bg.
5.Decline: This is clip of w:Emmerdale tv show, and uploader isn’t the real copyright holder.
6.Decline: Unacceptable license (nc isn't allowed in Commons).
Regards, –TANBIRUZZAMAN (💬) 16:53, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for you replyes --Mazbel (Talk) 16:57, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Granted: Clear consensus. In addition, the user is a VRT agent, so he has experience. --Mazbel (Talk) 02:41, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Queen of Hearts

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Alachuckthebuck

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All the best -- Chuck Talk 20:15, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 Question Hello @Alachuckthebuck: , thank you for your nomination, but before casting a vote, I would like to ask you a few questions.
  1. Could you explain why it presents an undefined block on enwiki?
  2. In his request mentions " I'm unable to fully patrol a new image or video because I'm unable to review the license, meaning another person has to go and look at the image" Could you explain why having a license reviewer's permit would help you in your work? I ask you this, because it is not necessary to have a license reviewer's permit to verify whether or not an image has the correct license.

I would also like, if you could review the following

  • You come across the following files that need to be reviewed - Please give reasons as to why you would accept/decline each of the following:
  1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thekeyport/8638307717/
  2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ktee1026/3472022956/
  3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/44657206@N00/467245145/
  4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/cc_photoshare/10488395186/
  5. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fischerfotos/14723867088/
  6. https://www.flickr.com/photos/trucknroll/5206638676
  7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/1la/4657069088/

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer the above questions.--Mazbel (Talk) 21:30, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1. I don't know why the block is showing as undefined, but the full details are on my en-wiki talk page. If you have any further questions about my block, please leave them on my (commons) talk page.
2. Based on my understanding of policy, if an image as the license review template, a license reviewer must review it unless it meets speedy deletion criteria, then the review isn't needed.
For the images
1. No released with CC-BY-SA-NC 2.0 (emphasis mine) making it non-free and ineligible for upload
2.✓ Yes this is an interesting one, there is no FOP in France, but because Gustave Eiffel died in 1923, all photos of the Eiffel tower taken during the day are photos of a monument/building (its classification is moot at this point) in the public domain, thus can be licensed as the photographer sees fit, in this case, CC-BY 2.0 generic. However, the lights on the Eiffel tower were installed in 1981. As copyright in France is 70 years after death of the artist, they will be unfree until at least 2055.
3.✓ Yes There is FOP in Thailand for architecture and buildings. This image is under CC-BY-SA.
4.✓ Yes Fop for buildings does exist in Singapore, but I would have doubts on scope without knowing what exact buildings are in the photo.
5. No I.M Pei died in 2019. Please see above answer for Eiffel Tower.
6. No Cloud Gate, aka the bean, is protected by copyright in the US. In fact, the bean is used as an example on the commons Copyright rules by territory/United States page. In addition, the artist has been known to be extremely aggressive with copyright, including getting the exclusive rights to use Vantablack in art installations.
7.✓ Yes Unlike the bean, the Statue of Liberty is public domain in the US.
Thanks for the questions!
All the best -- Chuck Talk 22:55, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your response.--Mazbel (Talk) 02:34, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Requests for permission to run a bot

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Before making a bot request, please read the new version of the Commons:Bots page. Read Commons:Bots#Information on bots and make sure you have added the required details to the bot's page. A good example can be found here.

When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bots/Archive.

Any user may comment on the merits of the request to run a bot. Please give reasons, as that makes it easier for the closing bureaucrat. Read Commons:Bots before commenting.

GogologoBot (talk · contribs)

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Operator: MFossati (WMF) (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: add the following structured data statement and qualifier to the file page of a new upload that is detected as a logo by this tool.

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic, supervised

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): continuous

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): it depends on the amount of image uploads and on the amount of images detected as a logo. Hard to tell for now

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python, Pywikibot

Source code: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/gogologo

MFossati (WMF) (talk) 12:19, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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DannyS712 bot (talk · contribs)

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Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: automatically marking pages with no net changes for translation

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): hourly

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 0 edits, plenty of log entries

Bot flag requested: (Y/N):

Programming language(s): Not sure yet, probably JavaScript

DannyS712 (talk)

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ImageConverterBot (talk · contribs)

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Operator: DaxServer (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Convert TIFF files to JPEG files and link both. As requested at Convert Commons:Bots/Work requests § Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith to JPEG. The TIFF files at Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith are [recursively] loaded into the bot and converted to JPEG using Wand, a Python binding for ImageMagick. The Exif metadata is copied over using PyExifTool, a Python binding for ExifTool by Phil Harvey. The metadata groups that are being copied over, that I've discovered so far, are: Author, Camera, Composite, ExifIFD, GPS, ICC_Profile, IFD0, IPTC, Location and XMP-crs. The entire metadata can be copied indiscriminately if that is preferred rather a selection. The new JPEG file will have the same wikitext as the TIFF file, with an addition of {{{other_versions}}} gallery and but a removal of categories such as Uploaded by xyz user as it will be retained in the TIFF file page. The TIFF file page is edited with a link to the JPEG in the gallery and all the categories are removed with the addition of Category:LC TIF images with categorized JPGs. If duplicates are found, using the checksum, the page is skipped over and marked for manual verification and linking using gallery. The OpenCV strategy as described at User:Fæ/LOC#Housekeeping is rather out of my reach. The bot is being written using Pywikibot and is intended to run on Toolforge.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 5

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot)

-- DaxServer (talk) 15:07, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not able to understand the issue we are trying to solve. All previews of these gigantic TIFFs load just fine for me (in under 2 seconds). I do not expencience much difference as compared to JPEGs. --Schlurcher (talk) 14:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 On hold for the discussion linked -- DaxServer (talk) 08:58, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
TIF format is an archive format which is simply not suitable for web use, for example TIF file previews look much worse than JPG when used in Wikipedia articles, them being "lossless" dosen't improve the actually displayed quality, it is made worse. "Freely usable media" also means not needing to have very fast internet connections, or needing special programs to edit the files. Another random example: Free email clients allow only very limited attachment sizes (GMail 25MB for example), and sending one document which includes an 100MB TIF image would not be possible for the average person, who has no clue about file formats. TheImaCow (talk) 11:58, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The argument appears to be in line Commons:File types. Given that, should we convert all TIFF files, replace their usage, and delete the TIFFs? Krd 07:34, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would generally support that, but I am sure that this would need wider consensus. (as it would also affect these 200k images) TheImaCow (talk) 21:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd appreciate if anybody could start such discussion at a suitable venue. Krd 05:19, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for comment

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