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Emergency vehicle lighting

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Hi Zaccarias,

Thank you for reverting my edit at File:Asali gnangarra 160915-136.jpg.

Reviewing categories about special transports e.g. category:Oversized loads, I wanted to categorize the gear used to warn drivers for road hazards. Not sure where to place them, I found the article nl:Zwaailicht in my native language. This Dutch word (literally: 'swinging light') is used for all types of signalling lights that are placed on vehicle roofs and outlines as warning signs. However, the article is coupled to en:Emergency vehicle lighting, which has a different focus but somewhat thoughtlessly I took the emergency lights to be equivalent to the zwaailichten. Waking up this morning I realized my mistake but I had not yet found time to correct it. Thank you for doing so.

As far as I can see, there are no categories specifically for this type of gear although there are various related categories:

There are probably some more but these would do as parent categories I suppose. Another issue is the naming of a new category. My choice would be create Category:Vehicle hazard lights within Category:Road hazard lights but then I am no native English speaker. Googling I found that the term hazard lights includes the use of all four turning lights as warning signs, which may give rise to a corresponding subcategory.

Your advice would be welcome on both the category structure and the naming issue but feel free to refer me to pages like the Village pump if you prefer so. — bertux (=user:B222) 10:07, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Community discussions

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When something is marked for community discussion, eg. {{Delete}} discussion, then please do not remove that and make it a COPYVIO. Community discussions will manage it appropriately and for a 2008 upload it is better that we have that discussion.  — billinghurst sDrewth 16:28, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. --Zaccarias (talk) 16:29, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Visteon Corporate Campus.JPG

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The description of this file is:

"English: Visteon corporate campus at Grace Lake Corporate Center, Van Buren Township, Michigan"

Why did you add it to unknown locations in Michigan category? Rmhermen (talk) 03:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Rmhermen: I clean up littered general categories such as Category:Companies, Category:Industries, Category:Factories and so forth. Usually these are littered with hundreds of files listed directly in the category. When I move files I take care of the subject and categorize them: it this case it was "automotive industry" and "Michigan". Because I didn't want to check the precise location in detail I used the maintenance category Category:Unidentified locations in Michigan to make sure that someone eventually will do that. Sometimes I search for the exact location for myself sometimes I leave that up to other users who might be more familiar. This is my understanding of a normal workflow. --Zaccarias (talk) 16:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Cooolbox.jpg

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Hi, Zaccarias. I'm author of this file. --Dfotev 09:16, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dfotev: I've converted the "missing permission"-tag of the file to a regular deletion request (these are the rules) and linked your comment there. (Otherwise your image would have been deleted without further discussion. This is takes place 7 days after the files have been tagged.) Please place your further comments on the page of the deletion request: Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Cooolbox.jpg Eventually an administrator will handle this task.

If you are related to that firm it would be best to give official permission via Commons:OTRS. You can find the link and some instructions for that procedure in the box on your talkpage. Thank you. --Zaccarias (talk) 16:59, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data on Commons IRC Office Hour, Tuesday 26 June

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Greetings,

There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. You can find more details, as well as date and time conversion, at the IRC Office Hours page on Meta.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there if you can make it. -- Keegan (talk) 20:54, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What properties does Commons need?

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Greetings,

Structured Commons will need properties to make statements about files. The development team is working on making the software ready to support properties; the question is, what properties does Commons need?

You can find more information and examples to help find properties in a workshop on Commons. Please participate and help fill in the list, and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:53, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018

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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
Discussions held
Wikimania 2018
Partners and allies
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!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

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

Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix

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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)[reply]

Mess

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Someone has deviated away from how the IWM titles its categorizes for its images, We have "British Women's Land Army in World War I" whereas IWM call it The Women's Land Army in Britain, 1915-1918. What to do? There are other worse examples than this. We shouldn't deviate away from IWM's take on this. Do you not agree?Broichmore (talk) 10:59, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why

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I created a cat for "Agriculture in Britain during the First World War" the same cat as used by the IWM. You deleted ALL that work I did, because "you think" they fall under "British Women's Land Army in World War I". Well that's just not the case, indeed its the other way round. Deviating away from IWM cats just creates confusion. Please revert your edits. The IWM's take, might not be perfect but it is at least workable. Considering that the IWM is the prime source and authority in the matter we shouldn't mess with it. Thank you. Broichmore (talk) 08:31, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see you cant be arsed to reply, so I'll treat your mis-guided edits of me accordingly. Broichmore (talk) 12:29, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Art Deco automobiles

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Hallo!
I think that the "Art Deco automobiles" category that you created should be deleted, or at least renamed, as if some 1920-30 vehicles are without a doubt inspired by Art Deco trends, no automobile designer nor design team claimed to be part of the movement as such. And in fact, only the late form of the movement known as Streamline (de, en) had really an influence on car bodies (from mid-1930s onward), but even then, the design used for the concerned vehicles was never seen as a specific component of the movement but was (and still is) just regarded as a part of the streamlining design. As said in WP:

As part of the Streamline Moderne trend, the term [streamliner] was applied to passenger cars, trucks, and other types of light-, medium-, or heavy-duty vehicles, but now vehicle streamlining is so prevalent that it is not an outstanding characteristic.

About the subcategories that were gathered in yours:

  • the "Art Deco" name of the 1941-47 Chevrolet truck line is just a nickname given some decades later by fans (being a truck fan doesn't imply to have a huge knowledge of art history Clin), it never appeared in any contemporary document.
    (I created the category with that name waiting something better, as it seems to have been sold without a truck line name. Using the model codes would be a real mess)
  • As far as I know, the GMC siblings never got that nickname.
  • The 1939-47 Dodge trucks (added by GeeTeeBee) were promoted as "Job Rated" trucks by the Mopar sellers (like their 1948-56 followers), with no mention of an Art Deco influence in the available documents I found.
  • The Stout Scarab (added by GeeTeeBee too) is maybe, for me, the only one to really be a streamliner.

For now, I just "decategorized" the mentioned subcategories, as recreating a deleted category (in case you disagree with the idea) is certainly less easy than reassigning the subcategories - Beste Grüße - BarnCas (talk) 07:31, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Edit: sorry for that long message, but I eventually found the "Streamlined automobiles" category, which seems to be exactly what you intended to create. It is more or less related to the movement and to Streamline Moderne: "Art Deco" can be found in "Design by movement" along with "Streamlined design", and in this latter you have "Streamline Moderne architecture‎" near "Streamliners‎", which in turn contains "Streamlined automobiles".‎
 I "sent" the Stout Carab in it, but still think that the 3 other categories shouldn't be in it nor in any Art Deco related category. - BarnCas (talk) 08:04, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi !     That's a big post about a small category !
1). Why did you put it on your user talk page, instead of on the category discussion page ?
2). This is not a WP article, nor a commons page — it's just a category: a means to sort and help people find media. Unofficial nicknames serve that purpose too !
3). By your own acknowledgement, "..some 1920-30 vehicles are without a doubt inspired by Art Deco trends..", and "..the "Art Deco" name of the 1941-47 Chevrolet truck line is .. a[n existing] nickname given .. by fans..". Furthermore, the automotive press / sales industry uses the term for certain models, for example see here.
4). As for the Stout Scarab: many reviewers, art and car critics call the car's styling an example of art deco car styling, see for instance here, here and here.
5). Moreover, you can find an article listing no less than 25 cars whose styling is described as art deco here !
6). Please don't try to read my mind — the category 'Art Deco automobiles' is what I intended to create. That's why I called it that. 'Streamlined automobiles' are only somewhat related, but for the most part entirely a thing onto their own.
In summation: I think the value and the justification of the existence of the category 'Art Deco automobiles' is abundantly demonstrated, and I'm completely against deleting or renaming it. I will reinstate the membership of the Stout and the Dodge trucks to the Art deco cars category, and I will also add the Category:Chevrolet Art Deco trucks to it, for consistency. Beste Grüße - --GeeTeeBee (talk) 11:08, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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P.S. If you Google 'Art-deco cars', you get almost 32 million results .. --GeeTeeBee (talk) 11:44, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@GeeTeeBee: this page is not my talk page, but the one of Zaccarias, the person who created the concerned category. I just mentioned you as a courtesy, as you used that category after it was created. I never tried "to read [your] mind", as you say: I just expressed my thoughts to Zaccarias.
And I don't understand why you say that the category 'Art Deco automobiles' is "what [you] intended to create", as you're not the creator of this category. - BarnCas (talk) 23:16, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies — my mistake — honest confusion .. --GeeTeeBee (talk) 00:32, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data feedback - Depicts statements draft requirements

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Greetings,

A slide presentation of the draft requirements for depicts statements on file pages is up on Commons. Please visit this page on Commons to review the slides and discuss the draft. Thank you, see you on the talk page. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:20, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data feedback - structured licensing and copyright

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Mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages are posted. Please have a look over the examples and leave your feedback on the talk page. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:32, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New discussion on Commons talk:Structured data

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Hello. I've started a new, important discussion about creating properties for Commons on Wikidata. Please come join in, if the process is something that interests you or if you can help. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - upcoming changes to viewing old file page revisions

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How old revisions of file pages work are likely going to have to change for structured data. There is information about the change on the SDC hub talk page, please read it over and leave feedback if you have any. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - IRC office hours today, 4 October

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There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons today, 4 October 2018, from 17:00-18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. You can find date/time conversion, as well as a link to join the chat in your browser if needed, on the IRC Office hours page on Meta. I look forward to seeing you there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:49, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - search prototype

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There is a search prototype for structured data on Commons available. Please visit the search prototype page on the structured data hub for information on testing and feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Structured Data - IRC office hour today, 1 November

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There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons today, 1 October 2018, from 17:00-18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. You can find date/time conversion, as well as a link to join the chat in your browser if needed, on the IRC Office hours page on Meta. I realize this may be short notice for some people; I am experimenting with advanced notice times to see what works best for the most people, I'll be giving more warning before the next office hour. I look forward to seeing you there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - IRC office hour today, 1 November

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The above message says 1 October in the body when it should say 1 November, as the subject line says. Apologies for making a new section by mass message, it's the only way to get this out quickly. See you in twenty minutes! -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:37, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - copyright and licensing statements

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I've posted a second round of designs for modeling copyright and licensing in structured data. These redesigns are based off the feedback received in the first round of designs, and the development team is looking for more discussion. These designs are extremely important for the Commons community to review, as they deal with how copyright and licensing is translated from templates into structured form. I look forward to seeing you over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:25, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition

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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
Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

Since the last newsletter:

Presentations / Press / Events
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!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

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

Multilingual captions beta testing

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The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community[1][2] and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing. If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons around the second week of January, 2019.

Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons. Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires only a few steps.

The details:

  • There is a help page available on how to use multilingual file captions.
  • Testing will take place on Beta Commons. If you don’t yet have an account set up there, you’ll need one.
  • Beta Commons is a testbed, and not configured exactly like the real Commons site, so expect to see some discrepancies with user interface (UI) elements like search.
  • Structured Data introduces the potential for many important page changes to happen at once, which could flood the recent changes list. Because of this, Enhanced Recent Changes is enabled as it currently is at Commons, but with some UI changes.
  • Feedback and commentary on the file caption functionality are welcome and encouraged on the discussion page for this post.
  • Some testing has already taken place and the team are aware of some issues. A list of known issues can be seen below.
  • If you discover a bug/issue that is not covered in the known issues, please file a ticket on Phabricator and tag it with the “Multimedia” tag. Use this link to file a new task already tagged with "Multimedia."

Known issues:

Thanks!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk), for the Structured Data on Commons Team 20:43, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 November or Thursday, 10 November 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) 20:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Captions in January

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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)[reply]

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

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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)[reply]

Structured Data - development update, March 2019

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This text is also posted on the Structured Data hub talk page. You can reply there with questions, comments, or concerns.

A development update for the current work by the Structured Data on Commons team:

After the release of multilingual file captions, work began on getting depicts and other statements ready for release. These were originally scheduled for release in February and into March, however there are currently two major blockers to finishing this work (T215642, T217157). We will know more next week about when depicts and statements can likely be ready for testing and then release; until then I've tentatively updated the release schedule.

Once the depicts feature is ready for testing, it will take place in two stages on TestCommons. The first is checking the very basics; is the design comfortable, how does the simple workflow of adding/editing/removing statements work, and building up help and process pages from there. The second part is a more detailed test of depicts and other statements, checking the edge-case examples of using the features, bugs that did not come up during simple testing, etc. Additionally we'll be looking with the community for bugs in interaction with bots, gadgets, and other scripts once the features are live on Commons. Please let me know if you're interesting in helping test and fix these bugs if they show up upon release, it is really hard to find them in a test environment or, in some cases, bugs won't show up in a testing environment at all.

One new thing is definitely coming within the next few weeks, pending testing: the ability to search for captions. This is done using the inlabel keyword in search strings, and will be the first step in helping users find content that is specifically structured data. I'll post a notice when that feature is live and ready for use.

Thanks, let me know if you have questions about these plans. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:34, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - early depicts testing

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The Structured Data on Commons development team has the very basic version of depicts statements available for early testing on Test-Commons. You can add very basic depicts statements to the file page by going into the new “Structured Data” tab located below the "Open in Media Viewer button." You can use the Latest Files link in the left side nav bar to select existing images, or use the UploadWizard to upload new ones to test with (although those images won’t actually show up on the site). The test site is not a fully functional replica of Commons, so there may be some overall problems in using the site, but you should be able to get a general idea of what using the feature is like.

Early next week I will call for broad, community-wide testing of the feature similar to what we did for Captions, with instructions for testing, known bugs, and a dedicated space to discuss the feature as well as a simple help page for using statements. Until then, you're welcome to post on the SDC talk page with what you might find while testing depicts.

Thanks in advance for trying it out, you'll be hearing more from me next week. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:59, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - testing qualifiers for depicts

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As you might have seen, testing is underway for adding qualifiers to depicts statements. If you have not left feedback already, the Structured Data on Commons development team is very interested in hearing about your experience using qualifiers on the file page and in the UploadWizard. To get started you can visit Test-Commons and chose a random file to test out, or upload your own file to try out the UploadWizard. Questions, comments, and concerns can be left on the Structured data talk page and the team will address them as best as they can. Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data on Commons - IRC office hours this week, 18 July

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The Structured Data team is hosting an IRC office hour this week on Thursday, 18 July, from 17:00-18:00 UTC. Joining information as well as date and time conversion is available on Meta. Potential topics for discussion are the testing of "other statements", properties that may need to be created for Commons on Wikidata soon, plans for the rest of SDC development, or whatever you might want to discuss. The development team looks forward to seeing you there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:51, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - testing other statements

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You can now test using other statements for structured data on the file page on Test-Commons. Some datatypes are not yet available, such a coordinates, but further support will be extended soon. You can find more information about testing on the SDC talk page. The team looks forward to your feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - computer-aided tagging

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The development team is starting work on one of the last planned features for SDC v1.0, a lightweight tool to suggest depicts tags for images. I've published a project page for it, please have a look. I plan to share this page with everyone on Commons much more broadly in the coming days. The tool has been carefully designed to try to not increase any workload on Commons volunteers; for starters, it will be opt-in for auto-confirmed users only and will not generate any sort of backlog here on Commons. Additionally, the tool is highly privacy-minded for the contributors and publicly-minded for the third party being used, in this case Google. The implementation and usage notes contain more information about these and other potential concerns as a starting place. It's really important that the tool is implemented properly from the start, so feedback is welcome. Questions, comments, concerns are welcome on the talk page and I will get answers as quickly as possible as things come up. On the talk page you can also sign up to make sure you're a part of the feedback for designs and prototype testing. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:57, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

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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)[reply]

Structured Data - modeling data

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As you may have seen, there are community discussions underway on how to best model structured data on Commons.

Direct links to pages created so far:

Please visit and participate in topics you might be interested in when you get some time. Thanks. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - computer-aided tagging designs

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I've published a design consultation for the computer-aided tagging tool. Please look over the page and participate on the talk page. If you haven't read over the project page, it might be helpful to do so first. The tool will hopefully be ready by the end of this month (October 2019), so timely feedback is important. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:09, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Important message for file movers

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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) 21:36, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pictures_of_the_Mentor_Cardinals_American_football_team_(check_needed)

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Commons - Media Search

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Greetings,

The Structured Data team is working on an alternative, image-focused prototype for media search on Commons. The prototype uses categories, structured data as well as wikitext from Commons, and Wikidata to find its results. The development team would like your feedback on the prototype, as they are looking to work to further enhance the search experience on Commons. If you have a moment, please look over the project page set up on Commons to find a link to the prototype and leave your feedback on the talk page. Thanks for your time, I'll be posting message similar to this one to other pages on Commons. The team is looking forward to reading what you think. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Commons - Media Sarch, new feedback round

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Greetings,

I'm following up on a message from earlier in the year about the prototype development for Special:MediaSearch. Based on community feedback, the Structured Data team has developed some new features for Special:MediaSearch and are seeking another round of comments and discussions about the tool. Commons:Structured_data/Media_search is updated with details about the new features plus some other development information, and feedback is welcome on Commons talk:Structured_data/Media_search. Media Search works in any language, so the team would especially appreciate input around support for languages other than English. I look forward to reading about what you think. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:05, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Objects_with_transparent_background

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YuriNikolai (talk) 22:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Objects_on_walls

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JopkeB (talk) 10:16, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fort_Lee_(Virginia)

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