User talk:TheDJ

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De-adminship

Dear TheDJ,
it is with a regret that I inform you that, following our de-adminship policy, you had your administrator rights on Wikimedia Commons removed today by a Wikimedia steward.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank you for your efforts and contributions in making Wikimedia Commons what it is today. If you'll feel like doing so at some point, please feel free to re-apply for adminship at COM:RFA. Again, thanks for all the help you gave us, and (hopefully) see you back soon! odder (talk) 21:07, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for your contributions and hopefully you will return as an admin soon. Green Giant (talk) 21:38, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Thanks for the valuable contributions and your time you dedicated to make Commons to what it is now, especially from the Gerrit-Side of things, too. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• I don't see myself contributing much further for the next couple of years. Thx for all the fish guys, and so long. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:45, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorting...

Hoi TheDJ,

Aangezien jij Nederlands als moerstaal opgeeft, benader ik je in het Nederlands.

Afgelopen donderdag wees je mijn verzoek om een aanvulling op Commons.js af. Commons.js voorziet in een aantal sorteermogelijkheden, maar ik zie op een aantal plaatsen behoefte aan een mogelijkheid om numerieke waarden vóór niet-letters te plaatsen. Op Phabricator heb ik een verzoek ingediend (Sorting mixed content in tables: numbers first), maar jij hebt dat afgewezen, met een verwijzing naar en:Help:Sorting#Specifying a sort key for a cell. Een mooie mogelijkheid, maar ook eentje met een enorme load voor een pagina waar het om dik 35.000 waarden gaat die als zodanig aangemerkt dienen te worden.

Ik wil je dan ook vragen om nog eens te kijken of er geen andere mogelijkheid is, hetzij door toch mijn verzoek te honoreren, hetzij met een andere oplossing. Met vriendelijke groet, RonnieV (talk) 00:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

360/spherical video

Did the dev team ever make headway on a tool to insert the spatial metadata file annotations?--WPPilot (talk) 02:09, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Not as far as I know and it seems unlikely, since Multimedia has basically no developers working on it. There are three parts to any such problem. Retrieving any annotation from a file (or a parserfunction from a file description page), storing the information in the database, outputting it the HTML of any page using the image. There is a ticket phab:T150624 here. There should also be one for 360 photos somewhere. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:09, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

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

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)

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)

Structured Data - development update, March 2019

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)

Structured Data - early depicts testing

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)

Structured Data - testing qualifiers for depicts

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)

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

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)

Structured Data - testing other statements

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)

Structured Data - computer-aided tagging

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)

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)

Structured Data - modeling data

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:

• Date (talk)
• Source (talk)
• Author (talk)
• Copyright (talk)
• Licensing (talk)
• Location (talk)
• Quality (talk)

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)

Structured Data - computer-aided tagging designs

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)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at Wikimedia Commons.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:04, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

File:Recording of Albania's National Anthem.ogg

File:Recording of Albania's National Anthem.ogg 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 see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. 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!

– Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 14:46, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Commons - Media Search

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)

Commons - Media Sarch, new feedback round

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)

Data:Omnioramas_de_El_Bierzo.map

I would like to erase the reference map, but I don't know how to do it. If you can do it, I would be very grateful.--Galopax (talk) 10:46, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

@Galopax: You can leave a request on its talk page. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:42, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Test in AHM.jpg

File:Test in AHM.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 see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. 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  ✉ 19:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Open Street Map

Servus! Ich habe gerade einige Bilder hochgeladen und wollte deren Position auf der Karte überprüfen. Diese lädt nicht ordentlich und sagt mir, ich solle mich an den User TheDJ, also dich wenden. Bisher hat es immer reibungslos geklappt. Liebe Grüße --Geoprofi Lars (talk) 12:01, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

@Geoprofi Lars: the template was linking to an old deprecated map layer. I updated the link and now it's working again. Multichill (talk) 12:13, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

thanks a lot Geoprofi Lars (talk) 12:14, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Moin, auch ich vermisse den OSM-Layer. WikiMap bei mir nach wie vor "nur" mit Wikimedia Maps. LG Arjoopy (talk) 06:54, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

want to run a tiles server ? ;) —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:12, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Village pump

Hello, TheDJ. You have new messages at Commons:Village pump#Updating Template:Information for Vector 2022 and mobile. You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Neveselbert (talk) 21:25, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

PNG Thumbs Exif

I wasn't aware of this until about 4 minutes ago: MW removes all Exif from thumbs of PNG files. With jpg-files author and copyright are kept if existent, but these are removed from PNG thumbs also. Even worse: The thumb process inserts its own Exif: "Icccopyright: Public Domain". I am aware that this only means that the ICC profile is public domain. Howeever removing the creative commons license info from the exif of a file and adding a tag that looks as if the file was public domain is a very bad idea. Another thing is that a number of Exif tags that are shown on the file descripton page for jpg files are not shown for png files (creator, maker note, user comment, artist, source, software - png comment and software used are kept). C.Suthorn (talk) 20:50, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

So ? What am I supposed to do about it ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:13, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

You've shown online expertise in thumbs and exif, so can you possibly explain why there is a comprehensible reason for what seems to me like vandalism (a feature that works for jpgs is wantonly programmed away for pngs)? C.Suthorn (talk) 11:52, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Because they are completely different technologies using completely different metadata standards implemented at completely different times. I'm pretty sure that up until 2018'ish, PNG didn't even support Exif. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:56, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!

Hello TheDJ, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024. Happy editing, ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 20:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 20:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Upload of specific webm file systematically failing

I have a webm file (3.6GB) that i cannot publish. it is always failing in assembly stage with:

{"error":{"code":"stashfailed","info":"The file mwstore://local-swift-codfw/local-temp/f/fb/1amz3spfxklw.8iteui.6080484.webm.0 does not exist.","*":"See https://commons.wik...

Special:UploadStash shows the last three atempts

1. 1amylmpw3fh8.uj2iu.6080484.webm (view thumbnail)
2. 1amz0hv5rtnk.6iuewk.6080484.webm (view thumbnail)
3. 1amz3spfxklw.8iteui.6080484.webm (view thumbnail)

But clicking on "view thumnbnail" gets an instant error page. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 18:50, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

I was able to upload a fragment of the file, but larger fragments only produce

1anba3702mro.w6kz2i.6080484.webm {"error":{"code":"stashfailed","info":"Could not acquire lock. Somebody else is doing something to this file.","servedby":"mw2299"}

clearing the uploadstash does not help-.

File:Treckerdemo von Bauern am Trammplatz in Hannover 2024-01-08.webm C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 17:13, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Search box doesn't seem to work

You just added a search box to Category:WebM videos. But it doesn't seem to work and I don't know why, could you clarify? I recently forked a template for searching categories and it works well on a few categories like Category:Our World in Data. I tried searching for music videos with filetype webm using this search box by entering "music video" (without quotes) or "music" but both searches show only 4 files. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:22, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I mixed up the syntax —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

GFDL again

Hi! You were the only one that commented on my post about GFDL on the Village Pump. I guess either you felt sorry for me or you care about GFDL. Either way I thought you should know I have now created m:User:MGA73/GFDL files/Licenses.

It is a list of all wikis and it has info about if GFDL is suggested to users during upload or not. Sadly it only works for MediaWiki:Licenses but it's a start.

If you have any ideas related to GFDL feel free to share. --MGA73 (talk) 16:13, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

undiscussed change of common stylesheet for "see also" boxes at top of pages.

Why did you increase the blacnk margin so much here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:See_also/styles.css&diff=next&oldid=916281880 It was 2px and enough to separate all boxes stacked at top. Your edit comment is non-sense, as this was not padding at all. Since ever this was a tiny margin; the padding is inside the box. We don't need to use extra space here, the links shown inside the box already have padding, so there's no accessibility issue. Your change uses precious vertical space on many pages. Can you revert it? This has been "2px" (above and below) since ever, not "1em", just enough to avoid collision of stacked boxes. Their visible border make them already separated. Your change was made siliently without any discussion.

Also there's a difference between vertical spacing (which can be packed, given that inner text already has large line height, and given that there's also an extra 2px internal padding and the thin border) and horizontal padding of texts inside boxes (which should be padded by at least .5em for letters and symbols that may have some left/right negative bearing (2px is not enough for selection with mouse). The standard inner padding of bordered boxes (or margin of inner text when padding of container box must be 0) is "2px .5em" (vertical/horizontal) and is well balanced for eyes and was tuned for accessibility and readability.

How could you do that without adminship? verdy_p (talk) 00:54, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

"How could you do that without adminship?", because I have the permissions to do so, and because be bold, revert, discuss. Maybe you should tone down a bit. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 07:52, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

To be clear. This entire bookwork you wrote would get a proper answer if it had been no more than: "Hi, I noticed you changed the margin of the See also template. Can you please explain your reasoning?". —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:05, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Letter from Selena at the Village Pump

Hi TheDJ, I hope you're fine. Since you participated at the Commons meeting at Wikimania, I wanted to flag a potentially interesting discussion at the Village Pump, started by Selena Deckelmann about finding a better way of supporting Commons. Maybe you can consider, if you have time, to share your thoughts? Thanks in advance! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:20, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Im on a roadtrip right now, but if i have time to spare, ill try to follow up —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Help on Phabriactor

Regarding Phab:T31803, if appropriate could you mark it as "open" and "bug report". I am new to Phabricator and can't work out how to do it. Also you may add Aklapper, I thought they watched all the bugs. Thanks. Commander Keane (talk) 19:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)