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March 10[edit]

Stamps of Country and Country on stamps categories and their interplay[edit]

I believe that we should discuss this with the whole community, I am starting it here because starting it on a talk page on any single category guarantees that nobody will see it.

So, we have categories of stamps published in every country (and sometimes of former countries or other territories), the format of those categories is akin to Category:Stamps of Bulgaria. There is also a hierarchy of categories of different things shown on stamps, and obviously countries can also be displayed on the stamp, and that brings forth another intersection of a stamp and a country; the format of those categories is akin to Category:Bulgaria on stamps.

Now here is the potential conflict that brings me here. I have created the template {{stamps of country}}, which I have been applying to appropriate categories, and that template places Stamps of Country inside the Country on stamps, my argument is that at least the logo of the country, or the country name is displayed on the stamps. This is true for almost every country, with the notable exception of the United Kingdom (UPU has made that exception, since the first stamps was made in Britain). In parallel Kreuz und quer has been doing the opposite, placing Country on stamps inside Stamps of Country (example). I have reverted them a few times, but now I believe that it is possible that we'll begin some sort of revert war, and I would like to avoid that.

Hence, I am looking for some sort of community consensus on this categorisation. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 05:36, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @Kreuz und quer: . Also @Ww2censor: since they have interest in stamp categories. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 05:38, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Don't forget the wikiprojects, such as w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philately. I think there are some other language projects but don't know where they are located. Ww2censor (talk) 11:23, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
i think it's better to have "Stamps of Country inside the Country on stamps", since i suppose there must have been countries shown on other countries' stamps, assuming Stamps of Country=stamps issued by country, rather than any stamp related to that country.--RZuo (talk) 16:09, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Because we host files for all languages, here are the other countries I can find, besides the enwiki project, that will be affected by any decision we make:
Please make sure they are all notified appropriately. Ww2censor (talk) 17:36, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Gone Postal I agree that Stamps of Country makes more sense inside Country on stamps. My doing the opposite was simply out of a desire to link the two categories -- due to the vagaries of the English "of," I hadn't thought too much about hierarchy. But the way you and @RZuo describe it is more logical. I'm happy to change over my categorization if that's the consensus. Kreuz und quer (talk) 23:54, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Gone Postal: I don't see why Stamps of Country would be placed inside Country on stamps or vice versa. Country on stamps makes me think the country is depicted on the stamp, not just shown as a word. Why would anyone want to sort stamps by the words they include? That doesn't seem like useful categorization. Also, such an arrangement makes the Country on stamps categories mostly just useless containers for Stamps of Country. Nosferattus (talk) 05:29, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 11[edit]

High speed lines Spain categories[edit]

I uploaded File:Parla HSL 2022 1.jpg to File:Parla HSL 2022 4.jpg. At this location there are in fact two high speed lines. One in use: Madrid - Sevilla and Madrid - Levant starting from the junction Bifurcación Torrejón de Velasco just beyond. The other tracks are not yet in use and are the tracks of the Chamartin Atocha normal guage tunnel wich have separate tracks up until the Bifurcación Torrejón de Velasco where the tracks continue to the Levant line. See for details in https://www.openrailwaymap.org/. Do we create a separate category for the Chamartin - tunnel - junction Bifurcación Torrejón de Velasco line? It can also be considered a prolongation of the Category:Madrid–Valladolid high-speed rail line. The line will probably be opening in 2022. es:Túneles ferroviarios Atocha-Chamartín Smiley.toerist (talk) 12:14, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I personally feel that disambiguating in the category name is wise, because if you don't, you'll get a lot of miscategorisation. Perhaps with a "via"? Although if they rejoin for part of the route, it would be better to have subcategories, like "X rail line, Y to Z branch via W" for each option so the jointly used parts have a place to go. If the line's long, subcats are nice anyway. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest Madrid–Chamartin to bifurcation Torrejón de Velasco high-speed rail line, inclusive Madrid railtunnel. The will be practicaly no pictures of the railtunnel.Smiley.toerist (talk) 12:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pew Research Center graphs[edit]

The Center provides you with a nonexclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, revocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to access, copy, reproduce, cite, link, display, download, distribute, broadcast, transmit, publish, modify, create derivatives of, or otherwise exploit the survey datasets (other than American Trends Panel survey datasets, which are governed by their own terms and conditions) made available on this website (“Data”), provided that:

• any reproduction, display, distribution, broadcast, transmission, or publication of the Data is limited to excerpts and may not be reproduced, displayed, distributed, broadcast, transmitted, or published in full or substantially in full;

• all copies and excerpts of the Data display all copyright and other applicable notices to the extent such notices are contained in such Data; and

• you do not use the Data in any manner that implies, suggests, or could otherwise be perceived as attributing a particular policy or lobbying objective or opinion to the Center, or as a Center endorsement of a cause, candidate, issue, party, product, business, organization, religion or viewpoint. [1]

Now, at Category:Pew Research Center, we see a few graphs and tables. I am not good enough in copyright law to understand the text above correctly. So my question isː are those graphs and tables legally uploaded there? If soː let's expand that categoryǃ If notː delete those files ASAPǃ

Anyway, let's discuss. Regards,̃Jeff5102 (talk) 16:14, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeff5102: That license doesn't appear compatible with COM:L. "Revocable" is a problem (licenses must be non-revocable), and the limitation on reuse in full also sounds like a problem. It looks like some of the existing media is licensed with a threshold of originality rationale, which does circumvent Pew's attempts to apply a more restrictive license (if it is correct), but could be debated. – BMacZero (🗩) 18:41, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"The Center provides you with a [...] license to [...] the survey datasets". I cannot find any indication above that the any graphs would be licensed. The first bullet seems to be about the same as the EU dataset protection (although there is an odd wording making it seem you cannot replicate your own work in full). Do datasets have any protection under US law? In what jurisdiction is this Pew research centre? –LPfi (talk) 19:52, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I assume that if you use the data to create a derivative work, allowed under the licence, a revocation of the licence wouldn't affect that work, only your ability to create a similar work in the future. That is of course problematic for a database used for academic research, as you wouldn't be able to replicate your results with slightly modified methods, to show your results were robust, and neither could other people replicate them once the licence is globally revoked. Problematic, but not too uncommon (in a project I worked for, we paid for datasets to be used during five years, then to be destroyed unless the contract was renewed – and we were not allowed to share the data) – and mostly irrelevant for Commons. –LPfi (talk) 20:02, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 12[edit]

Authorship of a group of files[edit]

We have a problem with Category:Second Powell Expedition 1871-1872. Included in that collection are 827 images taken by John K. Hillers.

The problem is examplified by, for example, this image record; within it three photographers are listed as Author.

Powell used three consecutive photographers on this 1871 expedition; Elias Olcott Beaman, James Fennemore, and John K. Hillers. Three people cannot take one photograph.

Each of the 827 images in particular has buried in it text the following statement: "Series: Photographs taken by John K. Hillers during the Powell Survey and other Geological Surveys, compiled ca. 1879 - ca. 1900" obviously indicating that the photographer is John K. Hillers.

If someone sufficiently thick and doesnt study the files before using cat-a-lot, they are going to add on false attribution to others than Hilliers.

Solution is for a bot to edit the Author field down to Hillers, by deleting the other two.

Anyone willing to do that? --Broichmore (talk) 13:42, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by "Powell used three consecutive photographers on this 1871 expedition"? Are images by those photographers elsewhere? Can we trust "Photographs taken by John K. Hillers during [...]", or is it possible that the text was put on the records without research on who the actual photographer was? Is it thinkable that the other photographs are mentioned because they might be the real one? Do you have knowledge other than that stated in the file description? –LPfi (talk) 16:19, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Broichmore: –LPfi (talk) 20:03, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Four photographers were on the expedition; two of them acting as assistants. In practical terms three were consecutively principals. Several diaries were kept, and the expedition mapped. I know, from a distance, that some of the plates had numbers, initials or names scratched on them. Photographs in the various collections have annotated notes made on the backs of them. Each image obviously has a definite location, and presumably can be dated with some degree of accuracy. I can't vouch for the accuracy of whatever record labelling we have. I don’t know if a comprehensive study has been made and by whom. --Broichmore (talk) 13:27, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 15[edit]

Category:Christophe de Coulanges[edit]

Category:Christophe de Coulanges It says "no wikidata", there is one which it doesn't find. --Io Herodotus (talk) 01:01, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Io Herodotus: no one had linked it to Commons, which doesn't happen magically. I'll take care of it. - Jmabel ! talk 02:20, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Done. - Jmabel ! talk 02:21, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I added the image to the Wikidata entry, the final step. --RAN (talk) 20:17, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Wrong License" tags placed on many files from a 2014 Wikipedia Cooperative Project with the State Archive of Posnan (Poland)[edit]

Here [2] is an example file tagged with a "wrong license" tag by a recently blocked user. This file is dated in the 17th century and is Public Domain. The file has a "Public Domain" tag already. There are many more files that appear to be appropriately tagged as Public Domain, however these have the same tags by this same User. Should I revert these tags on all these files, which I am willing to do, if that the correct action? Thanks, --Ooligan (talk) 18:31, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • I asked the same question a few months ago, when you see an obviously defective tag, you can remove the tag, including speedy delete tags. However, once nominated for normal deletion, and image has to go through the deletion process. --RAN (talk) 01:25, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok, I will remove the obviously defective tags. Thank you, Ooligan (talk) 08:10, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You could also ask the user who inserted the tags about why he did that. He is currently blocked here, but seems to be based at the Polish Wikisource project. --Rosenzweig τ 09:40, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think this was because the license is not correct. The files are scans of old book and so they are public domain and not just declared CC0 Zero. The correct "license" would be {{PD-scan}}. --GPSLeo (talk) 09:54, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@GPSLeo - I see that the CC0 Zero license was used on these files from a 2014 cooperative project. Would the PD-scan license apply to Public Domain photos? I changed a few licenses to the PD-Poland. Is that ok or is PD-scan more accurate? Thanks, Ooligan (talk) 00:49, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I do not know what the copyright rules for scans in Poland where in 2014. In Germany it was not clear that scans of PD material are always public domain. This changed with the EU copyright directive. So maybe using CC0 for those files in 2014 was a good way to make this clear. But now this is not needed anymore. I think using {{PD-scan}} only would be fine, because I am not sure if the Poland the law in the template covers includes the Poland of the 17th century. GPSLeo (talk) 07:59, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Rosenzweig - The currently blocked User could have just changed the CC0 license to PD-Poland, PD-scan or another appropriate license on each of the dozens of files they tagged for having a "wrong license." That action would have been more efficient, would have corrected the issue immediately and would not require other Users do the work. That same User could have asked this page or another User for help in determining the correct license on all those files tagged as having the wrong license. I did not know they were still active at Polish Wikisource. I made a few changes, but decided to let them make the remaining file changes after the block has expired. I do want to thank you for encouraging communication. -- Ooligan (talk) 01:27, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 16[edit]

Mandarin people[edit]

William Alexander - A Mandarin - 6738.jpg

Do we have a category for Mandarin people/ people in Mandarin costume, like the above? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:15, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mandarin (bureaucrat)? --Rosenzweig τ 11:13, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Also Category:People wearing mandarin squares. --Rosenzweig τ 11:15, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 18[edit]

Request for Deletion in languages other than English- is there a policy or process?[edit]

Is there a policy or process about Request for Deletion's being in languages other than English? I asked the requester to provide a translation, if they can. Is there a translation tool I could use? I would like to comment on the discussion but I do not know the language.[3] Thanks, --Ooligan (talk) 02:42, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The policy is that Commons is an international project. It doesn't mention deletion requests or namespace but applies there for sure. Multilingual description is welcomed but not required. There are administrators covering a lot of major languages, so this is not a problem. Often there is the opposite issue; an uploader who doesn't know English not knowing what the deletion request is about and how to fix the issue. For both cases https://translate.google.com/ works fine. TFerenczy (talk) 08:13, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Ooligan: Slightly to my surprise, the language policy doesn't explicitly cover this, but I'd expect people to write in a language they feel comfortable in, and for readers to translate as necessary. Google Translate isn't perfect, but it's usually good enough to understand discussions on Commons. --bjh21 (talk) 10:51, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for checking to see if Commons policy applied to my question. Could you provide a link to this language policy? Thank you, Ooligan (talk) 00:20, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Bjh21 added ping. Ooligan (talk) 00:21, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Ooligan: TFerenczy provided one above: Commons:Language policy --bjh21 (talk) 00:41, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Ooligan: I translated it from Russian for you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:55, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. Thank you for the translation. Is there a translation tool on any Wikimedia projects? Again, thank you and Bjh21 for your help. Ooligan (talk) 00:26, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And what about those languages not available in Google Translate? Haoreima (talk) 05:51, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Ooligan: You're welcome. Sorry, I don't know of such a tool.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:57, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Although you may use any language, if your language is very rare, I'd recommend translating it yourself or asking somebody else (use Category:user xxx, where xxx is the language code) to translate it to some bigger language. I'd also hope people not to use Skolt Sámi for an Indonesian image or Niuean for one from Peru. –LPfi (talk) 19:40, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
i made a proposal to emphasise commons is multilingual: special:permalink/642118115#Commons:Language_policy_and_Commons:Talk_page_guidelines.--RZuo (talk) 12:38, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 19[edit]

Please comment[edit]

I want to nominate a picture for Quality Image status. And it's this:

COLOURFUL FOLIAGE OF AUTUMN.jpg

. But since I am new to such experience, I can't fully digest all the rules and regulations laid out in the policy and guideline pages. In short, could anyone (experienced on this) please comment if it's eligible for it or not? Haoreima (talk) 05:48, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Commons Upload Tool for Mac - Sunflower[edit]

Hey folks, I'm pleased to announce that the first (beta) version of my new upload tool for macOS, Sunflower, is now available! If you have a Mac, please try it out and let me know what you think :) Just a heads up: Sunflower does require a later version of macOS (12.2 Monterey or newer). -FASTILY 06:59, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Equivalent to en:Wikipedia:Consensus?[edit]

Hello. Does WCommons have a page equivalent to en:Wikipedia:Consensus concerning cases where disagreements arise? I found no such things at Commons:Policies and guidelines. If a WCommons equivalent does not exist, I think it definitely should, if not as a policy at least as a recommendation. Veverve (talk) 20:44, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • I would say that, without (as far as I know) a formal policy, we tend to operate roughly along those lines, with the caveat that because of Commons' nature as a media repository, much larger areas of Commons are the work of single individuals than is typically the case for Wikipedia in any major language. Also, the fact that the COM:Precautionary principle is itself something for which we have consensus often overrides what might otherwise appear to be a consensus about what would be desirable. - Jmabel ! talk 22:28, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Jmabel: do you think I should create the WCommons article myself? Veverve (talk) 12:43, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Veverve: You could write something, but it wouldn't automatically be policy, it would just be your own statement. To drive it toward being formal policy, you'd have to build a more formal consensus, I presume at Commons:Village pump/Proposals. - Jmabel ! talk 15:27, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 20[edit]

exposition trains[edit]

Is there a category for these type of trains?

Lille Flandres 2022 1.jpg

,

Lille Flandres 2022 2.jpg

Smiley.toerist (talk) 11:56, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

maybe somewhere under Category:Repurposed rail vehicles.--RZuo (talk) 12:38, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
mmhh, stil in use as rail vehicle, but not for passenger transport.Smiley.toerist (talk) 10:33, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Smiley.toerist: See Category:Exhibition railway coaches. De728631 (talk) 17:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

SVG file render incorrectly[edit]

In File:Electoral systems map.svg, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau are each assigned different colors, as can be seen in the static image preview generated by the commons system. However, in Firefox, when viewing the SVG file directly, all three places are being shown as having the same color of grey as Mainland China. Is there anything wrong with it? C933103 (talk) 12:20, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rankedchoicevoter: Do you have any idea about it since you updated the file? C933103 (talk) 16:55, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Actually this seems to have happened with this upload by Geobica. The preview thumbnails may need to be updated though I don't know how that works. De728631 (talk) 17:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 21[edit]

Join the Community Resilience and Sustainability Conversation Hour with Maggie Dennis[edit]

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March 22[edit]

Santali WP does not link properly[edit]

When I check where a file is used, sometimes I find it linked to an article on Santali WP. But when I follow the link, the page doesn't exist. If I click to create it, it doesn't say that it's been deleted. An example is File:Idioma_azerí.png, which supposedly appears on the page sat:ᱢᱩᱬᱩᱛ:ᱟᱡᱟᱨᱵᱟᱭᱡᱟᱱᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ. If I remove the prefix ᱢᱩᱬᱩᱛ, then I find the article with the file. But this prefix doesn't always appear: sometimes the Commons link takes me to the article. Kwamikagami (talk) 01:48, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kwamikagami that's is a software bug, currently i forgot the phabricator ticket number —MdsShakil (talk) 18:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a tool to expand a specific category tree? (continued)[edit]

From Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2020/06#Is there a tool to expand a specific category tree?

@Jeff G. and RZuo: There is a tool to do just this that works on all Wikimedia wikis. It's quite flexible and can traverse subcategories or supercategories with a depth limit and total node limit, showing each category only once in the graph. Here's a query equivalent to Jeff's example. Each graph node is a link to its Commons page (note that only category pages are shown). Here's a more interesting one that is bound by the 250 node limit. Each node links to the query for traversing using the tool starting that node. The other rendering mode is more compact, but makes connections harder to follow when there are many nodes.

Caveat: I did notice that in subcategory mode the node limit is reached at a depth of just 2 for many of the categories I tried it with. This causes the tool to automatically limit the depth of the output to 1 (only immediate subcategories), though you can bypass the limit by rendering yourself as the documentation says.

I saw this thread while trying to search Commons for a link to the tool, which I'd seen before but had forgotten the name of. It seems the single mention at Commons:Categories#Tools isn't very search engine optimized, because I ended up locating it through an amusingly convoluted trail of breadcrumbs:

  1. Image searching for an example of output from the tool
  2. Finding an image on a news site
  3. Reverse-image searching to locate that image as originally used on Wikipedia
  4. Going to its file page on Commons (File:Category-diagram.png)
  5. Following the link to the tool in the file description to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/
  6. Being redirected to https://vcat.toolforge.org/catgraphConvert/, which is now a 404
  7. Visiting that page in the Wayback Machine to finally find a link to Dapete's userpage

It doesn't look like there is much awareness of the tool outside of German Wikipedia. I'm not sure where I saw it on Commons; perhaps it used to be linked on a more conspicuous page, and the link was deleted when it became a 404. In that case, it could be re-added.

I also came across Commons:Kategoriler#Tools (probably copied from an old version of the English page), which has several links to similar, now-defunct tools. Perhaps the authors can be asked to at least publish the sources. Category visualizations also seem to be called in existing Commons parlance, referring to the name of the first version of this tool.

Also, I'm unsure if there is a prescribed format for reviving an old thread.

--wqnvlz (talk | contribs) 17:02, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you so much! i will spend some time understanding this tool.--RZuo (talk) 22:21, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Should users be obligated to archive their talk pages?[edit]

I stumbled upon this user's talk page and I noticed that from about 2/3 deep in the page the templates are not expanded anymore. This seriously impedes other users' ability to read the page and assess user's activity. Should the user be told to archive their page? Can others perform the archive instead? What to do? Gikü (talk) 21:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

i think it's ok to leave a note to such users telling them that you set up auto archives for them.
i wanted to make a bot that checks Category:User talk pages where template include size is exceeded and sets up auto archives, but i havent got the time to do so.--RZuo (talk) 22:21, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Gikü: I deployed my standard solution.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 23[edit]

User? (user name)[edit]

I don't go onto Wikimedia Commons often but I am unclear if User names on Wikipedia and Wikimedia are the same thing? Apparently not. How does someone establish a user name on WM Commons? BrucePL (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • @BrucePL: For the most part, they are the same, except for some older accounts that were left out of the big merge a decade or so ago. As you can see, your sig shows up fine here. - Jmabel ! talk 03:33, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Which preferences cause this?[edit]

Only on commons, starting this week I no longer can use several characters properly. Among those are brackets and hyphens, when I want to use

  • *, it turns into ̈
  • [[ turns into ʽ
  • ]] turns into ʼ
  • {{ turns into ̣̣̣̻
  • }} turns into ˌ
  • : turns into ː (a different hyphen, doesn't work in wikicode)
  • ̃̈~~~~ turns into ̃ or ̴

̩Most other ̯characters behave normal (dollar sign and percent sign are also gone)̤̤ and I found ways to get my desired input, but I hope that there is a preference I can (de)activate that lets me use my̻ ̩k̩e̩y̩b̥o̥ḁr̥d̩ ̩̺p̪r̪o̪p̰̥erly agaḭ̰̬n. This problem persists independent of my input device (tried on three different disconnected computers) and only here on Commons, not in other projects. I didn't consciously change any preferences before that happened, and I am somewhat exasperated by now as I found no way of return yet. --Enyavar (talk) 06:44, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Enyavar: check your input settings (English (or your language) -> Input settings). MKFI (talk) 07:08, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Preferences --> User profile --> Internationalisation --> Language --> enːEnglisɦ?
Been there, done that. If there are "input settings", I must have missed them - where are those? --Enyavar (talk) 07:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wait, I found them, what an obscure settings menu. So the question remains, how was my input switched to IPA-SIL? What bug (or feature) could have caused that? Thanks MKFI. --Enyavar (talk) 07:38, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone please revert Atlas of Ancient Rome?[edit]

I think an anonymous user has emptied gallery page Atlas of Ancient Rome. Can someone please revert this page to the one of 12 nov 2021 13:50‎ by Meno25? (I have only rights to do one step back, not five or six which are needed here). I withdraw the deletion request. --JopkeB (talk) 07:00, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed[edit]

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The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

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Movement Strategy and Governance

Zuz (WMF) (talk) 09:09, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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