Commons:Village pump/Archive/2025/03

Commons Gazette 2025-03

In February 2025, 1 sysop was elected; 1 sysop was removed. Currently, there are 182 sysops.

Election:

• User:Gnom was elected sysop (29/2/2) on 20 February.

Removal:

• User:Spiritia was removed on 12 February due to inactivity. She had served as sysop from 9 April 2008.

We thank her for her service.

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Edited by RoyZuo.

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--RoyZuo (talk) 01:55, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Webservice request timed out for glamorous tool on toolforge

Seems like there is not GitHub repo and the issues are also not tracked in phabricator. I don't understand why that is since that makes it unlikely for other to discover and help develop these useful tools.

Does somebody here know why the glamorous and glamorgan – which can be used to see file uses of files (example) – are getting the 504 Gateway Time-out – is there an issue somewhere?

--Prototyperspective (talk) 16:02, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Online again. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:56, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:57, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Unsourced Map Used on Many Pages

• 
  GIF uploaded 27 March 2010 by JWooldridge. 575 × 792.
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  GIF uploaded 23 March 2006 by en:User:Andrew c. Talk page reveals he has a vector version. 364 × 500.
• 
  Andrew c's source map. 4 March 2006. © Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

I wasn't sure where the right place to discuss this is, but the image Galilee to Judea.gif is a map which was uploaded 15 years ago without comment and which is now used on something like twenty wikipedia articles across several different languages. It makes several claims about borders and political entities without any sources, and is placed very authoritatively at the top of some articles despite that. Is there a policy about this, or could someone familiar with the subject verify the contents of the map? I'm not very familiar with Commons so I'm sorry if this is confusing or if I'm making something straightforward into something very roundabout, but I'm very concerned about the idea of maps and other images which contain unverified claims being presented as authoritative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buglover100000 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Looks to me like the source is Andrew c in 2006 with CC-BY 3.0. 364 ≈ 363.005. Aspect ratios are 0.726 and 0.728.

Andrew states:

This is a map of first century Iudaea Province that I created using Illustrator CS2. I traced this image for the general geographic features. I then manually input data from maps found in a couple of sources.

• Robert W. Funk and the Jesus Seminar. The Acts of Jesus. HarperSanFrancisco: 1998. p. xxiv.
• Michael Grant. Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels. Charles Scribner's Sons: 1977. p. 65-67.
• John P. Meier. A Marginal Jew. Doubleday: 1991. p. 1:434.

Glrx (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

thank you so much! this had been bothering me for a little i really appreciate you taking the time to answer!

Buglover100000 (talk) 06:26, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Another place would be the Help:Misinformation talk page but it may be rather unlikely to get an as good reply there as quickly. For other similar cases, also see Files (datagraphics) without data sources that are used on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects can be found using the GLAMorgan tool here (alternative tool). on that page. In this case, if you found out what the source is, please add it to the file info. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:56, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

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video2commons not working

Hello everyone,

I am writing an article about Katu Mirim and I found this CC BY video on youtube which would be a great illustration. When I try to pass it through https://video2commons.toolforge.org/ though, I get the error : Error: An exception occurred: DownloadError: b'ERROR: [youtube] RhbJjHhm6LU: Sign in to confirm you\xe2\x80\x99re not a bot.

Could anyone else try, see if you get the same error ? Thank you !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhbJjHhm6LU

have a good day Vache-crapaud (talk) 22:50, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello, if you check Commons:video2commons, you will see unfortunately it stopped working for YouTube videos for a while now. The problem came from YouTube itself so currently there are no fix for it. As a workaround, you just have to download the video manually then upload the file through videos2commons. Tvpuppy (talk) 23:53, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Vache-crapaud (talk) 09:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Tracked in GitHub
toolforge/video2commons/issues/237

Created the issue. See Commons:YouTube files/Downloading for info how to download as webm without the tool. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:23, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

No to intimidation of volunteer contributors

Hello, just for your info, there is an open letter in the French Wikipedia fr:Wikipédia:Lettre ouverte : non à l'intimidation des contributeurs bénévoles in support to a user (also user here) who suffered pressure and threats from a newspaper journalist. Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)