Alexis Jazz

See my user page for info.

Copyvios to decorate my talk page

• Not sure about the source, but screenshots of maps are not own work
  Not sure about the source, but screenshots of maps are not own work
• w:en:File:2021 Islamic Solidarity Games logo.svg
  w:en:File:2021 Islamic Solidarity Games logo.svg
• book cover
  book cover
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  Photo courtesy of 2013, simpler times. (no idea who the author is) Commons assumes good faith despite all the other uploads of the user being blatant copyvios.
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  Unfree trophy, sorry Maradona.
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  PD-art tag without parameters (?), author: "Serge Lachinov (обработка для wiki)" ("обработка для wiki" means "wiki processing", it's the uploader) Their other uploads are similar, but this caused a fair use image to be tagged for deletion.
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  Taken by Varshavski himself as he had a video conference with Sean Kim who released Doctor Mike Debunks Top Health Myths with a Creative Commons license. The Creative Commons license applies to the footage of Sean Kim, but not to Varshavski.
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  The book cover is copyvio, everything around it is out of scope
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  No proof this was published before 1977
• No proof this was published before 1977
  No proof this was published before 1977
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  https://bishbashmusic.wixsite.com/bishbashband [1]
• Own work. Well, maybe the uploader is a centenarian.
  Own work. Well, maybe the uploader is a centenarian.
• 
  And really good at drawing maps.

Downloadfile

c:Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#Lock File:Downloadfile.png from creation

(for obvious reasons I'm following the noticeboards)

@Taivo and Josve05a: it's probably smarter to do the same thing that was done with c:Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 23#File protection: don't protect, just add the non-existent page to your watchlists as a honeypot. Alexis Jazz (ping me) 06:04, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

I thought about that, but in my opinion simple semi-protection is more useful. Creating honeypots are useful, if we are dealing with long-term abusers, like I have commons:file:Johan Archiles.jpg in my watchlist, but when we deal with inexperienced users, then prohibiting some unhelpful things is better. Taivo (talk) 08:15, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

@Taivo: fair argument. Maybe watchlist c:File:Downloadfile1.png and perhaps c:File:Downloadfile2.png, I predict at least some of the traffic may go there. Alexis Jazz (ping me) 08:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Checking files

Hi Alexis!

You know a lot about images and copyright. So if you are looking for something to work on then I have my own little project helping smaller wikis clean up files.

I created m:User:MGA73 and sub pages like m:User:MGA73/Media per wiki to assist me keeping track of what I have checked and where there are work to do.

If you wanna help you are most welcome and if you are busy doing other stuff thats cool! MGA73 (overleg) 5 apr 2020 15:56 (CEST)

@MGA73: Thanks, let me know if you want more info imported. Alexis Jazz (overleg) 5 apr 2020 18:43 (CEST)

Thank you! That sounds great! Do you have any ideas?

I was thinking that I needed to do manual work to check if they have non-free files, if they delete unused non-free files, if they make sure all files have a valid license, if the free files are okay and could be transferred to Commons etc.

Also license template needs to be fixed so they are machine readable. Many wikis have not done that yet. MGA73 (overleg) 5 apr 2020 18:55 (CEST)

@MGA73: It is probably more useful to update the existing tables at m:Non-free content/taking stock and m:Non-free content. Some wikis (like minwiki) appear to have fair use files without having an EDP.

I guess you need to figure out for each wiki (that doesn't have an EDP listed) what kind of uploads they have and how they mark them. For example, I see that non-free logos on frwiki use w:fr:Modèle:Marque déposée. Idwiki has a template for non-free album covers that puts images in w:id:Kategori:Gambar sampul album. To some degree (if templates and categories are linked correctly) you should be able to figure stuff out through d:Q5878936#sitelinks-wikipedia and d:Q7464207#sitelinks-wikipedia. You could probably create stats for some specific subcategories of non-free media. Alexis Jazz (overleg) 5 apr 2020 19:18 (CEST)

@MGA73: copied discussion to meta. Meta is neutral. If you have issues with meta (well you don't but I know people who do), contact me at w:en:User talk:Alexis Jazz, wikt:en:User talk:Alexis Jazz, wikt:nl:Overleg gebruiker:Alexis Jazz or by mail. Less likely to get bothered there or here. Nlwiki is no longer neutral ground. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 17:28, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes I thought about using those lists. But I'm also interessted in free files so I gave up on those. I have linked a few non-free pages (EDP's) to wikidata and if wikidata is updated it can perhaps replace the lists on meta.

I hope that I can just tell local users how things work and then they will clean up. I tried that on id.wiki years ago but it did not work as planned. Some wikis hate it that I challenge their fair use. I had luck on other wikis and a few is now empty.

The smaller wikis will probably need help setting up templates and the page to make m:Extension:FileImporter possible.

So I guess all wikis need to be checked manually to see what they have. I thought of starting with the smaller ones. Enwiki and dewiki knows how it works and have users checking. MGA73 (talk) 17:40, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@MGA73: if you manage to take stock of all the non-free media, you'd also know how much free media there is. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 17:52, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

That is true! Atm. I work on wa.wikipedia. I think they have 500 free files, 500 non-free files and 1000 with no license. I would not be surprised if many other wikis also have a lot of files with no license. --MGA73 (talk) 18:00, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@MGA73: I know fywiki has very liberal fair use (they accept fair use material of living people and higher resolutions than enwiki) and they have no templates. I can speak fy, but only when I'm drunk. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:14, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't speak wa (or fy). Perhaps I should try to get drunk :-D --MGA73 (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@MGA73: I think it only works if you already speak Dutch. (fy or Fries is kinda like phonetically written Dutch.. don't tell any Frisian I said that) — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 20:30, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Pasting from nl.Wikipedia

Hello.
Please, substitute “Gebruiker:” with “user:” and “Overleg gebruiker:” with “user_talk:” as red links are annoying. I can give you a script doing this in the edit form. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:09, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@Incnis Mrsi: I'm curious to see the script. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 14:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Incnis Mrsi/Gebruiker.js – the button pops below the edit summary field. It would be wise to show the widget only if the problematical patterns actually appear, but it requires intercepting a user-generated event (pasting into the edit form). That is beyond my JS skills. By the way, you screwed up one link to Nederlands Wiktionary trying to do replacement manually. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 18:21, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@Incnis Mrsi: Thanks! I fixed that one link manually for now. I'll look at the script. Perhaps I could also add some more features, I see some options. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps, but don’t waste your efforts on toys – better push to establish yourself in nl.Wikipedia, nl.Wiktionary, or whatever project do you like. I will be glad to help you. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:01, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

RAL

Was there a time where you had to run the tool multiple times to get it to work? 1989 (talk) 13:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

@1989: I don't think so, other than for beta-cluster-specific performance issues. Which files were you trying to undelete? Did only some of them fail to undelete or all? Any other details? — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 14:25, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

The ones shown here. The first time, three undeleted. I had to run it maybe three or four times to get the whole thing. 1989 (talk) 14:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

@1989: here's a bit for the documentation:

Debugging

If Restore-a-lot seems to malfunction, do the following to obtain useful information. These instructions are for Firefox, but Chrome has similar functionality.

If Restore-a-lot doesn't load at all/can't select any files/hangs, open the Web Developer tools, Console tab (Ctrl+Shift+K), refresh the page and try to undelete something. Copy-paste the output.

If Restore-a-lot would appear to work but doesn't actually undelete files reliably: open the Web Developer tools, network tab (Ctrl+Shift+E) and try to undelete something. You should now see a bunch of "api.php" requests representing the undeletion attempts. Select the api.php for a failed undelete action (this is a bit of trail and error) and go to the "response" tab to look for errors.

I'm thinking about a way to have RAL report errors more properly and user-friendly. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 15:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Added 1989 (talk) 16:13, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News

Hi! Thanks for the edits to Tech News. Since they were all to recurring texts, they have an impact on pieces of text that are the same every week and used by the translation memory (and the same thing would repeat next week). To not cause issues for translators who translate every week by mixing back and forth with the text, I'll do the normal text this week, and then start a conversation based on the diff of your edit on Monday and we can look at it and see if should do long-term fixes to the template we use, rather than the individual issue.

Sorry for the convoluted, non-wiki way of handling small fixes, it's just that I don't want to create extra work for people who translate every week and depend on texts changing as little as possible. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 15:34, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Not saying you're wrong and nothing should be changed, just wanting to do it with minimal extra work for translators. (: /Johan (WMF) (talk) 15:37, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Johan (WMF): I understand, making one big change is more efficient than multiple small ones and others may also have suggestions for improvements. Please ping me when you start the conversation. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 15:50, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Johan (WMF): btw, in that conversation it may be wise to also get speakers of other languages involved to improve translatability. Take for example the sentence "Not all changes will affect you" in the header: it's already odd in English, but translates even more poorly into Dutch because Dutch has two forms of "you": jij (informal) and U. (polite, formal) The latter is truly cringeworthy on WikiMedia outside, I dunno, the ToU. The former is a bit too colloquial for a newsletter. So in this case in Dutch we'd be more likely to address the community as a whole (all users or similar), and that also seems to work better in English, but if I hadn't known Dutch I would have probably glanced over this. My point being, consider drawing the attention of the translators when the conversation is started. Even if they're are not native English speakers, their knowledge of another language may allow them to see how an English text can be improved and avoid constructs that are difficult to translate. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 22:36, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Will ping you.

(This might not happen to day, as planned. My apologies. More things on my plate to handle than I thought.) /Johan (WMF) (talk) 20:31, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Now there's a feeling a know. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 21:50, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Tech/News/2020/21: This week, at least.

@Johan (WMF): I didn't miss it, did I? — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:40, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Now on Talk:Tech/News! Sorry for the wait. Mainly I've just been swamped, but partly it's also because I came to the conclusion I liked the way things were phrased, but I wanted to take you diff seriously and not just react out of change aversion. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

I've also linked to the discussion on the translators' mailing list so people can come tell me if I'm wrong. (: /Johan (WMF) (talk) 00:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

By the way, because we don't always agree in the larger discussion here, and I'm slow to respond because I want to think things through each time rather than just go with my gut reaction, I just wanted to acknowledge that the criticism on Talk:Tech/News/2020/24 was valid and made the newsletter better. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 11:24, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm speechless.

"You gave me the idea that you were open to exchanging arguments. You gave some arguments against, I gave some in favor, and we could both consider our position. But I see only now that wasn't how you saw it. " [2]

don't know why you are surprised - in my experience abusive admins like to project their abuse on others; they are not interested is a good faith discussion, rather they are full of endless justification of existing abuse of power. it is all about the "right to comfort" with trust issues, and zero tolerance. [3] - Slowking4 (talk) 12:18, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

@Slowking4: I just consider myself a hopeless optimistic. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 13:05, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

you know, i can collaborate with just about anyone; but certain bannable admins are not prepared to reconsider their bullying book-burning behavior. [4]; [5]; it is my great privilege to oppose them. Slowking4 (talk) 18:48, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

• Unrelated to the topic, but I'm quite speechless over this. What a very generous way to say thank you for defending you back at Commons. If I knew you were this shady, I would of never done what I did months ago. Good luck dealing with the Ombudsman commission. After what you pulled, you're gonna need it. 1989 (talk) 11:20, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@1989: I thank you (and everyone else who did of course) for standing up. Had the roles been reversed (Natuur12 or anyone else editing a comment of yours), I would have given you the same information. I just happen to know a few things about how the copyright system on YouTube works.

That's just information. It's not partisan. Just now I thought "what if I tried to argue in favor of your view?", only to realize that I hadn't properly formed an opinion yet. So here goes:

A few things to unpack here. I wouldn't consider that YouTube video a copyright violation because of Content ID. Since nobody else seems to have been aware of that, it's understandable that the link was removed and it was thought that Natuur12 accidentally shared a copyright violation. The current policy doesn't forbid linking non-free content. But.. maybe it should? Now it should be obvious that we can't forbid linking any non-free content. We need to link to stock photography sites to prove copyvios, link copyright laws, link websites that provide tools that further the project (say, Google translate) and so on. But where a link isn't strictly required to further the project, perhaps we should require it to be free? I'm not quite sure, but perhaps that would stimulate free alternatives for memes and jokes and the like.

Guess I still haven't properly formed an opinion. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:15, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

You thought I meant the whole thing? Of course not. I meant the last sentence, in which you didn't address. 1989 (talk) 18:27, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@1989: Now I'm just confused. What did you mean? What do you want to know? — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:30, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

he said it again! he said it again! revert, aaah! 1989 (talk) 18:37, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@1989: Okay.. I'm not going to risk trying to guess what you are trying to say even if I have a suspicion. Alternatively if you're just joking, I'm sadly not getting it. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:48, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

You really didn't realize I was quoting you? 1989 (talk) 18:52, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@1989: I realized that, I just don't know what you mean by it. You want me to explain that comment? You're making a joke? You're commenting on something I said? — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 18:57, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Sure, an explanation would be great. 1989 (talk) 19:02, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@1989: Whenever I'm linking Monty Python you shouldn't take it too seriously. I also wasn't addressing you, though talk pages are public of course. And while your first removal of the URL could be defended as trying to be helpful and correct an honest mistake, the second removal I find far more difficult to defend. I would have recommended to go to Natuur12's talk page and try to convince Natuur12 there to remove the URL themselves. So, was I mocking your action? Perhaps a bit, but that's just how I try to lighten the mood. Don't read too much into it. It's Monty Python, after all. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 20:34, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

I see. Apologies for snapping at you, and like previously stated, good luck. 1989 (talk) 20:50, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Right of control etc

Re. your very informative Wikimedia Forum posts, did you get anywhere re. your complaint to the OC? In terms of practical examples, my case seems similar in some aspects, namely a refusal of local CheckUsers to admit basic facts (or offer any transparency at all) that would ultimately clear me of alleged block-evasion and by extension alleged harassment (and are possibly hiding behind non-disclosure to do so), necessitating either pursuing the case over email (perverse when the original sin is them misusing what personal info I had already submitted by registering) or to the OC (sledgehammer to crack a nut imho). In my case at least though, there should have been plenty of local CheckUsers to act as independent reviewers of their colleague's acts/claims. Only one non-CU Admin was even involved in my case when it was still a local matter, and they apparently felt the fact I had been CheckUsered (regardless of whether it was illegitimate or not) meant they were powerless to act. All very daft, really, but very effective if your aim is to subvert/misuse/ignore local rules and engage in a massive game of chicken, if not send the victim quite mad. I feel like they're basically daring me to take extreme measures just to prove the sky is blue, like reporting to the OC. Unluckily for them, I am more than willing to do so, I am not remotely intimidated by them. Indeed, I rather laughed at the sight of a Commons Administrator apparently believing themselves to have powers equivalent to Katherine Maher herself, unilaterally declaring I am "blocked forever", and locking my talk page to make it so. If you hear anything from OC regarding relevant principles or even just timelines, let me know. I hope you are feeling better anyway, there is a very apt Latin phrase for all this, I believe. BarryBoggside (talk) 07:38, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@BarryBoggside: thanks for your support. The Ombudsmen are still working on my case. Regarding your case, I'm not sure. Even if evidence is obtained without proper regard for procedures (which frankly is difficult to judge for me), that doesn't automatically mean the evidence must be thrown out. It should, however, have consequences for the person who didn't follow procedure. If you believe procedures were not followed in your investigation (and at first glance, there may be some merit to that claim), I support you reporting that to the Ombudsmen. However, if you indeed created this account to evade a block, that won't pardon you. It's also possible that the admin who blocked you didn't run a CheckUser on you, and it's possible they violated the blocking policy. The Ombudsmen can't help in this case (I think), it would be a matter for ArbCom maybe. Not sure.

But if you didn't create this account to evade a block and are really unrelated to Crash Dennis, you are kind of screwed. A CheckUser has claimed that you are related, and statements by CheckUsers are magic truth that can't be confirmed or debunked by others. It's unclear if even the Ombudsmen can do much about that. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 19:37, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Well unfortunately I've been explicitly threatened by Revi with a block here if I even thought about responding to you on the matters in question, so I guess I won't. Suffice to say, there should be answers to all your questions in everything I have said thus far across en.wiki, Commons and here, and it is my understanding that the OC absolutely has jurisdiction over what I suspect has occurred. I await their response, and now they are on record as being in receipt of the details, I think more than a few advanced rights holding users across multiple projects are now seriously regretting playing chicken with me. BarryBoggside (talk) 20:08, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@BarryBoggside: I have e-mail if there's anything more you wish to say. I doubt I can be of any major help, I can't fully understand the situation as I haven't followed it from the start. Many of your replies are a bit long-winded, I just don't have time to read everything. (I read quite a few of them, but not all) I'm guilty of that myself as well at times. I will sometimes rewrite a message three or four times to reduce its length while preserving the core message. It's hard, but give it a try. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 20:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Well, it's all there in the public record, no email required (if only to prove the point that the sort of threats issued by Revi and co. are not aimed at assisting those who need it, they can only ever be about preventing those who might need help the most, from receiving it). But my aim was really to assist you, not the other way around, other than to get some idea how long it might be, now that the OC is apparently trying to progress cases in a timely fashion and with a renewed eye to the seriousness of their task as it relates to the reputation of Wikimedia as a responsible handler of people's private data. BarryBoggside (talk) 21:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@BarryBoggside: When the Ombudsmen investigate a case, you should count on it taking weeks rather than days. I just don't have time to read every single response, if there's anything you want me to read in particular you can give me a link, either here or by mail. I'm not sure how you could assist me, but I appreciate the effort. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 22:58, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

I think it was a result of seeing you have difficulty in finding a practical example of the policy working against those it nominally exists to protect, but of course, it escapes me now I am looking for it. Weeks is good, I had months in mind. BarryBoggside (talk) 00:48, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

@BarryBoggside: Could also be months, I can't say for sure. For my case it was said that it would likely take "a couple of weeks or more". No guarantees, but weeks would seem more likely than months. It's hard to find examples because most of them are likely unresolved and undocumented. A user gets erroneously blocked: they either never come back or create a new account and nobody bats an eyelid. They will rarely raise their voice, and even if they do, their case is highly unlikely to be resolved. And unresolved cases can't be cited. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 01:48, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

There is reason to believe the OC are already asking difficult questions of en.wiki CheckUsers in my case, so it must have properly alarmed someone with global responsibilities, or even a key to an executive washroom. The people who screwed me over seem to be taking the view that if they can successfully show the fruits of their illegitimate inspection were even more bountiful than first claimed, the issue of the legitimacy of their check will somehow be overlooked. I think they are dreaming myself - the OC cannot afford to be seen operating under such principles, much less the Foundation - and are also probably still not being adequately mindful of the fact they were always meant to do more than merely show a technical match, to substantiate a charge of abusive sock-puppetry for the purposes of block evasion, according to their own local rules. We shall see. I certainly smell wiki case law in the offing. Can't say anymore about it here, because of the locally applied D-notice. BarryBoggside (talk) 11:32, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

For the record, that D-notice has now been applied here also. ——SerialNumber54129 07:59, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

BarryBoggside, I wish I could understand the actual origin of this conflict. But the neverending stream of words causes me to think I'll never know, and to tell the truth, I'm not sure you know what it is. — Alexis Jazz (ping me) 08:27, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Right on time

Thanks for adding the Tech/News item. As it happens, it will be right on time. They postponed the change for a week due to the upcoming US holiday. Look for it on your favorite wikis around w:en:WP:THURSDAY the 9th. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 05:17, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

= @ nv

This needs to be done by a bot lest it take me 6 days with AWB.

{{=}} is now {{ałkééʼ}}; make the edit summary "T91154 bikʼehgo łahgo ályaa". Seb az86556 (talk) 03:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: Please confirm if my recent edits are good before I continue. Also, if they are good, please add me to https://nv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=accountcreator so I can edit at high speeds. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 13:13, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

:And you probably want to make me autopatrolled for the occasion. Bot would also work, I just need noratelimit and autopatrol. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 13:17, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

I see you have no user group for autopatrol. Also nvwiki has no bureaucrats so you would have to ask a steward to give me permissions. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 13:45, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: Applying for bot is too much hassle. It's probably best to convince a steward to make me an account creator and ignore the patrolling. Or alternatively make me an admin for a few hours if autopatrol is needed. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 14:33, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Sure. Let's see what they say. Thanks. Seb az86556 (talk) 15:28, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Request withdrawn. Ossified policy wonks have come to run the place and might cause this to break. Not your fault. Thank for your help. Seb az86556 (talk) 17:07, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: So I set up all the stuff for nothing? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:13, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Ask them. It'll usually take them 2 weeks or more to approve anything. Do we have that amount of time? Seb az86556 (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: They have put the request on hold for 2 days. We surely can wait 2 days. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:40, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I believe it when I see it. It only means they'll be back on Tuesday to ask more questions and push you away again. Two days would be the speed of light around here. And this used to be a creative, resonable, and flexible place. Ah well, let's wait then. Seb az86556 (talk) 17:44, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on nv. Iʼve considered all that stuff at an earlier point, but itʼs really not needed (unless some weird stuff happens like... now). More rights and buttons means more chances for someone to hack it and fuck with it. Meanwhile, letʼs make the show complete, and add your first ever approval-note in Navajo. Ta-da! Seb az86556 (talk) 18:15, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Whoa! Looks like youʼre done. Thank you so much! Seb az86556 (talk) 22:57, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: You're welcome. It would have been somewhat more convenient with noratelimit, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it might be. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:16, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Well, I guess we can skrew them and actually withdraw the request -- or do you want the flag anyways, just in case some unusual stuff comes up in the future? (I wouldnʼt be opposed) Seb az86556 (talk) 00:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Seb az86556: GMTA. If another thing comes up in the future (feel free to ask if you've got an issue) I'll see, but tasks as big as this are hopefully rare. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:30, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Vertaling van Tech News

Goedenavond Alexis Jazz,

Onder nl:Wikipedia:De kroeg#Tech News: 2020-32 heb ik mijn twijfels geuit over de meerwaarde van de vertaling. Aangezien de vertalingen van de afgelopen paar edities van jouw hand zijn, wilde ik je dat bij deze even laten weten.

Met vriendelijke groeten — Mar(c). ^[talk] 20:08, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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User-Page

I think you should change Ombuds commission to Ombuds commission, that it works on sites as w:en:User:Alexis_Jazz  — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 06:00, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: Thanks for noticing, oversight on my part, fixed. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 14:53, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

fakeSVG->PNG

https://svgworkaroundbot.toolforge.org/ / c:User:SVGWorkaroundBot can extract JPEG/PNG from fakeSVG (and lossless compression of PNG(and JPEG)). However I have problems grabbing the SVG-description-page and creating the PNG-description-page, maybe you can help me. Imho you can do that automatically.

 — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 06:46, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: If I understand correctly you are just looking for Special:Export? (c:Special:Export/File:Example.svg) Or action=raw. Or what exactly is the problem? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:09, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

?action=raw is what I wanted, however the real problem is that I use Commons:Commons:Command-line_upload#Python_Wikipedia_Bot (on toolforge.org) and I have problems using it.

Do you use automatic Command-Line uploading? Do you use mw:Manual:Pywikibot?

I currently use python3 /data/project/shared/pywikipedia/core/scripts/upload.py file.ext -keep -ignorewarn -noverify -descfile "uploadcomment" in https://github.com/JoKalliauer/cleanupSVG/blob/master/WorkaroundBotsvg2validsvg.sh#L314

However it does only work for overwriting files not for creating new pages.

And strangely it works from the command-line, but not any longer if I call the command indirectly over a shell-script.

Do you know how to add a filedescription, and what to change to allow page-creation?

Due to problems, I personally would be happy to change to a different tool, but I don't know which/how.

How do you upload Files?

 — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 08:16, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: I don't upload any files anymore. (well, a few to Wikipedia, but nothing special) I have no experience with Pywikibot, and given the current state of events, probably won't anytime soon. When you call the command in a shell-script, if the script runs as a different user it may be a permissions issue. Otherwise it could also be that within a shell-script (IIRC in things like while loops) you are running in a kind of sandbox. Difficult to explain, but you may not be able to access the filesystem as you're used to. Maybe using full paths would help. But I'm not even sure we are talking about the same thing so YMMV. I think maybe Fae knows more about this. I was never a mass-uploader, I mostly used UploadWizard. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:00, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

PS

PS I value your opinion since you voted against my adminship. I do not know why you are blocked and what happened. Abusing multiple accounts of a skilled person, should imho lead to a removement of voting rights. In Discussions such users (if not blocked) must be distinguishable, therefore they must have a labelled Signature.  — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 06:46, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

I haven't done any vote stacking. To tell you the truth I'm not entirely sure exactly what happened. I had made an alternative account to avoid some legal hassle, used it for some joking comments (that, in hindsight, while harmless, didn't really contribute to the project so I regret doing that), one of the comments was wrongly interpreted and somehow I was blocked for threats of harm. I was possibly blocked for not being a Fortnite player, as I apparently referenced some Fortnite gun without knowing it. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:09, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Regarding my PS: I wrote it misleading. I meant that I only see problems in some specific areas with multiple accounts, and from my experience in de.wikipeida I personally prefer rights-reductions (as explained above) instead of blocking. But since I don't know the details, I can't say if right-reduction is justifiable in your case, but I see rights-reductions often as a win-win-win-compromise (win for the specific User, win for other users and win for the project)

@Alexis Jazz: I know it is very impolite to fiddle in your/our old posts, but I hope it is ok, to split the two different topics in two sections for better readability, otherwise please revert my edit.

 — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 08:16, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: Thanks, it was better to split these completely different subjects. I have considered asking for my block to be converted to a partial block so I would be able to upload files and edit in Data: etc but until the myth that some sort of off-wiki attack exists (there is no such thing, this seems to be born out of misinterpretation of the comment of a CU) is cleared, this seems futile. The Ombuds commission may possibly release a public statement saying basically that, but.. Ombuds is slow. But even if that happens, it'll never be the same again. I just regret Commons lost Zhuyifei1999 and Majora over this mess. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:15, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

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re: your comment

At Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Citations/Convert tools for different citations or citation styles. To give you two examples:

• cross-wiki copying of references doesn't work. For example, in visual editor, if you copy a footnote using en:Template:Cite book to Polish Wikipedia, it won't convert to pl:Szablon:Cytuj książkę, since the parameters name don't translate, so it doesn't understand that |title= should be |tytuł and so on.
• I am not aware of any tool that allows conversion of en:Citation to en:Cite book, cite journal, etc. despite them sharing similar parameters?
• finally, there is the issue of long vs shortened footnotes (citations). See en:Template:Sfn. Some people prefer to have the full citations in a separate section, and only shortened one in the body. It would be great to have a tool that would just one-click convert a long cite to a short cite (and vice versa), and even better, a tool that would attempt to standardize all different references used in the text to templates. It should recognize templates like citation, cite book, sfn, and convert them to a single chosen type.

I hope this clarifies further my proposal. Cheers, --Piotrus (talk) 01:22, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Download entire gallery from Fars

Hello. You once helped us with Farsnews URLs (c:Commons:Village pump/Archive/2019/02#License reviewers and admins help is needed ASAP). Now I want to know how can I download the entire images in this gallery, for example. There is one download button which apparently does not work. But maybe you can do magic. You should know that Farsnews used to be a .com website, but after US sanctions it is now a .ir website. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:23, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

• 4nn1l2, "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible." Seems like a problem on their end. Nothing to do but download all images individually. Some browser plugins/addons may be able to assist. I used w:en:DownThemAll! once for something similar, maybe worth giving that a try. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:21, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

By the way, any chance that you come back to editing at Commons? 4nn1l2 (talk) 19:23, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

• 4nn1l2, did Magog come clean yet? (rhetorical question) Not that I'm going to get tired of taking pot shots like Stewards/Elections 2022/Votes/Vermont (diff 22830923) anytime soon (nothing else I can do, if I'd address Magog directly they'd just fabricate some more death threats), but until they come clean I avoid Commons like the plague. Right now it makes little difference anyway as nearly all my wiki time goes into Bawl. I could really use testers though. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:22, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

We all love GFDL!

Hello, how are you doing?

I'm sure you remember the accepted proposal to phase out GFDL for most media so you know the reading is a joke :-)

I tried to get rid of it on all wikis (see User:MGA73/Media per wiki) but a few did not accept my suggestion to do so. So the question is what to do with all other wikis? Ignore? Try again? A global vote?

And are there any other image related things we should discuss at the same time? --MGA73 (talk) 14:37, 27 July 2022 (UTC)--MGA73 (talk) 14:37, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, I'd like to go after the GFDL for wikitext. Various projects (on-wiki mostly w:en:User:Alexis Jazz/Bawl and w:en:Wikipedia:EditNoticesOnMobile) have recently been consuming much of my time though. If GFDL for wikitext can be phased out wikis will be less inclined to keep it for images. I plan to propose removing GFDL for new contributions on a small project. That's something you could also try. The main argument (besides being obsolete) is that the GFDL allows for the creation of derivatives with improvements that Wikimedia can't import back and other creators can't incorporate in Creative Commons licensed works, more or less a workaround for ShareAlike. If some small projects agree, a global proposal should be made. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 14:56, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

But do you think small wikis know enought about copyright to care? It seems to be the problem on many of the wikis I ask to clean up files. Some wikis keep unlicensed files for years without caring. --MGA73 (talk) 14:59, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

I made a post on Wikimedia_Forum#Global_removal/ban_of_GFDL to see if there are anyone out there with any good ideas on how it could be done. --MGA73 (talk) 16:13, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

MGA73, instead of banning it outright, you may have more success proposing to disallow and remove GFDL by default - while allowing individual communities to take a vote to reintroduce it as a valid license. Can't imagine many will - but taking away the possibility could rub some people the wrong way. Effectively amending the 2009 license update. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:35, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Yeah it might be easier to take in smaller parts. But it will also take more time. If both enwiki and Commons agree to skip GFDL I doubt there will be enough users to block a ban. Unless of course they support a ban but think it should be up to each wiki to decide. But lets wait and see if anyone notice my post and would like to Comment. --MGA73 (talk) 17:17, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi

@Alexis Jazz: About Project:GUS2Wiki (Q113143828) in https://mni.wikipedia.org A Mangang (talk) 16:30, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Awangba Mangang, I added mni to my list, mniwiki will be included in the next run. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:45, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Alexis Jazz, If Meta:GUS2Wiki/Script is still working, can you please add "ckb.wikipedia.org" and "ckb.wiktionary.org" to it? Aram (talk) 00:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Aram, Done— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:54, 23 February 2024 (UTC)