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I have been requested to highlight an upload naming issue I have encountered here and provide a permalink to the question I raised on Administrators Noticeboard yesterday. I've never created a permalink before so hopefully this works ok. https://w.wiki/HLFp Thanks Sp1nd01 (talk) 09:39, 6 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Sp1nd01: Thanks, but Special:Diff/1142687115#Please write a more informative title (view examples). is a more permanent link.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:16, 6 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Short version: File:Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 44 - Plate 1.jpg should not have been refused as a file name. - Jmabel ! talk 21:25, 6 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Update: the uploads are now working as normal for me this morning. Thank you. Sp1nd01 (talk) 10:01, 7 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

What's happened to the "Additional information" textbox? Now I see "Add the following to make your work more discoverable. Be as specific as you can." followed immediately by the Category box. Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:56, 30 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Uh - I found it, behind a drop-down that's closed by default. Yet another extra click when uploading a photo. Great. Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:08, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello! The Upload Wizard tutorial picture doesn't elaborate on the statement that those two are the "MAIN exceptions." For example, aren't the photographs, which are in the public domain themselves, the case that is major enough to be mentioned too? robinscarlet (talk) 07:14, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Robinscarlet: The Upload Wizard tutorial picture: could you please link to whatever file you are talking about? - Jmabel ! talk 19:36, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Licensing tutorial en.svg from Special:UploadWizard is talking about "two main exceptions" (when the files could be created not by their uploader). I suggest the addition of some link to the explanation about the exceptions or/and specifically of the mention of another popular exception, the public domain photos. robinscarlet (talk) 19:58, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Please use internal links. File:Licensing tutorial en.svg, which indicates things like source, etc.

That came from the WMF, is translated into several dozen languages, and I'm not entirely sure how much liberty we have to mess with it. As I understand it, the intent was "keep it simple." I agree with you that if we were to add one point to it, that would be the one, but I think the problem there is that so many people do not understand "public domain", and it would probably take another graphic as complicated as this whole one here to give even a half-decent introduction to the topic. - Jmabel ! talk 21:39, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Didn't I use the internal link? Do you mean my initial post? I thought it would be clear what I mean in there since I was talking indeed about the page, this one is specifically dedicated to. But I would try to be clearer in the future. Sorry for inconvenience.

• Sorry, yes, you did, I'm not sure why it seemed to go the wrong place (straight to the raw image) when I clicked it, but I should have checked your wikitext. - Jmabel ! talk 01:05, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

It could be simple on the page Special:UploadWizard itself. But that page doesn't let to learn more regarding the vague wording like "main" or "usually." For example, I was uploading the picture because I learned that the Associated Press photos prior to 1963 are allowed on Wikimedia Commons. The "usually 150 years old" part in this UploadWizard tutorial confused me though. It would prevent me from uploading if I wouldn't have been sure about my actions in advance.

Yes, I wasn't aware that Wikimedia Foundation comes up with explanations of the rules of its specific sites, like the one in question. I thought that's what their communities do. What's the point of this feedback page (welcoming the "ideas" too) then if nothing is going to change? robinscarlet (talk) 22:19, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

That can certainly sit there as a suggestion. Unfortunately, WMF has basically no one assigned to this work at the moment.

150 years there is, of course, almost insanely cautious (though if I were trying to say it in one sentence for someone who knew nothing about the issue, I probably wouldn't pick a number below 120). The actual situation is almost impossibly complex. Even the much longer "rules of thumb" given at Commons:Uploading works by a third party#Understanding copyright probably only cover about 80-90% of cases of what is in the public domain. - Jmabel ! talk 01:11, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I see that Upload wizard doesn't add Location template to my photos. They have cords on metadata, nothing changed from my side. What could have happenned? Анастасия Львова^ru/en 13:28, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply