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801

I tried to create Hebrew subtitles for the file "Korean Air Flight 801 crash, Guam air traffic control recording (August 1997).oga", but it wouldn't let me and it said that if this is an error, contact the system operator. This text is translated because I'm not very good at English. Here are the subtitles I tried to create:

גישה, אגנה. קוריאן אייר חזר אליך?
00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000
801?
00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:26,000
חיובי.
00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:25,000
קוריאן אייר 801, גואם.
00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,000
לא?
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:21,000
הוא יצר איתי קשר, אישרתי לו לנחות.
00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,000
אני לא יודע איפה הוא, אף פעם לא ראיתי אותו.
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000
אף פעם לא ראית אותו?
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:15,000
שלילי!
00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:14,000
הוא לא נחת?
00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,000
שלילי!
00:00:11,00 --> 00:00:11,00
אוי, אלוהים.
00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:09,000
אין לי אותו.
00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,000
הוא קרא לי פעם אחת; אישרתי לו לנחות. אמרתי לו שהוא לא נראה באופק.
00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000
אין לי אותו.
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:03,000
ובכן, הוא בטח התרסק אז.
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000

תעופה בחקירה (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@תעופה בחקירה: what is the administrative issue here? - Jmabel ! talk 00:31, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I probably did something wrong, this is my first time doing this. It worked out for now. Thanks anyway! תעופה בחקירה (talk) 04:50, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: Special:AbuseFilter/103 was felt to be too precise, insisting on numbers and blank lines for compliance with MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-invalid-timed-text and en:SubRip, and the user posted here instead of COM:FILTERT. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Histmerge subtitles

Hi,

Can an admin perform a histmerge on the following revisions at TimedText:Wikimania Nairobi - Eventyay Walkthrough.webm.en.srt to TimedText:Wikimania Nairobi - Eventyay Walkthrough.webm.ja.srt? Thanks!

Revisions:

01:59, 26 March 2025 Omotecho talk contribs 15,495 bytes +3,412 finished en-ja translation; @User:Robertsky
22:33, 25 March 2025 Omotecho talk contribs 12,083 bytes +680 added tl:Multilingual description: for /ja, see クリップ File:Wikimania_Nairobi_-_Eventyay_Walkthrough.webm.ja or abridged caption for how to hand in your session plan: 手順のまとめ（キャプション抄訳版）

cc, @Omotecho. Robertsky (talk) 06:15, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

en:Robin_Hawdon#/media/File:When_Dinosaurs_Ruled_the_Earth_(1970)_trailer_-_Robin_Hawdon.png

Main page photo. Long outdated. Please replace with headshot

James Oldroyd (talk) 01:18, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like a content-dispute about a page on one of the Wikipedia sites, not something about the file(s) here on commons. And it doesn't sounds like an admin issue either. DMacks (talk) 02:43, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done per DMacks The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:43, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@James Oldroyd: Hi, and welcome. Please discuss on en:Talk:Robin Hawdon. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:23, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a problem with replacing the main page photo? Reply to <redacted> James Oldroyd (talk) 11:05, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@James Oldroyd: We do not reply by email, and do not post your email (also for your own security). Thanks, Yann (talk) 11:17, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Bedivere (talk) 04:03, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, there is a problem with your ask. Wikipedia and Commons are separate projects. The decision about which image to use in a Wikipedia article needs to happen in Wikipedia, not here. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 13:18, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

i wanted you to delete an edit i made just recently

i did a mistake and uploaded a copyright image that was found it my pictures file so i didn't get to relaise unless after i was done uploading it Abdul Rahman Abdul Kudus (talk) 13:43, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please place {{SD|G7}} on the top of the pages affected. GPSLeo (talk) 15:52, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Current MOTD

Could someone run Whisper or similar to caption it? It seems strange to have such a voice-dependent MOTD without captions. JayCubby (talk) 03:22, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can run it. ~~Doing…~~ All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 20:05, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a bunch. JayCubby (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JayCubby, Finished, subtitles are at TimedText:FOSS4G_2022_-_MapLibre_GL_2.x_-_JavaScript_maps_with_React,_Vue.js,_Svelte_or_Angular.webm.en.srt. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 20:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shutdown indafoto.hu

Indafoto was a popular image sharing site in Hungary for the last two decades. Unfortunately, the (new) owner of the site decided to shut down the service and delete all uploaded images at the end of March 2025. In the past, Wikimedia Hungary ran joint photo contests with the site (e.g. Wiki Loves Monuments, see the result here) and we were able to arrange with the site to allow free licensing of the uploaded images. There is a template on Commons to confirm the free license on Indafoto.hu. The site has over 13.6 million images, of which over half a million are under the CC BY 2.5 license. The default license is copyright; to choose the free license, the uploader had to explicitly set it, and very clearly accept that anyone could modify the work and agree to its commercial use, so it can be reliably said that the images were deliberately licensed under the free license. Many of these images have exceptional cultural value and fit the goal of Wikimedia Commons. Bdamokos developed a script to download all these free images together with their metadata and description page, and in the last two weeks we managed to save them locally. We would like to upload part of this collection to Wikimedia Commons later, but at that time indafoto.hu will not be available for license review. We are trying to archive the image description pages at archive.org and archive.ph to prove the original license, but this will not be possible for all (most) pages. Is it possible to review the script or the indafoto.hu site until it is available in order to upload the images later without the license review process? What can we do? What do you recommend? Thank you! Samat (talk) 19:45, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest a special license template (distinct from {{Indafotó review}} that "wraps" {{CC-BY-2.5}}, explains the situation, and is to be specific to this set of photos. Explain on the talk page of the template exactly what small group of users are working together on this project and have each other's mutual trust to use this template; others should not use it. Also on the talk page, link the relevant script, and reproduce the portion that ensures that only pictures with the correct license were downloaded.

Someone else may have further suggestions, but under the circumstances something like that is probably the best we can do, because the usual review will be impossible. I think it would be reasonable to trust a small group working together on that basis. - Jmabel ! talk 04:52, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]