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Please see a list of pages nominated for speedy deletion via {{Delete}} and/or the local equivalent. You can also filter by wikis whose admins are less than X or have not delete since Y.

Non-free content

Status:  In progress

Does anyone have an interest in Non-free content at wikis that have no exemption doctrine policy or that do not seem to be enforcing it properly? As an example of the latter, w:id:Wikipedia:Penggunaan media nonbebas#Kebijakan gambar tokoh yang masih hidup appears to prohibit non-free images for BLPs, but w:id:Istimewa:Daftar_berkas seems to have more photos of BLPs than one might expect under such a policy. (Please ping me.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:50, 22 November 2016 (UTC) [reply ]

Sure, you can/should tag such violations with {{delete}} and if the requests are not acted upon in a month or so you can ping global sysops/stewards here, as with #Speedy deletions on as/ms. Nemo 12:09, 22 November 2016 (UTC) [reply ]

@WhatamIdoing: You mentioned id.wikipedia, which is a larger project and stewards can probably not edit there. There are 295 Wikipedias and of these there are ~85 Wikipedias [1] having more than 1000 local files. In 2012 Nemo claimed 76 [2]. These Wikipedias often 1) have upload open for any logged-in user 2) host dozens of unused files 3) have lots of unfree files among the unused files, i.e. they are not EDP-files, since they lack an applicable rationale. Some Wikipedias have more than 1000 unused files, some more than 5000 - the counter stops then. Some have 20% of all files unused.

Local files in Wikipedias
Date 1 Qty of projects 2 Qty of projects w/o local files
(100% Commons)		 3 Qty of projects having local files 4 Qty of local files 4/3 Reference
2013年01月01日 285 36 249 2 038 148 8185 [3]
2014年01月01日 287 30 257 2 208 750 8594 [4]
2015年01月01日 288 30 258 2 311 679 8959 [5]
2016年01月01日 291 37 254 2 405 486 9470 [6]
2017年01月01日 295 140 155 2 430 156 15678 [7]
2017年04月14日 295 140 155 2 436 730 15720 [8]

In the last ~4 years (2013年01月01日 to today) the number of local files in Wikipedias increased by 391 925 from 2 038 148 to 2 430 073 [9], i.e. ca. 100 000 per year. At the same time, the number of Wikipedias using local files decreased. The major part of the increase comes from the aforementioned 85 Wikipedias. Some are out of scope for stewards and SRM.

To stop the problem with non-free content in small, open-upload Wikipedias and the workload for stewards to become worse, one could restrict the upload to admins. That is not fixing current violations, but reducing chance for new violations and freeing steward resources.

Candidates for restriction are the following 40 Wikipedias, each has 9 or less admins and uploads still open: ksh, pfl, rm, wuu, nv, frr, als, vec, bar, zh-yue, an, mt, pa, km, ga, oc, bcl, as, ps, scn, eml, mn, ba, be-tarask, am, be, sw, wa, lb, ky, hi, kn, tt, my, si, jv, br, fy, ka, bs. 92.227.229.171 01:37, 8 December 2016 (UTC) [reply ]

This is the problem we currently face on id.wp, most of those files were PD-Gov, can be seen from the source links, but we are currently muddling if we should just transfer them to commons or just tag and add pd-gov license to it, but then again, there are thousands file need to be handled, we don't have enough hand. As for Stewards and GS, can close this request as this cannot be actioned by stewards or GS, whatamdoing can just come to id.wp to make this announcement/comment (again).--AldNonymous Bicara? 19:34, 3 January 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Just a heads up, I'm one of the admin in id.wikipedia. I've worked up a Quarry script to detect those violating images and I've deleted all of them. There was around 2,000 of them but I suspect that it didn't cover all fairuse BLP images yet. Feel free to fork and/or improve the Quarry script. Kenrick95 (talk) 10:57, 20 January 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

I'm amazed at how much you've already achieved there.
But idwiki is just one example (and perhaps one that is more capable of addressing it than average). Is there a desirable general approach to this issue, e.g., for a wiki with no (or many fewer) local admins? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:26, 27 February 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
@WhatamIdoing: Yeah, you could fork my script by changing the wiki database name ("idwiki_p"), the fairuse category name ("Gambar_berlisensi_penggunaan_wajar"), and the BLP category name ("Orang_hidup") to the local names. Kenrick95 (talk) 00:43, 8 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
Thanks, Kenrick95. I'm not very familiar with Quarry, but I might give it a try.
OTOH, I'm wondering whether a much more ham-fisted approach would be appropriate, given that copyright violations are involved. For example, instead of manually reviewing and tagging hundreds or thousands of images, we could leave a general note to at a few Village Pumps to report problems. We could say that there are obviously problems, and if local admins don't report that it has been addressed to their satisfaction in <number of days>, then all of the local files will be deleted and uploading will be disabled.
Also, at wikis without any (active) local admins, uploading should probably be disabled anyway. (It may already be the case; I don't know.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:02, 8 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
Funfact, we even have it on our recent changes for warning to them to review their own files (since year[s] ago), then do single warning for multiple files that uploaded by same person, not a single reply (except from the minority of the [still] active senior user, One of the reason why we muddling it so long, I even left same kind of warning on my own talkpage so every visitor will read it, we kinda wanted those old user return and tend to their own uploads/files)), of course because the files are so old, the person who own the account are also went inactive for year, I don't know how it is with en.wp or other Wikis, but this was the heritage from the old times when the old local laws still don't require user to to give any rationale for the upload. Number of days? More like number of years. Mass deletions are just last resort, not a good way but still a 'way', a better way to avoid legal liability. (Which kinda weird, it's almost complaining why a wiki being old is kinda bad).--AldNonymous Bicara? 23:52, 8 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Can somebody Delete all pages and categories in this category

Status:  In progress

Please delete all pages and categories in this this category. It's candidates for speedy deletion. tgwiktionary has not active administrators year -79.170.185.103 18:40, 24 June 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Unless they are obvious spam or vandalism I am not sure we can delete them. Ruslik (talk) 18:57, 24 June 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
FYI, apparently the original poster meant wikt:tg:Гурӯҳ:Мақолаҳои номзади ҳазф (in case anyone wants to look through the category for "easy cases"). - dcljr (talk) 14:37, 15 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Import requests

Status:  In progress

Please import all subpages of MediaWiki:Lang to test.wikidata.org. Some modules and templates need them to work.--GZWDer (talk) 09:25, 15 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Nuke all pages created by DWAG-AM

Status:  In progress

Can you please mass delete pages by DWAG-AM a B101 sock on Bikol Wikipedia for now --66.87.68.167 22:26, 15 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Please contact the local sysop, who is active. --MF-W 13:37, 16 July 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Category:Delete @ nap.wiki

Status:  Done

Please, cancel all the pages in w:nap:Categurìa:Paggene 'a scancellà. Some of them are waiting for deletion since one year. --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 22:38, 6 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Done. RadiX ∞ 22:56, 6 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
@RadiX: Thank you very much, I just have one more request: there's one more page to cancel. I'm really sorry, but I noticed just now. Thank you again. --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 23:02, 6 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
All done. RadiX ∞ 23:08, 6 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
Thank you again. :) --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 23:53, 6 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

Delete pages on Kapampangan Wikipedia

Status:  In progress

Please delete all hoax stations base on Bertrand101 evidence on Pamwiki delete all pages created by Bertrand101. --38.96.9.224 04:39, 8 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

OAuth approval request for glam2commons

Status:  In progress

I am a GSoC 2017 intern. This is going to be the production app for uploading images to Wikimedia Commons. Registering an OAuth consumer is a prerequisite for my investigation and changes. All requested grants and permissions are according to those suggested by Project mentors. Also please don't disable the OAuth app sibutest(the latest version only) since it is used for testing. --Infobliss (talk) 20:27, 14 August 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

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