Commons:Village pump/Technical/Archive/2025/10

Why is User:Spinster/WikiFlix/Menu not showing on e.g. WikidataGalleries/WikiFlix/Documentary films? Could somebody fix it? Prototyperspective (talk) 00:34, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective, it should be fixed now. The menu uses the template {{Divbox}} and I fixed an error where the template is not appearing in gallery pages. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 02:07, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

This file File:Granny's Wonderful Chair 1929 ill. by Emma Brock.djvu appeared to upload OK with the IA Upload tool but has got no cover image. I'm not quite sure what went wrong except that I stupidly put a full stop in the file name and that may have confused the tool. Can someone either figure out what went wrong or delete it for me so I can try again? Thanks. DrThneed (talk) 04:58, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

@DrThneed:

It looks like it does have a cover image, it's just that it's page 2 of the file (see at right). The IA sometimes chooses a thumbnail that isn't the first page. The tool does have the option to remove page 1 (so that it can delete the Google Books cover page when needed) but it doesn't look like that's happened here. Sam Wilson 09:40, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh - so perhaps it just takes some time for that processing to happen - I was just seeing a logo for djvu before and no image. I shall be more patient in future! DrThneed (talk) 20:47, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello everyone. After this discussion, I come here to solve the problem.

On File:Pierre Paul Léon Glaize - Esquisse pour la salle des fêtes de la mairie du 20e arrondissement , Les grands hommes de la Révolu - PPP4025 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.jpg, the original file is ok (good orientation from left to right), but the thumbnails are facing the other way (from right to left), just like the older version. The reorientation has been made last month, so could anyone find why the thumbnails don't apply the change ? Thanks. Sammyday (talk) 14:52, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sammyday In the EXIF metadata, it states "Orientation: Flipped horizontally". This is making the thumbnails flipped horizontally. So, you have to set the orientation to "Normal". I believe you can either edit the EXIF manually or let the bot do it by adding {{Rotate|resetexif}} to the image. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 17:39, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

@Sammyday I think I might have misunderstood your question. I just realised from your question actually you wanted the image to be flipped, so basically the bot just undid what you did in September. This is because the "reorientation" you did in 22 September did not actually flip the file, you (or the editing software you used) only changed the orientation in the EXIF metadata. So, in order to flip the image, you have to actually edit the file, not the metadata. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 21:59, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I just went ahead and did it myself. Can you check if the image is now displaying correctly for you? Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 22:16, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Ok ! Thanks a lot, it seems quite right from now on. Sammyday (talk) 08:26, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

At File:Yuen Chin performing home energy audit for Seattle City Light, 1993 (50166856626).jpg I don't seem to be able to see the thumbnail for the new high-res version even if I purge everything I can think of. Any thoughts? Is it just "caching problem, will resolve itself"? - Jmabel ! talk 01:05, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Similar issues at File:Seattle - Boating at Seward Park, 1930 (42952454160).jpg, File:Seattle - Regrading work at 6th and Columbia, 1914 (46800556422).jpg.

Weirdly, it does not seem to affect use of the images elsewhere, just on the file pages. - Jmabel ! talk 03:01, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

It looks like something went wrong with thumbnailing servers and they became overloaded. hnowlan is currently investigating/fixing it. Bawolff (talk) 12:12, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Could you please post once this has been fixed? I was just starting some uploads so would be great to know. wuppertaler _Post um 12:36, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

From what I've heard, i think its fixed now. Bawolff (talk) 14:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

There was a problem with thumbnailing (and spill-over into swift itself), but we did publish a status update about the incident - https://www.wikimediastatus.net/incidents/cll27hvs2wj5. It is worth checking the status page if something seems amiss... MVernon (WMF) (talk) 12:52, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Right now all my attempts to upload an image fail with the error message An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-swift-codfw". We had the very same problem before. According to the T396186, this happened due to some filtering to address abuse. Is anyone else experiencing this? --AFBorchert (talk) 12:33, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

There was an open incident (see [1] ). MVernon (WMF) (talk) 12:48, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, User talk:MVernon (WMF), for the quick response. This issue appears to have been resolved now. --AFBorchert (talk) 13:21, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Can someone help me to migrate this video to Commons? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrW3bTSnqs Victorgrigas (talk) 13:22, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

You can try toolforge:video2commons or Commons:YouTube files/Downloading. Nemoralis (talk) 13:48, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

The category Category:Sarı Köşk currently redirects to the category Category:Yellow Pavilion (Üsküdar), but 'Sarı Köşk' literally means Yellow Pavilion and theres more than one, how could I disambiguate the category so that it specifies there are multiple? Many thanks Eticangaaa (talk) 07:12, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Pick a random disambiguation category like Category:Abandoned houses in Georgia, click edit and copy its contents. Then you can edit the category to make it a disambig page too. Important is to add {{Disambiguation}} at the bottom of the page. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I am hitting the Wikisource 0x0 bug, where I cannot build a page index without first purging the copy on both Commons and Wikisource.

Although I can purge the file on Latin Wikisource, I cannot see a "purge" button at File:Select epodes and Ars poetica.pdf. Any ideas why? GuilelmusDugard (talk) 05:06, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@GuilelmusDugard: Do you have either "Page Purge" or "ExtraTabs2" gadgets enabled in your Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets? You can also always manually purge a page by adding ?action=purge to the url. MKFI (talk) 12:00, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I have enabled that now! GuilelmusDugard (talk) 09:06, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I have a problem: the title of Honored Energy Worker of the Russian Federation, using Zhores Alfyorov as an example, isn't showing up. I've worked with templates and links in Wikidata. What's the problem? MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 22:03, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

It looks good to me. Maybe your cache needs to be cleared? --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 17:04, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

It is not his cache. It is his editing. Анастасия Львова ^ru/en 22:48, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 17:18, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I’m having a problem with Special:UploadWizard (I’m using the standard default version). For the past few days, all of my uploads have had broken links in the upload summary. The files are uploaded successfully, but the summary links point to temporary "UploadStash" URLs instead of the actual file pages. It’s quite inconvenient, as I want to open the uploaded image pages to add them to a gallery.

I was redirected here after asking about this issue at Commons:Help_desk, and from what I’ve seen there, at least a few other users seem to be experiencing the same problem. I’m using the "Old Vector (2010)" interface, if that’s relevant. -- Jakubhal 17:20, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

I’ve experienced that too, I hope it can be fixed soon. As a workaround, I go to my uploads and open images from there. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:07, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

• Apparently there is an issue in Phabricator: T408610. -- Jakubhal 07:02, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

This is fixed since yesterday. Der Umherirrende (talk) 22:09, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

File:Renoir A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant.jpg (1875) was uploaded in 2014 from a collection at the Met. At the time the painting was titled A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant. The Met has since done further research and determined this title is incorrect. They now call it "Young Woman (La Servante)" because the artist never named it, and the painting has no connection to Duval's Restaurant, and what her profession depicts is unknown (housemaid, waitress, etc..). I added some notes, but don't know what else should be done or how to do it. Is the page renamed? What about existing links on Commons and other wikis? I leave it for anyone who wants to help. -- GreenC (talk) 21:08, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

More copies erroneously titled and described: Category:A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant (c. 1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- GreenC (talk) 21:18, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Possible new file name File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir's untitled young woman aka La Servante or A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant.jpg .. then for each file copy tag a number like " (copy 2)" etc.. and include a note in the metadata about the naming ambiguity. -- GreenC (talk) 21:27, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

@GreenC: You can use {{Rename}}. Yann (talk) 15:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed that none of my uploads of the last days (at least since October 2) have had their licences added, which was usually done by SchlurcherBot within minutes or hours after the upload. Is this related to the recent upload error (on October 1, see discussion above), or is it an issue with the bot? See for example this file or this file. Kind regards wuppertaler _Post um 15:08, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I don't see any issue. Please see [9] or [10] for the result just after their upload. Yann (talk) 15:51, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, yes, but there are hidden categories saying that SDC statuses are missing. Sorry if I explained it in the wrong way, I assumed it was the same thing. I just noticed that SDC were always added shortly after the upload and since the recent upload issues, this has not happened anymore. wuppertaler _Post um 18:48, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Some of those were added by bots of Multichill which are currently blocked. Ymblanter (talk) 07:24, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 18:55, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Great news for Video2Commons, hopefully they can find a reliable method for YouTube uploads to work. Tvpuppy (talk) 19:07, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I just noticed there was an announcement thread right above this. Tvpuppy (talk) 20:46, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

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