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West Hollywood in Florida? Yann (talk) 10:33, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Yann: Presumably the one in Category:Hollywood, Florida: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/154125764 --bjh21 (talk) 10:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:11, 2 October 2024 (UTC) Fixing the picture
File:JDU's state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha greeting Nitish Kumar.jpg can anyone help me in fixing it's description's extracted version (other version) section. Admantine123 (talk) 16:59, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:56, 6 October 2024 (UTC) Rename of images
Hi! Can you help me?
I need to rename those files:
- File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0020.jpg
- File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0019.jpg
- File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0018.jpg
- File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0017.jpg
-- VANOCE2022 (talk) 16:00, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- @VANOCE2022 On each file, use the {{Rename}} template specifying what you want the new name to be. Bastique ☎ appelez-moi! 16:07, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Commons Gazette 2024-10
- 7 September was the 20th anniversary of Wikemedia Commons. It now hosts over 109 million files in various formats.
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Volunteer staff changes
In September 2024, 1 sysop and 1 bureaucrat were elected; 5 sysops and 1 oversighter were removed. Currently, there are 179 sysops, 7 bureaucrats and 3 oversighters.
Election:
- User:CptViraj was elected bureaucrat (55/0/1) on 1 September.
The last addition to the bureaucrat team was elected in 2015.
- User:Sadads was elected sysop (42/0/0) on 26 September.
Removal:
- User:Julo was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. He had served as sysop from 28 December 2006.
- User:Leit was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. They had served as sysop from 1 December 2006.
- User:Otourly was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. He had served as sysop from 15 July 2009.
- User:Rama was removed as sysop and oversighter on 13 September due to inactivity. They had served as sysop from 28 August 2005 and as oversighter from 5 January 2009.
- User:Tarawneh was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. He had served as sysop from 29 December 2006.
We thank them for their service.
Other news
- Selena Deckelmann (Chief Product and Technology Officer of WMF) wrote an open letter concerning Commons.
Edited by Abzeronow and RoyZuo.
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--RoyZuo (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
The last 15 or more requests on the above page are displayed as being archived, although they are not yet so. Somebody pleae fix it. --トトト (talk) 23:20, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:25, 7 October 2024 (UTC) Cat-a-lot is slow
Very slow, about 1 edit per second. Up until recently and since “forever” it was lightning fast, able to edit all 200 files in a cat page in a couple seconds. To whom or what should we thank for this improvment, and what reasons were given for that thankfulness? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 00:48, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Tuvalkin: There's a thread with details at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js#Very slow performance. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:00, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, @Pi.1415926535: ! -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 01:09, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- I was wondering why it's been slow lately. Totally handicapping it just because the site crashed once seems a little ridiculous though. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- According to a comment from a WMF worker it brought the site down more than ten times and was causing problems consistently. A comment from a different volunteer pointed out it brought down all Wikis for 10-30 minutes at a time. The current state of Cat-a-lot is the result of an emergency fix, but whatever improved version takes it place will have to abide by the API guidelines that it previously ignored. ReneeWrites (talk) 09:40, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- I stand corrected. I thought I had read that it took the site down once in August. Ten times for that long isn't great. --Adamant1 (talk) 16:19, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- According to a comment from a WMF worker it brought the site down more than ten times and was causing problems consistently. A comment from a different volunteer pointed out it brought down all Wikis for 10-30 minutes at a time. The current state of Cat-a-lot is the result of an emergency fix, but whatever improved version takes it place will have to abide by the API guidelines that it previously ignored. ReneeWrites (talk) 09:40, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- I was wondering why it's been slow lately. Totally handicapping it just because the site crashed once seems a little ridiculous though. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, @Pi.1415926535: ! -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 01:09, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi everyone, if we use the template concerned, there are automatically in the Category:Cosplay by event the different years for each event, which is duplicated with the sub-templates. Is it possible to modify the main template to limit the number of categories? Ellicrum {bablute [...]} 22:37, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- I really dont get why we cant just only include the categories without years Trade (talk) 22:47, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- It wouldn't be a problem if we added the categories manually, but it would be a shame not to be able to optimize the template in question. --Ellicrum {bablute [...]} 23:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
What are these Arabic seals called?
I've seen a number of images similar to these pop up while attempting to categorize new uploads - they appear to be stylized representations of a name, but I'm not sure what that's called. Is there a standard name and/or category for this type of image? Omphalographer (talk) 20:40, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- I would assume Category:Arabic calligraphy and Category:Islamic calligraphy. Jonteemil (talk) 00:53, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- I mean the seals in particular. While those categories do contain a number of images of this type, they're general to all Arabic calligraphy, not this specific form. Omphalographer (talk) 02:11, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
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