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# Bot request Status 💬 👥 🙋 Last editor 🕒 (UTC) 🤖 Last botop editor 🕒 (UTC)
1 Brenham Banner-Press newspaper files 5 2 Ricky81682 2025-10-16 03:29 TheSandDoctor 2025-09-09 05:04
2 Donating map images 11 4 Yann 2025-12-12 15:35 TheSandDoctor 2025-09-09 05:11
3 Tidy up Quality images of manhole covers 4 2 Schlurcher 2025-10-29 18:02 Schlurcher 2025-10-29 18:02
4 Malformed dates 5 3 Pigsonthewing 2025-09-09 11:13 TheSandDoctor 2025-09-09 05:15
5 Connecting postcard images 1 1 Stefan Kühn 2025-08-24 16:33
6 Daniel from Glasgow 6 4 999real 2025-09-19 21:29 Jeff G. 2025-09-09 12:22
7 Categorize photos from Polish Wiki Loves Monuments by administrative unit 5 3 Wikiwerner 2025-12-25 14:57
8 Files missing the infobox template 6 2 Matrix 2025-12-24 12:24
9 Populating Category:Files by language of non-English file title 2 1 Prototyperspective 2025-11-05 14:56
10 Correct colour categorisation of heraldic flags 1 1 ARK 2025-10-31 10:20
11 Merging audio files of audiobooks 1 1 Prototyperspective 2025-11-02 12:37
12 Adding the gallery page template to galleries 3 2 Matrix 2025-12-24 13:52
13 Adding noinclude to deletion request page categories 2 2 Jeff G. 2025-12-24 17:31 Jeff G. 2025-12-24 17:31
14 Categorization of Category:Photographs by Anil Öztas/Lens focal length 1 1 OmegaFallon 2025-12-05 06:28
15 Commons:Report UncategorizedCategories with redcats needs updating 3 2 Prototyperspective 2025-12-08 23:52
16 Changing values in the date field based on categorization 2 2 Tacsipacsi 2025-12-24 15:15
17 Images by HH Fred 5 4 Jeff G. 2025-12-24 16:38 Jeff G. 2025-12-24 16:38
18 Template:ID-PIB 1 1 Shaan Sengupta 2025-12-22 07:37
19 Edit categorization using wikidata P31 and P13723 properties 8 2 Immanuelle 2025-12-24 11:50
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Brenham Banner-Press newspaper files

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Latest comment: 2 months ago5 comments2 people in discussion

There may be perhaps 24k files located within Category:Media contributed by Abilene Library Consortium without any categories. The vast majority are pages under Category:Brenham Banner-Press. Can a bot first add that category? If the operator wants to add dates or other more complicated things, that's possible but a category should be a good start. I believe I have sorted all the Category:American Flag, Cameron County and Matamoros Advertiser ones but if those are missed, it can go into the main category. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:41, 4 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Ricky81682: That seems possible for a bot task. I gather that you mean that they don't have any categories other than Category:Media contributed by Abilene Library Consortium, right? Assuming that's the case, the proposal is to add the ones with only that one category to Brenham Banner-Press? The catch here is that for a script it can't make the judgement call of if something is related or not, it's an all or nothing based on technical conditions (e.g. category membership) we define. I apologize for being potentially pedantic here, I just want to make sure we're on the same page to proceed and that I have the right picture of the request. TheSandDoctor (talk) 05:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@TheSandDoctor. Correct. Being proper, I believe that there are a significant number of files with just the Media contributed by Abilene category (by way of a template through Wikidata information) that start with the words "Brenham" (either Brenham Banner, Brenham Daily, or as Brenham Banner-Press) that should include that category. From there, they should be then sorted into volume and year categories by hand. After that is the maybe 1k pages connected to the Daily Express (at Category:San Antonio Express) but that category is already 70k files to deal with. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:43, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Ricky81682: Okay, so if a given file
  1. is in Category:Media contributed by Abilene Library Consortium
  2. has no other categories other than #1, and
  3. starts "Brenham"
the proposal is to then add Category:Brenham Banner-Press? TheSandDoctor (talk) 05:04, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
@TheSandDoctor. Yes, this is correct. Ricky81682 (talk) 03:29, 16 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Donating map images

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Latest comment: 14 days ago11 comments4 people in discussion

I wrote at the Help Desk 

I have a website https://maproom.org which presents images of maps from atlases, mostly published in the 19th century. I used to sell higher-resolution versions of these images, but my sales have dropped to zero. I'm considering donating all the higher-resolution versions to Wikipedia. That's 2484 jpgs, totalling around 70 GB.

My main concern is to minimise the amount of bureaucracy for me. I would not want to have to specify a filename for each image, let alone add it to categories. I can provide access to a database with information (subject, date, source, etc.) for each image.

I anticipate that this will involve more work than any Commons volunteer would want to take on. But if there is a way of managing things, please let me know

and was encouraged to post here. The database fields include

  • the name of the uploaded file
  • the title of the plate, as in the work from which it was scanned
  • the title of the plate in English
  • a list of search terms (which might be useful in assigning categories)

Maproom (talk) 16:26, 12 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

See Commons:Batch uploading? Wikiwerner (talk) 18:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
I have started a batch upload request: see Commons:Batch uploading/Maproom.org. Wikiwerner (talk) 11:13, 22 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Maproom: This definitely seems doable. How would an interested bot op get access to said database and the full resolution images? TheSandDoctor (talk) 05:11, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
TheSandDoctor: thank you for your interest!
I can supply an SQL dump of the database, and change the permissions (to read-only for world) on the directory where all the high-resolution versions are. I can also give the bot read-only access to the database.
Something would have to extract the relevant details, being
  • Name of plate, in English
  • Name of plate, in own language
  • Date portrayed in map
  • Keywords, for categories
  • Bibliographical details of published source
  • Plate number as in source
I guess I could use SQL to generate the information a bot will need, in its preferred format.
Maybe it would be a good start if I emailed a database dump to the potential bot op, so they can judge how best to do this? Maproom (talk) 07:58, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'd still like to donate these 2000+ images to Commons, but I'm not competent to do all the work myself. Is there anyone I could discuss it with? Maproom (talk) 08:36, 5 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Maproom: I could be interested to upload these files. Are all the maps available online? You can send me an email if you cannot provide the information online. Yann (talk) 16:14, 5 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Yann, for your interest. You can look at all the maps at https://maproom.org/. But you can't easily download them from there, because of the Zoomify code that presents them via the browser. (Also, the images I'm offering are mostly at twice the resolution of the on-lne images). I assume whoever uploads them will also need the database tables that specify the dates, bibliographical details, search terms etc. for each image. Maproom (talk) 20:05, 5 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Maproom: Hi, I haven't heard from you. Would you send me the information? Please note that there is no hurry. I won't be able to do it before January. Regards, Yann (talk) 17:54, 11 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yann: I've emailed the information. Maproom (talk) 13:21, 12 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Maproom: Thanks. I got it. I will need some time to look at it. Yann (talk) 15:35, 12 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tidy up Quality images of manhole covers

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Latest comment: 1 month ago4 comments2 people in discussion

For now we have 432 QI of manhole covers. After the categorisation we can met them in Architecture/Close-ups, Architecture/Other, Objects/Other and probably somewhere else. Екатерина Борисова has an idea to put all of them into Objects/Industrial, and I can with available tools remove them from everywhere and collect in one place, but not chronologically (because now all these categories are organised by time). Theoretically it's possible to see dates from linksto (like Commons:Quality images candidates/Archives July 30 2024). Can anybody help with this idea and reorganise these QI? Анастасия Львоваru/en 22:57, 6 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not clear how a bot would help here. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:32, 29 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Do you really think it is a task that should be done manually? Анастасия Львоваru/en 08:39, 29 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm simply saying that I do not know how to codify this. If you have an idea how this could be automated then please elaborate. --Schlurcher (talk) 18:02, 29 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Malformed dates

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Latest comment: 3 months ago5 comments3 people in discussion

This SPARQL query shows >8K items with SDC "Inception" dates of between 1 and 1000 AD.

Many are like this one, where the date was entered in the format "1-4-09"; I found the correct date, "2009-01-04", in EXIF.

Can a bot check all the results in the query and if they are photographs (and not paintings etc), update using the date on EXIF? And if no EXIF date is found, add them to a maintenance category. It may be worth repeating this on a scheduled basis. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:56, 15 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Pigsonthewing: How would you know that the 1-4-09 date shouldn't be 2009-04-01? In some places, it would mean January 4. In other places, it would mean April 1. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:50, 15 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm not suggesting that we make that assumption. I'm suggesting we use the date from EXIF, which is in ISO standard format. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:43, 15 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Pigsonthewing: From a bot programmatic perspective, how would we know if a given file is an image vs a painting etc? Just going off of the presence of EXIF or did you have something else in mind? Just wanting to make sure we're on the same page. TheSandDoctor (talk) 05:15, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Categories? Presence of {{Artwork}}?
That said, it may not be necessary to check anyway; if the date stings are congruent with EXIF, make the change,, regardless. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:13, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Connecting postcard images

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Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In the Category:Postcards in the Leuven University Libraries we have 63.863 images. This are around 31931 postcards with image side and address side. But both sides have no connection. Only the name of the image indicates this is one postcard:

  • Image side:
    File:'s Gravenwesel. Le village et la tour - Het dorp met de kerk (01), GP064114.jpg
  • Adress side:
    File:'s Gravenwesel. Le village et la tour - Het dorp met de kerk (01), GP064114 (2).jpg
  1. Task (Main Task): Can a bot insert a gallery tag in all images with the other side? Like my both changes here and here. This would be a great help.
  2. Task: Can the bot create a category for every publisher in this images. I will later sort manually this categories. The publisher stand in the description text. For example in this image File:'s_Gravenwezel._De_Kerk_(01),_GP064177.jpg it is "Publisher Brussel: Thill". So best would be a new category:"Category:Postcard publisher Brussel: Thill". This could do a bot. So I can later sorted this postcards into the correct Category:Postcards published by Nels/Thill.

This would be a great help for Commons:WikiProject_Postcards. Many thanks. --sk (talk) sk (talk) 16:33, 24 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Daniel from Glasgow

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Latest comment: 3 months ago6 comments4 people in discussion

We have over 11K images containing | Author = [https://www.flickr.com/people/57511216@N04 Daniel] from Glasgow, United Kingdom (or variations thereon) in their description (of which File:Perry Baker Melsrose 2014.jpg is one example.

Based on the presence of that Flickr URL, please place them all into Category:Images by Daniel from Glasgow. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:49, 1 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Pigsonthewing: This is definitely a great bot task I would be interested in. Do you happen to have the query handy for how you got the 11K+ image figure/identified these files? TheSandDoctor (talk) 05:17, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Just an insource: search. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:58, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Pigsonthewing: So that cat would go in Category:Photographs by Flickr photographer or Category:Flickr streams? Would "Photographs by Daniel from Glasgow" or "Files from Daniel from Glasgow Flickr stream" be more appropriate?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:22, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Category:Photographs by Flickr photographer. "Images by..." or "Photographs by...", but not "...Flickr stream", please. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:02, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
I just put a lot of them in Category:Photographs by Daniel from Glasgow and then realized there is already Category:Photographs by daniel0685 with 1790 files..  REAL 💬 ⬆   21:29, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Categorize photos from Polish Wiki Loves Monuments by administrative unit

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Latest comment: 1 day ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Hello! In Polish WLM there are special prizes for photos from certain administrative units. Therefore, we categorize the photos by voivodeship (i.e. top-level administrative unit). I have prepared a list of files to be added to respective categories at User:Msz2001/WLM2025_categories.

The page has 16 sections, files in each section should be added to the category in the section header. Thanks in advance, Msz2001 (talk) 18:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Msz2001: Can you give an example of exactly what category you'd want added to a specific file?
Also, that page is pretty big and is hard to load. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:38, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Auntof6 For example, add File:2023-05-13_090837_00535_Wrocław,_archikatedra_św._Jana_Chrzciciela_we_Wrocławiu.jpg to category Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments in Poland – dolnośląskie voivodeship (which is specified in the section header).
If the page takes much time to load, it might be easier to take the data from the edit view. It loads quickly, especially with syntax highlighting turned off. The structure of the source code of this page is very predictable (either file link preceded by # or category link in header). Msz2001 (talk) 19:54, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Msz2001: Thanks, I understand better now. If I think of something that could help, I'll comment here again. -- Auntof6 (talk) 20:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
User:Cryptic-waveform did something similar before: see Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 17#Mass categorization of Wiki Loves Monuments Poland photos. Wikiwerner (talk) 14:57, 25 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Files missing the infobox template

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Latest comment: 3 days ago6 comments2 people in discussion

Could somebody create a bot that adds the infobox template to a large fraction of files in Category:Media missing infobox template?

Those files do not have the {{Information}} set. This means for example that if they are embedded in a Wikipedia article one can't see the file description in the MediaViewer. The Commons app probably also can't read the source and description and this also goes for other and potential apps and API requests. It's important to have the file info in standardized expectable queryable format. As a note, many audio files in Category:Spoken Wikipedia use other templates and often screw the templates incl. the information template up such as having that template embedded in the info template and this may be good to fix or tag with a bot at some point too.

I'm sure there have been other threads about this, including here. It's important to only convert the loose text into the Information template if there is info on the source because otherwise a bot will tag the file for deletion if the Source or Author field are empty. This can be achieved by limiting the bot to files with Source or e.g. From: in the text (e.g. use the insource: search operator for that) and moving this part of the text into the right parameter (I suggest if a source link is given but no additional Author: text then the bot better just write See source into the author field to prevent deletion of the files just because the metadata has been moved into the proper structured template. Here's an example of how conversion looks like (and this can't and shouldn't be done by hand for 300k+ files): Special:Diff/1096226926.
Prototyperspective (talk) 12:01, 7 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

IMO this shouldn't be a pure bot task, but a semi-automated tool with human oversight. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 12:26, 19 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Is there a separate place to request these? If not, I think this board is also used to request such and they're difficult to distinguish. I don't really care that much about how it's implemented as long as it's implemented in an effective way i.e. something that works 1) in practice and 2) at scale. I have doubts whether a semi-automated tool with human oversight meets those two criteria, considering there's over 364,000 files in that category, and in your comment I see no reason or explanation for why it should not be a bot "but a semi-automated tool with human oversight". Prototyperspective (talk) 16:54, 19 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Prototyperspective: Sorry, forgot to give an explanation. If this was a pure bot task, excluding use of novel techniques like AI or NNs, it would be a nightmare to build an algorithm that could parse questions like "is it own work?", "if not where can I find the author in the source?", etc. etc. Regex along isn't going to do the trick. I think it's more important to make sure a bot would do the task well that just make sure it does it somewhat and leaves confusing messages like "see source". A semi automated tool where someone selects the description, selects the date, author, etc. would be a better use of dev time. I don't mind having a look at how to start something like this, considering it's half term, but just my thoughts. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 21:46, 21 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Makes sense. However, I think this only really applies if this was used for all or close to all files. probably something on the order of 90% of files missing the information template could be set well using some well-engineered conventional bot and the rest could be ignored. This would be tremendously useful and make semi-automated methods way more feasible – solve what can be solved using the bot and then have the remainder get done via the semi-automated method.
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Secondly, if there is no info in the current file description about the author like for the example diff I linked, then there's no issue with filling that parameter with (see source). This is especially the case as this is way better than people doing this manually or even semi-automatically since a bot would have a standardized value for such cases for the parameter which means one could then search for or tag files with that specific value (like (see source)). Again, since there isn't more info about the author in the current file description (and a source was found), that's not a problem at all and it wouldn't really be a problem if the author was in the source field due to the standardized value in the author field. I haven't heard of any better alternative – e.g. semi-automatic methods won't be done for and are infeasible for over 350 k files. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:57, 21 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Just having a look at the category, 90% seems generous, since most are only a one-line description. However, I am definitely not against it if it is possible. Any insource queries/regexes for such patterns would be helpful, since I can't seem to find any good ones though. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 12:24, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Populating Category:Files by language of non-English file title

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Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Categorizing files by language of the file name if the filename is not English (English titles are the most common case) enables tracking, finding or filtering files with non-English titles by that language.

This enables users to for example create English captions for those files that are also of relevance to users not understanding the language of the title.

When I see files with say Russian, Chinese, or Japanese titles on a category page or the search results, I don't understand anything but understanding the title is often very useful or needed as things often aren't self-explanatory from the thumbnail (e.g. the case for many files here). For example, it makes these files less likely to be clicked in the results and people searching the Web in English for media (e.g. via Google Images) can't find them.

As of 2025, per COM:File naming file names with titles in languages other than English are allowed. However, assuming this stays as is, other things may change: for example a translated title of the file could be displayed in Commons to users who don't understand the title's language (and thus can't read the file title). This could readily be implemented at scale using machine translation where even if there are errors in 1% of titles would still be useful to many of those users who otherwise understand nothing of the title. It could also be implemented by showing the English caption instead for those files to those users (note that files with English captions are a small fraction).

There are of course good reasons for not using English for some files title such as when they are much more likely to be relevant to people speaking that language and searched for in that language. For example, a Russian pop-culture thing or photos of a small village in Russia are more likely to be searched in Russian than English. Another good reason would be that the uploader doesn't speak English good enough and doesn't want to rely on machine translations of the titles. These categories don't discriminate on the language, they would be useful for making files more accessible, understood and useful, not less accessible. It would make Commons overall more useful and localized better/more multilingual.

Populating these categories by hand would be a gigantic task, even when it's a small percentage of files on Commons, it would be a huge time sink, pollute Watchlists (since there is no edit-tag for this and one can't filter nonbot users) and always be very incomplete. So I think this a task best done by a bot / script.

It would probably be best to simply put all files with titles in a language in the respective category, instead of trying to distinguish files of international relevance also to people not speaking that language from files where this is arguably not the case and only putting the former kind of files into these categories.

For this, the bot would need to detect the language of the file title and then add the respective category. To detect the title language, maybe MinT could be used but if you have further ideas please do comment.
Prototyperspective (talk) 14:08, 30 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

See also Commons talk:WMF support for Commons/Upload Wizard Improvements#Detect non-English file titles and prompt user to specify language. (This would affect newly uploaded files so that this task would more or less only be needed for retrospectively adding this metadata.) Prototyperspective (talk) 14:56, 5 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Correct colour categorisation of heraldic flags

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Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In accordance with Unresolved issue regarding categorisation, I would like to request that all edits by Nebula84912 with "black" or "Black" in their edit summary be reverted in a bot run.

Rationale: The user in question has incorrectly re-categorised a large number of SVG flag files as featuring the colour black. The user did so on the mistaken assumption that the mere presence of a black outline drawn around certain design elements of a heraldic flag warrants the inclusion of black as a 'colour' of that flag. Heraldry, however, has a centuries-old understanding in which black is only considered a colour of a particular design if a design element is fully tinctured black, not merely outlined, as the outlining of elements is deemed an arbitrary stylistic choice, not an integral part of the design.

Examples: a black eagle counts as an instance of the colour black. A red bear with an arbitrary black outline drawn around it does not. Thanks, ARK (talk) 10:20, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Merging audio files of audiobooks

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Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

See Commons:Village pump/Technical#Path to merging multi-part audiobooks? Prototyperspective (talk) 12:37, 2 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Adding the gallery page template to galleries

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Latest comment: 2 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

As of now, if a gallery page on a subject exists, the Wikipedia links to that instead of the category. So people who go to Commons from the Wikipedia article, looking for more media files land on these pages which usually only contain very few files, aren't well-maintained and were last updated over a decade ago. The category has more files but users don't know of category pages or don't look any further.

The {{Gallery page}} includes a link to the associated category page but many galleries don't have that template. For example, I just added it to Dreissena bugensis which had just 3 files while the category has and explanatory video and more files. This problem is much more severe for other subjects where there are relatively many more files and subtopics and up-to-date media files in the category, such as galleries about software where the gallery has only decade-old screenshots. Gallery pages without the template I think can be identified like so.

Please add this template to all galleries that don't yet have this template at the top. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:45, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Working on this —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 22:35, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Commons:Bots/Requests/MatrixBot 6 —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 13:52, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Adding noinclude to deletion request page categories

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Latest comment: 2 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Could some bot please wrap categories into <noinclude> and </noinclude> for deletion request categories?

If categories aren't inside noinclude tags, the page for the DRs of the respective day will be in categories like Category:Copyright deletion requests/deleted.

In this example, pages Commons:Deletion requests/Archive/2023/10/10, Commons:Deletion requests/Archive/2025/02/16, Commons:Deletion requests/Archive/2025/06/11, and Commons:Deletion requests/Archive/2025/09/10 are included there. Probably some users fix these things manually – I did it too for a few cases – but it's incomplete, slow and – maybe most importantly – costing valuable scarce volunteer time. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:48, 2 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Prototyperspective: ✓ Done. Krdbot already does this periodically, see Special:Diff/1135055185.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:31, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Categorization of Category:Photographs by Anil Öztas/Lens focal length

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Latest comment: 22 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

For each category in Category:Photographs by Anil Öztas/Lens focal length, add appropriate lens focal length category. Example: Category:Photographs by Anil Öztas/Lens focal length 84 mm would have [[Category:Lens focal length 84 mm|Anil Öztas]] added. Thanks. OmegaFallon (talk) 06:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Commons:Report UncategorizedCategories with redcats needs updating

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Latest comment: 18 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I'm not sure if this is the right place to request this, or if I can update the page myself somehow. I just know that I did a big cleanup of things in this category last night, and several others are also visibly dated when you look. So please do a renewed run for the report. Rose Abrams (talk) 10:36, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

I'm gonna humbly and carefully ping Prototyperspective who appears associated with the list. Rose Abrams (talk) 10:38, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for doing that cleanup, creating this category and also the ping.
I already made a request to have this report updated here at #Report update request (#2). Wikiwerner subsequently updated it manually 3 or 4 times but no bot was created. No other users replied to thread. I then contacted Mdaniels5757 whose bot updates Commons:Report UncategorizedCategories with only infobox categories which is quite similar: User talk:Mdaniels5757/Archive/2025#Request for a report to be updated by your MDanielsBot but the user said I don't think so, this query is too slow for the bot (even with my optimizations). Sorry..
I don't have experience with bots and doubt much that even if I didn't have other wikiactivities going on that I could implement this if even Mdaniels5757 couldn't.
So my next step was to create a wish in the Community Wishlist (see post about it here) and just haven't gotten to creating it yet. It would be best if somebody here knows more and could implement a bot to update the report; then I wouldn't create the wish. As for the wish, ideas for how this could be solved are making also slow queries work (see reply by Mdaniels5757) or splitting the query up into successive several parts and then putting it into either separate sections on that page or assembling it into one table there. Any further information / clues would be helpful for the wish assuming nobody implements the regular updating of the report. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Changing values in the date field based on categorization

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Latest comment: 2 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

A bot that either puts files on a list of files to check or even directly fixes the date for files that have a false date set would be useful.

For example, this file has Category:1912 in art and Category:Science fiction in the 1910s set but had 2013 in the date field because probably that was the date uploaded at some source site the file was imported from. Corrected in Special:Diff/1127271170.

Doing this manually won't yield much, it needs an approach that works at scale. Another complementary idea would be to add a note to the UploadWizard to ask users to enter the date taken or first released in there. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:11, 8 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

This request is valid for faithful representation, but there are other types of images – e.g. photos that show statues or murals at angle, or even paintings of statues. In these cases, the date the picture was created is also relevant and shouldn’t be blindly removed. So if a bot solution is created, it should somehow differentiate between the two cases (or really just create a list, from where humans can differentiate). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:15, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Images by HH Fred

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We have hundreds of images by the Flickr-Photographer HH Fred (https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredhh/) on Commoms. Can a Bot add all of them to the Category:Images by HH Fred? Shark1989z (talk) 21:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Would it be better to request this and things like this at Commons:Batch uploading or some other place? Prototyperspective (talk) 16:55, 19 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
The files are already here on Commons. Searching for fredhh gives 693 hits. --Achim55 (talk) 19:35, 21 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
In that case, one can just use cat-a-lot from the search results to add the category. Prototyperspective (talk) 19:42, 21 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Shark1989z: ✓ Done. I did this for you as myself with special:search and COM:Cat-a-lot. There are now 656 files in that cat. My main search was followed by the next 500.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:38, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Template:ID-PIB

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I've come here from COM:AN. This is regarding Template:ID-PIB. The existing parameters are {{ID-PIB|idv1=|idv2=|cnr=|dept=|url=}}. Currently every file that uses this template goes into Category:Files published by Press Information Bureau or one of its subcat based on |dept= mentioned, like Category:Files from Prime Minister's Office published by Press Information Bureau. I propose adding a new |date= parameter. This will further disperse the files into year based subcats. Why this is needed? The Category mentioned above of PMO-PIB contains 28000 files that should be dispersed in already created empty year based categories. This new parameter upon addition should make new uploads go directly in year based subcats. As for the files already uploaded, maybe some bot or a script can do it? The dates are already mentioned in the description box. Templates isn't my cup of tea otherwise I would have tried doing it myself. Thank you. Shaan SenguptaTalk 07:37, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit categorization using wikidata P31 and P13723 properties

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I want to import data from here to subcategories of Category:Shinto shrines by ranking.

For it and its subcategories I want every category whose wikidata item has P31 for the respective category (i.e. Category:Kokushi genzaisha means all instance of (P31) kokushi genzaisha (Q118304363) items with a commons category will have the category Category:Kokushi genzaisha added to them).

For subcategories of Category:Modern system of ranked shinto shrines we will use ‎modern shrine ranking (P13723) instead.

Because of the way that categorization works and that these categories are not empty it may be better to just give these categories with the operation meant to be done on each.

P31 categories


P13723 categories

Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 23:28, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Can you also do it for these ones? Using the property {{q|P149}}
Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
And for all subcategories of Category:Shikinaisha by Province please do it for shrines with the part of (P361) property Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 04:30, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 15:17, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Auntof6 would you be up for doing this? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 22:51, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Immanuelle: My understanding is that, for the categories listed above, their categorization should be adjusted based on values in Wikidata. I don't know how to do that, except manually, which I'm not more qualified for than anyone else. If that's not what's being asked, please explain further.
By the way, it's not necessary to pipe the entries to remove the "Category:" text. Doing that can make it look like you're listing galleries instead of categories. Not doing it would allow copy/paste of the category names directly from what shows on this page. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:24, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Auntof6 that’s what I was asking. It’s a simple task for me but I’m not sure about how to ask permission to do it myself. I’ll fix the piping. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 11:45, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

P31 categories

P13723 categories

P149 categories

P361 categories (Shikinaisha by Province)

Here Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 11:50, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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