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Uploads without licence
[edit]About 3/4 of the permissions we receive from France and Spain refer to images without licence tag. This means considerable extra work for VRT, because we need to remove the complaint from the User:AntiCompositeBot/NoLicense and add the appropriate licence each time after having checked and approved the permission.
This has been going on for months now. Is there really nothing that can be done about it? It should be prevented that files get uploaded without licence tag. Mussklprozz (talk) 10:26, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- The problem is that we have so many accepted licenses that having a filter to prevent this is not really possible. If we decide that new users are only allowed to use the regular cc licenses we could easily create a filter. GPSLeo (talk) 10:40, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- How about a filter that forbids to leave the licence empty? This would eliminite 80% of the problem cases, since most users decide for cc-by-sa anyway. Mussklprozz (talk) 12:26, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'd suggest not to solve this by edit filter but by changing the upload interface. But it has to be found out at first which of the dozen ways for uploading creates this problem. Krd 12:46, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- It seems to be the upload wizard. See e.g. File:Laura Urbina.jpg and File:Jorge León Gustà.jpg. --Mussklprozz (talk) 18:48, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the issue comes from the Upload Wizard. I mentioned that a few months back, and I am surprised that it has not been fixed yet. Yann (talk) 19:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the bug that selecting the permission option removes the license is still present. Just tested here File:Testfile2.png. @Sannita (WMF) could you have a look why this is still not resolved? GPSLeo (talk) 20:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- FWIW, on April 13 of this year, I edited Commons:Uploading works by a third party to describe the necessary workaround for this on uploads, because Sannita let me know he did not expect the fix to occur promptly. I still have no idea why a fix to this would be difficult. - Jmabel ! talk 21:50, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- @GPSLeo Unfortunately, the Structured Content team is no longer active, and it is still unclear who owns UploadWizard in the latest re-organization. I'll keep pushing for a solution, if you would be so kind to send me the Phab ticket, I can try to find someone to work on it. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:39, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- The ticket should be phab:T391600. And the WMF did drop the maintenance of a core tool again? Is there an official statement why this happened? This is exactly what was the main criticism by the community in the open letters and also in the community call series. GPSLeo (talk) 14:29, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- @GPSLeo AFAIK an announcement on Commons is in the making, but I have no news on when it will be published. About the ticket, I reached out to the devs, and they have it on their rader, but it's going to take at least another couple of weeks before it gets addressed, due to other priorities at the moment. I'll keep you posted, but please feel free to ping me here or in private about it, just to be sure it doesn't slip off my mind. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- is there any update on the announcement, can be more public than here Gnangarra 10:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Gnangarra no update, I pinged already in private the people behind it Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:21, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- is there any update on the announcement, can be more public than here Gnangarra 10:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- @GPSLeo AFAIK an announcement on Commons is in the making, but I have no news on when it will be published. About the ticket, I reached out to the devs, and they have it on their rader, but it's going to take at least another couple of weeks before it gets addressed, due to other priorities at the moment. I'll keep you posted, but please feel free to ping me here or in private about it, just to be sure it doesn't slip off my mind. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- The ticket should be phab:T391600. And the WMF did drop the maintenance of a core tool again? Is there an official statement why this happened? This is exactly what was the main criticism by the community in the open letters and also in the community call series. GPSLeo (talk) 14:29, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the bug that selecting the permission option removes the license is still present. Just tested here File:Testfile2.png. @Sannita (WMF) could you have a look why this is still not resolved? GPSLeo (talk) 20:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, the issue comes from the Upload Wizard. I mentioned that a few months back, and I am surprised that it has not been fixed yet. Yann (talk) 19:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- It seems to be the upload wizard. See e.g. File:Laura Urbina.jpg and File:Jorge León Gustà.jpg. --Mussklprozz (talk) 18:48, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'd suggest not to solve this by edit filter but by changing the upload interface. But it has to be found out at first which of the dozen ways for uploading creates this problem. Krd 12:46, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- How about a filter that forbids to leave the licence empty? This would eliminite 80% of the problem cases, since most users decide for cc-by-sa anyway. Mussklprozz (talk) 12:26, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
以下檔案的授權信已於 2025-10-22 寄出，並收到 VRT 團隊回覆確認授權有效。 請協助解除授權標籤，感謝！
[edit]- File:Fist of Faith 官方拳擊手套 Official Boxing Glove.jpg - File:Fist of Faith 官方格鬥手套 4oz Official MMA Glove.jpg - File:FOF拳願明星格鬥賽.jpg - File:拳願明星格鬥賽的比賽現場.jpg - File:第21屆拳願明星格鬥賽.jpg - File:第22屆拳願明星格鬥賽-主賽.jpg - File:第22屆拳願明星格鬥賽-副主賽.jpg - File:創辦人-秋偉.jpg EditorB2025Oct (talk) 11:04, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- 補充：VRT ticket:2025102212345678 EditorB2025Oct (talk) 11:06, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- @范, can you handle this question? I do not know this language well. Nemoralis (talk) 23:02, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
- 所有页面均已添加标记，请问哪里还有授权标签？ GY Fan★ 04:43, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
Dear Volunteer Response Team, I am writing because Susan Mézquita, the owner of the copyrights of the two images mentioned in the title, has sent the e-mail to permissions-commons[at]wikimedia.org with two days delay. She sent it today, October the 30th and the upload was in October the 20th. Can you please return the images? Thank you very much and warmest regards, Galahmm (talk) 08:27, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Krd: , I don't understand why you put as resolved as the files were not restored, could you help me? Thanks.Galahmm (talk) 17:34, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- If the permission was sent recently, it's no issue for this board. Please wait for the processing. --Krd 19:48, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 19:48, 1 November 2025 (UTC) 
Permission for File:Rabbi SF Zimmerman portrait.jpg has been sent to VRT multiple times but has not been acknowledged. The copyright holder, Kehillas Federation (reception@federation.org.uk), originally sent the CC BY-SA 4.0 license grant on June 20, 2025. When the file was not approved, I followed up, and they confirmed they had never received a reply from the permissions-commons address and resent the entire permission on October 24, 2025. However it has still not been undeleted. Yeshivish613 (talk) 19:06, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
- What did the get in reply? Krd 08:07, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Krd the agent told me that they didn't receive a reply at all. Yeshivish613 (talk) 17:20, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
- Then please ask them to send the permission again. Krd 07:22, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Krd the agent told me that they didn't receive a reply at all. Yeshivish613 (talk) 17:20, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 19:47, 1 November 2025 (UTC) Reuploads?
[edit]Hello support team, could one of you please have a look if some images are reuploads of ones that have previously been deleted? It's about these:
- This one I suspect to be a reupload of this one.
- This one could be a reupload of this one.
- And this one might be a reupload of this one.
None of the current versions name the true copyright holders; they have all been uploaded as "own work" of the image subject, which seems extremely unlikely.
Thanks, --2003:C0:8F17:1B00:A85C:DB35:BE42:5AB2 19:26, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
- Already tagged as no-permission, nothing to do for VRT. Krd 08:08, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 08:09, 31 October 2025 (UTC) Is there any issues with the ticket that need to be adressed? Trade (talk) 04:45, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 07:21, 1 November 2025 (UTC)