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Igen issue

Hi Jarekt,
I have noticed an issue that appeared 1 or 2 weeks ago:
{{Igen|T|+|s=c|S*|gf}} is used to define a SVG Coat-of-arms (text-editor-created) without specifying the author, i.e. it's not meant to display a user's name, but since a recent change in a template it adds "by v." string, and now shows "this coat of arms was created with a text editor by v." while it was showing "this coat of arms was created with a text editor" only… (example) (Inkscape userless template ex. here)
Which is odd…
--Kontributor 2K (talk) 07:24, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Kontributor 2K I am always supper confused by Igen template, so many impenetrable short names and codes, which I am sure save space, but make the template calls in the files and source code of the template rather unreadable to me. I searched but so far did not figured out how string "this coat of arms was created with a text editor by v." is created. What is the recent changes in the template you mentioned? --Jarekt (talk) 18:45, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

The recent change is that it should not display the default-string "by v." and the end of the string "this coat of arms was created with a text editor", like it was before, and like it is on Inkscape-no-user-specified-created files, where it only displays "this coat of arms was created with Inkscape." and not "this coat of arms was created with Inkscape by v."…

Changes have been made recently on Template:Created_with_Text_Editor, which may be the one concerned, and also on Template:Image_generation ("darkmode")…

I'd love to debug by going back step-by-step on each change made, but luckily I'm not allowed to

--Kontributor 2K (talk) 05:31, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Kontributor 2K, I reverted my edit to Template:Created_with_Text_Editor. It is so odd that most of the time calling {{Autotranslate}} and {{#invoke:Autotranslate|Autotranslate}} gives identical results but sometimes it does not. I still could not create test case where the two differ, so it is a mystery why. Thanks for pointing it out. --Jarekt (talk) 13:42, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you,

It's indeed fine on example file,

--Kontributor 2K (talk) 13:48, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:49, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Photos of Dilaver Najafov

Hi Jarekt,

I remember that you uploaded the photo from the page of National Paralympic Committee of Azerbaijan Republic under unique ticket number[4]. Is it possible to do the same thing for the photos of photographer Dilaver Najafov?

I have contacted with him and he agreed to upload his photos from his facebook, instagram etc. accounts under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. He have sent the required OTRS mail to [email protected], where he gave url links to his accounts with his photos, and got ticket number 2024082610003915.

Is it possible to get unique ticket number for him and I start to upload his photos?

Many thanks, Interfase (talk) 07:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Interfase I think you are on a right track. The only issue is that I lost my access to VRTS system and I am no longer able to help. I would go to Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard and ask there. Best luck --Jarekt (talk) 13:18, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Re-evaluation

Please re-evalute this case: Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by HansEST. EXIF-data says that author is JOOSEP KAPSTA, and uploader name is different Estopedist1 (talk) 12:43, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

also pinging @Kruusamägi per comment at User_talk:HansEST Estopedist1 (talk) 12:45, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Estopedist1 I agree that the name in exif is different than the both usernames used, but that is no proof of anything. We generally do not require users to state their real name, so we can verify it. Also I personally had cases where I took photographs with someone else's camera and than had hard time cleaning up the EXIF data. So I like to Commons:Assume good faith, until I am presented with facts that contradict this assumption. This did not happen in this case. --Jarekt (talk) 13:48, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

It is evident from a small googling that J. Kapsta deals with photography and lives in Tartu, and there are multiple good reasons to assume that he is a member of that student organization (like for starters: what is depicted). So, even if he is not the uploader, then the uploader is likely someone he knows very well (and the username part seems to indicate that as well). Multiple users have also edited the organization article (and related articles) and they seem to be members of that organization, and images have been uploaded as part of it. Assume good faith is a very reasonable approach here. Kruusamägi (talk) 16:15, 28 August 2024 (UTC)