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File:Петрозаводск, Памятник П.Ф. Анохину.jpg

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File:Пиндуши, Братская могила (памятник).jpg

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File:Палех, бюст Голикова.jpg

File:Палех, бюст Голикова.jpg has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Палех, бюст Голикова.jpg This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you! Afrikaans ∙ العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ ∙ বাংলা ∙ bosanski ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ Zazaki ∙ ދިވެހިބަސް ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ eesti ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ íslenska ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ 조선말 ∙ кыргызча ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Bahasa Melayu ∙ မြန်မာဘာသာ ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk nynorsk ∙ norsk ∙ occitan ∙ polski ∙ پښتو ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ shqip ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

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Dear Olksolo,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

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Dear Olksolo,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.

To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

Kind regards,
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Vidlitsa railway station has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you! беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ हिन्दी ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ ಕನ್ನಡ ∙ македонски ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ svenska ∙ ತುಳು ∙ ไทย ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 吴语 ∙ 中文 ∙ +/−

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Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Russia is open!

Здравствуйте! с 1 по 30 июня проходит российская часть международного фотоконкурса "Вики любит Землю". Приглашаем вас принять участие в конкурсе, чтобы помочь нам лучше проиллюстрировать вики-статьи, пополнить крупнейшую в стране коллекцию изображений российских природных объектов и побороться за призы.

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С уважением,
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(Вы получили это сообщение, поскольку участвовали в предыдущих конкурсах "Вики любит Землю")

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020! Please help with this survey

Dear Avsolov,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 200K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.

Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2020.

Kind regards,
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Категории объектов WLM

Добрый день. Зачем вы удаляете подобную категоризацию объектов WLM? Есть какие-то правила на этот счёт? Как мне кажется, такая категоризация помогает осуществлять навигацию, быстрее и лучше понимать, что это за объект.— Redboston 17:19, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@Redboston: , категории WLM/xxx необходимы сугубо для технических нужд — для поддержки "карточек" объектов культурного наследия. В сообществе Викигида сложился консенсус по этому вопросу. Ваша категоризация в общем-то не особо вредит проекту, но создаёт иллюзию, что категории WLM/xxx "легальны" для широкого использования. Однако это не так: для категоризации и навигации следует использовать человеко-читаемые названия категорий (таков принцип Викисклада). Если вы посмотрите внимательнее, то удалением лишней категоризации технических категорий занимаюсь не только я. Если у вас есть соображения, по поводу надо или не надо это делать, давайте обсудим это на страницах проекта. --Avsolov (talk) 18:03, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Я не загружаю фото через проект на Викигиде, поэтому не могу знать наверняка... Но предполагаю, что при загрузке через кнопку на Викигиде автоматически добавляется категория WLM/xxx. Предполагаю также, что участники, загружающие таким образом файлы, зачастую не очень погружены во все внутренние дела, а потому никаких "настоящих" (нетехнических) категорий могут не проставлять. Такие категории с файлами я видел достаточно. Так вот в случае, когда файл есть только в категории WLM/xxx, а эта категория, в свою очередь, никуда не ведёт, то найти такой файл можно лишь через через Викигид. Для тех участников Википедии, которые не особо интересуются Викигидом, существование таких файлов и категорий неочевидно. По сути, их невозможно найти, используя только Викисклад (через перемещение по категориям). В общем, у меня вопрос: какие категории добавляются автоматически при загрузке через кнопку в Викигида? Давайте это выясним здесь, а потом уже я создам тему в Викигидах, если будет нужно.— Redboston 18:52, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@Redboston: , при загрузке "через кнопку в Викигиде" автоматически добавляется та категория, которая прописана в карточке объекта в поле commonscat. Например, для объекта 3431017034 автоматически добавляется Category:Altuhov's_House_(Oktyabrskaya,_40). Если в карточке не прописана никакая специфическая категория, то подставляется категория "Cultural heritage monuments in XXXX district" (по названию страницы). Кроме того, при загрузке "через кнопку в Викигиде" в описание объекта автоматически подставляется шаблон {{Cultural Heritage Russia}}, который среди прочего автоматически добавляет упомянутую техническую категорию WLM/xxx. Если вы посмотрите внимательно, то категории WLM/xxx являются скрытыми, так что пользователи, у которых в расширенных настройках не стоит галочка "Показывать скрытые категории", даже не подозревают, что файл как-то ещё категоризирован. Удаление шаблона или изменение его параметра приводит к автоматической перекатегоризации. Как видите, категории WLM/xxx не очень-то рассчитаны на поиск через Викисклад (собственно, не для этого они генерировались). Более того, изначально предполагалось, что такие категории "в живую" вообще создаваться не будут, поскольку они нужны лишь для генерации галереи карточки ОКН. Я согласен с вами, что категоризация на Викискладе для неискушённого пользователя представляет собой серьёзную проблему. Поэтому-то для Викигида и был сделан специфический вариант upload-wizard-а на Викискладе, который частично решает эту проблему начинающих пользователей подставляя "правильную" (Category:Altuhov's_House_(Oktyabrskaya,_40)) или хоть какую-то категорию (Cultural heritage monuments in Kamyshin). Только вот WLM/xxx тут немного про другое. --Avsolov (talk) 19:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Хорошо. Ваши доводы меня убедили. Больше не буду никаких манипуляций с категориями такого вида проводить.— Redboston 20:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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Повышен в звании до робота, можно приниматься за работу :-) --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Второе задание одобрено вышестоящими инстанциями :-) --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

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Задание 3 было одобрено. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:25, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 150K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 35 countries around the world.

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Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photography contest hosted on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from around the world, such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folktales, folk games, folk religion, mythology, and many more.

The campaign invites participants to document photographs, videos, and audios linked to folk culture and fit within the contest's theme. Through this campaign, you may become a part of a community dedicated to preserving our intangible culture, which has been brought and passed down for thousands of years.

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The dates for the submission in the photography contest on Wikimedia Commons are from 1 February to 31 March 2023. Probably you are wondering how you can take part. It’s simple: grab a camera, record an image, video or audio under the folklore theme and start uploading ! To learn more about the rules, check out our Project page on Wikimedia Common. Here are the exciting prizes which you can win internationally.

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Добрый день! Выражаю огромную признательность за вклад в карельскую тематику на Викискладе, однако есть более интересный вопрос - не могли бы Вы подать заявку на перевод сайта http://gov.karelia.ru на свободную лицензию? В СЗФО уже четыре субъекта со свободными интернет-представительствами - это Калининградская, Мурманская, Псковская и с недавнего времени Архангельская области, при этом оба последних региона я сам убеждал. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 12:53, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Я скептически отношусь к этой идее. Olksolo (talk) 18:27, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

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Категории по регионам России

Доброе утро! Я за последние несколько дней создал несколько шаблонов по российским регионам. Вы бы не могли создать соответствующие категории? У меня на это уходит очень много времени вручную. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 08:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Уточните, пожалуйста, о каких шаблонах идёт речь. Olksolo (talk) 08:27, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

1. Template:LipetskOblastmonthyear, Template:LipetskOblastphotomonthyear - Липецкая область
2. Template:VoronezhOblastmonthyear, Template:VoronezhOblastphotomonthyear - Воронежская область
3. Template:SamaraOblastmonthyear, Template:SamaraOblastphotomonthyear - Самарская область
4. Template:RyazanOblastmonthyear, Template:RyazanOblastphotomonthyear - Рязанская область
5. Template:KurskOblastmonthyear, Template:KurskOblastphotomonthyear - Курская область
6. Template:Khakassiamonthyear, Template:Khakassiaphotomonthyear - Хакасия
7. Template:OrenburgOblastmonthyear, Template:OrenburgOblastphotomonthyear - Оренбургская область
8. Template:KemerovoOblastmonthyear, Template:KemerovoOblastphotomonthyear - Кемеровская область
9. Template:KhabarovskKraimonthyear, Template:KhabarovskKraiphotomonthyear - Хабаровский край
10. Template:BelgorodOblastmonthyear, Template:BelgorodOblastphotomonthyear - Белгородская область
11. Template:SakhalinOblastmonthyear, Template:SakhalinOblastphotomonthyear - Сахалинская область
12. Template:KirovOblastmonthyear, Template:KirovOblastphotomonthyear - Кировская область
13. Template:TomskOblastmonthyear, Template:TomskOblastphotomonthyear - Томская область
14. Template:SakhaRepublicmonthyear,Template:SakhaRepublicphotomonthyear - Саха (Якутия)
15. Template:Bashkortostanmonthyear,Template:Bashkortostanphotomonthyear - Башкортостан
16. Template:PskovOblastmonthyear, Template:PskovOblastphotomonthyear - Псковская область
17. Template:BryanskOblastmonthyear, Template:BryanskOblastphotomonthyear - Брянская область
18. Template:OmskOblastmonthyear, Template:OmskOblastphotomonthyear - Омская область
19. Template:NovosibirskOblastmonthyear, Template:NovosibirskOblastphotomonthyear - Новосибирская область
20. Template:ChelyabinskOblastmonthyear, Template:ChelyabinskOblastphotomonthyear - Челябинская область
21. Template:BelgorodOblastmonthyear, Template:BelgorodOblastphotomonthyear - Белгородская область
22. Template:RostovOblastmonthyear, Template:RostovOblastphotomonthyear, Template:RostovonDonmonthyear - Ростовская область
23. Template:KrasnodarKraimonthyear, Template:KrasnodarKraiphotomonthyear, Template:Sochimonthyear, Template:Krasnodarmonthyear - Краснодарский край
24. Template:VolgogradOblastmonthyear, Template:VolgogradOblastphotomonthyear, Template:Volgogradmonthyear - Волгоградская область
25. Template:Tatarstanmonthyear, Template:Tatarstanphotomonthyear, Template:Kazanmonthyear - Татарстан
26. Template:SverdlovskOblastmonthyear, Template:SverdlovskOblastphotomonthyear, Template:Yekaterinburgmonthyear - Свердловская область
27. Template:LeningradOblastmonthyear, Template:LeningradOblastphotomonthyear - Ленинградская область
28. Template:KhabarovskKraimonthyear, Template:KhabarovskKraiphotomonthyear - Хабаровский край
29. Template:AltaiRepublicmonthyear, Template:AltaiRepublicphotomonthyear - Республика Алтай
30. Template:IrkutskOblastmonthyear, Template:IrkutskOblastphotomonthyear - Иркутская область
31. Template:KrasnoyarskKraimonthyear, Template:KrasnoyarskKraiphotomonthyear - Красноярский край

Также для зарубежных городов Template:Cities in Austria by year, Template:MonthinNorwaybycity,Template:MonthinPortugalbycity, Template:MonthinAustriabycity, Template:MonthintheNetherlandsbycity, Template:MonthinTurkeybycity. К самим же городам - Template:Month by year in Delhi (Дели), Template:Month by year in Mumbai (Мумбаи), Template:Month by year in Porto (Порту), Template:Month by year in Macau (Макао), Template:Month by year in Oslo (Осло), Template:Month by year in Trondheim (Тронхейм), Template:Month by year in Bergen, Norway (Берген), Template:Month by year in Drammen (Драммен), Template:Month by year in Stavanger (Ставангер), Template:Month by year in Kristiansand (Кристиансанн) Template:Guangzhoumonth (Гуанчжоу)

и для политиков Template:MikhailMishustinByMonth (Михаил Мишустин), Template:BillClintonByMonth (Билл Клинтон), Template:AlexanderLukashenkoByMonth (Александр Лукашенко, сейчас весьма актуальная тема в связи с завтрашними в Беларуси президентскими выборами), Template:RecepTayyipErdoğanByMonth (Реджеп Тайип Эрдоган), Template:RustamMinnikhanovByMonth (Рустам Минниханов]] MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 09:37, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

К сожалению, у меня нет мыслей, как это можно сдедать не вручную. По российским регионам, если хотите, можем располовинить работу по добавлению категорий: часть я подправлю, часть вам останется. За зарубежные я точно не возьмусь, там вникать в контекст надо. Olksolo (talk) 15:50, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Вам я оставляю Башкирию, Кировскую, Белгородскую, Брянскую, Рязанскую, Иркутскую области, Якутию, Краснодарский, Хабаровский края, Татарстан, Свердловскую, Волгоградскую области и ещё несколько других на ваше усмотрение. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 17:33, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Ещё речь идёт о том, что нужно создать Вам категории подобные Category:August 2013 in Moscow и Category:August 2013 Moscow photographs. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 05:01, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

File:Alfred Keller at Ladoga.jpg

Здравствуйте, я там дополнил список изображённых персон согласно тому, как они указаны в архиве SA-kuva [см. File:SA-kuva-arkisto 104646.jpg]. Однако крайний справа, указанный как "Oberst von Seydlitz", явно не оберст, а гауптман [см. Люфтваффе (вермахт)#Знаки различия]. Не посоветуете, стоит ли исправить его звание или оставить как в источнике? --Vi-y (talk) 03:06, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Да, в подписях фотографий SA-Kuva бывают неточности. Если на ваш взгляд это очевидная ошибка — исправляйте. Если ошибка неочевидная, лучше оставлять оба варианта: и оригинальный, и правдоподобный на ваш взгляд (с пояснением). Olksolo (talk) 08:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

• Спасибо, указал как вы посоветовали оба варианта (на всякий случай, может они вообще человека перепутали).
  Ещё один небольшой вопрос: может файл Alfred Keller at Ladoga.jpg стоит удалить из категории Continuation War in 1942? Дело в том, что я включил его в категорию Einsatzstab Fähre Ost, которая в свою очередь уже является подкатегорией этой самой Category:Continuation War in 1942. --Vi-y (talk) 12:09, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

  Ага, это разумно. Olksolo (talk) 12:11, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

  • Ok, сделано. --Vi-y (talk) 12:20, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

    Ещё посмотрите вот что. Сейчас sa-kuva.fi из РФ недоступна. Но копия всей коллекции есть на finna.fi. Я обычно добавляю ещё урл на копию в finna.fi. Это удобно по нескольким причинам: 1) на finna.fi "прямой" неменяющийся урл, 2) удобно смотреть все сведения о фотографии, 3) у финнов есть бот, который заносит более точную машиночитаемую информацию в SDC для таких фотографий.
    Соответствие между номерами finna.fi и sa-kuva есть в табличке, ссылка на которую дана на странице категории. Olksolo (talk) 12:25, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

    • Спасибо, я честно говоря брал фото напрямую из sa-kuva.fi (сами понимаете, есть способы обойти его недоступность в РФ :), поэтому посчитал, что наверное было бы правильным указать его в качестве источника. Насчёт finna.fi я как-то даже не задумывался. Ещё раз благодарю за информацию. --Vi-y (talk) 13:10, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

• Olksolo, ещё раз приветствую! Получается, что никакой ошибки в архиве SA-kuva нет! Дело в том, что на данном фото вообще отсутствует генерал-оберст Alfred Keller! Тот, которого мы принимали за него — это и есть тот самый "Oberst von Seydlitz", а никакой ни Келлер! Даже если не обращать внимания на визуальное сходство немца с фотоаппаратом с этим самым фон Зейдлицем (см. File:SA-kuva-arkisto 104712.jpg), то их можно различить по одежде: генерал-оберст Келлер был на том параде в шинели (без нагрудных карманов) — см. File:SA-kuva-arkisto 104716.jpg и File:SA-kuva-arkisto 104667.jpg; в то время как оберст фон Зейдлиц — в плаще с нагрудными карманами, которые мы и видим на данном фото. В общем, я исправил нашу ошибку. --Vi-y (talk) 11:35, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

  Это замечательно, что вы в этом разобрались! Olksolo (talk) 11:57, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.

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  First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area.
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  Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.
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  Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers.
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Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!

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