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SteinsplitterBot tasks should be maintained by WMF
Hi, I see that functions fulfilled by SteinsplitterBot are regularly not done. As they are essential for correct operation of Commons, I think they should be taken over the WMF. I will fill up a feature request. What do you think? Yann (talk) 17:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
If you are looking for another community member to help/take over, I'd be willing to help; perhaps others would too. —Mdaniels5757 (talk•contribs) 21:54, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Processing {{Move cat}} commands on User:CommonsDelinker/commands should also be ported, but it hasn’t been scheduled yet (and even if it was, there are no such commands currently).
The code archiving Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests is quite different from the other ones. There is a README file on the server that states that the code is available at https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/bryan/bots/, but Toolserver has been shut down for years now… I have no idea whether and where that source code is available. 🙁 I fear I won’t be able to port it. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
It archives sections that haven’t seen activity for a certain amount of time, not sections that have been resolved. There are sections on the page right now that haven’t seen any activity for weeks. These would be archived by ArchiveBot without the files being undeleted or the requests being declined (or the handled requests would remain on the page for weeks due to the high timeout).
It considers the text beginning with a ==-level heading and stopping before the next ==-level heading a topic. The {{Delh}} template, which is put before the heading, would therefore belong to the previous topic (request) as seen by the bot’s parser.
@Richardkiwi: I don’t think WMF should take over the bots; running bots is the privilege and responsibility of the community. Now there are three maintainers of the bot in addition to Steinsplitter (including me), so hopefully things will work out. Now I migrated the bots maintaining the two pages you mentioned. The latter has already been updated, the former should be updated within 24 hours. (I changed the scheduling of the former: previously it ran at 06:40 AM each day; now it’s configured to run daily, but at no specific time, so that the server can better balance resource usage. The latter used to, and continues to, run every five minutes. Of course, only runs that actually change the page are visible in the page history.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:58, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Mediawiki\Api\UsageException: Code: titleblacklist-forbidden-edit
Message: The title "File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg" has been banned from creation. It matches the following disallowed titles list entry: " File:IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}.jpg # WhatsApp, e.g. [[:File:IMG-20230409-WA0001.jpg]]"
Result: {"error":{"code":"titleblacklist-forbidden-edit","info":"The title \"File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg\" has been banned from creation. It matches the following disallowed titles list entry: \" File:IMG-\\d{8}-WA\\d{4}.jpg # WhatsApp, e.g. [[:File:IMG-20230409-WA0001.jpg]]\"","filekey":"1al6gvv4tz24.u35whx.3714013.jpg","sessionkey":"1al6gvv4tz24.u35whx.3714013.jpg","invalidparameter":"filename","*":"See https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/postorius\/lists\/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org\/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."},"servedby":"mw2397"} in /data/project/rotbot/vendo in /data/project/rotbot/vendor/addwiki/mediawiki-api-base/src/MediawikiApi.php on line 407
which apparently prevents the removal of the lock file, stopping all future (hourly) runs until the cleanup process (which is ran at 0:00, 7:00, 14:00 and 21:00 UTC) removes the lock files. So there are multiple problems here:
Why does the API reject as upload with the comment The title "File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg" has been banned from creation when the title File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg exists, the bot only wants to upload a new version of it? I think reuploads shouldn’t be blocked: there’s no way to upload a new version of the file IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg other than to upload it as IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg.
The bot shouldn’t crash on API errors. Just because it cannot rotate one file for whatever reason, it probably can rotate the next one, so it should go on.
Even if there is an unexpected exception, the bot shouldn’t leave the lock file there. PHP has destructors, so putting the lock file removal to a destructor would guarantee that it’s run.
Probably it shouldn’t use a lock file in the first place. The job scheduling system keeps track of whether the bot runs, so it should be (is? I don’t know) able to prevent the job from being started twice.
And, actually, why is this file waiting to be renamed? It has a useless name, a useless description, useless content and no usage in WMF wikis. It should be deleted, not rotated. (However, it may be worth being kept as a test case until all the above bugs have been fixed.)
I deleted all files by this user: out of scope and probable copyright violations. Yann (talk) 14:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Many thanks for debugging and fixing. Merry Christmas! RZuo (talk) 17:19, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Nothing has been fixed, only the test case was deleted. 🙁 So we’ll probably run into this again. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I’ve done a bit of cleanup before getting hit by the lack of test case, which I’ve now submitted as a pull request: https://github.com/toollabs/Rotatebot/pull/1. Could Steinsplitter or anyone else with wright access to the repo access the pull request? (Except for the indentation cleaup, it’s basically things that have already been there on Toolforge, just missing from the repo.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:25, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi a test case is coming soon, in 6h or so.:) RZuo (talk) 18:03, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi: The Rotatebot function is stuck again since New Year's Eve. Anything you can do? --Rosenzweigτ 21:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi if that pull request was meant to also fix the titleblacklist problem, then it probably didnt work, because the bot is probably stuck on File:IMG-20230506-WA0015.jpg.
i will rename the file in a few days. RZuo (talk) 12:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
@RZuo: No, that pull request wasn’t meant to fix the titlebacklist problem. I planned to finish the fix for that during the holidays, but I didn’t manage to do that, and then I got busy with work and other IRL things. I finished and deployed it yesterday. Today I removed the lock functionality as the job scheduling system indeed prevents the job from being started twice. Unfortunately I managed to deploy the new scheduling configuration while the bot was running, so the on-wiki log will miss the nine already-processed images (and working through the backlog may take an hour more). I hope this won’t cause issues; the log file should contain all information the on-wiki log contains, although in a much less structured way. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:09, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thx a lot for fixing the bot. RZuo (talk) 15:06, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi @Tacsipacsi: , can you take a look at these two bot-runs again? Thanks in advance. Regards, - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 18:32, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi: - Can you please take a look again, renaming stats and declined renaming is not working since almost a week (25 Februari), see the top of this topic, regards - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 11:04, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Bot mistakenly claiming files have orientation 0
I added {{rotate|reset}} to a batch of files including File:ArcelorMittal Orbit - geograph.org.uk - 5865858.jpg. SteinSplitterBot declined to rotate the files because "reset EXIF Orientation reset requested but it was already 0 or 1. (0)". But on the file page the orientation is listed as "Rotated 90° CCW", and if I download it and look at it with exiftool its "Orientation" tag is set to "6". It looks like the Bot is not correctly reading the existing orientation. I can fix the orientation by hand, but there are a couple of hundred of them so it will take a while. --bjh21 (talk) 17:11, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Great, thanks. Removed the link because didn't thought it could be fixed. By the way a tool for mass processing file renaming requests would be great too. Killarnee (talk) 16:55, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
It was fortunately just an easy-to-fix database change (plus some cleanup). The mass processor tool would be quite a bit more difficult. (Also, I think that should be a gadget rather than a Toolforge tool to make editing in the name of the file mover easier.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:49, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
I noticed that SteinsplitterBot stopped updating the report at Commons:Database reports/Getty Images on 8 September 2023. It is possible for the bot to resume updating this report? It is likely that this is not a reasonable request given your edit notice, but it looks like some of the database reports are still being updated by the bot, so perhaps you can direct me to a current maintainer, if there is one. Looking at latest edits to the sbot respository, maybe I should be directing my request to Tacsipacsi? Thanks. —RP88 (talk) 10:13, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Da du diese Datei verschoben hast. Ich bin mir doch eigentlich sicher, dass das nicht ein SEV-Stecker ist (im Vergleich hier ein "echter" Stecker: File:SEV_1011_1998_Typ_11_L+N_Stecker.jpg). Das aus folgenden Gründen:
Wirkt recht modern, also spätes 20. Jh/frühes 21. Jh, dennoch mit einem Kabel (Stegleitung), das unsereiner eher in Uralt-Lampen begegnet.
Normaufdruck S+ fehlt (könnte auf der Rückseite sein, dennoch bezweifle ich das fast...)
Dimensionen sind eigenartig (fast zu flach)
Könnte auch ein brasilianischer, russischer, italienischer, vietnamesischer Stecker für 10A sein (oder irgendwas nicht genormtes zum Vertrieb in Ländern, die so was nicht ernsthaft regulieren). Könnte man das nicht irgendwie auf einen "neutraleren" Dateinamen verschieben (im Sinne: Typ C, unbekannte Norm).
Hi Steinsplitter, I hope you are doing well since we haven't spoken each other for some time. I read above that you stopped developing bots, but I hope you might want to have a look at my question. I notice that your bot takes care of adding the Uncategorized template to files, thank you for that as that is very needed! I recently looked at the Data-namespace and I noticed many items there are not categorised. As categorisation seems not possible on the page itself, categories have been added to the talkpage. If the Uncategorized template is added to the talkpage of the data page it will be added to Category:Uncategorized data pages. Would it be possible for you to have your bot add the Uncategorized template to all talk pages of data pages without a category? Thanks! Romaine (talk) 15:56, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Italian discussion
Hi, can I ask you for your opinion on this discussion? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bar_italiano#API_e_IP The two categories were moved without consensus, and furthermore (as explained in the discussion) for reasons that personally seem wrong to me. I would like to have an administrator's opinion regarding both the method (lack of consensus) and the motivations (a more subjective question, which deserves further opinions) Moxmarco (talk) 14:07, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Generally COM:CFD is the due process for such discussions. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:03, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Du får det här meddelandet eftersom du tidigare har bidragit med bilder till de svenska deltävlingarna av Wiki Loves Earth eller Wiki Loves Monuments. Jag hoppas att du vill vara med i år också! Som vanligt ingår naturreservat och nationalparker, biosfärområden och naturminnen i tävlingen! Utöver bästa foto belönar vi även fotograferande av tidigare ofotograferade objekt samt bästa bildserie om minst tio fotografier av samma objekt. Tävlingen börjar 1 maj, och pågår under hela maj månad. Om du har varit ute i världen och rest kan du även se om resorna sammanfaller med övriga internationella deltävlingar, och i så fall vara med och tävla även där. Expeditioner, fotosafari eller en helt vanlig promenad? Via en smidig karta som visar ditt närområde hittar du bra ställen att besöka – eller varför inte damma av fotoalbumen och tävla med bilder du har tagit tidigare?
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 41,038 images from 1921 uploaders represented on Commons in over 140 countries. Kindly see images here.
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Hello! Do you think you could add another column to this report, namely the deletion log reason to why the original file was deleted? For example files deleted because of COM:CSD#G7 and files deleted as copyvios raise different concerns. Jonteemil (talk) 09:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
If it's not too complicated, rather than creating it on the day itself, I would let it trail 10 days behind, e.g. on the 17th create the category for the 7th. Enhancing999 (talk) 13:12, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Besten Dank für Deine Drehung meines Bildes. Erstens weiß ich nicht, was ich da verkehrt machte, und zweitens fand ich keinen richtigen Zugang das selber zu korrigieren.--Mario todte (talk) 18:50, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Flickrbot malfunction
Dear Admin Steinsplitter,
Can this situation be fixed? The Flickrbot breaks down every few weeks now sadly. Now the flickr review backlog is 3400+ images Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 21:38, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Comment: In this situation can you someone restart the Flickrbot or allow AntiCompositeNumber to restart the flickr review bot? The flickrbacklog is now 5800+ images Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I added AntiCompositeNumber to the bot maintainer group. Best Steinsplitter (talk) 12:56, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Thank You for your help. Hopefully AntiCompositeNumber can manage the huge animal called the flickrbot review as it seems to break down every few weeks now. Kind Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 22:20, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Rotate images
Dear Admin Steinsplitter,
I hope your bot will be able to rotate images in this Category
Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 22:24, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
It appears the bot was disabled from running on WMF infrastructure on May 27 last year "due to incompatibility"; and whoever disabled it (Steinsplitter?) removed the login credentials. It seems that the bot was never stopped, so it kept running with cached credentials, but it stopped on Feb 18 and it can't be started again without credentials. —Mdaniels5757 (talk•contribs) 03:25, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
I kinda remember that the bot couldnt operate in the new k8s because of limited memory or storage... And Steinsplitter ran it on their private server. RoyZuo (talk) 18:18, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
That's unfortunate.:( — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:23, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
Bot should be back now:) Steinsplitter (talk) 18:37, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
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Wiki Loves Earth 2025 – Deutschland – Vielen Dank für deine Teilnahme
Beitrag aus dem letzten Jahr der erstmals die Art Lamproderma splendens für Wikipedia dokumentierte.
Hallo Steinsplitter,
der Wettbewerb Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Deutschland ist beendet. Im Rahmen der Kampagne haben 350 Teilnehmende 13.497 Fotos hochgeladen, die bereits über 1.000 Artikel in über 40 Wikipedia-Sprachversionen und Einträge auf Wikidata bebildern. Sämtliche Ergebnisse kannst du hier ansehen.
Um aus diesen Beiträgen die besten Fotos zu finden, läuft bis zum 16. August die Vorjury. Über Unterstützung bei dieser würden wir uns sehr freuen.
Die Siegerfotos werden voraussichtlich am 1. September verkündet.
Am 1. September 2025 startet zudem der Wettbewerb Wiki Loves Monuments rund um Kultur- und Baudenkmäler. Fotografiere dafür jetzt schon die passenden Motive.
Hello, it seems the bot hasn’t been working since 30 June (see the bottom of User:SteinsplitterBot/Rotatebot), do you know what is causing the problem? Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 00:13, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
I also have uploads pending rotation for over 24 hours; the bot seems to be down. OceanLoop (talk) 05:26, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Same issue. I made 2 requests on July 7th here & here. Levdr1lp / talk 19:29, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
It's a chronic problem. Perhaps the bot needs repair, or a watchdog bot to check every couple days and goose the rotate bot if it hasn't done anything lately. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:52, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
I asked for help at COM:VP/T, maybe someone there can help fix the problem. Tvpuppy (talk) 00:55, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
We appear to be wedged again. OceanLoop (talk) 21:16, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
@Tvpuppy@OceanLoop@Levdr1lp@Jim.henderson i dont mean to speak on behalf of Steinsplitter, but what i remember is that Steinsplitter said the bot cannot work on wmfcloud due to k8s not providing enough storage, so Steinsplitter has been running the bot on their own private servers.
so it seems the only way to run the bot currently is to wait for Steinsplitter to reboot it.
i think an important function like this should get help from WMF or even become its responsibility, instead of individual volunteers'. RoyZuo (talk) 08:12, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply and thanks for reporting the issue. Fixed as for now. Steinsplitter (talk) 09:34, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
urgent bug. RoyZuo (talk) 18:58, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
Obviously, I am not Steinsplitter, but: The rotate request has been done in an unusual way, see Special:Diff/1059187646. Apparently, the RotateBot did not expect this and could not remove the request, so the rotation went on and on until you manually removed the request (Special:Diff/1059828012). —Speravir – 01:27, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
The bot is stuck due to a system problem Andre🚐 07:15, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 are out!
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The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 are announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 85715 images from 1912 uploaders represented on Commons in over 142 countries.
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Hi, @Steinsplitter! We collected a wish for the rotation bot in the context of our Technical Wishes Reparaturhilfe. A user would like to be able to rotate TIFF files. We had a quick look at the code and since the tool already usesconvert by ImageMagick and this also works for TIFF files, we were wondering if allowing TIFF files in this code path as well would be a simple adaption you could make? Many thanks in advance and let us know if you've any questions about our findings. Best, --Svantje Lilienthal (WMDE) (talk) 13:05, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
Hallo Steinsplitter, nach dem Rotieren durch deinen Bot fehlen dem Bild einige Pixel File:Logo Selmar Bayer.jpg. Kannst du dir das mal bitte anschauen. Danke. --sk (talk) 14:34, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
The images are rotated with the lossless (which means “no generation loss” here; note that even “lossless” jpegtran rotation can be slightly lossy [depends on the image's dimensions; at maximum 16 pixels are cropped at borders if a image is not consisting of full jpeg blocks – like most digi cam images are] but no new compression artifacts are added) rotate tools jpegtran (and ExifTool) for jpgs and ImageMagick for pngs and gifs. Steinsplitter (talk) 16:12, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Earth 2025 – Deutschland – Ergebnisse veröffentlicht
Hallo Steinsplitter,
die Ergebnisse von Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Deutschland sind nun veröffentlicht. Vorjury und Jury haben aus 8.000 Fotos im Wettbewerb die besten 50 Einreichungen in den Kategorien Landschaft und Detail, sowie im Sonderpreis, ausgezeichnet. Wenn deine Fotos unter den ersten Plätzen sind und du einen Gutscheinpreis erhältst, hast du bereits eine Nachricht erhalten.
Sieger WLE 2025 – Detail
Sven Damerow – Wiedehopfe (Upupa epops) bei der Futterübergabe im Landschaftsschutzgebiet Mittlere Elbe-Steckby
Ursula Jaeger – Waldkiefer mit weiblichen Blüten im FFH-Gebiet Heideflächen und Lohwälder nördlich von München
Johannes Robalotoff – Ein weibliches Grünes Heupferd (Tettigonia viridissima) im Naturpark Rhein-Taunus
Sieger WLE 2025 – Landschaft
Jan Czeczotka – Geotop Buckelwiesen südöstlich von Klais, im Hintergrund der Schwarzkopf (1592 m) und die Nördliche Karwendelkette
Stephan Sprinz – Sandrippel im Sonnenuntergang auf Norderney
Wayaway.photography – Göpelschachtanlage im Museum Technisches Denkmal Lehesten im Naturschutzgebiet Staatsbruch Lehesten
Voraussichtlich im Mai und Juni 2026 findet die nächste Ausgabe von Wiki Loves Earth in Deutschland statt. Die erhältst kurz vorher eine Benachrichtigung. Wenn du nicht bis zum nächsten Jahr warten willst kannst du noch bis Ende des Monats bei Wiki Loves Monuments in Deutschland oder einem anderen der teilnehmenden Länder deine Fotos zum Thema Kulturerbe hochladen.
Im Namen des Organisationsteams und der Jury noch einmal vielen Dank für deine Teilnahme. GPSLeo (talk) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:34, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
Hallo SteinsplitterBot, diese bereits im März beendete Diskussion wurde noch nicht von deinem Bot archiviert. Woran liegt es? Wegen der beiden Beiträge kurz nach der Schließung? Da läuft seit Monaten keine Diskussion mehr nach der Schließung. Muss die Seite nun manuell archiviert werden oder kann der Bot das auch irgendwie tun? @Auntof6: You closed the discussion in March, but it is still not archived. I don’t know who does that now. Viele Grüße, —176.1.2.2 08:40, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
The two posts after the closure might be the reason it hasn't been archived. I don't know exactly how that works. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:43, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
@Auntof6: Yes, I also guessed that might be the reason. Steinsplitter seams not to be active at the moment, no edits in September yet. Do you want to archive the discussion manually then? I thought about doing it myself, but I don’t know, if I can, because sometimes a filter says, I may not edit archives, but it doesn’t prevent every archive edit. But anyway, perhaps it’s better, if you do that, if the bot doesn’t or can’t do it. —176.1.0.101 15:37, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
I'm trying something else first: I moved the footer template down to the end, and I'll watch to see if it gets archived. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:48, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Oh, that’s cool. You really catched the bot doing its work there with that new trick. I have to remember that.:-) —176.1.13.197 13:14, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!
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Steinsplitterbot stopped rotating
Hi, Steinsplitter, It seems that the rotation part of Steinsplitterbot is stuck. Can you look into it? Kind regards, --Lymantria (talk) 17:03, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
We need to block it now and unblock it later 02:10 UTC Dndrnmn1-2Years (talk) 23:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks. Looking into right now. Steinsplitter (talk) 08:13, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
Nice, thank you, it has been running fine. But now it is stuck again. --Lymantria (talk) 09:31, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for mentioning this rotation issue @Lymantria -- Ooligan (talk) 10:35, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
Hello Steinsplitter, it looks like your bot is stuck again, and it looks like I'm not the first to complain about this. Can you please fix it asap? Thanks. UWMKEgypt (talk) 19:10, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Yes @Steinsplitter, the last rotations took place on 15 Nov... --Pato Yapuq (talk) 14:12, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
I know right! My file received the template 7 days ago, but still hasn’t been rotated. This is definitely an issue. 2550 69 11hne (talk) 19:19, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
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Hallo, der Rotatebot ist mit "Could not get lock. Lock file already present. Exit." steckengeblieben. Gruß, Achim55 (talk) 17:03, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
Thanks. Looking into. Steinsplitter (talk) 12:13, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
It started, but already stopped rotating again... --Lymantria (talk) 15:16, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
It started again, but stopped again as well... --Lymantria (talk) 17:21, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
User categories
Hi, I've just noticed this (I keep bot edits hidden so I missed it when it happened); it's not a problem and my categories can stay that way, but I feel like user categories should be kept out of these kind of batches. Syrioposso aiutare? 12:40, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Hello, Thanks for the hint but ... please contact the user who requested the batch task. Thank you:) Steinsplitter (talk) 12:13, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
Hi, The images are rotated lossless, which means “no generation loss” here; note that even “lossless” jpegtran rotation can be slightly lossy [depends on the image's dimensions; at maximum 16 pixels are cropped at borders if a image is not consisting of full jpeg blocks – like most digi cam images are] but no new compression artifacts are added. Steinsplitter (talk) 08:58, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
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Hi, Steinsplitter,
I noticed that Rotatebot often states that it can't rotate an image because of "corrupt JPEG file. (DCT coefficient out of range)". This happens especially for third and later files in a batch. I tried Rotatebot a second time for the same files and that succeeded. See e.g. here and here. Perhaps a bug? --Lymantria (talk) 06:43, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
It was helpful that rotation was limited to two rotations a time. Now again every third and later rotation fails. --Lymantria (talk) 07:20, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Currently looking into this issue. Thanks for reporting. Steinsplitter (talk) 12:23, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
My IMF tls 50
Hi there, I have been looking all over the net to satisfy my curiosity on my speakers that have on each on the receded black foot what seams to be a light or led maybe even infrared, not sure. the fact of the matter is I have not seen or found a pair like these in the internet. Was it probably an aftermarket ad on? Can you Help? ~2026-13994-75 (talk) 07:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
CFD Blanking?
Hei Steinsplitter,
Any idea what happened with this edit? It seems the bot accidentally cleared a bunch of open discussions from the list. Thanks for your help! -- Themightyquill (talk) 08:16, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
Hello, The link is not working.:) Steinsplitter (talk) 12:11, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
@Steinsplitter: Hahaha! Weird. Sorry for the confusion. Try the link now. =) -- Themightyquill (talk) 21:05, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Thanks. Looking into, MediaWiki has some issues hmm.... "[39a8dbc0-c05c-4ed4-ac7f-d06c5f0676a4] 2026-03-31 12:13:47: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryTimeoutError"" Steinsplitter (talk) 12:14, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!
2024 Picture of the Year:Mundari man polishing the horns of one of his Watusi cows using a mixture of cow urine and ash as a ritualistic and protective practice in a temporary cattle camp in Terekeka, South Sudan.
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Hello! I saw your bot rotated File:Typical floor plan of a Ballymun flat, drawn 1965.png for me, saved me waiting four hours lol, thank you! Finnfrog99 (talk) 22:06, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
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Restore rotation of 18:00, 14 April 2026 to its previous form
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Your bot
The "rotate file" task is abused by some vandals (this one for example). Could you add a safeguard mechanism of some sort so that non-autoconfirmed users won't be able to trigger it? I'm aware this might be hard to do. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 07:34, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
Same. But I would formulate it a bit more direct: The feature in its current implementation is rubbish. Alexpl (talk) 07:16, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Hi everyone,
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.
Here are your top three winning images:
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area. Attribution: WAFA (Q2915969) / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia. Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers. Attribution: public domain
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Comment: In this situation can you someone restart the Flickrbot or allow AntiCompositeNumber to restart the flickr review bot? The flickrbacklog is now 5800+ images Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
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