Commons:Village pump/Archive/2024/10

File:West Hollywood after the Hurricane of September 1926.jpg

West Hollywood in Florida? Yann (talk) 10:33, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: Presumably the one in Category:Hollywood, Florida: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/154125764 --bjh21 (talk) 10:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

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Fixing the picture

File:JDU's state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha greeting Nitish Kumar.jpg can anyone help me in fixing it's description's extracted version (other version) section. Admantine123 (talk) 16:59, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

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Rename of images

Hi! Can you help me?

I need to rename those files:

• File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0020.jpg
• File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0019.jpg
• File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0018.jpg
• File:Latvia 2024-09 IMG-20240916-WA0017.jpg

-- VANOCE2022 (talk) 16:00, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@VANOCE2022 On each file, use the {{Rename}} template specifying what you want the new name to be. Bastique ^{☎ appelez-moi!} 16:07, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Commons Gazette 2024-10

Wikimedia Commons turned 20.

• 7 September was the 20th anniversary of Wikemedia Commons. It now hosts over 109 million files in various formats.
• Vote for Picture of the Year 2023 now!

Volunteer staff changes

In September 2024, 1 sysop and 1 bureaucrat were elected; 5 sysops and 1 oversighter were removed. Currently, there are 179 sysops, 7 bureaucrats and 3 oversighters.

Election:

• User:CptViraj was elected bureaucrat (55/0/1) on 1 September.

  The last addition to the bureaucrat team was elected in 2015.

• User:Sadads was elected sysop (42/0/0) on 26 September.

Removal:

• User:Julo was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. He had served as sysop from 28 December 2006.
• User:Leit was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. They had served as sysop from 1 December 2006.
• User:Otourly was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. He had served as sysop from 15 July 2009.
• User:Rama was removed as sysop and oversighter on 13 September due to inactivity. They had served as sysop from 28 August 2005 and as oversighter from 5 January 2009.
• User:Tarawneh was removed on 13 September due to inactivity. He had served as sysop from 29 December 2006.

We thank them for their service.

Other news

• Selena Deckelmann (Chief Product and Technology Officer of WMF) wrote an open letter concerning Commons.

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--RoyZuo (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/2024/10/07

The last 15 or more requests on the above page are displayed as being archived, although they are not yet so. Somebody pleae fix it. --トトト (talk) 23:20, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

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Cat-a-lot is slow

Very slow, about 1 edit per second. Up until recently and since “forever” it was lightning fast, able to edit all 200 files in a cat page in a couple seconds. To whom or what should we thank for this improvment, and what reasons were given for that thankfulness? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 00:48, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

@Tuvalkin: There's a thread with details at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js#Very slow performance. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:00, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, @Pi.1415926535: ! -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 01:09, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

I was wondering why it's been slow lately. Totally handicapping it just because the site crashed once seems a little ridiculous though. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

According to a comment from a WMF worker it brought the site down more than ten times and was causing problems consistently. A comment from a different volunteer pointed out it brought down all Wikis for 10-30 minutes at a time. The current state of Cat-a-lot is the result of an emergency fix, but whatever improved version takes it place will have to abide by the API guidelines that it previously ignored. ReneeWrites (talk) 09:40, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

I stand corrected. I thought I had read that it took the site down once in August. Ten times for that long isn't great. --Adamant1 (talk) 16:19, 2 October 2024 (UTC)