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Hello, Alexis Jazz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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• https://global-search.toolforge.org/

Do you have a plan for {{Character info}}? Templates that are not transcluded anywhere are typically deleted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Is it possible for you to unarchive Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 189#Spongebob Squarepants is now freely licensed!? We are still awaiting a response from Nickelodeon from WMF Legal. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 20:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

JohnCWiesenthal,  Done— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:13, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 23:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alexis Jazz, I saw you moved the Spongebob licensing discussion to an RfC page. If I'm reading it correctly, it's not a live RfC yet. I wanted to let you know that my colleague posted an update at the end of the discussion. Cheers, BChoo (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BChoo, thanks! The reason I did that was because the discussion had been automatically archived. Having long discussion threads for a long period of time on the village pumps is kind of discouraged as it makes them more difficult to navigate/load, so I unarchived it to its own page.
It's not strictly an RfC, but every other discussion that was split off to its own subpage seemingly became an RfC, so I followed the naming pattern. Too bad Nick didn't reply, but I can guess why.. Sending a reply would sort of acknowledge their mistake. At least they took action. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 21:34, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Alexis Jazz: May I know what tool are you talking about here? I'm sorry to have not noticed because it appears the given page has been disrupted a lot. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 14:05, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TheAafi, the tool in question is now named Factotum. (formerly known as Bawl) At the time I mentioned it because mw:Extension:DiscussionTools was not working properly on Urdu Wikipedia while Factotum offers similar functionality. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:50, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexis Jazz: I don't think DT works fine on Urdu Wikipedia. Is there a way to localise your tool? Responding on talk pages is a very complex task on Urdu Wikipedia. I mean, everytime, I have to open the source-editor and type the response. I'd want to provide Urdu translations to your tool if I know how it works. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 19:17, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TheAafi, there is! See User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum/Mumbo jumbo#Translations. In short, search User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum-extra.js for FTT.msgsObj.qqq and copy that section to a place you can edit. The next section begins at "FTT.msgsObj.nl" for the Dutch (NL/NederLands) translation.
Translate the entries (translate only the part after the colon) and I'll add it. Don't translate entries that start with "DUPLICATE:". They automatically copy the content from another entry for technical reasons. Most words that are in all caps shouldn't be translated either. For example "USER" gets replaced with a username. But don't worry too much about that, I'll check it to be sure.
A partial translation is also welcome. The translations for the most basic elements of the interface are automatically imported from MediaWiki. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 20:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexis Jazz: On it. Please see this. Some other friends from ur-wiki are contributing with the translation. ─ Aafī (talk) 13:20, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TheAafi, great! Since you're doing it off-wiki (I'm not sure why?), can everyone who contributes state somewhere on-wiki the license that applies? The original is public domain (use e.g. CC0 for public domain), but CC BY(-SA) 3.0 or higher also works. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 19:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. This should appear on User:TheAafi/Factotum Urdu. ─ Aafī (talk) 11:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexis Jazz: Just pinging to ask if you got some free time to include this translation package in the script? ─ Aafī (talk) 09:51, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TheAafi,  Done— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 13:47, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TheAafi, I just noticed I made a mistake that probably caused the translation not to load. It should load now. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 20:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexis Jazz: This script has been doing wonders. I'd appreciate if Factotum in edit-summaries like this, could be changed to کارندہ ─ Aafī (talk) 14:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aafi, thanks! What does کارندہ mean? Google translate says "the worker" and Bing translate says "agent". If you're looking to change " نیا قطعہ" (new section) in that edit summary, it originates from w:ur:میڈیاویکی:Newsection which in turn is defined at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Newsection/ur.
If you're looking to change "Factotum", it's the name of the script. I made it customizable if needed, put window.FTTsummaryCredit = ' [[[w:en:User:Alexis Jazz/Factotum|link to Factotum etc something something]]]'; in common.js to change it. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 06:57, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Not public domain/mediatype has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Due to the recent change (see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Tech News: 2024-26), the HTML for the signatures has changed. This means that Factotum buttons don't show up (e.g. on User talk:Primefac#Watchlist emails) (the buttons still work fine on my comments, presumably because I'm using Factotum when making them). — Qwerfjkltalk 15:18, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl, should work again. I'm on a pretty intense vacation so not too much wiki time. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and enjoy your holiday! — Qwerfjkltalk 17:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know that it's now not showing up for section headers, presumably due to the HTML heading changes from before that recently made it to V22. I would assume therefore that this code needs to be changed:

if ( mw.config.get('skin') == 'vector-2022' ) { //20240628 HTML changed, .mw-editsection in skins other than vector-2022 seems to be under .mw-heading now which also includes the h2/h3/etc
	FTT mwEditSec = '#mw-content-text H1>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H2>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H3>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H4>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H5>.mw-editsection,#mw-content-text H6>.mw-editsection';
} else {
	FTT mwEditSec = '#mw-content-text .mw-heading>.mw-editsection';
}

(but I couldn't get it to work fiddling around with it myself, so maybe there's more to it than that).
Obviously feel free to deal with this at your leisure (or not at all). — Qwerfjkltalk 19:38, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl,  Done— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:06, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Emoji info has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:20, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alexis Jazz, I'm trawling through local orphaned files for Commons-uploadable goodies and saw your upload File:2026 Winter Paralympics logo.png. My instinct would be that it's below the threshold of originality and good to upload to Commons, and indeed you tagged it as PD when you uploaded it. But (A) I vaguely understand that the US has given special protection to Olympics-related logos, and (B) someone uploaded a vector version of the same image as a non-free file. Any chance you could educate me on this? Your comments at Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2018/02#Copyright in 2018 Winter Olympics photos/videos gave me a chuckle, so I assume you've got some familiarity with IOC's broad view of its place in the world. Ajpolino (talk) 10:21, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alexis Jazz. Could you take a look at File:2026 Winter Paralympics logo.svg given that you uploaded File:2026 Winter Paralympics logo.png as {{PD-logo}}? If you're fairly confident the png logo is PD (I'm not suggesting it isn't), then there's no need for a non-free vector version if the only reason for it being non-free is because it's a vector version. I know you didn't upload the svg, but perhaps you could explain to the person who did why it doesn't need to be non-free. Both files then should probably be tagged with {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ajpolino, @Marchjuly, sorry I didn't get around to answering. Problem with the "vector" logo is that it contains a large chunk of raster graphics. Some years ago @Conor M98 uploaded that from Fandom. Now they uploaded it again without a source. See Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2021 July 22#File:2026 Winter Paralympics logo.svg. When you overlay them, you see significant differences. As the PNG is the only file with an official source, IMHO the SVG should be deleted (again). When I uploaded File:2026 Winter Paralympics logo.png I was blocked on Commons, so I didn't tag it to be moved. Looks like I didn't tag it as PD-USonly, and I'm not 100% sure what the source country is for this logo. Not Italy, that much I'm willing to bet. It could be the US or maybe Switzerland (where the IOC is from). In case of the US, it doesn't exceed the threshold for originality. In case of Switzerland, it's not fully clear: c:Commons:Threshold of originality#Switzerland says Swiss copyright law defines works as "literary and artistic intellectual creations with individual character, irrespective of their value or purpose". Frankly I think the logo is too generic/simplistic to have "individual character", but IANAL.

If you believe the source country is not the US and it exceeds the TOO of the source country, tag it PD-USonly and keep it here. If you believe it doesn't exceed the TOO for whatever the source country is, move it to Commons. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 05:10, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What you've describe above sounds like something better discussed at FFD instead of tagging for speedy deletion. Which license to use, whether the svg needs to go, whether it's subject to c:COM:Switerland, etc. probably can resolved in one discussion. If, however, the svg version is a reupload of a previous svg version deleted per a consensus established at FFD, you could tag it for speedy deletion per WP:G4. I'm using the word "you" alot because you seem to know the most about these two files and their possible copyright status. I'm not using the word because I think you've done something wrong here.

Finally, if you've (again not implying anything wrong here) doubts about whether the file is OK as "PD-logo", I agree that it should be fine as "PD-ineligible-USonly", but I think the home country of the local organizing committee can be considered the country of first publication since I believe most Olympic logos (excluding the Olympic Rings themselves) are created by the local organizing committee and thus fall under the copyright laws of whichever country is hosting the games. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:55, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marchjuly, if the local organizing committee creates and publishes the logos (which you seem not fully sure about), Italy may be the source country after all. I assumed (mother of all failure) that the IOC designed these centrally. The source country rule is not law (when it comes to TOO), it's just a rule on Commons that exists mainly to protect re-users from the source country. The logic being that people from the source country are more likely to try and re-use it. Following the spirit of that logic, Switzerland should never be the source country and Italy may or may not be the source country. Italy has a rather high TOO, so in Italy I expect it to be PD as well, but IANAL. All PD license tags are merely opinions anyway. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:35, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]