Commons:Commons Monthly

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Welcome to the Commons Weekly, a weekly paper by the Commons editors for the Commons editors.

Going through Commons I found many changes and things going on that had to be reported by someone at some place so that all editors can see all the happenings. This page is intended as an update about significant changes in Commons concerning improvements in guidelines, templates, policies, translations and uploads. It is merely a village pump tabloid displaying community news. The page, as the name suggests, would be updated on a weekly basis.

Commons

• This week we've got a major improvement of the Scanning help page, which can be seen as a diff here:[1]. User:Adam Cuerden has updated the info to comply with the new upload limits, include info about Tiff vs. PNG as scanning medias and general advice and improvements for scanning.
• The Commons:File types page has also been significantly improved to display information on the newly allowed Tiff format. It explains when to use it and why it has been allowed on Commons. User:Adam Cuerden has also taken care of most of the improvements, [2]
• Commons:Batch uploading has also been recently created to be a central place for discussions regarding batch uploads of free content available over the web.

Significant uploads

• There have been two new batches of Deutsche Fotothek uploaded on 10 April 2009 and 16 April 2009. The images need a lot of attention with respect to categorization.
• The Great Images in NASA collection found on http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ has been uploaded to Commons via User:BotMultichillT after discussion at Commons:Batch uploading/Great Images in NASA. The images are over 1,300 in total with overly impressive images that display the history of NASA.

Featured Images of the week

18 images received featured status.

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Quality Images of the week

31 images were designated quality images this week

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Valued Images of the week

11 images were deemed valued this week.

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Templates

Translations

As a multilingual repository we have the obligation to translate our templates and pages to more than one language. This week we have two contributors who have worked significantly to fulfill this obligation: User:ערן and User:Putnik, who translated templates to Hebrew and Russian respectively. The following are the Users who have translated multiple templates this week.

• User:ערן has translated 13 templates to Hebrew comprising of Template:PD-link/he, Template:Picture of the day/he, Template:Cc-by-3.0-us/he, Template:Flickrreview/he, Template:PD-old-80/he, Template:Source missing/he, Template:Translation possible/he, Template:Infobox aircraft image/he, Template:Location/he, Template:CatDiffuse/he, Template:Painting/he, Template:Creator/he, Template:Pikiwiki/he.
• User:Putnik has translated 12 templates this week to Russian comprising of Template:BadGIF/ru, Template:Convert to international/ru, Template:Fotothek-License/ru, Template:Fotothek-Description/ru, Template:Convert to international/ru, Template:Flickrreview/ru, Template:PermissionOTRS/ru, Template:Duplicate/ru, Template:Photo Information/ru, Template:Painting/ru, Template:Location/ru, Template:Category redirect/ru.
• User:HBR has translated 3 templates this week to Hungarian comprising of Template:Location possible/de, Template:Location possible/es, Template:Copyvionote/hu.
• User:The Evil IP address has translated 3 templates this week to German comprising of Template:PD-Finland50/de, Template:PD-Finland/de, Template:PD-USGov-NOAA/de.
• User:Matasg has translated 2 templates this week to Italia comprising of Template:Assessments/lt, Template:Source missing/lt.
• User:Tgr has translated 2 templates to Hungarian:Template:Dont recreate/hu, Template:No re-uploading/hu.

New Templates

A new polling template and a new license template are the highlights of the week. The confused templates is rather amusing and funny.

• {{Confused}} Behaving like {{Comment}} and {{Support}} the template shows the User as confused.
• {{PER}} A flag icon of Peru.
• {{PD-Egypt-unknown}} A licensing template for Egyptian photographs with unknown publication date.
• {{Musopen}} A source template used in association with Musopen files.
• {{The Working Man's Barnstar}} A barnstar for a working man.
• {{User LGBT maps}} A user template for WikiProject LGBT maps users.
• {{ModernEgypt}} A source template for Images from the Memory of Modern Egypt Digital Archive.