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Your videos

Hello, please use also the video related categories/subcategories for your uploads. So it will be much easier to find an interesting video here in the ocean of pictures. Thanks and best wishes, --Pristurus (talk) 21:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

OK I will do that. Thank you Pristurus for all your contributions and great work! The Nature Box (talk) 22:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

You are welcome, we need more videos here and in wikipedia. So please go on in producing clips... Greetings from rainy Germany, --Pristurus (talk) 23:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

File:Wasp flying around the leaves of a tree.webm

Hi, as far as I can see Polistes flavus is an American species. For me it looks more like a Polistes olivaceus (yellow legs and antennae) but I am not a specialist in Asiatic hymnoptera... Greetings, --Pristurus (talk) 21:05, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Pristurusǃ Oh yes, thank you very much for pointing that out. Apologies for my mistake -- Polistes flavus does indeed seem to be an American species, and the website below confirms that Polistes olivaceus is found in India. I have changed the video page now so it shows the correct name. Thanks againǃ (and thank you for all your efforts for WikiMediaǃ) The Nature Box (talk) 23:11, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7506009

Bringing Commons materials to YouTube

Hi, your YouTube channel seems to imply that you upload materials from Commons to YouTube. Is this correct? If so, where is the code? I am interested in doing this for the files uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Thanks, -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:08, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, Thank you for your message. Yes, that is correct; almost all of the material on my YouTube channel comes from Commons. I am not sure what you mean by code? I manually uploaded the files to YouTube rather than using any sort of code. I'm sorry if I have misunderstood you here. Could you please explain what you mean about the code? Thanks The Nature Box (talk) 06:30, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

I had just assumed that you'd have automated that. Pinging User:McZusatz who I think uses a YouTube2Commons tool (though I can't find that now). -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 12:42, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, I use help:youtube2mediawiki to transfer files. I never did it in the reverse direction but my assumption is that this is the easier problem to solve. --McZusatz (talk) 19:35, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Oh I see. No I didn't use any tool. No doubt there are some technical wizards who could do it though :) The Nature Box (talk) 22:47, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Your YouTube channel, request on my talk page

Hi, please have a look to my talk page. Maybe there are some problems with the type of license you used on YouTube. Greetings, --Pristurus (talk) 09:27, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

thank you

Thank you for uploading your beautiful videos of wildlife! I have used some of them to illustrate English Wikipedia articles. Best, -- Phoebe (talk) 06:46, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Phoebe. Oh that's greatǃ I am glad they are proving of some use. Thank you very much. --The Nature Box (talk) 08:12, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Bellis perennis (English daisy).webm

Hi, maybe Bellis perennis is a misidentification. Please have a look at Talk:Main_Page#Media_of_the_Day_.3F_Bellis_perennis_in_Tokyo. Greetings, --Pristurus (talk) 20:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Pristurus Thank you for your message :) Oh yes! Unfortunately that is my mistake and I misidentified it. I believe I have found the correct species now -- Annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus). This flower is native to North America but is now widespread in Japan also. I will take more care in the future, especially when the file is Media of the Day. All the best~

The Nature Box (talk) 21:27, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

No problem, we all are human beings, we all make mistakes... Regards, --Pristurus (talk) 21:53, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

CC on YT

Hi, if you upload CC video from Commons, why you use YT standard license instead of CC? --109.81.209.251 08:34, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for your message. Yes, I did wonder myself if this was OK. I have carefully thought about it and the reasons are as followsː

1) YouTube only allows a standard license or an attribution license, which is "Attribution 3.0 Unported." Attribution 3.0 Unported might be suitable for some Commons files, but certainly not all -- most have a different license.

2) I have carefully checked the Creative Commons license (for example, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en). It saysː “You are free to Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format” and “Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially”. Please note the part saying that “commercial use” is OK.

With BY-SA attribution licenses, it says “ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original." But in my case, I do not “remix, transform, or build upon the material” – it is exactly the original material, and therefore uploading on YT's standard license is OK, I believe.

More details about reusing content outside Wikimedia can be found hereː https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia

Sorry for the long answer. If I have misunderstood something with regards to the licenses, please let me knowǃ The Nature Box (talk) 08:47, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Uploading videos

Hi TNB - how does one upload videos? I wanted to upload File:Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) in the city 2.webm from here to go with File:Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) in the city 1.webm, but I can't get it to work. Any clues, please? - MPF (talk) 18:36, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi MPF, I'm not sure if my way is the absolute best way to do it, but it seems to produce good enough results :)

1) First, I use Firefox as a browser. Then, you need to install two extensionsː FlashGot (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/flashgot/) and also Firefogg (http://firefogg.org/).
2) Next, go to the Flickr video you want to download, and play it in the browser.
3) While it is playing, you can click the FlashGot icon at the top right of your browser (the icon looks like a little piece of film) to download it.
4) Once it has downloaded, you go to Wikimedia "upload file page" (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard) and select the video. Firefogg should then automatically convert the video to webm format.

Points to noteː
1) If you want to upload files larger than 100 MB, you will need to enable the experimental "Chunked uploads" setting in your user preferences (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Maximum_file_size)
2) For some reason, Wikimedia's upload page doesn't seem to like apostrophes in the names of files, so it is best to avoid using apostrophes in the title of the video you are going to upload.

Hope this helps, and thank you for contributing to Wikimediaǃ The Nature Box (talk) 22:07, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Been forgetting to reply - but when I tried to install Firefogg, Firefox (which I use too) said it was unsafe and warned me against installing it (so I didn't!). Something gone wrong at firefogg's site? - MPF (talk) 23:13, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

I think that's probably an incorrect warning. I have been using Firefogg without any ill effects, and the Wikimedia help page says "Firefox users are encouraged to install the Firefogg-Addon and use the UploadWizard to upload video. UploadWizard will then automatically convert the video file to highest quality using Firefogg (if necessary) and users do not have to fiddle with conversion parameters." (Please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Video)

Or, if you still feel unhappy about using Firefogg, you could look for other software (freeware etc.) that can convert video to webm format first, and then upload it to Wikimedia. This site (http://www.online-convert.com/) can also convert to webm free of charge, but you have to pay to convert files over a certain size.

Cheers The Nature Box (talk) 00:07, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll check that out. MPF (talk) 11:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	In appreciation of all the wildlife videos you've uploaded. I've enjoyed seeing these and reviewing them. Keep 'em coming! INeverCry 23:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very muchǃ I shall display it with pride :) The Nature Box (talk) 03:04, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Hiya, thanks for those wildlife videos that you uploaded. I saw those videos while I am reviewing some Flickr images. Your contributions are appreciated. Keep up the good work!

★ Poké⁹⁵ 03:07, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank youǃ I don't think I've ever been given a kitten before. I shall carefully look after it. The Nature Box (talk) 06:38, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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—howcheng {chat} 19:44, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Howcheng, thank you for your message. I'm not sure how to do this properly, but if you click the Vimeo link shown in "Source" in the summary on Wikimedia, it takes you to this page

https://vimeo.com/155490675

Then, if you click "more", just under the video title, a window pops up. At the bottom of that window is a faint grey circle icon with a little person in it.

Finally, if you click that icon it takes to the video license page for Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

So I think it should be OK to have this video on Wikimedia. I wish there was an easier linking method. Please let me know if you know of one.

The Nature Box (talk) 22:38, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi again, I have just put a message on the talk page of the reviewer Yann, asking him to verify the video, so hopefully it should be sorted out soon. Many thanks The Nature Box (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I completely missed that "more" link. I spent about 5 minutes trying to find a license declaration and gave up. —howcheng {chat} 19:23, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Export to Youtube not suitable

Hello "The Nature Box", you have uploaded my video File:Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) cleans rain gutter.webm to your Google/Youtube channel putting it under the "Standard YouTube License": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBJV5p-QJU. This is not according to the licence under which I published it and I hereby ask you to remove it as soon as possible. I want to decide myself, if and when I upload it to G/YT (and most likely on my own channel). --.js^{[democracy needed]} 23:38, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi js, thank you for your message. I have had this argument/discussion a number of times on talk pages, and as I understand it the Share Alike license does allow a video to be uploaded to YouTube under the standard license. (I would like someone to tell me in specific terms why Share Alike is not compatible with YouTube.) Anyway, in the interest of avoiding "conflict" of course I will delete itǃ I have just done so, so it is now no longer on my YouTube channel. All the best The Nature Box (talk) 23:47, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, that answer is very easy: just read the CC-by-SA 3.0 licensing terms, esp. "... You may not sublicense the Work.... You may Distribute or Publicly Perform an Adaptation only under the terms of: (i) this License; (ii) a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License; (iii) a Creative Commons jurisdiction license (either this or a later license version) that contains the same License Elements as this License (e.g., Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 US)); (iv) a Creative Commons Compatible License." The "standard YT license" is no CC-by-SA 3.0 license, nor anyway near that. Just adding the CC-by-SA terms to the YT description does not remove the YT license. --.js^{[democracy needed]} 01:36, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi js, I am not convinced by your answer with regards to the "You may not sublicense the Work" part.

Because it says here https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/License_Versions

"None of the Creative Commons licenses grant permission to sublicense the licensed material.”

None of the CC licenses allow for sublicensing – not just Share Alike licenses – but also for example the Attribution 3.0 Unported

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

So, if sublicensinɡ means using a standard YouTube license then you cannot put any CC work on YouTube, including say Kevin MacLeod’s CC BY 3.0 work, which is ridiculous isn’t it? There must be a million YouTube videos with Kevin MacLeod's work on them.

I believe sublicensing means something different here, something like making material available for re-use under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

But the main point of my argument about why using CC by SA on YouTube is OK, is that this webpage https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

says “You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

Which is exactly what happens when you upload it to YouTube — you are redistributing it. The Nature Box (talk) 03:15, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm still working on an answer trying to get an official written WMDE/WMF statement (only have it spoken yet). But please take into account that it is your duty to care about respecting licences, not the uploader's duty. I guess we both know why you do not provide any business adress for your commercial pages https://www.youtube.com/user/TheNatureBox/about https://plus.google.com/111027624205835591649 https://twitter.com/TheNatBox --.js^{[democracy needed]} 08:42, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi js, I'm sorry but I don't understand your last message very well. Does "WMDE/WMF" mean Wikimedia Deutschland and the WikiMedia Foundation? What have they got to do with the licenses? The licenses are issued by the Creative Commons organization. And I am respecting the licenses, as I thought I had explained. The "business address" point you made is really puzzling -- I am not a business, I am just an individual with a YouTube channel.The Nature Box (talk) 08:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Video2commons

Hi The Nature Box, you can use the video2commons tool to automatically import Commons-compatible content in the future. (Other helpful tools include flickr2commons for Flickr, commonshelper for trans-wiki moving, and toollabs:croptool for creating derivative images.) Thanks for your contributions, czar 05:52, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Czar, Thanks for that information. I will definitely check out those tools. All the best The Nature Box (talk) 09:28, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

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Sudden change of Motd/2016-06-23

Hi, could you kindly tell me, why you have suddenly chanded my proposed Video of day for today? If nothing more, you made great chaos in the description of if for instance from Czech language, because you changed video but not this description. --Karelj (talk) 10:48, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi Karelj, I'm sorry that I suddenly changed the Media of the Day (MotD) but I had strong doubts about the music featured in the video. I checked on the Vimeo page that the video came from, but there was no mention about the music. In my experience, people quite often put a Creative Commons license on a Vimeo video, but then add copyrighted music to itǃ Therefore, I put a deletion request on the video here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Port_of_Amsterdam_-_SAIL_2015.webm

and in the meantime, uploaded a version without audio, which I scheduled for Media of the Day for June 25. So, again I must say sorry to you for the sudden change but I believe that was better than featuring a Video of the Day that had copyrighted music on it, since that wouldn't do Wikimedia's reputation any good. Hope that explains my actions.The Nature Box (talk) 11:09, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Well, but when I see the correct licence confirmation:

This file, which was originally posted to https://vimeo.com/137207040, was reviewed on 12 February 2016 by reviewer INeverCry, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.

than I believe, that everything is OK and I work with file as whole as certied material. So if you think, that User:INeverCry is dooing someting wrong you should to dicsuss this with him. Anyway I shall stop my work on Video of day lookig for from now, because this is only wasting of time, which I can spent more effectively dooing other work in Commons. Good luck with everyday choosing the VOD.--Karelj (talk) 13:21, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

@Karelj: , @The Nature Box: Sorry for the confusion. This is totally my fault. I'm careful about these reviews, but now and then I mess up on one. I'll be extra careful with these in future. Again, my apologies. INeverCry 18:15, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

@Karelj: , @INeverCry: No problems at all. As INeverCry says, without any other info, the safe choice is to use the version with no audio. And I know very well how easy it is to not notice audio in a video, I've done it myself many times. Karelj, I'm sorry you feel it was a bad mistake or the wrong choice to move the Video of the Day. Please go on choosing media for videos of the day, because this was nothing personal against you at all, and I think it is a very rare occurrence. Also, could I point out we are all volunteers here, and of course people make mistakes, so things like this will always happen now and then. All the bestThe Nature Box (talk) 21:27, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

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Papilio videos

Hi! I noticed that neither this video nor this one show Papilio machaon. Can you please check the species? --LamBoet (talk) 21:35, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Unfortunately, it seems there are 11 types of Papilio in Japan and I cannot identify which one it is, so I have renamed the file to just "Papilio". The Nature Box (talk) 05:18, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Looking into this list, it looks like the only compatible species is Papilio xuthus. Can you please make the change? --LamBoet (talk) 09:23, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

I think you're right! Thanks very much. I have edited the file information. The Nature Box (talk) 09:50, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for letting me know. I'll make sure I do that from now on. The Nature Box (talk) 05:35, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Media of the day

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That's great. Thank you for letting me know. All the best The Nature Box (talk) 20:51, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Guanaco, thank you for your message. If you click the Vimeo link shown in "Source" in the summary on Wikimedia, it takes you to this page

https://vimeo.com/33109186 Then, if you click "more", just under the video title, a window pops up. At the bottom of that window is a faint grey circle icon with a little person in it. Finally, if you click that icon it takes to the video license page for Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ So I think it should be OK to have this video on Wikimedia. The Nature Box (talk) 09:17, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I clicked "more" but I missed the little grey icon. I'll go ahead and remove the no permission template and pass the license review. Guanaco (talk) 09:45, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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Retouched Box school photo re-uploaded under a different name

Hello. I have split off your retouched version of File:Church of England Primary School, High Street, Box (geograph 5023674).jpg into a separate file, File:Church of England Primary School, High Street, Box (retouched).jpg and reverted the original. I've also updated en:Box Primary School to refer to the new name. I did this because Geograph Britain and Ireland wouldn't accept a retouched picture like this[1], so I feel that making this change is more than the "minor improvement" allowed by COM:OVERWRITE. I hope you don't mind. --bjh21 (talk) 22:46, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks very much! All the best --The Nature Box (talk) 23:33, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

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Need your presence at Featured video candidates

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An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Lincoln's sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii).webm

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Thanks for that. I have added it.The Nature Box (talk) 11:10, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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File:Wiltshire no numbered districts.png

Hi, I just want to ask what the purpose of File:Wiltshire no numbered districts.png is, which you uploaded. Is it just to show the districts, unnumbered (in which case, Swindon is missing)? Or to be an outline of the county, in which case another title that doesn’t mention districts would be better. Also, I’m not the author - the file is derived from one created by User:Nilfanion. Rcsprinter123 (talk) 20:40, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I have changed the author to the original creator now. Thanks for telling me that. The purpose was just that I couldn't find an outline of the county of Wiltshire. I have renamed the file. All the best,The Nature Box (talk) 20:54, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

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Ditto for:

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• File:Comparison of faces of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal.jpg
• File:Neanderthal (version 1).png
• File:Neanderthal (version 2).svg

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reppop^talk 06:26, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, great idea!

I’m obviously influenced by other websites, but when I just saw your image "Leopard_seal_human_comparison.jpg" I so wanted to upvote it, that I’ve come here to express my gratitude for this picture and the idea behind it: that such a picture conveys the size of an animal much more effectively than numbers. Thanks a lot, I hope this can be done for many more animals! Geke (talk) 11:01, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your lovely messageǃ I'm glad you liked it.

I also did the following images that you might like ː)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steller_Sea_Lion_comparison_png.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_size_of_western_gorilla_(Gorilla_gorilla)_and_human.svg

Cheersǃ The Nature Box (talk) 13:19, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

I have used one of your videos

Hello!

I have used a video of Palinurus elephas in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org)

You can see directly in the follow link and clic:

https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/video.php?id=8094

If you wish, you can send me (via fernando.lison at educa.madrid.org) some letters or/and a photo for your "contributor profile" in Animalandia:

https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=The+Nature+Box

I want show that Animalandia is make for real and generous people.

This is my "contributor profile" and others, for example:

https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Fernando%20Lis%C3%B3n%20Mart%C3%ADn

https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Carmen%20Jim%C3%A9nez

https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=David%20P%C3%A9rez

https://animalandia.educa.madrid.org/autor.php?nombre=Steve%20Garvie%20(Rainbirder)

In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!!

Regards!

Fernando Lisón, from Spain --Fernando.lison (talk) 12:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

That's great Fernandoǃ All the best with your project. The Nature Box (talk) 21:01, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Cheers. --Fernando.lison (talk) 18:51, 22 March 2024 (UTC)