MediaWiki talk:Sharedupload-desc-here

message: Would it not be better (for instance, for ) to have the text reading file description page rather than image description page?  I know the namespace is currently image:, although I hope this might, in the future, change to media:.  Cheers, Smoddy (tgec) 18:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image description page -> file description page 

message: #I think "its" should not be part of the link to the image description page. If i wasn't here for #2 anyway, I would have just been bold and done it..
#The word "copied" should be changed to "shown". I remember, when I was newer, this made me think that someone manually copied the page, and that it may be out dated.
What do you all think of that? --Phroziac (talk) 23:07, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me... especially #2 as it makes more sense than the current message. [[User:Sasquatch|t|c 23:22, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Sounds good to me as well. --Siva1979Talk to me 18:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed updates 

message: :Image:Commons-logo.svg --Paddyez 16:24, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  please change to: 

message: change the thing to this User:Geni/temp so that people relise there is a project they can contributr to.Geni 23:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that something along those lines (maybe a slight rewording) would be useful. The current notice links to the Commons but doesn't actually say what it is; many Wikipedia readers don't even know there are other Wikimedia projects. Sure, there are the sister project links at the bottom of the Main Page and in other places, but people often don't notice them. Being as it is directly relevant to the Commons, this is a good place to have such a message – Qxz 23:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Has been done (by Raul654, he forgot to remove the  – Qxz 02:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Cbrown1023 talk 22:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Tl:dr. Just too much text there. commons:Commons:Upload/en at least gets yu dirrectly into things.Geni 17:13, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt people will just upload something if they don't first have some idea of what the Commons is. Also, there are ways of helping Commons other than uploading images. Commons:Welcome mentions those ways, Commons:Upload does not. ssepp(talk) 23:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: trying to raise proife of commons

message: "Please do not categorize this file locally"
The above addition to the template was not discussed before being added recently by Yonatan. Please see this diff: 
The edit summary was:
"files should be categorized on commons, not locally in 99.9% of cases (ie. every case except for en.wp featured images"
This is incorrect. This addition should be removed pending discussion. I have started a discussion here:
*commons:Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Image_categorization_in_commons_and_wikipedia
Please continue discussion there mostly, in order to avoid duplication and confusion in the talk threads.--Timeshifter 13:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I undid the edit while discussion continues. Cheers. --MZMcBride 02:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. --Timeshifter 03:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Please do not categorize this file locally" 

message: I want to suggest that instead of linking to the home page, we link to Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. --Steinninn 01:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to [[Wikimedia Commons]] 

message: Apply the "plainlinks" class to this message, to hide the external link icon on the "edit" link, which is actually an inter-project link, thus:


	This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there (discuss · edit) is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

-- Gurch (talk) 21:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Though I didn't use your code, as it was broken. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:32, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  protected edit request 

message: I've placed a small Commons icon on the template, that appears in the top right corner for every image that is being pulled from Commons. This makes it much more readily apparent what the source is. Ideally, it would link to the Commons File: page, but I couldn't get the magic words to work with the image map. *shrug*
Anyway, I realize I'm implementing it without much discussion. WP:BOLD and all that jazz. Feel free to revert, discuss, or heap praise upon me as the spirit moves you (the third is my personal preference). EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fantastic, thank you. I'd never seen "link" be used in an image tag... very handy. EVula // talk // ☯ // 18:27, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's new. I can't find the documentation, there's also alt=.  The other way is to use .  — Dispenser 18:57, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icon 

message: Something always niggled me about the use of the same word in quick succession... Suggest changing it to ..
'This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. '
I.e. change 'The description on' to 'Information from' since it is actually more than the description that is included ... Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 23:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I agree on all accounts, as reflected in my edit summary. I thought of changing "shown" to "reproduced" as well but I don't want to mess with it too much.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:57, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested improved wording 

message: hi, please convert "" to "File:", may this is not important for enwiki but is important for wikis that have not same namespace for files with commons and want copy from this template. thanks.--ebraminiotalk 21:51, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:09, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  <nowiki>{{FULLPAGENAME}}</nowiki> 

message: copied from User talk:TheDJ:
Hi,
You are the last one who edited MediaWiki:Sharedupload. When i see it at Special:AllMessages, it is identical to the source - "This file is from $1 and may be used by other projects.". But when go to the actual page, i see #REDIRECT MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here. Can you explain this?
Thank you. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: MediaWiki:Sharedupload is not actually used by the MediaWiki software anymore. Instead MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here and MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-there are used instead. I made it a redirect because there were many inbound links towards it from older discussions. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:33, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  MediaWiki:Sharedupload 

message: I see no reason to need the padlock.
LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!)  21:20, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. It's funny I never noticed those were there despite seeing this displayed on image pages thousands of times and having edited this page in the past.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:34, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, caused by a rewrite of . We are going through an https:// setup change, so expect to see more of these 'weird' things the coming days that need to be sorted out. We used a lot of hacks in the past to workaround much of these issues. Those hacks will need to be adapted or removed altogether. And at which specific points might take a few days to figure out. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from LikeLakers2 

message: Could you please edit the Italian version of Sharedupload-desc-here with this box?
	Questo file proviene da Wikimedia Commons e può essere utilizzato da altri progetti. Di seguito viene mostrata la descrizione presente nella pagina di descrizione del file.
Thanks in advance.--Carnby (talk) 14:34, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely this should be requested at :it:Discussioni MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here? Admins on English Wikipedia don't necessarily have admin rights on Italian Wikipedia. I'm certain that I haven't got them. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:59, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: When I browse an image on English Wikipedia with Italian language interface there's a unpleasant text, when I browse the same page on Italian Wikipedia or English Wikipedia with English language interface there's a nice infobox. Check here --Carnby (talk) 15:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Where did the Italian text come from? It doesn't read well. What's wrong with "Questo file e la sua pagina di descrizione si trovano su Wikimedia Commons"? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 01:24, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If you switch to Italian language interface in English language Wikipedia (en.wiki) you'll get an ugly line of text, whereas the English, Dutch, German, Norwegian interfaces of en.wiki (see above) have all a nice box. I would like to get a nice info box also for Italian language (in en.wiki, not in it.wiki where it's OK).--Carnby (talk) 12:47, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian version 

message: I see a line of text only that appears like this:
This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.
There's no pretty box around it, and the link is not a cross-wiki link, so it opens a new window every time.  Annoying.  Can anyone figure out where this is from? --99of9 (talk) 04:37, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Your language is probably set to en-gb or en-ca instead of en. Legoktm (talk) 04:18, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: When logged in I see a different (inferior) version of this

message: The Commons icon is picked up by Media Viewer as a second image on the page . It should have a metadata or noviewer class. (Ideally, it should be unlinked / linked to Commons as proposed above, but the logo appearing in the Media Viewer image sequence is a bug so we should fix it by other means if there is no consensus for unlinking.) --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 00:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Done I gave it the noviewer class. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:06, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marking the Commons icon as metadata 

message: Add alt text to the indicator (and maybe add something like this to the tooltip). Something like this:
"This file is hosted on the Wikimedia Commons. Click here to go to the file page at the Wikimedia Commons." Remagoxer (talk) 18:21, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: not needed, basically this same message is already right in the banner, with the link.  Alt text is supposed to describe an indicator, and this is only decorative. — xaosflux Talk 00:46, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 4 May 2021