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Time to change the "Tweet" links for Picture of the Day and Media of the Day

Twitter has changed quite significantly since these links were originally put in place, and it seems time to think about getting rid of them. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:35, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support It would be best avoiding Twitter/X. Yann (talk) 10:38, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support I really don't see a need. Let's just avoid X. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 12:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. I would suggest replacing it with a link to the fedi-share tool, to promote sharing on the Fediverse. Legoktm (talk) 04:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Avoid Twitter/X. --Aristeas (talk) 08:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading photo of someone else with permission

I was given permission to upload a photo someone else took and am trying to upload it to Wikimedia Commons. I intend to get the owner of the photo to send an email giving their permission for the photo's use and I tried to follow the steps as outlined here https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Giving-Consent-for-Images-on-Wikipedia.pdf but this information seems to be out of date, as using the tag "subst:OP" didn't work.

Any help appreciated. Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:36, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@IOHANNVSVERVS: Could you please share the file-link you are talking about? Matters related to permissions are however dealt on COM:VRT. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:56, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is the image I'm hoping to upload https://imgur.com/KroCfLx, for the article Big Lonely Doug. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 19:07, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The COM:VRT link was helpful. Thank you. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 19:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

POTD is not updated daily

{{Edit request}} The picture of the day is updated quite unreliably. From February 9th till 14th it showed the same picture, updating only today (15th) to the correct one as collected in Commons:Picture_of_the_day. Can this be fixed? Zweibrot (talk) 11:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Typo on “Media Of The Day” Needs to be corrected.

“Warntag nation wide test alarm in Germany via Cell Broadcast, schedulued to start at 11:00 but starting a few seconds early”. “Schedulued” should be corrected to “Scheduled”. Vivbyte (talk) 13:29, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate arguments in template calls

The following arguments of Main Page Template are duplicated and only the last values are used:

Announcement Title
Announcement Text

-- ato (talk) 12:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because there are apparently two announcements? One of the WLA and the other WLF, and WLF appears at the last, so its values are used. ─ Aafī (talk) 14:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. And the Main Page landed in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, below Category:Pages with incorrect template usage. -- ato (talk) 11:21, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Anthere: FYI. ─ Aafī (talk) 11:26, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

noted... thanks Anthere (talk) 21:47, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]