Commons talk:Welcome
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- For help with licensing, see Commons:Village pump/Copyright.
- For general help with Wikimedia Commons, see Commons:Help desk.
- For general discussions, see Commons:Village pump.
- For administrator assistance, see Commons:Administrators' noticeboard.
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- Is there someplace that we can provide a link to this on the main page, welcome page, and maybe the community portal? Meet our photographers showcases a selection of the highly skilled photographers who choose to use open content licenses and donate their work to the Wikimedia Commons. Each photographer on this page has contributed at least 10 Featured Pictures, which is quite a feat. It is intended to impress journalists rather than Wikimedians. --Digon3 talk 20:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
- It's been linked on the Main page for a while now. I think something like Commons:Meet our data visualization creators is missing. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
Please add a link to our new JS-page
[edit]{{Editprotected}} at the bottom of "Contribute your skills", please add
(or better wording)
Thank you -- RE rillke questions? 18:31, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Done. Trijnstel (talk) 16:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)- Good suggestion. Seems like it has been removed now which also seems fine: now there is a link to Commons:Tools. What do you think of integrating more info about scripts and how to help developing the subset of useful ones that need development into that page? Currently, Commons:User scripts is only linked at the bottom of that page. However, that page is not looking good anyway, those "tools" described on the page are mostly scripts too, and Category:User scripts may be more useful than that help page. Maybe it needs a new page that has better info on all the scripts available. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:55, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
Intro needs to mention that uploads need to be freely licensed
[edit]The introduction, which is pretty long, doesn't seem to mention clearly enough that Commons only allows freely licensed files.
Commons:First steps covers contributing and explains licensing in the tutorial, so a prominent link to that page is needed. But, calling it "First steps" may not be clear enough, perhaps "First steps for uploading" would be better.
These thoughts are based on the user experience and design research report which may see cross-wiki uploads disabled and drive more new uploaders directly to this page. Commander Keane (talk) 00:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Commander Keane: We need more of this sort of research. Commons does a really crappy job of explaining the rules to new users; I have said that before, and I will continue taking every opportunity to complain about that.
- Having said that, I’m not sure what the exact problem is here. The fact that Commons media needs to be free culture is mentioned in the first sentence; there is also an entire paragraph on that issue. Brianjd (talk) 05:17, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
- Ironically, my claim that Commons is bad at explanations was backed up by the section below this one. It was a self-promotion section (now removed); the author had received two specific deletion warnings but had not actually been warned that self-promotion was generally prohibited on Commons (I warned them with {{No advertising}}). Brianjd (talk) 05:49, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
- This page makes it clear that there are many different ways to contribute (most of which do not involve uploading files), but the ‘first steps’ tutorial seems to be basically about uploading files, so I agree that the name should be more specific. Brianjd (talk) 05:46, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Unified login
[edit]If you have taken advantage of unified login, then you are already signed up at Commons.
Most users now have not been around long enough to remember when accounts were unified, so this language should be updated. I suggest:
If you have an account on Wikipedia or any other MediaWiki project, then you are already signed up at Commons.
Thanks – McDutchie (talk) 22:28, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
- Essentially Done, though I referred to "Wikimedia", not "MediaWiki". The former is the foundation that umbrellas Commons and our sister projects; the latter is the wiki software we use. - Jmabel ! talk 20:32, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry about that, I always get those two mixed up because their names are confusingly similar. Thanks for handling the request. – McDutchie (talk) 21:59, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:10, 22 December 2025 (UTC) Fix link for contributing legal knowledge on copyright questions
[edit]Under Contribute your skills, we find:
Contribute your legal knowledge on copyright questions and deletion requests
The ‘copyright questions’ link goes to the wrong place; that talk page is only to discuss improvements to Commons:Licensing. The link should probably be changed to Commons:Village pump/Copyright. – McDutchie (talk) 04:21, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
- Done - Jmabel ! talk 20:28, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:10, 22 December 2025 (UTC)