Commons talk:Welcome

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Meet our photographers

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)[reply]

Please add a link to our new JS-page

{{Editprotected}} at the bottom of "Contribute your skills", please add

Contribute with your script knowledge.

(or better wording)

Thank you -- RE rillke questions? 18:31, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Trijnstel (talk) 16:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Voting on FeaturePictures under Contribute Your Time

Hi. I'm thinking about contributing some of my time to Commons. In reading that section on this page the idea of voting on Featured Pictures seemed like something I would like, given my work on reviewed content on other projects. However in going there I see I am not actually eligible as a new person. I would suggest that this suggestion be removed. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Barkeep49: Hi, and welcome. That would be against the consensus documented in this edit 19:27, 3 January 2011 and this edit 19:30, 3 January 2011. You would have to establish a new consensus at Commons talk:Featured picture candidates. — Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me} 02:03, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Intro needs to mention that uploads need to be freely licensed

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]