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There is no info as to what the copyright status is of the picture on the cake. - Vera (talk) 22:51, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Vera! Thanks. I added source information to the image. But I am a bit puzzled why this notice was added... there was already a clear link to the flickr photo page, where the image is licensed CC-BY 2.0? In any case, would be a pity to lose that photo of that very awesome cake (it was delicious, too). Spinster (talk) 09:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's a picture of a picture. The picture on the pie doesn't have a source. --Vera (talk) 13:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Vera (talk) 11:54, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Natuur12 (talk) 14:26, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:Logo Expedition Wikipedia Full Blue.svg et al

Beste Spinster, ik zie dat u een aantal logo's heeft geupload. Deze zijn zeer waarschijnlijk te gecompliceerd om vrij te zijn van auteursrechten. Toestemming via OTRS is in dit geval nodig. Toestemming mag ook opgestuurd worden naar permission-nl. Dat is in het Nederlands en sneller. Kunt u alstublieft de toestemming laten vastleggen via OTRS? Dit verzoek geld voor al deze logo's. Daarnaast liep ik globaal uw uploads even langs en het viel me op dat de Universiteit van Amsterdam een aantal keer als rechthebbende wordt genoemd bij een portretfoto. Kunt u me uitleggen hoe het auteursrecht is overgedragen van de fotograaf naar de Universiteit? Daarnaast het vriendelijke verzoek of u Commons:Anonymous works wilt doorlezen. Ik merkte ook een aantal keer dat u er bij een onbekende fotograaf vanuit bent gegaan dat deze foto's al pd waren maar dat is niet de bedoeling. Natuur12 (talk) 14:34, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vorige week is een OTRS-aanvraag ingediend voor de logo's. Voor de andere beelden: zie de overlegpagina's en (soms) verwijderpagina's daarrond. Spinster (talk) 13:33, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization

Dear Spinster, Could you contact me by email? I have a few questions about categorization in Commons, and think you might be able to help me. Vysotsky (talk) 13:30, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! Spinster (talk) 13:33, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:UvA-BC 300.413 - Siboga - inheemse bewoners van Timor op een rif aan de oostkant van het eiland.jpg

FYI: I got the information by some Timorese friends who identified the rock in the background. The reef is at Valu beach, Suco de:Tutuala, East Timor. The people, who are living there are all Fataluku. Greetings, --JPF (talk) 12:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's quite amazing... Thank you so much for researching this! According to the map of the expedition, this photo must have been taken around January 1900 then. Spinster (talk) 20:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:1913 studebaker type 35 model aa autoworld brussels.jpg

Nice photo but War? Europe? 1913? Do the facts matter? Regards, Eddaido (talk) 01:53, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I don't know much about car production at all, but I assume the car was popular in Europe during WWI? Also, this gives a clue. I based the upload's descriptions from the (Brussels) museum's notes - feel free to send them a note. Also, feel free to update the photo's description with more correct info. Spinster (talk) 08:07, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

IRC

Hi Spinster,

Ik zag je vraag in het Commonskanaal op IRC over Commons Beta. Jouw account heb ik daar aan de GWT-toolset gebruikersgroep toegevoegd. Je collega heeft nog geen account daar maar zodra dat account is aangemaakt zal ik dit account ook toevoegen aan de juiste gebruikersgroep. Natuur12 (talk) 11:58, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Laat maar. Is geregeld. Natuur12 (talk) 11:59, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dank! We hadden niet meteen begrepen dat we op Commons Beta ook een account moesten aanmaken. Zo gewend aan SUL intussen... Spinster (talk) 12:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wrong description for photos "Siboga expedition" in category Jayapura?

Hello Spinster,

I think something must be wrong with the 7 photos you uploaded in the category:Jayapura. To my knowledge the Siboga expedition

was far away from that location during the Siboga expedition. May be later, on a different journey after 1900? Or the photos come from de:Arthur Wichmann's first Dutch New Guinea expedition to this location in 1903? Do I see in this photo (File:UvA-BC 300.383 - Siboga - het eiland Metu-Debi, gelegen nabij de monding van de Humboldt Baai.jpg) a US-flag? It would be great if you could clarify this and correct accordingly. Thank you. -- Der Regenbogenfisch (talk) 17:49, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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benaming fotoś

Je beshrijft de fotoś als Airborne war cemetary : moet dat niet het Tyne Cot, World War 1 Cemetary and Memorial (Zonnebeke, Belgium) zijn ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DerekvG (talk • contribs) 20:03, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nee, het is wel degelijk Airborne, daar was ik in hoogsteigen persoon en heb ik de foto's gemaakt. Op Tyne Cot ben ik nog nooit geweest. Spinster (talk) 12:46, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Temminck Groll Collection ‎

Hallo Sandra,

Ik zie dat je met deze collectie aan de slag bent. Heb je al een idee hoe je de upload gaat doen? Wil je daarvoor bijvoorbeeld de methode die voor de rest van de RCE data gebruikt is gedeeltelijk hergebruiken? Ik zou dan namelijk kunnen helpen door je de (python)code aan te reiken en mee te kijken naar de gebruikte templates (data ingestion layout). Voordeel is dat daar een aantal handige dingen zoals categorisatie op plaats en subject in zitten voor een gedeelte en dat de afbeeldingen automatisch uit de API geupload worden, zonder de noodzaak handmatig een selectie te maken. Nadeel is dat het waarschijnlijk iets complexer is dan bijv GWToolset.

Mvg,

Bas

Hoi Bas! Dat heb je inderdaad scherp opgemerkt :-) Het gaat om 2.641 afbeeldingen, dus best een kleine set. Ik ga het met Pattypan doen ("the spreadsheet way"), heb de afbeeldingen al met een tooltje gedownload en heb ze hier op mijn harde schijf staan. Ik wil vooral categoriseren op plaats (buildings in <gemeente>). Het eerste voorbeeldbestand is al goedgekeurd door RCE, ben nu de spreadsheet aan het uitpuzzelen, o.a. of alle fotografen in de set Creator-templates hebben. Verder wil ik zoals bij het voorbeeldbestand inderdaad de RCE-bron- en licentietemplates hergebruiken, dat is heel makkelijk met Pattypan. Hoor graag of je nog tips hebt! Spinster (talk) 12:45, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Klinkt als een goed plan inderdaad gezien de omvang. Voor de buildingscategorieen is het misschien handig om te kijken hoe frequent elke gemeente voorkomt, en om een lijstje met de gemeentes en de bijbehorende categorieen van tevoren even op de wiki te zetten (bijv. Category:Buildings in Wageningen, Category:Wageningen, waarbij in dit voorbeeld (onterecht) de categorieen van de Nederlandse ipv de Surinaamse plaats gebruikt worden). Op basis van die links kun je checken of de categorieen oke zijn en of er veel werk is met het aanmaken van nieuwe categorieen (ik weet niet precies welk level er boven de gemeentes hangt). Ook voor creatortemplates is het misschien handig om even naar de frequenties te kijken, dit om te zorgen dat je de meest relevante categorieen en creators vooraf verwerkt, maar niet eindeloos bezig blijft met categorieen en creators die maar een paar keer voorkomen. Mvg, Basvb (talk) 15:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kralendijk vs Paramaribo

Hi! Please note my changes in these files:

These files was initially attributed as buildings in Kralendijk, but really these buildings in the Paramaribo, Suriname. See location (I gave the coordinates) and Google satellite view etc.

I notice, that accession numbers for these file is wrong - all three leads to other photos. Maybe this is the reason of incorrect attribution. --Kaganer (talk) 23:16, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kaganer, many thanks for noticing this. I'll take a very critical look at the whole upload to see if there are more glitches like this. Spinster (talk) 13:35, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your VFC installation method is deprecated

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Louise De Hem

Hallo Spinster zou jij er een probleem mee hebben de beschrijving bij de afbeeldingen in het Nederlands te zien op de nl.wikipedia? Persoonlijk vind ik dit, gezien de summiere beschrijving van het Oeuvre (selectie), nogal contradictorisch. Ik had het er reeds over met DirkVE, maar hoor ook graag ook jouw visie. Lotje (talk) 12:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Removed wikidata con poster category?

Any reason why you remove this poster from the "Category:WikidataCon 2019 posters" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Li Song (talk • contribs) 11:56, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Li Song, sorry about that, I must have done it by accident while browsing the WikidataCon program. I have fixed it! Thanks for noticing! Cheers, Spinster (talk) 09:45, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Gra Rueb

Dear Spinster, You removed Category:Gra Rueb from several images also depicting a statue by Gra Rueb. I disagree. These pictures both depict the person Gra Rueb and the statue she made, so there are good reasons to use both categories. Vysotsky (talk) 21:18, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vysotsky, I expected that you'd ask me this question. According to Commons policy, adding the Gra Rueb category to both images is over-categorization, as they are already categorized with a more specific category in that tree. However, I do agree with you that we need a way to be able to say that the images depict Gra Rueb personally, and for that purpose I have added structured data statements to indicate that. With kind regards, Spinster (talk) 06:39, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have to disagree. If Gra Rueb would be standing next to a statue by Antoine Bourdelle, two categories would be attached: Category:Sculptures by Antoine Bourdelle, and Category:Gra Rueb. Because these pictures depict both entities (Gra Rueb ánd the statue she is making), both entities should be described, and the rule of overcategorisation doesn't apply because it would create a mistake: these nice pictures of Gra Rueb would't show up in the Category:Gra Rueb. Addition of structured data doesn't help to let these good images of Gra Rueb show up in this category where now only a very mediocre photograph of Rueb appears. Or do they? Vysotsky (talk) 19:31, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Michiel Hendryckx by Michiel Hendryckx (1)
Michiel Hendryckx by Michiel Hendryckx (2)

Jede Konsequenz führt zum Teufel. Look at these two nice photographs of Michiel Hendryckx, by ... Michiel Hendryckx. Exactly: in both categories, and rightly so. Vysotsky (talk) 21:07, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikiflix time windows

Fascinated as I was when you presented Wikiflix last night, I noticed that one of my favourite early films, the splendidly-named Wordsworth Donisthorpe's adaptation of weaving technology to record Trafalger Square, wasn't showing on the page for either the 1880s or 1890s. I think this is due to its vague date evading the pubdate range check. Maybe worth changing the lower dates to be ?pubdate > "1889-12-31", etc.? AllyD (talk) 17:07, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AllyD, apologies for the very late reply and thanks for being so observant! I added a very small modification to each query (from > to >=) and it seems to be fixed now - films published in the first year of each decade are now also listed, including the indeed very nice one of Trafalgar Square :-) Cheers, Spinster (talk) 17:57, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Structured data across Wikimedia is starting!

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The History of Japan (Engelbert Kaempfer)

Hello. In 2014, you made a category for the images in the book Category:The History of Japan (Engelbert Kaempfer). Some time ago, Leiden University published the images of the 1729 Dutch version of this book on Commons. Do you think I can add them to the category you created, and add some data regarding the Dutch version to it? I already made a category for the Dutch version, but it is no trouble to make a redirect of it. I think that is the right way, but what do you think? Regards,Jeff5102 (talk) 08:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Straatgezicht met jonge koningspalmen - 20650717 - RCE.jpg

Hallo Spinster, gezien je toevoeging aan de Category:Photographs by Coen Temminck Groll in Suriname vroeg ik me af of het zinvol zou zijn de naam van de auteur aan te passen: Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck Groll ipv anonymous. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 06:07, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo @Lotje, dank je wel voor je bericht. Goed gespot! Hmm, omdat er bij het bestand op de website van het Nationaal Archief geen auteur bij staat, in tegenstelling tot bij andere foto's, weet ik het niet zo goed. Misschien is het echt een anonieme foto die in de collectie Temminck Groll terecht gekomen is. De 'collectie Temminck Groll' was, als ik me goed herinner, ooit een batch upload voor het Nationaal Archief, maar blijkbaar zitten daar ook foto's tussen die misschien niet door Coen Temminck Groll zelf gemaakt zijn. En mogelijks zijn we iets te enthousiast geweest met categoriseren. Dus toch maar zo laten? Spinster (talk) 15:19, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nu ik nog wat nauwkeuriger naar de foto kijk (altijd leuk, even verder detective spelen): er staat bij dat hij gedateerd is uit 1940, en toen was Coen Temminck Groll nog maar 15 jaar oud. Er staat ook bij dat het een foto uit het Surinaams Museum is. Dus vermoedelijk echt niet door hemzelf gemaakt. Spinster (talk) 15:26, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinster: na nog wat extra detective spelen zoals je het zo mooi verwoordt

: volgens de beschrijving hier, zou de foto van Augusta Curiel zijn. Grts. Lotje (talk) 15:47, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wat cool! Goed gevonden! 💪 Spinster (talk) 15:49, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Please ignore this thing. The source URL still functioned, and I re-uploaded the damaged picture. KittenKlub (talk) 12:04, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, KittenKlub, I'm really grateful that you (1) discovered there was an issue with this file and (2) took the effort to research and fix it! Thank you! Spinster (talk) 13:14, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Issues of the kvg namespace error

Hello, Spinster! Sorry to bother you, but I would like to ask you one question. Many of the svg images you have uploaded to commons, showing the stroke order of the kanji is specified the kvg namespace, and causes an error when we viewed with a browser. How should we do to solve this issue? 最終編集 (talk) 10:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WikiFlix needs a future

Hi there. I'm one of the "film guys" at Wikisource as I've once been called, and an administrator there as well. I remember meeting you briefly at a WMF virtual meetup a couple months back, and wanted to reach out and say once again that I'm quite impressed with your proof of concept of a WMF app that functions like a streaming service.

I wanted to first say I think it's super cool that some of the first sound films lapsed into the public domain by default this year, like Don Juan, and a test short film for The Jazz Singer, a feature talkie which will be PD next year. We're going to start seeing lots of the popular talkies go into the public domain from here on out, and I personally believe that this will bring up the demand for a freely licensed streaming service like WikiFlix—that and the fact that Steamboat Willie and other early Disney hits will go PD soon as well.

Our video player (even the recent update) could use some new features to put it on par with most modern video streaming sites, though. Hopefully that will be done in the near future.

Do you intend for this project to one day have a next step? Like a wikiflix.org site on WMF, or something else? Personally, I think it'd be the best thing since bread for it to become a reality one day, and have many ideas myself on things that could be included in this service at the end product, which I'd definitely be willing to share, on talk pages and/or perhaps more fully in userspace drafts.

I'm a coder myself as well as an enthusiast for old films, so I'm willing to help out with or support the project in any way I can. Would love to keep in touch. PseudoSkull (talk) 04:27, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @PseudoSkull, apologies that I'm getting back to you so late! I'm really happy with the interest you have in WikiFlix. I haven't given the project much attention in the past years, but I was thrilled to see that it still received some attention even this year, and am currently revisiting it a bit. I've just added a dynamic map of filming locations to the homepage! I have written down some thoughts here; curious what you think about them. I may experiment with WikiFlix a bit more during a small Wikimedia hackathon on November 12.

That said, I think it's quite likely that WikiFlix will stay a prototype for me, mainly intended to inspire others, not something that will become a main project for me. I will probably also redirect (and spread) my interests and time to other, similar portals on other topics. Not sure, I'm doing it as a hobby / in my free time! That said, I want to re-emphasize that I'm very happy if you (and others) take the idea and run with it. I do hope that, in the future, I can dedicate a bit more time to projects like this. Cheers! Spinster (talk) 12:32, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your art map

Hi Spinster! You probably saw that we used your map as an example on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#Via_Wikidata_query. I just wanted to let you know that we have now extended that example to show how images and descriptions can be shown on the map. Thanks for your awesome work! -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 16:31, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, why did you remove so many taggins? Please help and explain. thanks Qwertzu111111 (talk) 20:00, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Qwertzu111111, you will find some explanation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts/de. I see in the file history that you are using the Computer-Aided Tagging tool, but that is unfortunately a bit a controversial tool which may introduce 'wrong' depicts statements.

As described in the Commons:Depicts community guidelines I linked above: it's best to only add the most specific "thing" here in the Depicts statement. If you are concerned that less people will find your photos if you add less tags: you don't need to worry about that, because you already describe your files very well by giving them good file names and (text) descriptions, so they will be well discoverable via the Wikimedia Commons search.

Thanks for your contributions! :-) Spinster (talk) 17:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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hallo Spinster, Hartelijk dank voor alle wikidata infoboxen van oorlogsmonumenten. Ik heb ze allen bij de bijbehorende categorieën gezet. groet Agaath (talk) 22:17, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Thanks for WikiFlix. This is very useful. But User:Spinster/WikiFlix/Films from the United States is becoming quite long. Should it be split? Yann (talk) 11:10, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Yann, thank you and best wishes for the new year! I don't look at WikiFlix very often, I really consider it an experiment. Splitting that page sounds like a good idea, perhaps by date? Feel free to do it yourself if you want, I don't mind at all. Spinster (talk) 11:22, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since it is updated by ListeriaBot, I don't want to break anything. It also could be split by film duration or animated/non-animated. I am interested as a list of public domain films. How to generate such a list where the video is not on Commons? Some films are missing: Night of the Living Dead, probably the most famous post-1964 public domain film. Yann (talk) 11:56, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a query for a list of public domain movies that do not have a video (P10) value. You also get the Internet Archive URL for the video, where known to Wikidata. Right now, it's over 32K. Happy uploading! --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:13, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnus Manske: Thanks, that's useful, but it contains films which are not in the public domain yet (for Commons at least, i.e. Metropolis, first published in Germany, not PD there until 2047). Also the IA link is not very useful, as YT versions are usually of better quality. How could it be ordered by date? Yann (talk) 22:12, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ooo, that's very nice, @Magnus Manske, thank you so much. Hey @Yann - this actually comes at a perfect time, since I'm currently rewriting OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons documentation and I could use this dataset as an example! So I'll take a shot at batch uploading these files. May not be immediate though, I may run into problems, etc.

I will also look into splitting the US WikiFlix list. Technically I think it will be easiest for me (with my limited SPARQL knowledge) to split it by date, but maybe I'll change my mind.

All the best! Spinster (talk) 18:01, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnus Manske: (A current, and sad, issue with that query would be that a good chunk of those films are now lost, so couldn't have a video.) PseudoSkull (talk) 06:38, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I made a thing... Work in progess but I'm happy with the result so far. Stole your project name but maybe we should find a new one before I upgrade this to a "full" tool (if you think it's useful). Also found ~1K WEBM files with PD movies, we should upload the ones we don't hasve to Commons. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:45, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnus Manske OMG I am blown away!!! I love how you link to the Internet Archive, even if there is not a video on Commons. Those individual film pages are super cool. Yes, I think I'm mainly hesitant about the name for legal / trademarking reasons - should we check with someone who's knowledgeable in this area? I'm not very inspired re: other names at the moment, and a bit busy with other things :-D

Maybe we can check in with film lovers here on Commons to gather some ideas and feedback? Spinster (talk) 17:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to hear that you like it. Still a lot missing from your project proposal page, but it's a start. Yes, let's get some more feedback from Commons, you probably know better who to ask for this field. I'll announce it on social as well, but I want to "upgrade" it to a full tool once we settled on a name. I like WikiFlix but yes, there might be trademark implications. Wikinema (wiki cinema)? WikiScreen (WikiWatch is sadly taken...)? WikiReel? --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiKino? WikiFlicks? Or let go of the Wiki-prefix because it refers to many more platforms? FreeKino?

How about WiKino? --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:16, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You Tube? We Kino! Will people get this pun? :-D Spinster (talk) 14:49, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I asked @Gnom for some legal input via another channel and according to them we should not be too scared about the trademarking issue.

I'll ping interested people in various places. Wikidata's WikiProject Movies is also one of these. Where would you like input/feedback to be written down? Spinster (talk) 11:07, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How about here? --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:20, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnus Manske: Great! I don't know how the list is built, but the first film (A Boy and His Dog) is not in the public domain. Yann (talk) 11:54, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yann: Source. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:15, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnus Manske: The quality is horrible, and it was probably copied from YTn where there is a copyright notice at the end (at 1:25:58). Yann (talk) 13:28, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As always, we work with what we have... Magnus Manske (talk) 13:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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