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September 11

How do I request a category move?

A few days ago I've requested that category:Sao Chingcha be moved by adding a template but nothing happened so I wanna know if I'm doing it correctly. [Also this page (Commons:Village pump) is Wikimedia Common's version of en:WP:Teahouse right? I'm not very familiar with Commons] 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 07:46, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Your template was correct.

But giant swing can quite often refer to other things (try google images), so i dont agree that the category for the thai structure should be moved. RoyZuo (talk) 12:38, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@RoyZuo with utmost respect, I brought up the topic of renaming the article en:Giant Swing many times on English Wikipedia (en:Talk:Giant_Swing) all efforts ended with no consensus to move the page.

It's fine if Commons doesn't use the same naming scheme as on English Wikipedia. I just felt like bringing this up just in case. 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 06:30, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, the reason is that a criteria to have a category on Commons is not the same as en:WP:note, oh well 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 02:09, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Commons doesn't have an exact equivalent of the Teahouse. - Jmabel ! talk 21:15, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

September 18

Looking for a way

I'm trying to convince an organization with interesting historical photography collections to upload material to Commons. The question is whether there's a way to ensure that each uploaded photograph can include a reference to the name of the organization and the photographer who took it. mboix (talk) 07:18, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Mboix: Absolutely. For example, if they release under CC-BY 4.0, use a licensing statement like {{CC-BY-4.0|attribution=WHATEVER IT IS THEY WANT}}. - Jmabel ! talk 19:40, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Can you show me some examples? mboix (talk) 16:54, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

If the the organization plans to upload a lot of photographs, they can even use a custom template to indicate the source. For example, see the template {{Photo Araba}} in File:Hombre y grupo de niños en una aldea (ATHA-BAR-NV-015-019).jpg, you can see they included the photographer in the file description, and the custom template includes a link to their website and a direct link to the original image. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 17:49, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

• You can also make sure they include the organization info in the metadata. --RAN (talk) 03:04, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Burls and cankers

Hi, the categories Burls and Canker included each other, creating an endless loop. After scanning the articles en:Burl and en:Canker I have removed both from the other category as the former is about monstrous growth and the latter is about diseases. Not being a native speaker I prefer to have these edits checked. Thanks! → bertux 11:53, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I think the way it is now with catseealso is fine. - Jmabel ! talk 19:42, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

There are many thousands of these endless loops to resolve at Commons:Database reports/Category cycles. I just don't think VP is a place to ask about one specific categorization. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:28, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

So I should have asked where to ask a simple question. Overkill? Bureaucracy? Btw, could you be bothered to give some hints about a more suitable place and how I could have known about the unsuitability of the Village pump and how I could have found that better place? → bertux 15:07, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I think it was a perfectly good place to ask. - Jmabel ! talk 20:46, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I would not ask the question or ask it at the talk page of the page I linked. That is because it is not so important to ask the entire community about it (overkill to make a thread here) and because there's countless of such cases if one goes through the page – I mean like many dozens of such questions. That's just my opinion. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:56, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I think they wouldn't have asked if not for the language issue. I've definitely asked questions here that might look trivial for native English speakers, like questions about category naming, just because I wasn't 100% sure about the terminology. Nakonana (talk) 08:15, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Indeed. Also there is no Helpdesk at Commons so I chose the Village pump as the next best. As for the talk page: is it just my home wiki (nlwik) or does nobody read category talk? → bertux 15:42, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Just to let you know, there is a Help desk on Commons, see Commons:Help desk. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 16:01, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh. A Help desk, not a Helpdesk. Thanks! → bertux 10:27, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

September 19

CCTV material from problematic sources

The now-deleted full (18+ minutes) CCTV material depicting the killing of Iryna Zarutska has been uploaded from a source called WatchPeopleDie. I'd consider this source generally problematic with respect to COM:DIGNITY, meaning that material uploaded from there very likely violates it. I found Commons:Problematic_sources and Commons:Bad_sources but they are only about problematic/bad sources with respect to licensing, as far as I see. Should there be a similar list about sources problematic as to COM:DIGNITY? Is there such a list already?

Part of the background of this question is that some people argued that this material was released by reputable sources (authorities, police, government) and these would have been arguments that would really have strenghthened the position of those in favour keeping the file. But the immediate source of the material hosted on commons was not some authority or (reputable) news agency. If the material uploaded to WatchPeopleDie was originally released by some authority or reputable news agency is hard to track down but in the end: if there were official or reputable sources that released that material the material should have been taken directly from there. I don't think that Wikimedia commons (and ultimately Wikipedia) should be a hub for material from pages like WatchPeopleDie, no matter if relevant to recent events or ineligible for copyright. People can go there if interested.

I won't take part in the discussion much, but I'm interested in your opinion. - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 07:58, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I can imagine that some people rather emphasize the historical component of this video, and disregard the importance of the source --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 09:35, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

"If the material uploaded to WatchPeopleDie was originally released by some authority or reputable news agency is hard to track down but in the end" The idea that the Charlotte Area Transit System had somehow lost any access to their own CCTVs and had the footage released without their consent by a third party is a bit far out i think Trade (talk) 17:14, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by "lost any access to their own CCTVs", but it's entirely plausible that the video was posted without the transit authority's knowledge or consent. Information security at these sorts of agencies is hardly airtight - and I would be much more astonished if they had authorized the publication of the video to that web site. Omphalographer (talk) 00:40, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdt4eLWaHsg (pause at 0:43 to avoid seeing the disturbing footage)

Feel free to be astonished at CATS. Unless you wish to argue that major American news networks are all conspiring together to cover up the origin of the video Trade (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

The video you linked to does not show the sensitive footage (her being stabbed and dying).

I don't really see reason to doubt that CATS gave the material to the third party (e.g. a news organisation) that released it themselves. But I doubt that they posted it directly to WatchPeopleDie. This is what my final point of the sentence you quoted was about: "[...] but in the end: if there were official or reputable sources that released that material the material should have been taken directly from there." The source which decided to release the material "fully" (including the sensitive footage) matters. Different news organisations weigh different aspects differently when deciding about how to release such material (human dignity, education, monetisation, politicisation, reach, ...) and not all of them align well with Wikimedia commons commitment to the depicted subject's moral rights (as expressed here Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#Moral_issues). This is especially important when people tend to delegate responsibility for these decisions upstream (to the source the material comes from). - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 07:05, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Considering the name of the website and the fact that the footage had been heavily censored i doubt whoever uploader it had access to the original footage Trade (talk) 03:28, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Type of Women's dresses

I there a name/category for this type of dress? Multi layered around the shoulders with lots of buttons.Smiley.toerist (talk) 11:07, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

en:WP:Reference desk/Humanities is probably a better place to ask this kind of question. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:12, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

September 20

Important discussion

See Commons talk:Country specific consent requirements#Take a picture column. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 00:29, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

It really isn't. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Media of the day (MOTD)

Hello, anyone interesting in taking over MOTD? I have been adding most of the MOTD for the past 2 months, but I am going on a break soon and will be busy starting next month.

I have already made sure that there are MOTDs until the end of this month, so you can starting adding the MOTDs for October. It should be quite straightforward since it consists of 4 steps:

1. Select a good quality, no known copyright issues, educationally useful, interesting audio/video file (I usually just choose one from Commons:Featured media, but others audios/videos are fine too)
2. Find an empty slot in Commons:Media of the day and add the file to it using {{Motd filename}}
3. Add an English (or other suitable languages) description to the description template using {{Motd description}} (optionally you can add some links to Wikipedia)
4. Add a {{Media of the day}} tag to the file page of the selected file

Thank you. Tvpuppy (talk) 21:21, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I've been adding most of the files before the last 2 months and will resume adding a few every now and then. I think for other users interested in contributing there it's important to emphasize that the videos featured there are supposed to be of high-quality (accurate, resolution, etc) and of somewhat global or international significance in some way. A good indication of quality for example is if it's used in a major article of a large Wikipedia.

By the way, the MOTD category is one of the best places to explore interesting high-quality videos and audios on Commons in a discovery kind of way: Feed to explore interesting content on Wikimedia Commons Prototyperspective (talk) 13:27, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Btw, thanks for your work on this. I remember years ago motd used to always be pretty boring, but lately i've been seeing plenty of really interesting things in MOTD. Bawolff (talk) 21:36, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

September 21

Palestine in "Countries of Asia" module/template

I started a discussion on moving Palestine from the partially recognised portion of the list of countries into the recognised section over at Template_talk:Countries_of_Asia#Palestine_again - ImStevan (talk) 13:36, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

How do you find copyright information about an archived newspaper photograph? What if the authors and news agencies are unreachable to you?

Hello, an administrator left notice asking for copyright permission related information on my talk page regarding two photographs relating to John Gacy Wayne that I've uploaded. Both of those photographs were borrowed from newspaper archived websites, which I added in the descriptions. With one of those photographs, the Chicago Tribune affiliated photographer had died in 2022 according to his colleague memorializing him in his blog.

The other photograph was borrowed from a 1980 Pittsburg Press article, which gave no names of authors or photographers. One issue with the Pittsburg Press is that it closed down in the 90s. If the wikipedia page is to believed, its remaining assets were purchased and absorbed by the Pittsburg Post-Gazette in 2011. Another version of the "Piest relatives at Gacy trial" photograph was used by a 1980 Noblesville Ledger article published on the same day. Like the Pittsburg Press article, the Noblesville Ledger article gave no names of authors or photographers beyond crediting the UPI photo agency. I'm not certain if the photograph is under the Pittsburg Press, Noblesville Ledger, or the UPI copyright, and the name of its photographer is completely lost to me.

Although my rough assumptions are that the copyright holders are the Chicago Tribune and UPI photos respectively, what should I do if I cannot find the copyright information or the holders are simply too inaccessible for me to reach? Randomuser335S (talk) 19:04, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@Randomuser335S: Hi, You have to check the newspaper archives for a copyright notice. These can't be under a Creative Commons license, which didn't exist when these images were first published. Regards, Yann (talk) 19:30, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

I found the copyright information of ancestry.com copyright information of ancestry.com, the company that operates the Newspaper.com archives I took both photos from. Is this what I need to resolve the "permission notice" issue? Randomuser335S (talk) 00:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

• When you clip a news article or an image, add in the link from Ancestry, you can add it in other_versions= . Then others can look for copyright formalities on page 1. The image belongs to UPI and they did not comply with copyright formalities. I corrected the license. The Library of Congress researched and found that they did not register for copyrights, any image after 1989 would still be under an active copyright. --RAN (talk) 02:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks, I greatly appreciate that help Randomuser335S (talk) 02:24, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

  • @Randomuser335S: it's hard to tell from the above what you do or don't know, but you might want to read Commons:Uploading works by a third party and also, for the complexity of U.S. copyright issues in respects where most other major countries are more straightforward, Commons:Hirtle chart. Also—you might want to look into this separately—press agencies such as AP and UPI often did not copyright their photographs, but it's not the easiest thing to research for an individual photo. You might search in the archives of Village pump/Copyright for several related discussions. - Jmabel ! talk 05:51, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Rules on categorizing arms of users

Are there rules on categorization of coats of arms of users?

I have uploaded a personal coat of arms for myself and I’m not sure if I should categorize it as though it is a regular coat of arms for all the elements, or abstain from categorization to avoid misleading people that it might be official. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 22:58, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@Immanuelle Perhaps you can categorize it to Category:Coats of arms of users. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 23:28, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

I have already categorized it there. But I’m asking whether it should get categories for charges and other traits.

Arguments for inclusion: gives people a better idea of what a thing looks like and makes it easier to find svg assets

Arguments against inclusion: Someone might be searching for a real legally recognized coat of arms with a certain property. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 01:32, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Since there are hundreds of coats of arms of users, it would be possible to create categories like category:Coats of arms of users with pales gules. However, that might not be the most useful way to use your time in Commons. Pere prlpz (talk) 12:54, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Coats of arms of users must stand first in Category:Coats of arms of users, and may be categorized in heraldic categories; redoing user-specific heraldic categories, i.e. deploying parallel tree structures, would cause more confusion than anything else, similar to the problems caused by localized heraldic categories. --Kontributor 2K (talk) 13:10, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

September 22

Unpublished works USA

Somewhere there was a chart for what is PD. Unpublished works in the US is a special case. Protected for 120 years? I recently uploaded a lot of pictures from Belgian family albums (I have the inheritance rigths). I suppose that by the US definitions this is unpublished work. As I use the Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs license, so the files are free for use. But theoreticaly they are unpublished. I have two questions: When I upload them in the Commons, is this a publication? And does the 120 year start counting then? Does the Unpublished works rule apply outside the US? example: File:Tours bridge 1924.jpg This is not PD in Europe, as the author has died in 1967. For the US it is probably PD, because it is before 1930. Or is it not PD because it is unpublished? Smiley.toerist (talk) 16:13, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

The somewhere for the chart might be there. In short, you want to know when your copyright ends in the US? It seems it would be 70 years pma, in 2038 for this photo. As copyright holder, you are publishing the photos on Commons. Each country has its own rules. -- Asclepias (talk) 17:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

• Uploading to Commons is a form of publication, since you are distributing a copy of the photo to the public.
• See first section of Commons:Hirtle chart or {{PD-US-unpublished}}. For works that are currently unpublished, works that were created by known author are protected 70 years from their death. If death date is not known or if the works were created anonymously/pseudonymously/for hire, then it is protected 120 years from the year of creation.
• This rule only applies in US, since different countries have their own laws regarding unpublished work. For example, according to COM:CRT/Belgium, like other EU countries, it appears unpublished works are copyrighted for an additional 25 years from their first publication, if the copyright term of the works have ended.
• For File:Tours bridge 1924.jpg, it is unpublished until now, but it is created by an author with a known death date, and the date is less than 70 years ago, so it will not qualify for {{PD-US-unpublished}}. Therefore, as Asclepias mentioned above, it will not be in PD in the US until 2038.

Tvpuppy (talk) 17:17, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

• If you inherited the copyrights then {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs}} is valid, whether previously published or unpublished. People have been releasing old family albums since the beginning of Commons. --RAN (talk) 03:22, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

How to confirm the copyright here?

This file photo of a mayor came from this article. There is no apparent declaration of CC-BY-SA copyright. How does one decide in this case if the image is usable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingsacrificer (talk • contribs) 19:23, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Everything is protected by copyright until you have evidence of otherwise Trade (talk) 21:29, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

"Everything is protected…" => "Everything is presumed protected…" - Jmabel ! talk 22:01, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

• Clear case of copyright violation false license claim by the uploader; "©2025 CBC/Radio-Canada. All rights reserved." on source page. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:14, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Portrait of Pedro Sanchez / Nicolas Maduro has corrupted file page

I am not knowledgeable enough to figure out what the problem is, but something is not right with the description of this picture: File:Obisk španskega predsednika vlade v Sloveniji (53658605930) (cropped).jpg (current Prime Minister of Spain)

The description features another image, a portrait of Nicolás Maduro (current President of Venezuela); what is going on? TucanHolmes (talk) 20:53, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

An IP user messing around [1] it seems. Nakonana (talk) 21:32, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

A user account also. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:38, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Reverted to the initial description. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:38, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

By the way, the requirements of that source flickr account contradict its PD mark tag. "The use of photos is free of charge and allowed for non-commercial purposes. When using, it is obligatory to mention the author of the photo." -- Asclepias (talk) 23:41, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

a lot of people don't understand the licences, have the same issue with the Indian Foreign govt flickr where they have released the images for free-use by writing that down on their profile but the images themselves are licenced under ARR or NC-ND..In this case, that flickr profile is the official one for the Govt of Slovenia so the photographers are paid for by them so they own the rights, even the exif says "Slovenian Press Agency" ...they definitely meant for it to be released under cc-by-sharealike (thus the author of the photo request)...The Non-commercial rule has hurt wikimedia Commons the most cause over the 15 years of doing this, it has been hard to get majority of this officially run govt and organisation run flickr to understand why wikipedia needs the images to be released for commercial use even though we ourselves are non-commercial.. Stemoc 04:48, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

The person in the picture is definitely Pedro Sánchez. User:Siempreloco made several modifications I very strongly doubt their good faith. Mainly because one of them is changing "Pedro" (Peter) into "Perro" (dog), change resulting into an insult. In addition, changes to this file are the only activity of mentioned user in this project. B25es (talk) 13:42, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

September 24

Template question

A question, some of the page-header navboxes (Template:Countries of North America, for instance) don't display correctly on the "root" categories for some of the countries in them. Note for instance Category:United States, where it isn't showing the bold 'this is this category' for 'United States', because it links to Category:The United States, as most subcategories of Category:United States use "foo of the United States". I'm just wondering if there's any way to work around this aside from creating a fork of the template lacking "the" in that one? - The Bushranger (talk) 01:39, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@The Bushranger: it should be possible in the template to determine that there is not prefix, and in that case not use "the". Might have to think about whether there is a suffix, not sure if that would need different handling, would have to look at a representative sample of places where the template is used. - Jmabel ! talk 03:16, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Category:United States for Template:Countries of the Americas, Category:Canary Islands for Template:Countries of Africa, to give two examples. - The Bushranger (talk) 03:18, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@The Bushranger: Two cases is not a representative sample. What I'm saying is that besides coding the difference for the case of no prefix and no suffix, we need to look at a representative set of categories that have a suffix but no prefix to the country name, and make sure that none of those should have a leading "the". - Jmabel ! talk 04:15, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Is "Self-Portrait with Candles" in Google Art project in public domain?

Hello all, I noticed the painting "Self-Portrait with Candles" (c. 1906) by Lily Delissa Joseph‏ (died in 1940) is on Google Art project: [2]. Can this specific file be uploaded to Commons? Its resolution is higher than the resolution of the existing file. פעמי-עליון (talk) 20:01, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@פעמי-עליון: I would think that is certainly PD everywhere. Is there anything that gives you any doubts? - Jmabel ! talk 20:22, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Jmabel maybe the photographer of the painting has copyrights? פעמי-עליון (talk) 20:47, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@פעמי-עליון: To the best of my knowledge, there is no jurisdiction where the Sweat of the brow doctrine still persists. As far as Commons is concerned, we do not recognize any claim to a new copyright for an accurate reproduction of a two-dimensional work that is in the public domain. It is imaginable that some court in some country could at some future date rule otherwise, but that is true of anything in copyright law. - Jmabel ! talk 21:08, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Uploading is fine: it's the policy of the WMF and Commons that simple copies of two-dimensional artworks do not attract copyright even if they were made in a country that recognizes a "sweat of the brow" copyright.

As for being PD everywhere, it's not PD in Jamaica (life+95, the extension from life+50 to life+95 was explicitly made retroactive, and Jamaica didn't adopt the rule of the shorter term). Copyright appears to have expired in the rest of the world (Mexico is life+100, but the extension was not retroactive). --Carnildo (talk) 21:12, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

September 25

1 second shorteŕ

When I view the video of the day the elapsed time shows a second off the time showing at the link R. Douglas McKay (talk) 00:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

How come the Category "Things named after camels" has 2.6 million files at level 3

How come Category:Things named after camels has 2.6 million files at level 3 ? see PetScan — Preceding unsigned comment added by JotaCartas (talk • contribs) 15:50, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Because of Category:Uploaded with VicuñaUploader. Strakhov (talk) 16:16, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

 Comment I literally laughed out loud over this. - Jmabel ! talk 19:17, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

At least my lack of memory served to make you have a good laugh 😂😂😂. Greetings JotaCartas (talk) 23:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

 Comment, see previous discussion at Commons:Village pump/Archive/2025/03#Why PetScan on Category:"Camels" returns 2'622'475 results ?. Tvpuppy (talk) 16:29, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

oops, sorry. I should have remembered, but it actually slipped my mind. Thanks JotaCartas (talk) 17:07, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there a particular reason Category:Uploaded with VicuñaUploader and Category:VicuñaUploader have to be connected to each other? Like why isn't it something that could be connected through a "see also" link or similar without the categories actually being linked? --Adamant1 (talk) 23:05, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

It only applies to this specific issue rather than the general case, but Category:VicuñaUploader probably shouldn't be in Category:Things named after camels. The vicuña is in the same family as camels, but to my knowledge it's not considered a camel (nor is the llama in the same family). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:42, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

OK. I just removed it then. That seems like a good solution. --Adamant1 (talk) 00:45, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

September 26

Photo challenge July results

Vending machines: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
image
Title	Selecta vending machine in Chavannes-de-Bogis, Switzerland.	Ticket machines in the concourse of Nuremberg Central Station	Sake, øl og whisky i byen Fuji i Japan.
Author	W8Kp3mZr1j	Ermell	Odd Roar Aalborg
Score	11	8	6

Waterside structures: Entries • Votes • Scores

Rank	1	2	3
image
Title	De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands	Seen on a tour of Norfolk Harbor, these massive dockside cranes will work on naval vessels.	Blick von der 580 Meter hohen Steilklippe „Cabo Girao“ auf die am Ufer liegenden Terrassenfelder in der Nähe der Ortschaft Câmara de Lobos auf Madeira.
Author	JoanaImages	JoannaPoe	Otto Domes
Score	15	14	13

Congratulations to JoanaImages, JoannaPoe, Otto Domes, Guillaume.Frauchiger, Ermell and Odd Roar Aalborg. -- Jarekt (talk) 03:01, 26 September 2025 (UTC)