SnowyCinema

Regarding the Files of Imgur User Wavybabyyeah

If you get the permission of uploading the author mentioned's files, please inform the author to send an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org according to the information of OTRS and add Template:OP at each files. A volunteer will then verify the permission given by the author. Failing to do so may cause the files to be deleted. If the email is sent after the files are deleted, please file an undeletion request at COM:UDR. Should you have any inquires, feel free to contact me, thank you.廣九直通車 (talk) 08:44, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

@廣九直通車: So what exactly does wavybabyyeah need to say in this email? I'll forward them this conversation, btw. Thanks. PseudoSkull (talk) 18:09, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Here is a suggested format of an OTRS permission email:

I hereby affirm that I, Wavybabyyeah, am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the media works:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood1.jpg ,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood2.jpg ,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood3.jpg ,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood4.jpg ,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood5.jpg ,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood6.jpg ,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood7.jpg , and
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilmontFlood8.jpg .
I agree to release the above-mentioned work into public domain (PD-author).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work, even in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
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Wavybabyyeah
2018-07-12
If the author prefers another language, please inform me. And just a reminder, the file is eligible to be uploaded to Commons if they are free to be used, modified and used in commercial purposes, so releasing the work into public domain is accepted but not necessary.廣九直通車 (talk) 01:09, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

@廣九直通車: I have private-messaged the user on Reddit. They will hopefully let me know when the email has been sent. I recommended that it be sent within 7 days. Please wait patiently; please refrain from having the files deleted until the email has been sent. Thanks for your time. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:12, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! And I will do with tagging the files with OTRS pending template in order to notify others.廣九直通車 (talk) 02:14, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

@廣九直通車: According to a recent PM on Reddit, wavybabyyeah has sent the necessary email. I have hopes that the email will soon be seen and verified. PseudoSkull (talk) 18:23, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for Wavybabyyeah's generous permission and you liasion work!廣九直通車 (talk) 05:24, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

@廣九直通車: It's been quite a while, and the tags have not been taken off. Did you guys get the email? PseudoSkull (talk) 15:18, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

The current OTRS backlog is 121 days now due to insufficient volunteers. Therefore, the email may need approximately 4 months for verification, though sometimes will be faster. For the data, you may want to look at Template:OTRS backlog. If you really have questions, you may leave it at COM:ON, thank you.廣九直通車 (talk) 08:11, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Well, the files are now verified by OTRS volunteers, and they can be used freely in anywhere. Just to remind you that please archive your talk page, rather than deleting the content of it, as defined in COM:ARCHIVE. To archive your talk page contents, please simply add {{subst:User:MiszaBot/usertalksetup}} at the top of your talk page, and a bot would then archive it after 30 days.廣九直通車 (talk) 10:15, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

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Home Lander (talk) 18:48, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Mighty Mr. Titan

I wanted to address something you brought up last year. I have two things that you may find informative, both of which I've found in issues of Broadcasting magazine:

1. According to several issues, there were 100 episodes made (an example can be found here), so there must be a bunch of missing episodes, similar to Colonel Bleep.

2. It appears the show dates back to 1964, as shown here and here.

Not sure if either of those help with the "public domain or not" question, but I thought they were worth sharing.

GVO8891 (talk) 21:56, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@GVO8891: Thanks for sharing this with me. Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate that we'll have to wait until I'm middle-aged just to see these old cartoon episodes go into the public domain. Any surviving episodes are now harder to archive because they are copyrighted by somebody who most definitely had nothing to do with the making of the episodes. Hopefully by the time we're advanced enough to spend half or more of our lives in VR, the government won't be so corrupt anymore to have such a monopoly on art. PseudoSkull (talk) 17:37, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

@PseudoSkull: Thanks for responding. I wasn't claiming that Mighty Mister Titan is still under copyright, at least not intentionally. You said that the show's copyright is defective since no year is listed in the episodes' copyright notices, which I noticed for one such episode. Neither source I gave about its origins in 1964 seem to make any indication about copyright; one happened to be published in 1964, the other mentioned it as part of the show's release date. Unless I'm missing something, I think that means it's in the public domain already. But I could be wrong. GVO8891 (talk) 01:44, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916, pure).webm

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Túrelio (talk) 09:47, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

File:The Non-Stop Fright (1927).webm

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File:The Adventures of Safety Frog - Tornado, Fire (1988).webm

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File:Debbie Does Dallas.ogv

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MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:The Jazz Singer (1927).webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Upload request

Hi Mr. PseudoSkull..would you please upload these public domain videos? (I'm not sure of the copyright status of the audio)!

Never the Dames Shall Meet (fragment)  Done All Wet (1924)  Done All Wet (1927)  Done THREE'S A CROWD (1927)  Done All Wet (1921)  Done

Maher27777 (talk) 10:14, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

They're in my backlog. PseudoSkull (talk) 14:35, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

I don't know what is "backlog"! However, All Wet (1927) is now available!Maher27777 (talk) 15:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Gnorm Gnat

I hope you enjoy the comics. I made a small error and maybe you can help. For the Gnorm Gnat strips (not the Jon and Garfield ones), I messed up my spreadsheet, so the dates in the descriptions are wrong (those in the filenames are the right ones). Would you be to fix this with an automated tool? Otherwise, I'll try to figure it out when I have time. Thanks! D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 09:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@D. Benjamin Miller: I wrote a little script to do the trick, and it's running now. They should all be done in about 15 minutes. (Just for reference, I published the code (here.) PseudoSkull (talk) 09:23, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 09:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done PseudoSkull (talk) 09:42, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Software used

Quick question. What software do you use for clips like File:The Battle of the Sexes (1928).webm ? The clips are listed as having duration 0 (or rather unknown). This is because it doesn’t have this metadata available and our software essentially treats it like a stream of a live source. This happens if the YT files are not post processed when stored, which is needed because YT only provides metadata via its api, not in the video. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheDJ: Hi, sorry for the belated response, I have been on a Wikibreak which I forgot to note here. So, I use yt-dlp (a fork of youtube-dl) to download the videos and FFMPEG to clip the files before I upload them (to remove the audio or intros, etc.). If the only reason that the files aren't showing up as "having durations" is that the metadata is not correct, then I wonder why Commons doesn't automatically give it the metadata. The file doesn't seem outright broken, though, so I hope it's not a huge deal. I'm not sure how to fix it. SnowyCinema (talk) 03:03, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

It's not fully broken no, but the metadata parser that MediaWiki uses is unable to determine the file duration. It would have to look at the first sample and the last sample in the file to determine the duration, which it doesn't currently do. So you use something like ffmpeg -i input.webm -ss 01:19:27 -to 02:18:51 -c:v copy -c:a copy output.webm to cut the video ?

A simple remux can fix these files: ffmpeg -i brokenfile.webm -vcodec copy newfile.webm but it's strange that ffmpeg's default editing doesn't seem to do the same as the remux we do... I'm gonna have to look into that. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:08, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

File:The Circus (1928) by Charlie Chaplin (restored version).webm

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Sudoviaball (talk) 09:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Regarding your revert in File:Phantom of the Opera.webm

"This version is considerably shorter, meaning there must be content missing."

That's because the print from which the high quality video file uses runs at sound speed (24 frames per second). The original upload, which seems to come from a bootleg print, runs at a frame rate which is lower than the tinted version at 20 fps.

Plus, this version ain't the original release one, which lasted longer and only survives in 16mm reduction prints.

Besides the needlessly long runtime, my justification to overwrite the low quality file comes from the fact that the lecture time on a b&w film is faster than with color (which is my understanding that it distracts the viewer). Mayimbú (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mayimbú: I'm not sure I understand, but is there another place that the version you uploaded can be placed, so as not to disrupt current uses of this version? M-le-mot-dit proofread this film, and I'm not altogether familiar with it. Perhaps a versions page could be made at Wikisource, and another, more original version of The Phantom could be proofread, while this "bootleg" version could be separate but stay the same. SnowyCinema (talk) 17:27, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

File:Old Ironsides (1926).webm

I found a higher quality video this film - [1]. Since you originally uploaded the file, could you upload a new version? OGPawlis (talk) 16:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Whitening

Subpage done as requested. PawełMM (talk) 07:19, 1 March 2024 (UTC)