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Information on temporary account IP viewer rights

Hello Aristeas,

On November 12, temporary accounts will be enabled on Commons. The IP of unregistered users will then be hidden for most users. You, as a patroller or license reviewer, are eligible to request the new temporary account IP viewer right, if you need it to continue fighting vandalism and abuse on Commons. If you want to request the right, please file the request here. Please be aware that you also have to accept the Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy in your preferences. For more information about temporary accounts, look at the project page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:34, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks for the notice, GPSLeo! I have requested the specific right. – Aristeas (talk) 19:08, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Temporary account IP viewer granted

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Hello, Aristeas. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Commons:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! GPSLeo (talk) 19:42, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much, GPSLeo! I have read the policy. In the next days I will study the details. In any case I will make use of this user right only if it is required in order to investigate likely cases of vandalism. Best, – Aristeas (talk) 20:37, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

@GPSLeo kannst du mir die Rechte bitte auch geben. Viele Grüße Z ^thomas 21:14, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

@Z thomas Mach ich, kannst du das dafür auch auf COM:RFR offizielle anfragen, damit es ordentlich dokumentiert ist. GPSLeo (talk) 08:21, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@GPSLeo danke. Hab ich sogar schon gemacht. Aber ich finde diese unter der Hand Taktik auf Aristeas' Seite viel cooler. Danke an Aristeas, dass ich deine Seite nutzen konnte :-) viele Grüße Z ^thomas 08:40, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@Z: Nichts zu danken ;–). Viel Erfolg und alles Gute, Roman / – Aristeas (talk) 11:04, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

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Hier noch ein simpler, aber ggf. wichtiger Hinweis für mich und etwaige Mitleser ;–). Zwischen all den Hinweisen, warum und wofür die neuen temporären Accounts gedacht sind und wie das Recht ‘Temporary account IP viewer’ genutzt werden darf, habe ich erst gar keine Beschreibung gefunden, wie die Namen der neuen temporären Accounts zu erkennen sind. Das finde ich aber wichtig zu wissen, damit sie uns sofort auffallen und wir sie ggf. näher unter Lupe nehmen. OK, wahrscheinlich war ich einfach blind, aber jetzt habe ich den Hinweis doch gefunden:

Temporary account names follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-6 (a tilde, the year of creation, dash, an auto-generated serial number broken up with hyphens grouping 5 digits at a time).

Hier wäre ein Beispiel für einen solchen temporären Account. Sie werden max. 90 Tage lang verwendet. – Aristeas (talk) 19:37, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@W.carter: The hint above may also be interesting for you (if you did not already know this). So if we spot any edits to FPs or FP gallery pages made by users with names following this pattern, we know that these are temporary accounts and that we should (if possible) take a closer look at these edits (anonymous users are know for a especially large amount of nonsense edits/vandalism). I have already teached my program fpgallerist to look out for such edits, too. Now my program also recognizes the new temporary accounts when it checks FPs and FP galleries for potentially problematic edits. (Hint for admins and privacy advocates: fpgallerist does NOT access the IP address of these accounts, it is intentionally not even able to do that, it just checks for potentially problematic edits and lists them so that I can check them more easily.) Best, – Aristeas (talk) 21:06, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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St. Martin

Grüß Dich. Derzeit finden ja St.-Martins-Umzüge statt. Vielleicht kannst du, bei Gelegenheit, Bilder vor Ort erstellen. Siehe Category:St. Martin's Day in Baden-Württemberg. Eventuell diese Nachricht an befreundete Nutzer in weiterleiten. Viele Grüße -- Triple C 85 ^{| User talk |} 08:42, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you! (2)

	The Original Barnstar
	Danke für die wertschätzende Art der Kontaktaufnahme, die mich bei meiner Tätigkeit als Hobbyfotograf für Wikipedia unterstützt. Dadurch ist es einfacher, an all das zu denken, was ich übersehe. Ich weiß nicht, ob Barnstars hier eigendwie Sinn ergeben, aber ich mach das jetzt mal einfach. Hobbyfotowiki (talk) 18:00, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Vielen herzlichen Dank, Hobbyfotowiki! Ich fühle mich sehr geehrt :–). Ich melde mich (hoffentlich) in den nächsten Tagen nochmal mit ein paar weiteren Tips zum FP-Prozess usw. Herzliche Grüße und alles Gute, – Aristeas (talk) 20:57, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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Massenbach vs. Massenbachhausen

Hallo @Aristeas Danke fürs nochmal rüberschauen. Auf der Karte (in OSM gesichtet) liegt die Kamera-Position ja wesentlich dichter an Massenbachhausen und habe daher vermutet, dass die Kategorisierung in Massenbach ein Versehen oder Typo war, wegen der ähnlichen Wortanfänge beider Orte, und habe deswegen nach Massenbachhausen geändert. Die Ortsgrenzen der beiden Dörfer konnte ich leider nicht so gut erkennen, nur dass beide im Gebiet von Schwaigern liegen. Aber da es ja dein Foto ist und du dich vor Ort vermutlich besser auskennst wo welcher Ort an- und aufhört, vertraue ich mal auf deine Einschätzung. :)

Apropos, ich habe den Vandalismus in der Datei von heute morgen reverted und den user Drexcreatur203 mal reportet.

Viele Grüße und schönes Wochenende! Nylki (talk) 10:08, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Jetzt hab ich doch nochmal aus Spaß in die offizellen Karten von BW angeschaut (Schwaigern, Massenbach, Massenbachhausen, leider muss man die Orte nochmal in der Seitenleiste beim Geoportal anklicken um die Grenzen zu sehen). Vermutlich wäre ein Einsortierung nach Schwaigern nach diesen Karten vom Geoportal BW am korrektesten, da dort die Kamera-Koordinaten weder in Massenbach noch Massenbachhausen liegen, sondern zur Ebene darüber gehören (soweit ich das sehe). Falls du das auch so siehst, überlass ich das dir, das ggf. nochmal anzupassen. Aber so wichtig ist das in diesem Fall wahrscheinlich auch nicht, ist ja doch alles sehr dicht bei einander. Nylki (talk) 10:53, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hallo Nylki, vielen Dank für Deine Mühe und Recherche -- insbesondere natürlich für das Reverten des dreisten Vandalismus von Drexcreatur203!

Das generelle Problem ist, dass diese Karten (nach BW-Sitte) die Grenzen von kleineren Ortsteilen/Teilorten meist nicht anzeigen bzw. nur, wenn diese einen Ortschaftsrat besitzen (oder so ähnlich; die genaue juristische Formulierung mag jemand anderes finden). Die Anzeige bei Massenbach stellt daher lediglich die Grenzen des Ortsetters dar, nicht das Gebiet des Stadtteils. Das ändert nichts daran, dass das Land zwischen dem Ortsetter von Massenbach und Massenbachhausen zum Stadtteil Massenbach gehört. Und selbst falls juristisch in diesem Fall der Stadtteil Massenbach gar kein Land mehr umfassen sollte (juristisch könnte es natürlich alles Mögliche geben, je nachdem, was 1971 vereinbart wurde, als Massenbach Stadtteil von Schwaigern wurde), ist Commons doch keine juristische Spitzfindigkeitendatenbank, sondern ein Medienarchiv, das benutzbar sein sollte. Die Grenze zwischen Schwaigern und Massenbachhausen ist klar und auf zahlreichen Karten ersichtlich, daher würde ich das Bild jedenfalls in keiner Weise bei Massenbachhausen einsortieren. Das Gemeindegebiet von Schwaigern wiederum ist nicht ganz winzig, sondern umfasst immerhin auch die Stadtteile Massenbach, Niederhofen und Stetten am Heuchelberg. Daher halte ich es sowohl sachlich für plausibel als auch für praktisch, das Bild in Category:Massenbach zu belassen. Es erscheint ja zusätzlich auch in Category:Fields in Schwaigern u.ä. Kategorien, sodass es auch auffindbar ist, wenn jemand es nicht unter Massenbach, sondern direkt unter Schwaigern sucht.

Herzliche Grüße von – Aristeas (talk) 12:43, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hallo @Aristeas, Danke für deine ausführliche Antwort. Ich bin mit dir nach dem Lesen d'accord; dann passt das so wie du es ursprünglich schon hattest! (habe noch den Herstellungsort in den structured data nachkorrigiert).

Schade, dass die offiziellen Karten von BW da nicht nicht so genau sind.

Viele Grüße und Danke für deine tollen Bilder! -- Nylki (talk) 14:11, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Vielen Dank Dir für Dein Verständnis und die netten Worte, Nylki! – Ah, Moment, ich habe rein zufällig doch noch etwas gefunden. Wenn wir Massenbach im Geoportal aufrufen und die Liste links eine Weile herunterscrollen, gibt es auch noch den Eintrag „Massenbach / Gemarkung (Schwaigern)“. Wenn Du diesen Eintrag anklickst, bekommen wir doch die Grenze der Landmasse angezeigt, die zu Massenbach zählt, und es zeigt sich, dass sowohl der Aufnahmestandort als auch das kleine Gehölz zur Gemarkung Massenbach zählt. Wir müssen uns also merken, dass das Geoportal zwischen dem Eintrag „Massenbach / Stadtteil (Schwaigern)“ und dem Eintrag „Massenbach / Gemarkung (Schwaigern)“ unterscheidet – sicher ist das bei vielen anderen Stadt/Ortsteilen ähnlich, und wir finden die Gemarkung = die zum Stadt/Ortsteil zählende Landmasse nicht beim Eintrag „Stadtteile“ sondern beim Eintrag „Gemarkung“. Diesen Unterscheid hatte ich beim Geoportal auch noch nicht verstanden. Also habe ich dank Deiner Nachfrage wieder etwas gelernt ;–), Nochmals herzliche Grüße, – Aristeas (talk) 15:16, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Oh ha, guter Fund! Nylki (talk) 16:36, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

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Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2025

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

the 2025 board election is starting soon.

The timeline for the 2025 election will be

• November 25 – December 2: Applications for the election committee
• December 2 – December 15: Vote for election committee (if necessary)
• December 16: Election committee starts work
• December 20 – January 4: Nomination phase for candidacies
• January 5 – January 11: Elections
• January 15: Results announced

In the first step we ask you to be part of the election committe. Please add your name on the Election Page.

We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

All the best

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Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2025/2

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

thank you for your interest in our board election.

This week we ask you to vote for the election committe.

Please support up to three candidates on the Election Page by December 16th, 00:00 UTC.

We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

All the best

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FYI

This user’s Internet access will be switched to a new connection around Monday/Tuesday, 8/9 December 2025. The company carrying out the work, a well-known big German telecommunications company and internet service provider, is known for its particular expertise, diligence, and care. Therefore, as experience has shown, the result can be a long-term complete outage of Internet access; fixing that may take weeks of negotiations with the excellent company. The user therefore apologises for any sudden and possibly weeks-long complete absence: this is not intentional, but to a certain extent a natural disaster, as always when you have to deal with these big telcos.

– Aristeas (talk) 17:34, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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