NC Commons talk:Community pump

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Including files in Wikipedia projects

How does one include files from NC Commons in Wikipedia projects? I have a test case in the Afrikaans WIkipedia at af:Gebruiker:Martinvl/Sandput. the result is at the top of the page concerned. It should show the image on the right of this page. If it shows the NC Commns Logo, the link is not yet working. Martinvl (talk) 16:37, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Martinvl We are still buildings things. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Any updates? :-) --Zblace (talk) 06:52, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

@User:Zblace: If you visit af:User:Martinvl/Sandput, you can see a test for linking to the Afrikaans WIkipedia. If the NC Commons logo is displayed, the link is incomplete, if it shows the SI logo (see right), it is complete. Martinvl (talk) 11:30, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Any updates yet? Martinvl (talk) 16:40, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

My test case in the Afrikaans Wikipedia is still not responding to NC Commons. I looked at template:NC in a few other WIkipedias (English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish) and found that it is in use in all of these Wikipedias, even though it might be deprecated. If this template is to be used throughout all WIkipedias, its current use must be changed (in many cases it redircts to template:NCL, but an effort must be made to ensure that this is happening. Martinvl (talk) 14:36, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

I still do not see any updates on the Afrikaans Wikipedia. Who should be overseeing the work - the NC Commons admins or the Afrikaans Wikipedia admins? If it is the latter, I will give them a nudge. Martinvl (talk) 14:07, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

We are needing them to translate the NC policy into AF... The one drafted by the WMF.

The template to be used is this one af:Sjabloon:NC Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:19, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@User:Doc James

Translation into Afrikaans should not stop things going forward. If you visit their Help page (which I have opened at the appropriate tab), you will see a number of pages in the right-hand column which they have left in English. There is no reason why the NC Commons page should not be added to that list.
I used the template that you suggested. It just gives the NC Commons Logo. (See at my code at af:User:Martinvl/Sandput)

Martinvl (talk) 18:10, 31 December 2025 (UTC).

Checking in to get this fixed by Ibrahem. Bot must be down. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:40, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

@User:Doc James I checked af:Sjabloon:NC and it does not access MC Commons, but is rather a placeholder fr when NC Commons can be accessed. I suggest that you look at the code yourself. Martinvl (talk) 21:41, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

User:Martinvl the bot that does this needs permission to operate on AF WP. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:25, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Installation of further extension

Are their other extensions people want? User:Zblace, User:Koavf, User:Martinvl, User:Ozzie10aaaa Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:28, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

as far as I'm concerned I don't think there is any need for further extensions (but to be 'frank' I don't really have any tech knowledge), Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:08, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
I notice that tiff and bmp extensions are missing. I don't usually use either of them as both are old formats and bmp files in particular are huge (uless they have been compressed). Martinvl (talk) 15:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Nothing immediately comes to mind. To invert the question, is there any particular extension at Commons that we wouldn't want? Koavf (talk) 17:15, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Nothing immediately comes to mind... I remember getting my recent ortopan images by email - will look up in what format :-) --Zblace (talk) 07:01, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Question

Hello! I found about this project while reading about the NonFreeWiki proposal, and I have a question: would this project be able to work with Wikisource in the future for works that are PD in their countries but not in the US? I'm an admin at the Portuguese Wikisource and while we started to accept local uploads - like many other projects - for books that aren't PD in the US, there are still a lot of stuff going to Commons and I think that the NCCommons would be a nicer solution for those files (as a place to centralize all the uploads).

Unrelated: there are several Flickr accounts from the Brazilian Government which uploads non-commercial images (many times mixed with Wiki Commons compatible images). Would this project be willing to scan for them? I also think that the spaceflight community on Wiki would like to use this place as well.

Thanks, Erick Soares3 (talk) 11:23, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

On general scientific works: Scielo and Scielo Books are a mixed database of Commercian and Non-Commercial works (not only medical articles, but general). Erick Soares3 (talk) 17:04, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for the delayed response, User:Doc James,is currently away I'm certain he'll look at this ASAP, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:35, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

User:Erick Soares3 we are hosted in the USA and thus follow US copyright. We will host material that is under a CC license in the USA. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:40, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Questions about public art

This site had come up in a recent discussion during an event at MIT. I have a few questions about own work photographs of public art. 1.) I took some photographs of sculpture at MIT. One sculpture was by Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), and the other was La Grande Voile by Alexander Calder (there appear to be a few photos on Wikimedia Commons, but I see copyright notices from Calder Foundation or Arts Right Society on other pages so I'm feeling cautious about uploading it to Wikimedia Commons). What's the guideline on American sculptures that may be in copyright? 2. I'm planning on going to France in July. France has noncommercial FOP and I can upload photos of buildings just to English Wikipedia since their standard is just US rules (and US has commercial FOP for buildings). Would photographs of sculptures that I took in France that would still be in copyright be OK for NCCommons? Abzeronow (talk) 02:42, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

@Abzeronow. Wikimedia Commons only accepts images that are "free to use" in the fullest sense of the word. NC Commons accepts images that are "free to use" but have "non-Commericial" or "no derivative" restictions. For example, the image showing the SI logo at the top of this page has a "no derivative" restriction (ie it cannot be distorted) plus a requirement that when it is used, it has a minimum specified border.

Going back to yur question, if you take photographs yourself (subject to local and US copyright rules), and you wish to put NC or ND restrictions on them, then the can be uploaded onto NC Commons, but if you are happy for them to be used (or abused) by anybody withut resriction, load them onto Commons. Martinvl (talk) 17:56, 22 January 2026 (UTC)