MediaWiki talk:Licenses

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Crazy idea that might just work

In the last four years, the update for {{PD-US-expired}} was done "on time" once:

• 14 March 2021
• 14 February 2022
• 1 January 2023 👍
• and now there is an edit request on 18 March 2024

what if the template {{Show by date}} was used to produce a "forever" edit request? It could be something like this:

==Forever edit request==
{{Show by date|2024<!-- please update the year when answering the "Forever edit request" -->|1|1|4=
{{Edit fully-protected|MediaWiki:Licenses|answered=yes}}<!-- please don't edit this line -->
Thank you for keeping [[MediaWiki:Licenses]] up-to-date. Till the next [[Public Domain Day]].
|5={{Edit fully-protected|MediaWiki:Licenses}}<!-- please don't edit this line -->
🥳 Happy [[Public Domain Day]]! Please update the line

<code>*** PD-US-expired{{!}}First published in the United States before January 1, {{#expr:{{Not-PD-US-expired-min-year}}-1}}</code>

to

<code>*** PD-US-expired{{!}}First published in the United States before January 1, {{Not-PD-US-expired-min-year}}</code>

and on ''this talk page'' please change the year in the template {{tl|Show by date}} in the section "Forever edit request" to {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}+1}}.
}}

What do you think? Pinging involved editors: Three Sixty, The Earwig, Grendelkhan, JJMC89, Dylsss. —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:44, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Alternatively, {{str find}} could be used to check the text of MediaWiki:Licenses for the presence of expected line:

previous year = {{Str find|{{MediaWiki:Licenses}}|First published in the United States before January 1, {{#expr:{{Not-PD-US-expired-min-year}}-1}}}}, current year = {{Str find|{{MediaWiki:Licenses}}|First published in the United States before January 1, {{Not-PD-US-expired-min-year}}}}

produces: "previous year = 1554, current year = -1". —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:15, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

MSGJ, please undo your last edit. See Special:Upload where the template is not displaying correctly. ⟲ Three Sixty! ^Talk? _Work. 16:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Implemented using the {{str find}} in the section #Automatic edit request below. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:17, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Automatic edit request

✓ Thank you for keeping MediaWiki:Licenses up to date, User:MSGJ! Till the next Public Domain Day.

Why are bots whining at me that own-work licenses "have no author"?

Image upload, talk page notice. What's up with that? I am pretty sure I selected CC-BY-SA as own work on Special:Upload. jp×g🗯️ 03:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

@Carnildo: your bot. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:09, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

I don't know if it is entirely the bot (that first diff does have a {{cc-by-sa-4.0}} and not a {{self|cc-by-sa-4.0}}). However, it does seem a little rash that a bot would automatically tag something uploaded with a CC template for deletion as "no author" -- wouldn't the majority of cases just be input error?

The dropdown doesn't actually indicate there being any difference between the opptions of "CC-BY-SA" as own work and "CC-BY-SA" by itself. jp×g🗯️ 15:44, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Most of the cases are user error, which is why, in addition to tagging the image, the bot also asks the uploader to provide the missing information. --Carnildo (talk) 18:20, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

At the time the bot tagged it, the image had a {{cc-by-sa-4.0}} tag. That tag indicates what the license is, but not who the author is. That's why the bot asked you to provide author information. --Carnildo (talk) 18:18, 30 July 2024 (UTC)