Talk:Praia a Mare

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File:Barquinho.jpg in Praia a Mare article

Hello all,

Wikimedia Commons is my "home wiki", and through my work on there, I have identified File:Barquinho.jpg as being a photograph of the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London.

However, I noticed it is in use in the Praia a Mare article on this wiki, with the caption "Dino Island".

I can see this has happened because the Wikimedia Commons file has the same name as the original Barquinho.jpg file on the original WikiTravel article.

As I can't immediately see that the file on WikiTravel has been released under a free license, I don't think it's a suitable candidate to be uploaded to Commons.

Although, I am unsure of the policy as regards to uploading WikiTravel images directly to WikiVoyage - i.e. is there a more relaxed policy here?

So I'd be grateful if anyone here with greater Wikivoyage & Wikitravel knowledge that me could transfer the file over if possible and correct this conflict. Or failing that, I guess we can just delete the reference to the Commons file from the Wikivoyage Praia a Mare article, as it currently stands it's an incorrect image for that page.

Thanks very much for any possible help, Rept0n1x (talk) 19:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

I have removed the image from the article, since it is incorrect anyway. Incidentally, the other image in that article was also incorrect. Texugo (talk) 20:00, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the incorrect images and for the quick reply. Now that the article is no longer showing the incorrect images - it'll be fine to leave it as is for the time being. But if anyone here in the Wikivoyage community feels it's possible and desirable to transfer the images from the original Wikitravel article, then please feel free to do that. Rept0n1x (talk) 20:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Is there a list of all images that had name collisions? Most of them must probably be replaced or at least re-captioned. Nicolas1981 (talk) 06:41, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't think that there is any way of automatically detecting where the old site had an image name that refers to something different on Commons. Yesterday I was looking at Tarrytown because it was listed as having a red image link (see above) and found that the other image was wrong. In this case the error was less serous. I think that we need to be aware that any image reference from over a year ago that doesn't have a corresponding image may be wrong. It probably doesn't matter if "Someville Main Street" gives a slightly different view, but if the reference is just to an image called "Main Street" then it could be the wrong city. I have seen a similar problem on WP where an image with a common name has been deleted (license queries) and a new image uploaded a month later that happened to have the same name. AlasdairW (talk) 11:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

It reminds me of a recent case when I was fixing a red link in Topoľčany, Slovakia (well, removing in fact, as I didn't find any suitable image), something seemed to be wrong with the town hall picture above. Then I realized that there was a US flag hanging and the picture with a generic name (something along "townhall.jpg" lines) was taken in St. Louis, Missouri. Danapit (talk) 12:27, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

How about a script that would for each image used on WV, check whether the image exists on WT, and binary compare the image of WT vs the image of WV? A list of such images would be useful, I guess half of them need to be fixed. Nicolas1981 (talk) 07:35, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Nicolas, that sounds useful. Danapit (talk) 14:15, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Well... anyone willing to write said script? :-) I would like to write it but really busy with other open source projects right now... Nicolas1981 (talk) 02:16, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm reluctant to try this using WT, do we still have all the WT images on a mirror wikivoyage-old or some such? --Inas (talk) 00:28, 18 November 2013 (UTC)