Kasutaja:Ziv
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A short about me
Mainly active on the German Wikipedia and on Commons.
I live in the beautiful and peaceful country of Switzerland and have never lived anywhere else. However, when I retire, I could imagine emigrating to another country where the winters are more pleasant. Warmer and friendlier. In my free time, I'm working on a book. Wikipedia is my second favorite activity.
In January 2025 I changed my nickname to Ziv. It is a Hebrew name and means brightness, brilliance, glory and splendor. In the American series NCIS there used to be a well-known female character named Ziva David. I'm not a particular fan of her, but I chose this name because it's short and concise and because I like it.
My work on this language version of Wikipedia is mainly limited to replacing image filenames that have been renamed on Commons. The changes are made using a script that uses my username. Sometimes I replace filenames manually without this script, and I even enjoy manually editing in other language versions. In both cases, depending on your language version, you may need to review my changes first. If you can, grant me extended rights. This would eliminate the need for the reviews to a minimum. Otherwise, it's fine.
Please also check out the requests page on Commons → Open commands and requets.
I also replace old jpg/png/gif files with svg vector versions manually. These are usually flags, icons or other files that have been replaced by a better svg version. Since svg files are not replaced by the bot CommonsDelinker, I sometimes have to edit user pages or User talk pages or User talk pages archives. In this sense, these are maintenance edits, like those users who fix Lint errors. For this, extended rights would sometimes also be desirable so that this can happen smoothly and your language version does not display warnings when previewing the edit or trigger filter logs after saving the page.
Thank you for your understanding and I hope you don't mind. If a user doesn't like the change to the svg version of the image, they can of course revert my edit.
If you have any questions to me, please write on my discussion page on the German Wikipedia or Commons, preferably in English, and I will be happy to answer your questions.
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