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For questions about copyright , technical matters , or help that does not relate to the general Commons community as well as proposals , please see the other discussion boards linked in the blue panel at the top. Search archives: Start a new discussion In the last hour In the last day In the last week In the last month More than one month Policy update for AI content (23 June 2026) Policy update for Renaming of Pdf and DjVu files (14 August 2026) History maps of Europe Hi, I would like to discuss the description in all categories of the scheme "Maps of <country> in the <x>th century" (see for example Italy , Belgium , Spain , Poland ). There are three different points about the current system I would like to invite comments on: the wording of the definition in the first paragraph of the hatnote whether or not to include "you may also be looking for similar maps" (second and third paragraph) of the description whether or not to re-include a distinction between history maps (in this category group) vs. old maps ( not in this category group) I've put my own opinion in italics to explain why I think this requires debate, but I would like for people to check out the scheme examples for themselves, and judge on their own. Peace, -- Enyavar ( talk ) 08:11, 2 January 2026 (UTC) Reply Would there be no such thing as "maps of Germany" for any date before 1866? Or would we take "Germany" before that date to mean the German-speaking world (and, if so, would that include areas where the rulers spoke German, but most of their subject did not)? or what? (Similarly for Italy.) Similarly: would there be no such thing as maps of Poland or Lithuania between 1795 and 1918? If so, what would we call maps of that area in that period? In our Commons:WikiProject Postcards we have the similar problem. Is this a "old postcard of the German Empire" or a "Postcard of Germany". There we are mostly agree, that today people often search for postcards be the locations of today. So many former German towns are now Polnish towns and so we are categorized this postcards under the polnish name of the town. See also Commons:WikiProject_Postcards#Categories . Best regards -- sk ( talk ) 12:29, 12 February 2026 (UTC) Reply Maps from Our World in Data A suggestion in regards with the maps from Our World in Data: remove from each map the category <year> maps of the world . These maps weren't published in the years referenced. In addition, it could make the categories of <year> maps of the world more easy to browse. Thanks in advance. -- Universalis ( talk ) 19:15, 22 February 2026 (UTC) Reply The template would be used for categories like Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1947 data , right? Would we also have Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1940s data (decade) and Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 19th-century data (century) as parent and grandparent of the year category? I have now created: {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and century}} {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and decade}} {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} Category:Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 20th-century data Category:Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1940s data Category:Our World in Data maps of Oceania showing 1947 data Category:Our World in Data maps of the world showing 1947 data The usage of the templates is super easy, no need for any parameters specifying the continent or the year, they take everything they need to know from the name of the category they are used in. The names of the continents are automatically translated using Wikidata labels. The first part of the title and the text above and below the navigation blocks are just examples. These can be used as an explanation for the category which is centrally maintained and must only be changed once if something should be changed, and if the texts are final, we can also make them translatable. Please let me know what you think. -- Reinhard Müller ( talk ) 09:52, 6 March 2026 (UTC) Reply I fixed "the world" (ooh, it feels good to write this ;-)) It is generally true that the template works best when the categories are created top down (i.e. first the centuries, then the decades, then the years). Still the navigation ribbons should appear even if the parent category does not exist (yet), I will have to investigate why they don't. But for the addition of the correct parent categories for new categories, it is important anyway that the parents pre-exist. I have (years ago) thought a lot about the question of logical sort keys, currently they are used very inconsistently across commons. I've even made a page summarizing my thoughts which you may or may not agree with. About this specific case, I think the space is widely used for meta categories (Blah blah by xyz) and should be reserved for that, and that the @ has the advantage of being sorted after all the other special characters, so if for example the category key "*" is before the alphanumeric subcategories, it is also before the numeric subcategories if the numeric are sorted as @. In the end I don't think in our case it makes much of a difference as long as all the subcategories use the same key so they are sorted correctly - which is taken care of by the template. About the "Maps of Oceania in 1947", would you want to also create them right now? Should I create a {{Category description/Maps by continent and year}} (and decade and century), and adapt the OWiD templates to the new parents? I don't use a bot, and I think that the CategoryBatchManager can add parent categories, but not a template. But since you don't have to change a single letter when copying the template from one category to a similar one, it can be done very fast. -- Reinhard Müller ( talk ) 18:02, 8 March 2026 (UTC) Reply {{Category description/Maps by continent and century shown}} {{Category description/Maps by continent and decade shown}} {{Category description/Maps by continent and year shown}} for all files in [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] if " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} " occurs in the file: take the YYYY as a variable to insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia showing YYYY data]] " //** a single category for the location and year of the map **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// take the file name as the variable topicname and strip File: and , Asia, YYYY.svg (or ,Asia,YYYY.svg ) from that variable insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps showing ||topicname]] " //** for example Category:Our World in Data maps showing Absolute change co2 , neatly collecting ~1800 files like this one or ~200 files like this one : a single category for the topic of the map, to have them all easily assembled **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// remove all occurences of " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} ", "" [[Category:YYYY maps of Asia]] " and " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] " ( else leave the file alone) if " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} " occurs in the file: take the YYYY as a variable to insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia showing YYYY data]] " //** a single category for the location and year of the map **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// take the file name as the variable topicname and strip File: and , Asia, YYYY.svg (or ,Asia,YYYY.svg ) from that variable insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps showing ||topicname]] " //** for example Category:Our World in Data maps showing Absolute change co2 , neatly collecting ~1800 files like this one or ~200 files like this one : a single category for the topic of the map, to have them all easily assembled **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// remove all occurences of " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} ", "" [[Category:YYYY maps of Asia]] " and " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] " take the YYYY as a variable to insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia showing YYYY data]] " //** a single category for the location and year of the map **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " {{Category description/Our World in Data maps by continent and year}} " //** (as helpfully provided by Reinhard)**// take the file name as the variable topicname and strip File: and , Asia, YYYY.svg (or ,Asia,YYYY.svg ) from that variable insert " [[Category:Our World in Data maps showing ||topicname]] " //** for example Category:Our World in Data maps showing Absolute change co2 , neatly collecting ~1800 files like this one or ~200 files like this one : a single category for the topic of the map, to have them all easily assembled **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// if that inserted category does not yet exist: create it with " [[Category:Our World in Data maps by topic]] " //** in many cases, better names might be found, but that cleanup can be handled afterwards manually where needed **// remove all occurences of " {{Map showing old data|year=YYYY}} ", "" [[Category:YYYY maps of Asia]] " and " [[Category:Our World in Data maps of Asia]] " ( else leave the file alone) repeat the same with "Africa", "Europe", ["North America" or "NorthAmerica" would need to be mapped onto "North America"], "Oceania", and so on. Colombian judicial decisions: Article 41 of Law 23/1982 and JEP court rulings I would appreciate some guidance regarding the copyright status on Commons of official judicial decisions issued in Colombia. The specific case concerns judicial rulings ( autos and potentially judgments) issued by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) , Colombia's transitional justice jurisdiction. These are official judicial decisions issued by its judicial chambers and Tribunal for Peace and published by the JEP itself. We are exploring the long-term preservation of this corpus and would like to determine whether faithful copies of the official PDFs may be hosted on Wikimedia Commons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply

Article 41 of Colombia's Law 23 of 1982 states: In English, approximately: The Colombian National Copyright Directorate (Dirección Nacional de Derecho de Autor) describes Article 41 as a limitation allowing any person to reproduce these materials. This seems different from the general regime for works created by Colombian public employees. Government works in Colombia are not automatically in the public domain; Article 41 creates a specific rule for legislation, administrative acts and judicial decisions. The Andean Community's Decision 351 does not appear to contain an identical exemption for judicial decisions, although Article 21 permits Member States to establish copyright limitations and exceptions subject to the three-step test. Article 22 also contains specific permitted uses. Article 2(4) of the Berne Convention additionally provides that it is a matter for national legislation to determine the protection granted to official texts of a legislative, administrative and legal nature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply The U.S. side appears clearer. Section 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices states that government edicts include judicial decisions and further states that the Copyright Office will not register a government edict issued by a foreign government. Commons already reflects this in {{PD-EdictGov}} , which states that an edict of a local or foreign government is in the public domain in the United States and explicitly includes judicial decisions. Therefore, it appears that {{PD-EdictGov}} could cover the U.S. copyright status of an official JEP judicial decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Question about Colombia / Commons policy The point on which I would particularly appreciate community input is the Colombian side. Article 41 gives everyone an express statutory right to reproduce judicial decisions, but it also requires the reproduction to conform exactly to the official edition. Would this statutory status be sufficient for an official Colombian judicial decision to meet Commons' requirement that a work be free in its country of origin? More specifically: Should Article 41 be interpreted for Commons purposes as making official Colombian judicial decisions sufficiently free for hosting on Commons, when combined with {{PD-EdictGov}} for the United States? Or is Article 41 only a copyright exception permitting faithful reproduction, while leaving other exclusive rights — particularly adaptation/derivative works — intact, making the documents incompatible with Commons unless the relevant rights holder provides an additional free licence? If Article 41 is sufficient, would it make sense to create a specific template such as a Colombian government-edict / judicial-decision tag rather than using {{PD-Colombia}} , which appears to concern expiration of copyright terms? Would the answer differ between the judicial text itself and additional material embedded in a PDF (for example photographs, maps, illustrations, or other third-party material)? Our intention would initially be to upload only faithful copies of the official judicial decisions published by the JEP, together with their original source URLs and provenance information. Before uploading anything at scale, we would like to establish the correct copyright analysis and template combination. Relevant legal provisions: Colombia, Law 23 of 1982, Article 41. Andean Community, Decision 351 of 1993, Articles 21–22. Berne Convention, Article 2(4). U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium , §313.6(C)(2), Government Edicts. Commons: {{PD-EdictGov}} . Thank you for any guidance, particularly from editors familiar with Colombian/Andean copyright law or the treatment of foreign judicial decisions on Commons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmiGueko ( talk • contribs ) 22:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC) Reply Help in Category:Falcon 9 by flight I want to kindly request everyone interested to help in categorising the images present on Category:Falcon 9 Starlink by flights and Category:Launches of Falcon 9 . Abdullah1099 ( talk ) — Preceding undated comment was added at 04:36, 3 September 2026 (UTC) Reply PIP removal requests on "embarrassment" Recently, I have seen several instances of individuals nominating photos of themselves (no explicit evidence they actually are the person in question) for deletion on the allegation that it causes embarrassment. Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#Removal_requests does state that embarrassment may be a reason for deletion, but does not guarantee this. Now, the claim that a photo causes embarrassment is difficult to assess when looking at these photos, as it is somewhat subjective. However, many such requests concern photos in which there is basically no element of degrading or insulting content. This includes many neutral portrait photos or screenshots taken from videos. We should obviously not cave to every allegation that a photo is embarrassing, as this could quickly become a tool of censorship for individuals wishing to promote a particular image of themselves. Since COM:PIP does not elaborate on what constitutes embarrassment, can we come up with some guidelines for future deletion discussions? – Howardcorn33 ( 💬 ) 09:57, 3 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Just a few recent ones: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Silvia Leal.jpg Commons:Deletion requests/File:Shana Pearson dehors Casa Del Popolo.png (BullDoser !) Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fa-مجتبی عیسی پور.ogg Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anne C, Agungsn, Aesthetic of Me 5-5-2026.png Commons:Deletion requests/File:Abendrot Rittersgrün.jpg Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/05/Category:Threshold of originality-related deletion requests in Albania This discussion which I started needs attention. Kindly go to this discussion page. JWilz12345 ( Talk | Contributions ) 07:56, 11 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Commons as the host of Global Gadgets Have been using Commons to host this code: MediaWiki:Gadget-owidslider.js Followed by using this code on EN Wikipedia among other wikis. Are folks here good with being a central code repository for gadgets? Or should we push for another wiki to be the central repository for this sort of material? Also thinking ahead to a central repository for templates, as hopefully global templates eventually roll out. May need a separate wiki for these... Doc James ( talk · contribs · email ) 01:46, 12 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Announcing Wiki Loves Peace ! Hello everyone, I would like to invite the Commons community to participate in Wiki Loves Peace 2026 , an international photography campaign organized in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) under the Wiki4Disarmament project. The campaign runs from 21 September 2026 (International Day of Peace) until 30 October 2026 (conclusion of United Nations Disarmament Week) and aims to document peace-related heritage, memorials, museums, educational institutions, public art, and peacebuilding initiatives through freely licensed media on Wikimedia Commons. The winning photographs will be featured on UNODA's official social media platforms with appropriate attribution to the author(s). Examples of eligible subjects include: Peace memorials and monuments Peace museums and exhibitions Anti-war memorials Sites associated with reconciliation and coexistence Public art promoting peace Peace education and disarmament initiatives Hiroshima and Nagasaki heritage sites Remembrance and commemorative sites The project page, participation guidelines, jury process, and campaign details can be found here: Meta page: Wiki Loves Peace , Commons: Campaign:Wiki Loves Peace Feedback, endorsements, questions, and participation are all welcome. We would also be grateful for help with outreach, translations, and community engagement. Best, ❯❯❯ Raydann (Talk) Listed building In my family archive I found this 1951 picture. On the back was written 'Priory court Hold'. I found a link to File:Antique Exports at Pevensey - geograph.org.uk - 5196866.jpg and it seems to build a listed building. However the template (Geograph from structured data) does not allow me to link back to the 1951 picture. Smiley.toerist ( talk ) 13:35, 13 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Category:Hove Lagoon Editor's identification marks on images As per Commons:Advert , is it appropriate for a Wikimedia COmmons editor/photographer to add their own personal/trade mark (trade mark,name etc) to an image that they both created and uploaded onto Commons. User:KaasterMDK has been marking all of the files that he has uploaded with his own insignia for example, in this file , his mark appears at the bottom of the info box in the top left corner. Martinvl ( talk ) 16:14, 14 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Location of art vs. origin of art This came up because of a recent edit at File:Iranian wall tile with seated figure - San Diego Museum of Art 01.jpg . Pinging @ Pataliputra! , who made the edit. It seems to me that categories for the origin of artworks and artifacts are being conflated with categories for their location. In my view, this Persian piece in San Diego should not be in Category:1204 works in Iran because it is now in San Diego, California. Besides the general principle of distinguishing origin and location, in this case much of the Khwarazmian Empire is not present-day Iran, so I'm not at all sure even its origin is really what we normally mean by "Iran" (and I'm not sure whether that is important or not). But I started following up some of the category tree and discovered it isn't just one case of a misapplied category, which is why I'm not just taking it up with the person you made this particular edit. We do have (and the file page already uses) Category:13th-century ceramics from Iran , but that does not break things down to individual years, so I see why an editor would be tempted to add an "in Iran" category for the work. And Category:13th-century ceramics from Iran is, in turn, in Category:13th-century art in Iran , which I see mixes "in" and "from" subcats. Is this something that someone should sort out? Or should we just tolerate this ontological mess and say, "Probably people will find what they are looking for, anyway"? - Jmabel ! talk 04:20, 15 September 2026 (UTC) Reply There are similar discussions in the VP archives about location marking, including using wikidata, as well as categorizing for ancient art and finds. There are practices but no hard policy. Keep in mind that for ancient artworks there's the findspot, the place it was created (or minted), the place it might have been first identified, locations it may have been sold or granted or stolen from, the locations it might be on display, location it was destroyed, etc. All this data might be available in reliable sources and all might be relevant and any might be subject to debate or uncertainty. -- Fæ ( talk ) 20:29, 15 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Server switch - Your wiki will be read-only for a short time soon Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. All traffic will switch on 23 September . The switch will start at 14:00 UTC . Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki , all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation. You can contribute to the translation or proofreading of this banner text. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time. You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 23 September 2026. If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case. Other effects : Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped. We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards. GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes. This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org . Any changes will be announced in the schedule. Trizek (WMF) 12:58, 15 September 2026 (UTC) Reply DLPA Duplicates Who is responsible for DLPA project? I have with File:Presidential Trips - Letters (Miscellaneous Map Room correspondence) - January 2, 1944-April 4, 1945 - DPLA - d3c545b339b5725179374453cae7a1de (page 198).jpg a duplicate which is also in the source a duplicate. So i think there is something wrong at the National Archives and a need somebody who can fix this. thx for helping.-- Sanandros ( talk ) 14:44, 15 September 2026 (UTC) Reply There was something like 40,000 duplicated files a couple of months ago depending on whether you counted 100 files with the same SHA1 value as one duplicate or not. Thanks to hard work of volunteers this has reduced to a current ~1,400. Faebot is automatically topping up Category:Duplicate to gradually get through the remainder. As a reminder, the DPLA mass uploads are a funded project, the recent volunteer housekeeping is not. As well as duplicates, if anyone is interested in both copyright problems found when looking at the 11 million DPLA uploads, and the uploading of what is probably at least a million jpg images of single pages of text from books, where we have, or could have, the book in a searchable PDF format instead, please have a read through some of the deletion case book at Category:DPLA deletion cases . Comments welcome in the deletion requests, the most recent being an interesting copyright restriction on local government magazines published 20 years ago, which were presumed to be copyright free, but, are not (DR) . -- Fæ ( talk ) 19:55, 15 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Request for opinions, from the Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation Hi all - over at Meta-wiki , the Legal team at the Foundation is asking for input regarding an image that's in use on this project. It's been reported to us for containing sexualised imagery of a child. This is not a traditional child pornography/CSAM case (produced using a real victim). Rather, this is a lolicon-type computer drawing. Comments from the image's author and uploader suggest it was deliberately made to be explicit. We do not receive many reports of this kind, so we’d like to invite your input whilst we evaluate next steps. One of the key issues for content's permissibility under the Combating Online Child Exploitation policy (COCE) is educational value, and we'd like to hear from a wide diversity of people on this issue. PBradley-WMF ( talk ) 10:25, 16 September 2026 (UTC) Reply Section 3. Definition of Terms. — As used in this Act: (a) Child refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or those over but are unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of physical, mental, intellectual or sensory disability or condition. For purposes of this Act, a child shall also refer to: (1) A person regardless of age who is presented, depicted or portrayed as a child as defined herein; and (2) Computer-generated, digitally or manually crafted images, or graphics of a person who is represented or who is made to appear to be a child as defined herein. ... (c) Child sexual abuse or exploitation material or child sexual abuse material (CSAEM/CSAM) refers to any representation, whether offline, or by, through or with the use of ICT, by means of visual, video, audio, written, or any combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other means, of a child engaged or involved in real or simulated sexual activities, or depicting acts of sexual abuse or exploitation of a child as a sexual object. It shall also include materials that focus on the genitalia or other private body parts of a child. For purposes of this Act, CSAEM may interchangeably be referred to as CSAM; ... (p) Internet intermediaries refer to persons or entities that provide infrastructure, platforms, access to, and host, transmit and index content, products and services originated by third parties on the internet. These include, among others: (1) Internet service providers; (2) Web hosting providers including domain name registrars; (3) Internet search engines and portals; (4) E-commerce intermediaries; (5) Internet payment system providers; and (6) Participative network platform providers including social media intermediaries. ... Section 4. Unlawful or Prohibited Acts. — Regardless of the consent of the child, it shall be unlawful for any person to commit the following acts through online or offline means or a combination of both: ... (b) To produce, direct, manufacture, facilitate, or create any form of CSAEM, or participate in the production, direction, manufacture, facilitation or creation of the same; (c) To offer, sell, distribute, advertise, promote, export, or import, by any means, any form of CSAEM; (d) To knowingly publish, transmit and broadcast, by any means, any form of CSAEM; ... (n) To sexualize children by presenting them as objects of sexual fantasy, or making them conversational subjects of sexual fantasies, in any online or digital platform; ... (r) To possess any form of CSAEM: Provided, That possession of three (3) or more CSAEMs is prima facie evidence of the intent to sell, distribute, publish or broadcast; (s) To willfully access any form of CSAEM; ... Section 5. Effect of Consent of the Victim. — The consent of the victim is not material or relevant and shall not be available as a defense in the prosecution of the unlawful acts prohibited under this Act. ... Section 7. Protection of a Good Samaritan. — Any person who has the responsibility of reporting cases under this Act, blocking an internet address, removing a website or domain, taking down of shared videos, pictures, or messages for the services provided by an internet intermediary, and providing information for the purpose of an investigation or prosecution of a case involving acts of OSAEC shall not be held civilly, criminally or administratively liable: Provided, That the action was: (1) done in good faith; (2) necessary to prevent access or dissemination of CSAEMs; and (3) reported within twenty-four (24) hours from the act of blocking an internet address, removing a website or domain, or taking down of shared video, picture or messages. Section 8. Safe Harbor Exception. — Access, possession and recording of any CSAEM of any person for the purpose of complying with the duties under this Act; the reporting to government authorities; legitimate investigation and administration of the criminal justice system; and legitimate policy, scholarly and academic purposes with requisite ethical clearance, shall not be subject to any civil, criminal, or administrative liability. ... Commons community Commons maintenance