pattypan 26.02

February 2026 Release

Heads up! This version of Pattypan will no longer work on Apple devices with Intel processors. Users who still use such devices should use former versions of Pattypan

Features:

• Pattypan no longer need Java on Windows
• Pattypan no longer need Java on Mac OS
• The Specimen template has been added to the list of predefined templates
• The bundled Java version is now logged in the logs #157

Fixes:

• Updated login instructions for bot account requirements
• Pattypan now runs on Macs with an Apple processor

pattypan 22.03

March 2022 Release

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Features:

• Files from the local drive are now loaded to the spreadsheet in alphabetical order #109
• Pattypan now warns about the usage of some common special characters in filenames #113

Fixes:

• Template documentation links with spaces are no longer broken #163
• Pattypan now send a correct user agent when making requests to commons.wikimedia.org #146
• Pattypan now sends a correct user agent when making requests to github.com

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pattypan 22.02

February 2022 Release

A special thanks to @MER-C for their work on Wiki.java and to @sebastian-berlin-wmse for his work on packaging Pattypan for various platforms. Both of these efforts have greatly contributed to this release.

Note that Pattypan now requires Java 11 or later to run.

⬇️ Download (.jar)

Known regressions:

• Pattypan does no longer check for duplicate files using hashes before an upload #151

Fixes:

• Login does no longer work #138
• It is no longer possible to upload by URL #107
• Unable to open pattypan.jar in Ubuntu 18.04+ #84 #121

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pattypan 20.04

April 2020 Release

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Features

• Add Norwegian Bokmål translation (thanks @jhsoby)
• Add Spanish translation (thanks @Rodelar)
• Add Latvian translation (thanks @papuass)
• Add Indonesian translation (thanks @Rachmat04)

Fixes

• Fix login issue (#115)
• More detailed documentation (thanks @Ash-Crow)
• Updated Dutch translation (thanks @siebrand)

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pattypan 19.06

June 2019 Release

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Features

• Add German translation (thanks @tobias47n9e)
• Add Swedish translation (thanks @Abbe98)
• Add French translation (thanks @don-vip)
• Add {{Art Photo}} template (thanks @don-vip)

Fixes

• add support for MKV files
• check SHA1 file checksum before upload to avoid duplicates (T223525)

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pattypan 18.02

February 2018 Release

⬇️ Download (.jar) • macOS App (.app)

Features

• Add log file with all console logs. You will find link on the main screen of Pattypan. It will help a lot debugging errors (thanks @Abbe98!)
• Add {{Map}} template (#62)
• Add possibility to upload STL files

Fixes

• make the text area for custom wikicode larger (#57)
• remove multiple spaces from Commons file name (#67) (thanks Wikimedia in Brazil User group!)

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pattypan 17.12

December 2017 Release

⬇️ Download (.jar) • macOS App (.app)

Features

• upload from URL not only local files (#6, thanks @Abbe98!)
• support PDF and MP3
• add Czech translation (thanks @Aktron!)

Fixes

• remove duplicate template fields in {{Book}} template (#39)

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pattypan 17.05

May 2017 Release

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Features

• remembering fields' values from previous upload (#16)
• add FLAC and few more filetypes support (#26)
• add {{Musical work}} template
• add option to retry failed file uploads (#27)
• add option to continue paused upload from the place it was stopped

Fixes

• inconsistent actions logging on upload screen (#23)
• clean views after Continue and upload and Upload next spreadsheet actions (#33)

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pattypan 0.6

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Features

• added information about logging-in with two-factor authentication
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• add .svg files support (#14)

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pattypan 0.5

⬇️ Download (.jar) • macOS App (.app)

Features

• added image thumbnails
• added Dutch translation (by @sjoerddebruin, thanks!)
• add .ogg and .wav files support (#14)

Fixes

• more descriptive errors when spreadsheet tabs is missing or wikitemplate is empty

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