Commons:WikiProject Moving files to Commons
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WikiProject Moving files to Commons is dedicated to transfer/move of eligible files to Commons. This enables users to use the particular content on any Wikimedia project without seperate uploading.
Type of content
Free files, see Commons:Licensing
Tasks
Moving files to Commons
Files can be copied to Commons by any autoconfirmed user. You can help by attending to any of the current tasks listed below.
You can use FileImporter/FileExporter to copy the files and the entire file history.
You can also use other tools like the CommonsHelper2 or the CommonsHelper, or via pywikipedia bots like imagecopy.py or imagecopy_self-py (latter currently works only on files from enwiki). But only FileImporter/FileExporter moves the file history.
Deletion at source can only be done by a user that has the delete permission in the source project.
Backlog
| Site | Category/List |
|---|---|
| English Wikipedia | Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons |
| German Wikipedia | Kategorie:Datei:Commonsfähig |
| Source Project | Source Language code | Category/List | Backlog |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | en | Files moved from en.wikipedia | 792 subcategories |
| Wikipedia | de | Files moved from de.wikipedia | 1 subcategories |
| Wikipedia | fr | Files moved from fr.wikipedia | 0 subcategories |
| Wikipedia | it | Files moved from it.wikipedia | 14 subcategories |
| Wikipedia | ru | Files moved from ru.wikipedia | 303 subcategories |
| Wikipedia | jp | Files moved from jp.wikipedia | 0 subcategories |
| Wikibooks | en | Files moved from en.wikibooks | 4,882 files |
| Wikinews | en | Files moved from en.wikinews | 0 files |
| Wikisource | en | Files moved from en.wikisource | 47 files |
| Wikiversity | en | Files moved from en.wikiversity | 0 files |
| Wiktionary | en | Files moved from en.wiktionary | 0 files |
Templates
Members
If you are familiar content transfers, and has a reasonable understanding of what Commons is, please consider joining the team!
Current members
Importing content other than files
The transwiki transclusion feature needs to be enabled for cross-wiki transclusion of templates and pages.
Transferring of any content other than files should be done by administrators or those with a flag that offer the import function (such as Importer or Transwiki-importer). Transferring of content should not be done by any method other than direct importing, to ensure that the original history is copied along with the transfer.
It is recommended to place a notice on the related local talkpage (of the content to be imported) about a week before transferring, so that users have sufficient time to discuss any potential issues on the migration (such as global account issues, usage instructions, etc).
Category:Moving files to Commons