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Bug 14919 - Enable Upload by URL for admins on Commons
Enable Upload by URL for admins on Commons
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20512
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: High enhancement with 5 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Sam Reed (reedy)
: shell
Depends on: 20512 32341
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-07-25 12:54 UTC by Kanonkas
Modified: 2012-12-10 20:41 UTC (History)
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Description Kanonkas 2008-07-25 12:54:31 UTC 
Currently at Commons, administrators can't upload files through upload by url, as far as I know but I would like this to get changed. I was thinking we could make it available for admins at Commons to upload by url
Comment 1 Chad H. 2008-07-25 12:57:22 UTC 
+keyword, change component to Wikimedia Site Requests.
Comment 2 Daniel Kinzler 2008-07-25 13:07:49 UTC 
to clarify: the request is to enable $wgAllowCopyUploads but restrict the upload_by_url permission to admins. I support the idea, as i see no harm in it, and it would could make things easier on admins.
Comment 3 Daniel Kinzler 2008-07-25 20:10:11 UTC 
Relevant thread on the Village Pump: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Upload_by_URL
Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2008-08-01 21:32:01 UTC 
Note this would not work at present, as the web servers do not have access to the general internet.
Comment 5 This, that and the other (TTO) 2011-10-30 10:00:11 UTC 
Despite the fact that WM servers don't have internet access, there would still be some benefit in enabling upload by URL, even if it is only possible to upload from upload.wikimedia.org.

This would make transfer of media from WM wikis to Commons much easier and quicker. It would make it finally possible to do this from client-side JavaScript (using the API), rather than relying on the semi-broken CommonsHelper. This would make it easier to cut down the move-to-Commons backlog on enwiki. 

So it would make people happy :)
Comment 6 Fastily 2011-12-20 01:08:07 UTC 
Agree with This, that and the other on the importance of having an updated 'Transfer to Commons' tool.  If such feature could be implemented, it would be a great help to those of us chipping away at a ~250,000 item backlog on en.wikipedia.
Comment 7 Étienne Beaulé 2011-12-27 18:26:48 UTC 
Agree too
Comment 8 p858snake 2012-01-16 13:27:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20512 ***
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