Last modified: 2006-11-19 22:57:49 UTC
It should be great to have a more convenient way to move image from a wikipedia to commons. I think it's a really big work and about License, so I just talk about this without hope to get this improvement soon :] I just want to say : "one day that will be need, there can be some ideas". =================== Proposition 1 ========================= In http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload , the field "source file", may be able to say: * fr * Image:Whale_3.png * complete the other fields. then the french media file Image:Whale_3.png will be move to commons, and delete on wiki fr. =================== Proposition 2 ========================= Many Media files are clearly free of use, but on only one wikipedia such en.wikipedia.org. The problem is that the move to commons is nowadays too long. It should be great if administrator can have a button such "move to commons" when we are in front of Media Files. # The trusted admin "Marcel" find a media file '''free of use''' on his little wikipedia.fr # he clic on the button "move to commons", # the media file is move to commons, with the good history, showing as uploader on commons the former french wikipedia (not the trusted admin, which doesn't appear in the history of the file.) On the french page, the history of upload is : * 19:30, 5 November 2006 [[user:Micheletb]] (Talk) After the move, on the commons page, the history can be : * [Time], [Day MONTH YEAR] - [[:FR:user:Marcel]] (Talk) - uploaded from fr. * 19:30, 5 November 2006 [[:FR:user:Micheletb]] (Talk) - image d'un Elephant License issue : # Copying the text from fr to commons. Template are often the same. # choice in the list of license (same that in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload)
It might be easier to think of it as a pull operation, performed on the Commons side of things; this would likely involve a faux transaction of sorts, in which the history of the media file is exported from the source wiki in XML format, imported into the new location, and the files copied; similar to existing transwiki operations using Special:Import. Deleting the source file could be left as a final step for the administrators (and wouldn't require massive changes to the existing pages, assuming we required that the names be kept consistent).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5283 ***
