Commons:WikiProject Moving files to Commons

This is WikiProject Moving files to Commons, a WikiProject for focused collaboration among users on the topic of Moving files to Commons.

The WikiProject "Moving files to Commons" deals with transferring eligible files to Commons, where it will be used as the main content repository, of which will be used by other projects.

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

Further information: Commons: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

Files to be copied to Commons

Site	Category/List
English Wikipedia	Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons
German Wikipedia	Kategorie:Datei:Commonsfähig

Files moved to Commons requiring review

Source Project	Source Language code	Category/List	Backlog
Wikipedia	en	Files moved from en.wikipedia	880 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	20 subcategories
Wikipedia	ru	Files moved from ru.wikipedia	325 subcategories
Wikipedia	jp	Files moved from jp.wikipedia	0 subcategories
Wikibooks	en	Files moved from en.wikibooks	4,959 files
Wikinews	en	Files moved from en.wikinews	0 files
Wikisource	en	Files moved from en.wikisource	49 files
Wikiversity	en	Files moved from en.wikiversity	0 files
Wiktionary	en	Files moved from en.wiktionary	0 files

Templates

• Template:User Moving files to Commons
• Template:User Moving files to Commons from Wikipedia
• Template:BotMoveToCommons
• Template:BotMoveToCommonsHeader

Members

If you are familiar content transfers, and has a reasonable understanding of what Commons is, please consider joining the team!

Current members

1. Rehman (talk · contribs)
2. Leyo (talk · contribs)
3. Ebe123 (talk · contribs)
4. Trijnstel (talk · contribs)
5. High Contrast (talk · contribs)
6. CommonSupporter (talk · contribs)
7. Dan Koehl (talk · contribs)

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).