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Questions?

Will you be retiring Flickr2Commons?

No. We have no desire to do that, or responsibility to make that decision.

What’s wrong with Flickr2Commons?

Flickr2Commons is great. It turned ten years old in 2023. It’s helped about 5.4 million pictures make their way from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. The reason we want to extend it is to make it even easier to use, and keep track of images that move from one place to the other, and see what we can do to incorporate the efforts behind Structured Data on Commons.

I have a feature idea - who do I tell?

Please let us know your ideas on the Discussion page. That’s probably the best place to leave a note so we can all discuss it.

Are you able to address the “license washing” problem?

We’ll try, yes. It’s not ideal that licenses can be changed during their journey from one platform to the other. We developed a licensing framework to inform our product design, which you can see on the About page.

How will you manage visibility of Flickypedia uploads?

We are appending a specific WM category to every upload, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploads_using_Flickypedia. There is also going to be a Flickypedia-specific template on the media file page. Finally, we have a new Wikidata property for Flickr Photo ID, which should make lots of Flickr-specific operations much easier.

Are you related to this Flickypedia?

Not directly. We've been in touch with the father/daughter team who built it, and we're delighted to say they are happy to share the Flickypedia name with us. Here's more about that project.