Commons talk:Moving files to Commons

Suggestion

You might want to add or update the information template to make sure the important details of the image are not lost in the upload.Evrik (talk) 04:22, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

It's not really needed for a good transfer, but it is helpful. Multichill (talk) 22:06, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Does anyone care if I tweak the language? Evrik (talk) 19:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Please do :) Multichill (talk) 21:19, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

You do know both licence and license are correct? ;-) Multichill (talk) 23:28, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

• :-D Evrik (talk) 23:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Fixing the bot moves isn't easy

Someone told me that, to recover original title & description lost by the bot, add "1=" to the template, ie {{en|1= -- and this often works.

I haven't had any luck trying to restore original info inside the template -- see here for a botched attempt. Better instructions here might help. Maybe just start with a fresh template? TIA, PDTillman (talk) 01:03, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

FileExporter feature now default on first wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter extensions make moving files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier. Together they allow to move files with all their original data intact, while documenting the move in the version history. The feature originates in a top wish from the Technical Wishes survey on German Wikipedia.

The FileExporter, i.e. the part of the feature which lives on the local wiki, is now a default feature on first wikis: de, fa, mr, ko Wikipedias and on the Wikisource for multilingual books (so called sourceswiki). This means that as an auto-confirmed user on these wikis, you now see a link “Export to Wikimedia Commons” on local file pages. If you click on this link, the FileImporter then checks if the file can in fact be moved to Commons, and if any replacements need to be made. These checks are performed based on the wiki’s configuration file which is defined by the local community.

The feature has been in beta mode since June 2018 (first wikis)/January 2019 (all wikis). During the beta phase, 15,000 people on the Wikimedia projects have activated the feature, and more than 12,000 files were imported successfully with this new tool. The first version from June 2018 was improved continuously, based on feedback from its beta testers. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback!

Deployment on more wikis is planned for later this year. As always, feedback on this feature is very welcome on this talk page. -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 12:41, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

FileExporter should be the preferred option

Hi! I think we should make FileExporter the preferred option. So other tools should only be used if FileExporter is not possible. --MGA73 (talk) 18:07, 31 July 2020 (UTC)