Template talk:Copy to Wikimedia Commons

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I've just saw Image:IanMcKellen.0051.jpg and I think that the phrase "Wikipedia is not a collection of photographs or media files with no text to go with the articles" is not reflecting properly the "status" change (aka move to commons) of a gfdl-compliant image. +MATIA ☎ 16:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

This template is nonsense. Someone can move the file or not, but to tag it with a template "that anyone else should move it" is a waste of time. All images could have such a template, but nobody would have anything from that. --Saperaud 17:47, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

The text should reflect the fact that this template is usually used to quickly tag an image that should and can be moved to commons, so that it's available in all projects, but cannot be moved right away due to time constraints. Shinobu 04:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Shinobu, so the reasoning in the text seems to me not to be appropriate. All free images could be moved, but not all of them are so usefull in all other projects like others, so it is good to tag the most important. --Reo ON | +++ 01:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
And another thing. I don't know if this is possible now, if it isn't, perhaps it will be in the future; perhaps transwikiing a page could also copy the edit history. Obviously normal editors like me wouldn't be able to do that, so an admin would be needed to finish the job. Shinobu 03:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Move to Wikimedia Commons is now Copy to Wikimedia Commons

Per Template_talk:Move_to_Wiktionary#Move_vs._copy, and for reasons I'll explain here, all the "Move to" transwiki templates are being moved to "Copy to". Putting this template in place does not cause an article to be moved, it causes it to be copied. Once copied, the original might be deleted from wikipedia, or it might be rewritten, expanded, etc. Calling this "Move to Wikimedia Commons" makes people who come across the template think that the template will cause the deletion of the article, and often leads people to remove the template inappropriately. Giving it the proper name ends that. There are mentions in various articles and help files and such around wikipedia which mention "Move to Wikimedia Commons" which will need to be changed, I will do that after some time has passed, waiting first to see if there is some major disagreement to this change. --Xyzzyplugh 02:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] adding info about the wikiproject

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I think a note about Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons could probably be helpful and attract more people's attention so they join in the process. Maybe Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons as well. Yonatan (contribs/talk) 14:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Y Done, and documentation moved to sub-page so you can edit yourself in the future. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-16 08:43Z

[edit] Bot

We would use a bot to copy files from Wikipedia to Commons. --HybridBoy 09:12, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons helper

{{editprotected}}The Dutch version of this template contains a link to a handy page that helps copying images to the Commons. See e.g http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Trassie_oedang.jpg. Shinobu 15:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I've disabled the editprotected request. There should be consensus before changing this. Cheers. --MZMcBride 03:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extra link

Adding this link http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php?interface={{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}&image={{PAGENAMEE}}&lang={{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} to the template would make wonders. I've done it on the Icelandic Wikipedia is:Snið:Færa á Commons and seen in one the French, so I was very disappointed not seeing it used here. It makes it so much easier to move the images. --Steinninn 16:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use on articles

{{editprotected}} This template is seeing a lot of use on articles recently, as pure gallery articles are getting moved to Commons. Ex. Gallery of dependent territory flags. However, the wording doesn't make sense for articles. Could this be remedied somehow? Thanks, Himasaram 23:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Hm... I considered adding switches or other parserfunctions to display different messages, depending on the namespace of the page being transferred... but I'm beginning to think it may be easier to refactor (and possibly rename) Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons to reflect current practice, including galleries. Thoughts? – Luna Santin (talk) 22:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

The editprotected tag is premature - first there needs to be consensus about exactly what change to make. The tag is only to get the attention of admins to implement already decided changes, not to suggest that a change might be needed. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:49, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabetize images

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It seems that all images in Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons are being alphabetized under "I" due to the "Image:" prefix. This means that the table of contents in that category is worthless, and it's very difficult to navigate among the images. I believe this can be fixed by some clever use of {{PAGENAME}} or something along those lines. —Bkell (talk) 22:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

{{{category|[[Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons]]}}} → {{{category|[[Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}} would work, I think. GracenotesT § 22:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Y Done Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 02:58, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quick link to the CommonsHelper

Adding this code:

[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php?interface={{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}&image={{PAGENAMEE}}&lang={{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} CommonsHelper]

Will make it easier to move the images. Also, [[m:Transwiki|copied]] needs to be fixed because it leads to a disambiguate page. --Steinninn 00:47, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

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Where exactly should this be added? ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 22:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
See for example nl:Sjabloon:Verplaats naar Wikimedia Commons. Cheers! Siebrand 00:23, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Y Done. Note that this template is heavily used, so it may take a while for all uses of it to update. --ais523 18:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] German

Please could we have a German version of this template (or a link to the German version if it exists)... Railwayfan2005 (talk) 20:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I can't see the template on that page (even with the aid of Babel Fish), only the template used on Commons after the bot has moved the image over ( Template: BotMoveToCommons).... Railwayfan2005 (talk) 19:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
  • More German wikipedians read English than English speakers read German. WHy don't you post a request over there asking someone to comment here? --evrik (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Croatian

There's a Croation version of this at hz:Predložak:Premjestiti na Commons, can it be added to the languages list... Railwayfan2005 (talk) 20:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hyphen vs. Dash

Could someone maybe replace the hyphen-minus (U+002D) with either en dash (U+2013) or em dash (U+2014), whichever is more to the typographical taste in written English. I've seen other templates using the correct quotation marks so some people obviously care about typography on WP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joey-das-WBF (talk • contribs) 10:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)