bawolff wrote:
you are aware that some projects (french wikipedia to name one) use The commons featured pictures as their featured pictures. Maybe you should try to encourage more to.
Sadly, things like POTD can't be used on all wikis, as they are based on commons templates (which can't be transcluded).
I should probably start uploading our free images to commons (Most of them are well categorized and sourced), but its not exactly at the top of my priority list (My current priority is to bug the crap out of people who didn't source their (locally uploaded) images)
The moving of free images could be bot-done... as far as categories still applied.
Also it currently doesn't help that we don't have a commons ticker on wikinews. It was disabled because the page got too long, and updates kept failing, which is my fault because i didn't archive it enough, mostly because I didn't get through it all. However it was still very useful (or even the deleted template [[commons:template:Used On Wikinews]] would be quite useful in combination of related changes.
You can request a CommonsTicker which automatically removes old data.