Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

-- Raimond Spekking, Köln Am 17.01.2019 um 21:52 schrieb Michael Schönitzer: > > Hi, > > Thank you for the positiv feedback! > > The decision if you move an already moved file again or not is up to > you, the community. WMDE “just” provides you with the tools to do so. > If you move the file again you have the advantage to not lose the file > and version history and have more transparency about who uploaded the > file or edited the file description page. > > To do so you will have to first delete the file on Wikimedia Commons, > then move the file with FileExporter and finally delete the local version. > > > If the file page on Wikimedia Commons has been changed in the meantime > and you want to preserve both version histories, you can try to > undelete the version on Wikimedia Commons after moving the file to > merge the version histories – but that might be a bit tricky. > > > Cheers, >  M > > Am Mi., 16. Jan. 2019 um 15:43 Uhr schrieb Deryck Chan > <deryckchan@gmail.com mailto:deryckchan@gmail.com>: > > It's great...! > > I've come across a few cases where there's already a copy of the > file on Commons, but the (original) local file hasn't been deleted > yet. Should I use the new tool to import the file history, or is > that not necessary? What was WMDE's proposde workflow for old > files that were imported without the file history? > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 14:22, Johanna Strodt > <johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de mailto:johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de> > wrote: > > Hello Deryck, > > Wow, that's great! As of ~2 hours ago, the feature is > available on all wikis (don't forget to activate it in your > preferences). I'd love to hear what you think of it. > > Best, > Johanna >   > > Am Mi., 16. Jan. 2019 um 15:10 Uhr schrieb Deryck Chan > <deryckchan@gmail.com mailto:deryckchan@gmail.com>: > > Hello Johanna, > > This is great timing. The Cantonese Wikipedia has recently > been going through a drive to clean up old files, some > dating back to 2006, which haven't been moved to Commons > because... CommonsHelper is frankly a bit clumsy. This > will help us lots! > > Deryck > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:04, Johanna Strodt > <johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de > mailto:johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > // sorry for cross-posting > > > The FileExporter will soon be released as a beta > feature to all wikis. The planned deployment date is > January 16. > > > Some background: Files from local wikis should be > transferred to Wikimedia Commons if their license > allows it. This way, they can be used by all wikis. > But if you wanted to import a local file to Commons in > the past, you couldn’t properly transfer its file and > page history. It was a wish from a survey of the > German-speaking communities to find a solution to this > problem. > > Now, the FileExporter makes it possible to import a > file from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, while > keeping its history intact. A first version has > already been a beta feature on a few first wikis since > June 2018. [1] Since then, bugs were fixed and > features were added. > > > If you’re interested in importing local files, please > give the feature a try. Even though it’s a beta > feature, you can use it for real file imports. Please > note that in order to get started, you need to > > 1. > > activate the beta feature “FileExporter” on your > wiki [2], and > > 2. > > make sure your wiki has a proper configuration > file. Configuration files are maintained by each > wiki's community. They define, among other things, > whether a file can be exported. Exports from wikis > without a configuration file are blocked. Find > more more information in the documentation. [3] > > > We’re looking forward to your feedback on the central > feedback page! [4] A big thanks to everyone who gave > feedback so far. > > > If you wish to learn more about the project, have a > look at the page of the wish. [5] > > > For the Technical Wishes team, > > Johanna > > > [1] deployment plan: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons#... > > [2] go to Preferences > Beta features, e.g. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu... > > [3] documentation on configuration files: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons/... > > [4] central feedback page: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter > > [5] project page: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons > > > Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community > Communications Technical Wishlist, Wikimedia Deutschland > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > mailto:Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > mailto:Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > > > -- > Johanna Strodt > Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. 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