Jens Frank wrote:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:07:15PM +0200, Andre Engels wrote:
From WikiCommons the following seem currently to be the most wanted additions to Wikimedia Software:
- The possibility to use images on commons directly on Wikipedia
- Getting a thumbnail of an image in a category (and for non-images some
descriptive text) instead of just the page title on a category page.
Unfortunately, it does not seem like there are any active developers on WikiCommons currently, so I am throwing this into the larger group in the hope someone will be interested in programming them.
Any proposed syntax for it?
There already is a Special:Newimages in 1.4-pre that is intended for
commons, it shows the latest uploads as thumbnail galery. It was written with cateogry pages in mind, so adding this will not take too long.
Regards,
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The syntax is simple: it is the same syntax as the local syntax, when the image/sound is not found locally, it should be looked for in Commons. When a picture is uploaded it it should be possible to upload to Commons, depending on the license. Fair use for instance is not allowed in some wikipedia and therefore is not allowed in Commons.
When this mechanism is implemented, we can start migrating pictures to Commons, paricularly the pictures that are used in more than one wikipedia. Many pictures have interwiki links to indicate them as a shared resource.
Thanks, GerardM