The Commons' idea of the Picture of the day seems great to me, so that an idea occurred to me (yes, it happens sometimes, really!). It would be perfect if I would be able to include the picture on the title page of the Czech Wikipedia. It would also attract people to the Commons project (which is a little bit problem on cs:, users seem to be scared a little bit by the english-speaking look of Commons etc.).

But there is an obvious problem: I don't think it is possible to do that. The only syntax I came up with was something like {{commons:Template:Potd|width=300|float=right|lang=cs}}, but I didn't even expect _that_ to work (and it did not). I don't believe there would be some other, working way, but for sure: don't you know about a method of using Commons' POTD on another project?

Sure, we could copy all required pages from Commons and every day add a copy of a new one manually, but it would be useless duplication of work, I think.

As a programmer, I am able to imagine two approaches: either allow cross-project template inclusion (which seems to be a terrible idea), or allow some "image redirects" (i.e. on Commons, there would be a page called e.g. Image:POTD.redirect that would contain something like "#REDIRECT [[Image:{{Template:Potd/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}}}]]"), which seems a little bit more reasonable, but it is only a vague idea.

Any comments?

Best regards, [[ :cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]