I'm interested in what it would take to transwiki eligible (free content) images from en:wp to Commons. Is this just a matter of switching on the ability and having the person doing the transwiki being an admin on both wikis? How is the history preserved, in these dark days before SUL? Etc., etc.
- d.
On 11/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'm interested in what it would take to transwiki eligible (free content) images from en:wp to Commons. Is this just a matter of switching on the ability and having the person doing the transwiki
Haven't we had this discussion before? The export XML stream includes information on individual uploads, so the data's all there, but no-one's written the code to slurp in the actual image files upon import, so it's a matter of implementation.
being an admin on both wikis? How is the history preserved, in these dark days before SUL? Etc., etc.
Not sure what you mean; as you probably know, transwiki is just a special case of export/import, using MediaWiki's standard XML schema. Single user login is pretty irrelevant to it.
Rob Church
David Gerard wrote:
I'm interested in what it would take to transwiki eligible (free content) images from en:wp to Commons. Is this just a matter of switching on the ability and having the person doing the transwiki being an admin on both wikis? How is the history preserved, in these dark days before SUL? Etc., etc.
- d.
Are you talking about *future* directions or what is done now? In the first case, only trusteness on Commons would be needed. On the second one: It is done at hand. Though we have the help of some nice tools ;) http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php
You could lie, but you can easily get caught.
For Commons, page history is not really important, but *image history*.
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