[Commons-l] Wikinews (en) and commons (RE: pfctdayelise's post)

[Platonides]

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.