[Commons-l] Direct transfer of properly licensed images from wikipedias to commons?

Stan Shebs stanshebs at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 17 17:58:48 UTC 2007


Magnus Manske wrote:
> OK, state of the union:
> * WatchFlickr now adds {{flickrreview}} again
> * CommonsHelper has a "direct upload" switch (off by default)
> * Direct upload by CommonsHelper will add {{BotMoveToCommons}} with
> the appropriate source language, so things will end in subcategories
> of [[Category:Files moved to Commons requiring review]]
>   
Worked very nicely for me - got a couple dozen PD stamp images moved 
over with little ado. The most work came in when I decided to give some 
of the images more reasonable names, had to manually edit a bunch of en: 
refs to them. Auto-editing of image references would be a nice addition.

Stan




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