[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons support enabled on all wikis

[Jean-Christophe Chazalette]

This is a great feature Erik. Maybe the first real interwiki thingy. I've 
made an announcement on Fr village pump.
Villy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller at gmx.de>
To: <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 3:43 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons support enabled on all wikis


>I have just finished implementing, backporting, and enabling basic support
> for transparently using content from the Wikimedia Commons on all
> Wikimedia wikis.
>
> An example for this:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Onopordum_bracteatum0.jpg
> =>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Onopordum_bracteatum0.jpg
> =>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Onopordum_bracteatum0.jpg
> =>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Onopordum_bracteatum0.jpg
> =>
> http://ja.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F:Onopordum_bracteatum0.jpg
>
> etc. etc.
>
> Use a file from the Commons like you would any other, using [[Image:]] or
> [[Media:]] links, with extended options or without. If the file does not
> exist locally, we search the Commons. If it doesn't exist there either, we
> show a "Missing image" notice.
>
> You can edit Commons image pages, but this should only be done for the
> purpose of describing the content. For licensing information, you can use
> MediaWiki:Sharedupload to insert an automatic backlink to the Commons. See
> the version on en: as an example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sharedupload
>
> This is not perfect yet. In the not so far future, the content of the
> Commons description page should be directly transcluded on the using wiki.
> It should also be possible to upload content directly to the Commons from
> anywhere welse. In order to deal with issues like cross-wiki
> authentication, and to have a shared database in place, I am waiting for
> the single login transition before tackling this issue further.
>
> And even these advanced features are just a mid term perspective. In the
> long term, I would like it to be possible for any open content wiki using
> our software to immediately start using Commons content (caching the
> images, of course, and maybe even serving them as mirrors chosen in a
> round-robin fashion).
>
> In the meantime, please do start using the Commons, upload images and
> sound files to it, and help organizing the growing number of them. Keep in
> mind that the Commons is *only* for free content -- no fair use allowed.
> Having to upload non-free images locally is a good disincentive, and helps
> us to enforce individual wiki policies on non-free content.
>
> All best,
>
> Erik
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