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

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Sat Oct 30 21:55:35 UTC 2004


On 30 Oct 2004 15:43:00 +0200, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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

As I already said on IRC: Why not include this in the standard
Sharedupload? Now if it happens to be that no sysop in a certain
language reads your message, or if they read it but do not realize the
type of action they are to take, a backlink will not exist on that
language.

Andre Engels



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