[Wikipedia-l] Commons' Picture of the day on other projects?

[Petr Kadlec]

The Commons' idea of the Picture of the day seems great to me, so that
an idea occurred to me (yes, it happens sometimes, really!). It would
be perfect if I would be able to include the picture on the title page
of the Czech Wikipedia. It would also attract people to the Commons
project (which is a little bit problem on cs:, users seem to be scared
a little bit by the english-speaking look of Commons etc.).

But there is an obvious problem: I don't think it is possible to do
that. The only syntax I came up with was something like
{{commons:Template:Potd|width=300|float=right|lang=cs}}, but I didn't
even expect _that_ to work (and it did not). I don't believe there
would be some other, working way, but for sure: don't you know about a
method of using Commons' POTD on another project?

Sure, we could copy all required pages from Commons and every day add
a copy of a new one manually, but it would be useless duplication of
work, I think.

As a programmer, I am able to imagine two approaches: either allow
cross-project template inclusion (which seems to be a terrible idea),
or allow some "image redirects" (i.e. on Commons, there would be a
page called e.g. Image:POTD.redirect that would contain something like
"#REDIRECT [[Image:{{Template:Potd/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}}}]]"),
which seems a little bit more reasonable, but it is only a vague idea.

Any comments?

Best regards,
[[ :cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]