Hello Johanna, This is great timing. The Cantonese Wikipedia has recently been going through a drive to clean up old files, some dating back to 2006, which haven't been moved to Commons because... CommonsHelper is frankly a bit clumsy. This will help us lots!
Deryck On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:04, Johanna Strodt <johanna.str...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > // sorry for cross-posting > > The FileExporter will soon be released as a beta feature to all wikis. The > planned deployment date is January 16. > > Some background: Files from local wikis should be transferred to Wikimedia > Commons if their license allows it. This way, they can be used by all > wikis. But if you wanted to import a local file to Commons in the past, you > couldn’t properly transfer its file and page history. It was a wish from a > survey of the German-speaking communities to find a solution to this > problem. > > Now, the FileExporter makes it possible to import a file from a local wiki > to Wikimedia Commons, while keeping its history intact. A first version has > already been a beta feature on a few first wikis since June 2018. [1] Since > then, bugs were fixed and features were added. > > If you’re interested in importing local files, please give the feature a > try. Even though it’s a beta feature, you can use it for real file imports. > Please > note that in order to get started, you need to > > 1. > > activate the beta feature “FileExporter” on your wiki [2], and > 2. > > make sure your wiki has a proper configuration file. Configuration > files are maintained by each wiki's community. They define, among > other things, whether a file can be exported. Exports from wikis without a > configuration file are blocked. Find more more information in the > documentation. [3] > > > We’re looking forward to your feedback on the central feedback page! [4] A > big thanks to everyone who gave feedback so far. > > If you wish to learn more about the project, have a look at the page of > the wish. [5] > > For the Technical Wishes team, > > Johanna > > [1] deployment plan: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons#Deployment_plan > > [2] go to Preferences > Beta features, e.g. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures > > [3] documentation on configuration files: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons/Configuration_file_documentation > > [4] central feedback page: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter > > [5] project page: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons > > Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical > Wishlist, Wikimedia Deutschland > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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