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Follow {{Commonscat}} to find appropriate images for an article, if that template and/or a link to a category on Commons is present on the page
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Here's an idea from User:Kerry Raymond:

A lot of Wikipedia articles have {{commonscat}} templates or some other way of linking to a category on Commons. (These links are also available through Wikidata in some cases.) When those are available, it's likely that a user who wants to add an image will want to see the images in this category. Is it possible to display those by default in the image search box?

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This could plausibly be done as a gadget, but it doesn't belong in VisualEditor-MediaWiki as it's specific to a particular wiki.

This could plausibly be done as a gadget, but it doesn't belong in VisualEditor-MediaWiki as it's specific to a particular wiki.

"Does not belong in VisualEditor-MediaWiki" means Declined, not Stalled