Motivation
Do not allow the moving of files, if they don't have a licence that is compatible with Commons / need individual review before moving it to Commons.
Examples:
Background:
This is part of fulfilling a wish of the German-speaking community's technical wishlist in 2013. For more details see parent task.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T140462 Correctly move files from Wikipedia to Commons (2013) | |||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T146666 Build a commons extension that moves files to Commons | |||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T193614 Reuse Commonhelper2's config files for category and template matching | |||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T146751 Don't allow the moving of files with a wrong licence | |||
| Resolved | WMDE-Fisch | T193620 Investigate the parsing of config files for bad templates and categories | |||
| Resolved | Andrew-WMDE | T193622 Investigate the parsing of the file info wikitext to forbid files with a wrong licence | |||
| Resolved | Andrew-WMDE | T194129 Parse the config files for bad templates and categories | |||
| Resolved | Andrew-WMDE | T194132 Parse the file info wikitext to forbid files with a wrong licence |
I sometimes find free files which have been mistagged as unfree on enwiki, mainly textlogos. New text needs to be written for the file information page, but it's often more convenient to only produce a fixed file information page for Commons (and leave the source wiki's text unchanged) than to first clean up the text on enwiki and then clean it up a second time on Commons. Therefore, I'd like if there is a way to upload such files anyway, provided that you edit the text of the file information page.
With the current tools, you can use these methods to upload such files:
The main goal of this task is fulfilled, and I would like to close it because of this. There is a potential sub-task mentioned here: If a file is not marked with one of the required licenses, it is suggested that FileImporter starts a process that allows individual review and manual fixing. To be honest I'm not sure if this can work. It is effectively identical with accepting all files. How can we make sure users understand what they should do in this "individual review"? @Lea_WMDE, do you think it is worth keeping this open as a task? If it is, I would like to split this off into a new task, and close this one.
I created T223616: Allow individual review of files that don't yet match the license requirements for the sub-task.