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Commons Helper (on Tool Labs) failing on English Wikisource
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The Commons Helper tool, which permits moving files from other wikis to Commons, has been working fine for me with English Wikipedia to Commons transfers, but failing when I try to use it on English Wikisource. At minimum, I hope a more informative error message could be generated. When I try to use it on files from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Centennial_History_of_Oregon I get the following text:

Querying image data ...done.
Retrieving image description ...done.
ERROR: Warning

And the file is not moved. By contrast, a successful file move on English Wikipedia results in the following text:

Querying CommonSense ...done.
Querying image data ...done.
Retrieving image description ...done.
Transfer successful!

I am not sure where the error is. I do have sysop privileges at English Wikipedia, and no advanced privileges at Wikisource; but I have successfully used Commons Helper from Wikisource in recent months, so I don't think that's the issue. PNG vs. JPG perhaps..?

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Thanks for taking the time to report this!

Is this about http://tools.wmflabs.org/commonshelper/ ? Exact links are always welcome.

Is this about http://tools.wmflabs.org/commonshelper/ ? Exact links are always welcome.

Yes, it is -- sorry for the oversight, and thanks for finding it.