**Survey**: 2013
**Original wish (German):** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Dateien
**Update sites on-wiki:**
- English: <not existant yet>
- German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Topw%C3%BCnsche#Technisch_sauberes_Verschieben_von_Dateien_nach_Commons_unter_Beibehaltung_der_Versionsgeschichte_und_des_Benutzernamens_.5BUmfrage_2013.5D
**Insights:**
- There are files that should stay on Wikipedia and not be moved to Commons, e.g. files under the fair use licence
- Currently, the commonshelper tool is mainly used to move files to Commons
- It is not about writing a bot to move many files quickly, but about writing a correct method for moving a single file
**Plan**:
- Implement a Commons extension that moves files to Commons, keeping all data intact. This includes file revisions and text revisions as well as info about who moved the file. It also mentions the move in the version history. T146666
- Link the new extension from Wikipedia file pages where appropriate T144480
- Disable the link if moving is not encouraged T146751
- all other open stories :)
**Still to be found out:****Out of scope**
- Is there a better way to update the WP template to Commons template mapping than having a list + pull requests?For the wish, T143415
**Related Tasks:**
{T142507}
{T142503}
both of these tickets are related to having a global user id,we will implement a hard coded mapping of well known matches of wikipedia and commons templates. Ideally, this should be configurable. which would make it much easier to implement this wishThoughts about how to do it are collected here: T143415