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//Currently this ticket collects questions/Todos / insights of things we should discuss and solve before working on the actual wish// **Questions** - Is it still possible to upload images to Wikipedia? I.e. is this a wish to "clean up" past behavior or is it a recurring thing? - If yes, what are the advantages to upload an image to Wikipedia and not to commons? - What is the motivation of moving files to commons and in which form should it be solved? **Insights** - There seem to be some images protected under laws that prohibit putting it under a CC licence, but allowing it to be used on Wikipedia, such as https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:DFB-Pokal-Bildmarke_2010.svg - There is a Spezial:Hochladen page which supports the current upload process

//Currently this ticket collects questions/Todos / insights of things we should discuss and solve before working on the actual wish// **Questions** - Is it still possible to upload images to Wikipedia? I.e. is this a wish to "clean up" past behavior or is it a recurring thing? - If yes, what are the advantages to upload an image to Wikipedia and not to commons? - What is the motivation of moving files to commons and in which form should it be solved? **Insights** - Not all images can just be moved to commons: There seem to be some images protected under laws that prohibit putting it under a CC licence, but allowing it to be used on Wikipedia, such as https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:DFB-Pokal-Bildmarke_2010.svg - We should be aware that an automatic move tool might be used to vandalizing purposes, too. **Existing Tools:** [0]: Spezial:Hochladen page allows users to upload files to Wikipedia. The option to upload the image to Commons instead is mentioned, but hidden within quite a bit of text [1]: http://tools.wmflabs.org/commonshelper/ Is a tool that does the transfer to commons already. However, it seems to have the deficiencies mentioned in the wish [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:This,_that_and_the_other/For_the_Common_Good Another tool to transfer files to commons [3]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archiv/Commons-Transfer_per_Bot A bot that used to run to do automatic common transfers [4]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Dateien_nach_Commons_verschieben A German help page to help people move files to commons

//Currently this ticket collects questions/Todos / insights of things we should discuss and solve before working on the actual wish// **Questions** - Is it still possible to upload images to Wikipedia? I.e. is this a wish to "clean up" past behavior or is it a recurring thing? - If yes, what are the advantages to upload an image to Wikipedia and not to commons? - What is the motivation of moving files to commons and in which form should it be solved? **Insights** - Not all images can just be moved to commons: There seem to be some images protected under laws that prohibit putting it under a CC licence, but allowing it to be used on Wikipedia, such as https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:DFB-Pokal-Bildmarke_2010.svg - There is a Spezial:Hochladen page which supports the current upload procesWe should be aware that an automatic move tool might be used to vandalizing purposes, too. **Existing Tools:** [0]: Spezial:Hochladen page allows users to upload files to Wikipedia. The option to upload the image to Commons instead is mentioned, but hidden within quite a bit of text [1]: http://tools.wmflabs.org/commonshelper/ Is a tool that does the transfer to commons already. However, it seems to have the deficiencies mentioned in the wish [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:This,_that_and_the_other/For_the_Common_Good Another tool to transfer files to commons [3]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archiv/Commons-Transfer_per_Bot A bot that used to run to do automatic common transfers [4]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Dateien_nach_Commons_verschieben A German help page to help people move files to commons