Commons:Moving to Commons

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Off they go!

[edit] Prepare the image

• Check if the image has a proper license/author/source/permission.
• Add or update the template {{Information}}. It is not required for a good transfer, but it is helpful in making sure the important details of the image are not lost in the upload.
• If the image is own work replace {{<licence>}} with {{Self|<licence>}}, this will help the bot (for example {{GFDL}} with {{Self|GFDL}})

[edit] Transfer the image

You have several options all involving Commonshelper

1. Use your own account to upload the image and get the text to paste from Commonshelper (be careful to upload the original image, not a thumbnail!)
2. Use the Commonshelper bot
3. Use your own bot (imagecopy.py in pywikipedia)

Don't forget to tag the source image with {{Nowcommons}}.

[edit] Check the image

1. Click the link in {{BotMoveToCommons}} (will remove the template, set the edit summary and you can start editing the text)
2. Clean up the information template
   • Description : You might want to remove some leftovers or maybe add a translation
   • Source : Usually alright.
   • Date : We don't care about the original upload date. If it's possible restore the original date
   • Author : Set the author. If the original uploader is the author remove the "Original uploader was"
   • Permission : Usually alright.
   • Other_versions : Set if any other version exist, empty most of the time
3. Check licence template(s) and remove redundant templates (sometime more than one licence template is added by the bot).
4. Set proper categories