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This page contains a collection of tools and services to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to the work with Wikimedia Commons. Some of the tools here are optionally directly integrated within the Wikimedia Commons web interface. If you want to know how to play back and view contents of Wikimedia Commons have a look at the media help page. If you are in search for software editing and creating media files have a look at our software page.

Tools marked with a * have a gadget available to provide convenient access. Gadgets can be activated in your Preferences.

[edit] TUSC

The Toolserver User Screening Tool (TUSC) is a system that permits many of the tools listed below to authenticate your connection to your Commons account, without requiring that you disclose your Commons password on the toolserver.org site. You can create a new TUSC account here: tools:~magnus/tusc.php. It is recommended not to choose the same password as your Commons password.

There does not appear to be more general documentation for the tool (for instance, how to retrieve a lost password → Just create a new account (should work … hopefully)).

See also de:WP:TUSC (in German; automatic machine translation to English)

[edit] Organize media

[edit] CommonSense*

CommonSense is a web based tool for finding appropriate categories for images on Commons. This tool uses the live database copy on the Wikimedia tool server and is developed and maintained by User:Duesentrieb.

tools:~daniel/WikiSense/CommonSense.php — web frontend
Information and discussion
The ExtraTabs2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] OrphanImages*

OrphanImages is a web based tool for finding images that are not on a gallery page or in any category. This tool uses the live database copy on the Wikimedia tool server and is developed and maintained by User:Duesentrieb.

tools:~daniel/WikiSense/OrphanImages.php — web frontend
Information and discussion
The ExtraTabs2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] UntaggedImages*

The UntaggedImages tool helps to find images that are missing a license tag. This tool uses the live database copy on the wikimedia tool server and is developed and maintained by User:Duesentrieb.

tools:~daniel/WikiSense/UntaggedImages.php — web frontend
Information and discussion
The ExtraTabs2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] GeocodingToDo*

GeocodingToDo Tool categorized images not yet geocoded.

tools:~para/GeoCommons/geocodingtodo.php — web frontend
The GeocodingToDo gadget links to this tool.

[edit] Bad Old Ones

Bad Old Ones lists images in a given category (and subcategories) with dates of their last edits, thumbnails, description, and usage on other Wikimedia projects. Intended for categories containing "bad" images, e.g. Category:Unknown. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/bad_old_ones.php
Example: //toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/bad_old_ones.php?category=Images%20with%20unknown%20source%20as%20of%20unknown%20date%202006

[edit] Commons sum-it-up*

This tool can "summarize" articles from Wikipedias connected via interlanguage links by putting the initial paragraph of each article into a language template. Also finds missing interlanguage links. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/commons_sumitup.php
The Sum It Up gadget links to this tool.

[edit] LicenseToKill

Screenshot of LicenseToKill

This tool provides a simple GUI to allow easy deletion of multiple files within one category or from a list. Only for Windows with .NET 2.0. Developed by User:Dake.

http://licensetokill.sourceforge.net/

[edit] Add information*

Analyze the free-text description of an image and try to fit it into a standard {{Information}} template. Developed by Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/add_information.php
The Add {{Information}} gadget links to this tool.

[edit] My "No Information"

Finds all images not using {{Information}} for a specific user. Invokes Add information.

tools:~magnus/mynoinfo.php

[edit] ComDel

An edit button generator for keep/delete "votes".

tools:~magnus/comdel.php

[edit] What is that?*

Get an image description in multiple languages from thumbnail texts.

tools:~magnus/whatisthat.php
The What Is That gadget links to this tool.

[edit] Commons Commander (CC)*

see Commons:Tools/cc.
The Commons Commander (CC) gadget links to this tool.

[edit] Glamorous

tools:~magnus/glamorous.php
Tool to keep track of Commons images used on other projects.

[edit] Search

Default search is Special:Search (no gallery display). See en:Help:Searching for proper use. You can search for files by filename, at Special:Newimages; the order is from newest to oldest (by upload date).

[edit] CatScan*

You can't put in any keywords, but has a useful display of images within a certain category, with or without a certain template, uploaded by a certain user, etc. Developed by User:Duesentrieb.

http://toolserver.org/%7Edaniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org
The ExtraTabs2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] CatScan 2*

Allows to search for images with or without one or several categories, with or without a certain template, etc. (User:Magnus Manske)

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?language=commons&project=wikimedia&depth=3&ns%5B6%5D=1&ext_image_data=1
The CatScan V2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] OggSearch

Search for audio and video. Search on size, length, category and media type. Developed by User:Bryan.

tools:~bryan/ogg/search

[edit] Maintenance

[edit] CommonsWantedTemplates

A tool has much like Special:WantedTemplates, on the toolserver: http://toolserver.org/~krinkle/CommonsWantedTemplates/ . The difference is that it refreshes more often and is being filtered as the community desires. It only displays transclusions from the Template-namespace, example of a filter is the removal of those starting with "Potd" or "Motd" (which takes up most if not all of Special:WantedTemplates). Cleaning up mistakes becomes a lot easier now !

tools:~krinkle/CommonsWantedTemplates

[edit] Find Wikipedia/Commons dupes

Tool for finding local Wikipedia files which are also uploaded to Commons. It can be used to add NowCommons tag to them.

tools:~multichill/nowcommons.php

[edit] Find individual Wikipedia or Commons dupes

Tool to find images at Commons or individual wiki which are uploaded more than once

tools:~multichill/dupes.php.

[edit] Orphaned talk pages

Find all talk pages without a subjct page in a certain namespace. Optionally filter out redirects and/or subpages:

tools:krinkle/OrphanTalk2.php

[edit] Bad template links

List of pages on Commons that have potentially bad template links (such as {{Http://toolserver.org}}).

tools:~krinkle/Specials/commonswiki/BadTemplatelinks.php

[edit] Blank pages

List all blanked pages in one or more namespaces:

tools:~krinkle/BlankPages.php

[edit] UserDupes

Find all duplicate images uploaded by a single user. Checks for image dimensions and file size only! This might lead to false duplicates. Will be updated as soon as MediaWiki supports file checksums.

tools:~magnus/userdupes.php

[edit] Commons Dupes

Compare images marked as duplicates. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/commons_dupes.php
Example: //toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/commons_dupes.php?category=Duplicate ({{duplicate}})
Also: //toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/commons_dupes.php?category=Incorrectly%20named ({{bad name}})

[edit] Got source?

Find (deleted) duplicates on other projects. Especially useful for finding deleted NowCommons images on other projects which were transferred with insufficient information.

tools:~multichill/gotsource.php

[edit] Upload media

Commonist

[edit] Commonist

Commonist is a Java program for easy upload of larger numbers of images to Wikimedia Commons and other MediaWiki installations.

http://djini.de/software/commonist/ — download page (no download necessary with Java Web Start installed)
Information and discussion

[edit] Uploading from Flickr

There are various tools to help upload files from Flickr.

Flickr upload bot - The standard upload bot. Makes uploading with all the correct info much easier.
Flickr2Commons - This one is faster than the main Flickr upload bot (which can move really slowly occasionally and takes more clicks as it requires you to edit the image page), however a TUSC login is needed here and it adds a bunch of useless and redundant categories (but this one automatically adds geolocation information).
Flinfo - For people who want to upload Flickr pictures by themselves.
FlickrLickr - A collaborative vetting process for selecting free (Creative Commons CC-BY) photos from Flickr, improving their metadata, and uploading them to Commons. No longer maintained and no new accounts will be created.

[edit] Flickrripper

Flickrripper is a free Python program for easy upload of large numbers of images from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. The program is part of Pywikipedia and is currently in pre-alpha state.

Information and discussion

[edit] Nichalp's upload script

A Perl script that creates a CSV file with the list of photographs in a folder. Enter all information, such as description, licence, category, latitude, longitude and so on. Also embeds certain Exif data to the photograph such as GPS data, name, licence etc. In addition, you can also rotate and rename it on-the-fly.

Manual and link‎

[edit] Commons Helper

This page will generate code that you can copy and paste when moving an image from a Wikipedia to Commons. Note that you still need to verify the source and only transfer images that have reasonable licenses. You also still need to give the image a category, although the assistant is hooked up to CommonSense, so it can suggest them at the same time. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/commonshelper.php

[edit] Push for Commons

As a "push for Commons", push images from local Wikipedias to Commons, find copyright violations, bad or missing license tags, and images on both local wikipedia and commons. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/pushforcommons.php

[edit] Python Wikipedia Bot

The python framework includes various file upload tools. These tools require installing python and the pywikibot framework. If each upload is checked prior to upload (see verifyDescription option below), it isn't considered a bot.

For detailed information on its usage:

To login with this tool, your configuration file needs the following settings.

family='commons'
mylang='commons'
usernames['commons']['commons'] = 'nick'

Usage:

Upload.py - to upload files to Commons.
Imagecopy.py - Image transfer in local wiki to Commons.
Nowcommons.py - Image delete in local wiki already in Commons.

# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
import wikipedia, upload, sys
import config
 
def complete_desc_and_upload(filename, pagetitle, desc, date, categories):
    #complete this once if applies to all files
 
    description = u"""{{Information
|Description    = {{en|1=""" + desc + """}}
|Source         = <!-- if applicable: {{own}} --->
|Author         = <!-- your name:  --->
|Date           = """ + date + """
|Permission     = 
|other_versions = 
}}
== {{int:license}} ==
<!-- your license --->
 
""" + categories + """
[[Category:Taken with camera 123]]
"""
    url = filename
    keepFilename=False        #set to True to skip double-checking/editing destination filename
    verifyDescription=True    #set to False to skip double-checking/editing description => change to bot-mode
    targetSite = wikipedia.getSite('commons', 'commons')
    bot = upload.UploadRobot(url, description=description, useFilename=pagetitle, keepFilename=keepFilename, verifyDescription=verifyDescription, targetSite = targetSite)
    bot.upload_image(debug=True)
 
 
 
def main(args):
    #list each file here
 
    filename    = """testimage-1.jpg"""
    pagetitle   = """testimage-1-from asdfasdfa.jpg"""
    desc        = """Mount St Helens viewed from ... in the rain"""
    date        = "2010-04-07"
    categories  = """[[Category:Locality]]
[[Category:Theme]]
[[Category:View type]]
[[Category:Feature1]]
[[Category:Feature2]]"""
    complete_desc_and_upload(filename, pagetitle, desc, date, categories)
 
 
    #sample with:  - local file name identical to file name at Commons
    #              - date as previous file
    #              - less quotes (no CR or " in fields)
    filename   = "testimage-2.jpg"
    pagetitle  = filename
    desc       = "Mount St Helens as seen from ... at sunset"
    categories = "[[Category:Locality]] [[Category:Theme]] [[Category:View type]] [[Category:Feature1]] [[Category:Feature2]]"
    complete_desc_and_upload(filename, pagetitle, desc, date, categories)
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        main(sys.argv[1:])
    finally:
        wikipedia.stopme()

For other tools based on pywikipediabot, see multichill/bot

[edit] Upload to Commons with Android

A free Android app is available for uploading images directly from the mobile phone to Commons. (Android 2.3+ operating system required). The tool can be found at the Market. You may adapt it for your own purposes using the GNU source code from github.

[edit] Upload to Commons with iPhone (WikiSnaps)

A similar iPhone app is under development, see WikiSnaps.

[edit] Download media

User:AzaToth/wikimgrab.pl is a simple script to download source images, useful when combining panoramas, when there might be many consecutive images.

[edit] Content navigation

[edit] Check-Usage*

Special:GlobalUsage is a tool which can be used to check where commons media is used throughout the Wikimedia universe.

There is an external tool called "Check-Usage", which is also able to find "local" duplicates to Commons media. This tool uses the live database copy on the Wikimedia tool server and is developed and maintained by User:Duesentrieb.

tools:~daniel/WikiSense/CheckUsage.php — web frontend, recommended and fast version
The ExtraTabs2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] Catgraph

catgraph: Category tree of files or categories (sub or super categories)
- Userscript to display tabs for one-click access to this tool's output: User:Saibo/catgraphtabs.js (see there for a how-to)

[edit] Category-Tree

CategoryTree is a tool for showing the category structure as a dynamic tree. This can also be integrated into most browsers as a sidebar. This tool uses the live database copy on the Wikimedia tool server and is developed and maintained by User:Duesentrieb.

~~tools:~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryTree.php — web frontend, recommended up to date version~~ deprecated and replaced in all wikis with Extension:CategoryTree.--09:01, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Information and discussion
additionally see the (German language only) information page for the old tool at "Verzeichnisbaum" meta page

[edit] Cat-Scan (or CategoryIntersect)

Allows you to find images (images are a type of 'page') that are in two categories (category intersection), or images in a category by a certain template. It also searches in subcategories of a specified depth (although it fails at 1000 items).

[edit] Commons Sum-it-up*

Sum-it-up will try to automatically gather brief descriptions as well as all the interwiki links for a particular topic (use it on article/gallery pages). All you need to know is the name of the corresponding article on a Wikipedia. You can usually copy and paste its output straight into the article page, although be sure to remove any strange descriptions that didn't come out quite right. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

tools:~magnus/commons_sumitup.php
The Sum It Up gadget links to this tool.

[edit] CoCat

Useful for those who like tidying categories. Goes through a category and lists which other categories co-occur with it. Good to use on high-level categories to identify redundant categories (such as listing an image in Category:Paris and Category:France).

Information and discussion (German or English)
~~//toolserver.org/%7Evoj/cgi-bin/cocat%3Fwikilang%3Den%26wikifam%3Dcommons.wikimedia.org%26cat%3D~~ user account expired--13:54, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

[edit] giùlemani

An alternative Check-Usage tool that does not work on the toolserver and thus may be useful when the toolserver is down. Developed by User:ColdShine. Interface in English and Italian.

http://www.coldshine.net/wiki/giulemani/

[edit] Pictures of the Day

Collects the Commons', English Wikipedia's and German Wikipedia's Pictures of the Day (POTD) on one page, with convenient links to common screen resolution sized versions. Developed by User:Duesentrieb.

tools:~daniel/potd/potd.php

[edit] Commons:WikiMiniAtlas

A JavaScript plugin that displays geocoded images on a world map. Developed by User:Dschwen.

Commons:WikiMiniAtlas

[edit] CatFood

A category-based RSS feed by Magnus Manske. Shows thumbnailed image, author/uploader, and license (if found). Links back to commons image/page.

tools:~magnus/catfood.php
//toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/catfood.php?category=Featured_pictures (Feed for Category:Featured pictures)
- Userscript to display tabs for one-click access to lists of new files in a category using this tool (and catscan): User:Saibo/CatNewsTabs.js (see there for a how-to)

[edit] Flommons

A Flickr-like interface for Commons. No upload, yet. Not working ATM.

tools:~magnus/cgi-bin/flommons.pl

[edit] Wikimedia Commons Explorer

Geocoded images sorted by year:

tools:~emijrp/commonsexplorer

[edit] Patrolling and notification

[edit] Gallery*

The Gallery tool shows a list of images with information about their tagging and categorization status. It can be used to patrol recent uploads as well as to look at the upload of a given user. It is designed to help you spot any unlabeled, mislabeled or orphan images quickly and easily. Developed by User:Duesentrieb.

tools:~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php (uploads until two hours ago) (Duesentrieb's uploads)
Information and discussion
The ExtraTabs2 gadget links to this tool.

[edit] CommonsTicker

CommonsTicker is a bot that notifies individual wikis about changes on Commons that affect them: for example, if an image is marked for deletion, CommonsTicker can warn projects that are using that image. This is intended to improve the integration of commons into "local" projects. Developed by User:Duesentrieb.

CommonsTicker project page (ticker page on de.wikipedia.org)

[edit] ActiveUsers

ActiveUsers finds active admins, filtered by language (babel boxes). This is intended to help users to find an admin to talk to. Developed by User:Duesentrieb.

[edit] DeletedImage

Given an image sha1, provides a list of deleted images and the reasons.

Optional numeric parameter base (2>=base>=36, default: 16) for the hash. Optional parameter wiki: a comma split list of databases to check.

//toolserver.org/%7Egmaxwell/cgi-bin/deletedimage.py?hash=03afdae8ee8c897b0a320a6c3192a0b7310558b92

[edit] New images

New Images is a tool used to patrol the latest uploaded files. With that tool, you can have a quick overview of the latest 50 images (but you can decide to go on and check also the older ones...) so you need less time to patrol a great amount of images. This tool is developed by User:Filnik.

NewImages.php

[edit] Twinkle

Twinkle is a set of JavaScripts that gives registered users several new options to assist them in common maintenance tasks and to help them deal with acts of vandalism.

Commons:Twinkle

[edit] New images checker

New Images checker is a tool used to patrol the latest uploaded files, check similar images via Tineye. see User:Sz-iwbot/tineye.

[edit] See also

Tool integration (direct integration of some of the tools into the web interface of Wikimedia Commons)
List of software for working with files on Commons
Media Help for playback of Commons media files
Information about the toolserver hosting most web based tools
- Toolserver table of contents (human-maintained)
Category:User scripts to for useful JavaScript/CSS tricks, like installing one-click "mark as no source/mark as no license/nominate for deletion" links
Orgullomoore's scripts. A few python scripts for tasks performed by Orgullobot (based on pywikipedia).
Category:Toolserver link templates