Commons:Flickr2Commons/ar
Flickr2Commons (new oauth) is a tool written by Magnus Manske to easily upload single and multiple files from Flickr to Commons. If you have any questions you can ask for help at Commons:Batch uploading. Wikimedia Commons is different than Flickr and only hosts images with educational value, e.g., it does not accept holiday photographs, for more information see what Commons is not. |
Licenses
On Flickr, you can search for images with the "Commercial use & mods allowed" license filter. You can upload images from Flickr that are available under one of the following licenses
To change the license on an image, a set of images or all images on a Flickr account, please see the instructions here. You can also set a default license for all future uploads. Note: You cannot use Flickr2Commmons to upload images which use a no derivatives or noncommercial requirement. Note: Some Flickr accounts improperly post other people's copyrighted material under open licenses, for more information see Commons:Questionable Flickr images and {{Flickrvionote}}.
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Uploading images
Step 1: Authorise OAuthYou must authorise OAuth (a piece of software that uploads images on your behalf) before you use Flickr2Commons. See the link at the top of the Flickr2Commons tool to do so. You must be logged into your Wikimedia account to do this. Remember to do this every time you want to upload images from Flickr2Commons. |
Step 2: Choose which images to uploadYou can choose which images to upload using Flickr2Commons in one of the following ways. All eligible images from a Flickr userYou can upload all images from a user by pasting the username or NSID into the Flickr user ID or name field; to find a user's NSID you can use the idGettr tool. If you would like to import a very large number of images from a Flickr account, it may be helpful to upload as a series of photosets: this will reduce the risk of losing a large amount of work if your browser crashes. A photosetYou can upload all eligible images by pasting the ID number of a photoset into the Flickr photoset ID field; to find the ID of a photoset, copy the string of numbers in the URL after albums/ when you are on the web page for that album. A single photoTo upload a single photo, copy the photo ID into the single Flickr photo ID field by copying the last string of numbers in the URL when you are on a webpage for a photo. Note: Alternatively you can use the Flickr Upload Wizard to upload a single file. |
Step 6: Add categoriesAll files on Wikimedia Commons need categories, which help group photos by their subject and also by who created them, e.g. all images produced by UNESCO are in Category:Photographs produced by UNESCO. Having a category for the organisation that produced the images helps to keep them organised but also allows you to measure where they are used on Wikimedia projects and how many times they were seen. If you're creating a category for your organisation a common format to use is Category:Images from NAMEOFORGANISATION . Also please make sure the category you upload to is not already in use for another purpose, e.g. for another organisation with the same name. To find which categories are already available:
Its important to check for existing categories because of differences in language around the world, e.g. US/UK spelling differences. You can add categories to images by adding them individually to each images; make sure to use this formatting when adding a category to an image [[Category:NAMEOFCATEGORY]]. You can also add a category to all the images you want to upload by clicking the Add category just under Append everywhere (categories etc.) near the top of the page and pasting in the name of the category. You can also use the Auto-detect categories button at the top of the page, although this often gives unexpected results. |
Using the images on Wikimedia projects
You can use the images you have uploaded on other Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia: find out how to get started here. If you have uploaded a lot of images from an organisation, or on a specific subject, you could contact a relevant WikiProject or your local Wikimedia chapter or group who may be interested in helping get the images used on Wikimedia projects. |
Measuring reach
If you would like to see where images you have uploaded are used on Wikimedia projects and how many times they are seen you can use the GLAMorgan tool to run queries. If you want to measure the reach of images from an institution with a large number of images on Wikimedia Commons you can also request that your institution be added to BaGLAMa 2 which will provide you with a monthly report. |
FAQ
"Flinfo says 'bad user'."
This error message means the account whose photographs you plan to upload is blacklisted. Accounts are blacklisted because of copyright infringement, usually in the form of licence laundering. User:FlickreviewR/bad-authors is the complete blacklist. Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users is an incomplete table of rationales behind each entry. To find a numeric Flickr ID, you may use idGettr. If you feel that a blacklist is unjustified or have any questions, please leave a message at Commons:Village pump. A blacklist is not a ban on the account owner's works. For example, if a photo is indeed taken by the account owner and released under a compatible licence, it can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and reviewed by trusted users.