Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Better stitching between Commons and other projects
Description
Volunteers expressed interest in improving the connection between Wikimedia Commons and other projects.
Volunteers expressed interest in improving the connection between Wikimedia Commons and other projects, with requests to use Commons data across different wikis; create more direct paths between Wikipedia and Commons (shortcut for images on Wikipedia to Commons, file info to open Wikimedia Commons directly); and to use Wikidata to suggest images for Wikipedia articles across languages.
Going beyond the Wikimedia projects, there was also a suggestion to facilitate video transfer from YouTube to Commons.
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Last updated: 16:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Created: 16:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Wishes in this focus area
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| Wish | Phabricator tasks | Type | Projects | Date (UTC) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| When clicking on the file-info button highlighted in the screenshot or opening a media file in a new tab, open the Wikimedia Commons page directly | System change | Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia | December 28, 2024 | Open | |
| YouTube to Commons direct uploader | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | December 16, 2024 | Delivered | |
| Suggest media set in Wikidata items for their Wikipedia articles | Feature request | Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons | December 13, 2024 | Delivered | |
| Shortcut for images from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia | December 13, 2024 | Submitted | |
| Usage of Wikimedia Commons provided data across different wiki | T371300 | Feature request | Wikimedia Commons | December 13, 2024 | Open |
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Support Prototyperspective (talk) 17:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC) the proposal "Suggest media set in Wikidata items for their Wikipedia articles" has been marked as "delivered" but only some part of it is planned or developed;video and audio files set on Wikidata items (and some types of images) are still not suggested but a separate proposal will be created for that which presumably will also be in this focus area; one could also show these items somewhere at (eg below) the Wikipedia articles by default along with maybe some files from its linked Commons category. Lots of things are possible in this area and could make Wikipedia much more interesting & useful and spread knowledge across media formats. Commons is still fairly unknown and underused and opening files should show the Commons page which also has the categories (missing on the page currently shown) and more related files.