User:Willscrlt/commons/How to move Geograph files to Commons

If you find yourself moving Geograph images that were uploaded to Wikipedia over to Commons like I do, it's nice if you do it "the right way". In this case, "the right way" is subjective, because there are several ways of doing it, but I like to think that using the method that Geograph prefers and that works best at Commons is the "right way". This method has 16 steps, but it actually makes it VERY easy to use Geograph's preferred wording, the correct attribution and geocoding information, and it gets all the data in the right place. Best of all, it's mostly a matter of copying and pasting.

Here is an example:

The Kinloch castle on Geograph (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4266) has a link under the photo that says, "Find out how to reuse this image"; click it.
On that page you will find a link to download the full-resolution image. Commons always prefers the highest possible resolution image if it is available.
Under that link is a link to "Jump snippits for: Wikipedia". Click that (or just scroll farther down the page).
Click in the box of text for Wikipedia (it should say Commons, because that's actually Commons' code), and copy it.
If you have a modern web browser that supports tabs, open Commons in another tab (or another Window if you don't have tabs).
Go to the upload page on Commons. Scroll down past all the options to the "Use the basic upload form" link, and click it.
Paste over the default summary information with the stuff you copied from Geograph.
Use the "Choose file" button to locate the file you saved in step 2.
I prefer to rename the file to something more meaningful, usually the title of the image ("Kinloch Castle.jpg"). Don't forget to include the ".jpg" at the end of the name.
In the "Description=" line, you need to do a little tweaking.
1. The default description from Geograph will read: |Description=Kinloch Castle
2. You need to wrap the description inside of the {{en}} template (indicating an English description) like this: |Description={{en|Kinloch Castle}}
3. Then (and this is optional, but really nice if you have time), I like to go back to Geograph in the other tabe and grab the full description from the main image page and copy it.
4. Back in the Commons tab, I bold the description, add a period, and then paste the full description I copied. The final result would look like this: |Description={{en|'''Kinloch Castle'''. The castle was built in 1897-1901 by Sir George Bullough, a textile tycoon from Lancashire whose father had bought the Isle of Rum as his summer residence. It was he who added the 'h' in the name of the island, and it is said either that this was because his wife disapproved of alcoholic spirits, or that it was added in order to make the name of the island look more 'authentic', though if the latter is correct, he was misguided; older sources do not include the 'h', and there are no non-anglicised Gaelic words or place names beginning with 'rh'.}}
Remember to add at least one relevant category to the image, too.
Preview the description to be sure everything looks right.
Upload the file and verify everything again.
Go to the Wikipedia version of the file and tag it with {{ncd}}.
1. Add {{subst:ncd}} if you did not rename the file.
2. Add {{subst:ncd|File:New name on Commons.jpg}} if you named the file a different name.
Go to each page that links to the image and update the old image link to the new file link at Commons.
Take a drink of your favorite beverage, and start on the next one. Step 16 is optional, of course. :-)

It's a lot of steps, but it's actually pretty quick, because Geograph does most of the heavy lifting for you (like figuring out the decimal geolocation info, etc.). If you don't care about being more descriptive, you can leave out the full description (but they are so much nicer with, and easier to find when searching).

—Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 13:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)