Commons:Riusu dô cuntinutu fora di Wikimedia/technical

Shortcut: COM:REUSE/TECH

There are three ways to reuse content outside Wikimedia:

1. downloading the file from Wikimedia Commons, and then either uploading it to a website or using it in print work.
2. using the file directly on Wikimedia Commons by "hotlinking" (linking directly to the image URL)
3. using the file directly on Wikimedia Commons via "InstantCommons" (a setting within MediaWiki, available on MediaWiki-based websites).

In general, it is recommended to download files for reuse.

Reuse assistance tool

A tool is available to help you reuse files outside Wikimedia Commons, including downloading and creating attribution statements (credit lines).

The tool requires

• a browser other than Internet Explorer (eg Firefox, Chrome, Opera)
• JavaScript enabled
• If you're logged in, Vector or Monobook skin enabled in your Wikimedia Commons user preferences. (Vector is the standard skin – if you've not changed this, your skin is Vector.)

The tool creates buttons above an image (if you're logged in), or to the top right (if not). For details see Help:Gadget-Stockphoto.

Attribution Generator

The Attribution Generator makes it easy to reuse images that have been released under Creative Commons licenses on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. It is designed to help comply with these license conditions and simplify the re-use of freely licensed images.

Downloading

Basic method: On each image's file description page, there is a link to the full resolution version. Right-click this link and choose "Save as..." to download the full resolution file. (If you use a Macintosh computer, hold down the "control" key while clicking the link with the mouse, then choose "Save as....")

Hotlinking

Shortcut

• COM:HOTLINK

L'hotlinking è cunzintutu dê server Wikimedia. Pê file n hot-link, è pràttica bona agghiùnciri l'attribbuzzioni comu si fussi na copia prisenti ntô tò server.

Nota ca fari un hot-link cu na thumbnail nun è attindìbbili, poichì chisti sunnu ginirati e suggetti a cache - avissi a cupiàrili direttamenti ntô tò server.

Nota macari ca cuegghiè pò canciari, vannalizzari o cancillari un file n hot-link - si fussi ntô tò server nn'avissi lu cuntrollu.

Si hai a usari stu miccanismu, allura è bonu nnicari l'attribbuzzioni dô file (talìa la sizzioni ô riguardu, ccà susu) propiu comu facissi chê copii duplicati ntô tò server. Gnurari li licenzi pò custituiri na viulazzioni dô copyright, nnipinnentimenti dô fattu c'usi nu hot-link.

Giniralmenti, Wikimedia nun auturizza li sirvizzi 'hot spider', unni, ogni vota ca quarchidunu effèttua n'arricerca ntô sò situ, l'arricerca veni nnirizzata ô nostru situ. Chiddi ca riutilìzzanu lu cuntinutu fora dê pruggetti Wikimedia avìssiru a cupiari ogni elimentu singularmenti, oppuru cuntattari la Wikimedia Foundation supra la pussibbilità d'ottèniri un live feed (lu quali pò èssiri ottinutu comu sirvizziu a paiamentu).

How to hotlink: use the special page Special:FilePath. You can link directly with https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Redirect/file/Sample.png&width=300 you can omit the &width= parameter for the full resolution.

To link to a specific point in a video, users can use start= and end= as URL query parameters with the same values as in the normal file syntax, for example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_The_frontend_of_WikiCite.webm?start=1:12:00 .

InstantCommons

A pàrtiri di MediaWiki 1.13.0, si ponnu ntigrari li file multimidiali di Wikimedia Commons direttamento ntô propiu wiki basatu nta MediaWiki. Stu mètudu havi vantaggi nummirusi rispettu a lu hotlinking. Talìa mw:Special:MyLanguage/InstantCommons#Configuration pi chiossai dittagghi tècnici supra la mplimintazzioni.

• Nta sta manera è pussìbbili nclùdiri li mmàggini direttamenti di Wikimedia Commons, senza aviri a carricàrili prima ntô propiu server. La pàggina di discrizzioni dô file è prilivata n autumàticu di Commons a ogni visualizzazzioni.
• Just as on Wikimedia projects, the standard link to the file description page (clicking an image takes you to the file description page) is considered to meet any applicable licensing requirements of providing attribution and a link to the license.
  • Note: it is possible to turn off this standard link to the file description page; doing this on files which are not in the public domain will usually break the licensing requirements (of course you can still provide full attribution and license details on the webpage by other means).

Remember that as with hotlinking, when using a Wikimedia Commons image via InstantCommons, any changes (including improvements, vandalism and deletion) will directly affect your website. Consider the pros and cons of this for your intended use.