User:Donald Trung/Tips for BrianTheInternetSurfer

This page 📃 contains some advice I wrote to help a specific editor, however these tips are universal (upon its publication 📤) and could be used to help any new editor, however this page is specifically written for that one person.

Tips

Hello 👋🏻 and welcome, I want to help you with uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, as you told me that you’re interested in finding free images of Vietnamese cash coins so you can build the Numista catalogue 📇, a catalogue I myself also use. The upload process for a file 📁 taken from another website usually looks something like this:

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  Select all the images you wish 🌠 to upload (note 📝, ExtendedUploaders can upload via a URL).
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  Let all the images upload (this is dependent on your internet speed).
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  After all the images are uploaded you can continue the form, if you continue before all images are uploaded the MediaWiki Upload Wizard could ignore the other files 📁.
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  Make sure that you link to the source website and name the author.
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  You should note the license you can find, if possible also link to the page where the license is provided.
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  Make sure that all files are named in manners that explains what is depicted.
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  After this you can finally publish the files to Wikimedia Commons.
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  Then this screen pops up.
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  Now you can select the code to use these files both on Wikimedia projects and on other websites.

For Scott Semans World Coins I use {{CoinCoin.com}} which is a template I created that specifies the license, where the license is found, and how to attribute the author. Most websites tend to have copyright © notices at the bottom, but if you are interested in how to get images that were unfree on Wikimedia Commons you should read “Commons:OTRS”.

Also importing files 📁 from Wikipedia's should always been done cautiously, Wikipedians aren’t often as well-versed with the copyright rules of images, generally speaking Wikipedia's allow for almost anything to be uploaded under the United States of America's Fair Use law, however Fair Use allows for people to use copyrighted works, but Wikimedia Commons doesn't allow Fair Use because all works on this website should be re-unable by anyone for any purpose (including commercial). I would advise you to upload files locally to a Wikipedia if it's not free, but it would even be better to let the author e-mail 📧 permission to permissions-commonswikimedia.org to allow anyone else to use them, that way you can also use them on Numista.

Wikipedia should be a last resort ⛵

Uploading an image to Wikipedia and importing an image from Wikipedia should at all times be a last resort, one of the underlying principles of all Wikimedia projects is that any word and work featured on it should be "free for export" and could even be printed in books 📚. Although Wikipedia accepts almost every image (note that you should scale them down) free images get the preference as these could be re-used by others, while Fair Use images can't. Importing images from a Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons, sometimes people upload their own works with a free license to a Wikipedia, such as "w:jp:ファイル:Ryukyu-tsuho-1.jpg" (Link 🔗) on the Japanese Wikipedia is free to be imported to Wikimedia Commons as "As6022014" is the author, however thousands of files 📁 imported from Wikipedia's have been deleted because they turned out to be incompatible with Wikinedia Commons, the best option would be to look for free alternatives.

Original publication 📤

Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 22:10, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

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@BrianTheInternetSurfer: I wrote some tips for you regarding importing images from both other websites and Wikipedia, if you have any questions feel free to ask them here below this comment and I'll write ✍🏻 it above. I really didn't want to nominate "File:Thuan Thien dai bao.jpg" for deletion as that would be a very "Cactus 🌵 person move" to do, but this page should clarify when you should and shouldn't import stuff from a Wikipedia, hope this helps and that you decide to stay on this platform. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 22:38, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Donald Trung Thank you very much for taking your time! I bookmarked this page for future help. I really appreciate it.