Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons

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Since Wikimedia Commons is now the repository for free images, it is redundant and wasteful to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image. Using Commons, we can store a picture just once on Wikimedia's servers and use it anywhere. Therefore, uploaded free images should all be transferred to Commons, and those that are currently on Wikipedia must be moved. As all of the subcategories of Category:Free images, including Category:GFDL images, Category:Public domain images, Category:Free use images and many others, must now be transferred to Commons, this WikiProject has been created to organize efforts and expand awareness of this massive waste of server space.

Please apply an extremely critical eye to allegedly "free" images here before uploading them at the Commons. This project is a good chance to catch many of the dodgily sourced and licensed images here. If you have any doubts please don't upload to the Commons (send to IfD or PUI) because it will just create unnecessary duplication for Commons admins.

1 Categories to clear out
2 Members
3 Templates
4 Tools

[edit] Categories to clear out

Category:GFDL images - 79455 images as of April 20, 2008
Category:Public domain images - 30427 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:Public domain images ineligible for copyright - 1,484 images as of April 20, 2008
- Category:Australian_public_domain_photographs - 1,796 images as of April 20, 2008
- Category:Author_died_more_than_100_years_ago_public_domain_images - 11,940 images as of April 21, 2008
- Category:Author_died_more_than_50_years_ago_public_domain_images - 452 images as of April 21, 2008
- Category:Author_died_more_than_70_years_ago_public_domain_images - 720 images as of April 21, 2008
- Category:Canadian_public_domain_photographs - 1,670 images as of April 21, 2008
- Category:Chinese_public_domain_photographs - 192 images as of April 21, 2008
- Category:Copyright_holder_released_public_domain_images - 18,466 images as of April 21, 2008
- ~~Category:German_public_domain_photographs - 3 images as of June 9, 2007~~
- Category:Gray's_Anatomy_images - 210 images as of April 12, 2006
- ~~Category:Great_War_Primary_Documents_Archive_images~~ - 0 images as of January 5, 2008
- Category:Images_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States - 4494 images as of April 12, 2006
- ~~Category:Meyers_Konversations-Lexikon~~ - 0 images as of June 7, 2007
- ~~Category:Missouri_government_images~~ - 5 non-free images as of June 8, 2007
- ~~Category:New_York_Public_Library_Digital_Gallery_images~~ - 0 images as of June 7, 2007
- ~~Category:PD-AR-Photo - 0 images as of August 12, 2007~~
- Category:PD_Coa_Germany - 179 images as of October 28, 2007
- ~~Category:PD_US_DEA - 9 images as of April 12, 2006~~
- Category:PDphoto.org_images - 98 images as of May 3, 2008
- Category:Pakistani_public_domain_photographs - 49 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:Polish_government_symbols - 81 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:Pre-1994_Poland_images - 239 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:Public_domain_art - 3947 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:Public_domain_stamp_images - 166 images as of April 12, 2006
- ~~Category:State_symbols_of_Lithuania~~ - 0 images as of June 7, 2007
- Category:UK_Government_images - 118 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:UN_map_images - 45 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:United_States_government_images - 7516 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:User-created_public_domain_images - 27438 images as of April 12, 2006
- Category:Jewish Encyclopedia images -
Category:Free use images - 16045 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:GPL images - 506 images as of April 12, 2006
- ~~Category:GPL XBoard images~~ - 0 images
Category:Free screenshots -
Category:BSD images - 159 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Conditional use images - 1730 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Agência Brasil images - 31 images as of August 15, 2007
- ~~Category:European Union images - 119 images as of April 12, 2006~~ This images are fair use, so they aren't allowed in Commons.
~~Category:Florida Photographic Collection images~~ - 0 images as of August 12, 2007
Category:Images requiring attribution - 431 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Sejm images - 12 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:TrainWeb images - 73 images as of April 12, 2006
~~Category:World Coin images~~ - 0 images as of August 12, 2007
Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 images - 1,656 images as of May 4, 2008
Category:Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 images - 1457 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Creative Commons Attribution images - 406 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 images - 1923 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 images - 4123 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike images - 1976 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:Creative Commons ShareAlike images - 531 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:FAL images - 71 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:LGPL images - 164 images as of April 12, 2006
Category:MIT images - 20 images as of April 20, 2008
Category:Executive Office of the President images

[edit] Members

Rory096_(block) 21:26, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
--Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 20:58, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Fred-Chess 12:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
--evrik 18:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Johntex\^talk 20:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Yonatan (contribs/talk) 00:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
~~Liftarn 08:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)~~
Krimpet 19:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 21:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
--Wizardman 03:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Addhoc 17:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
MECU≈talk 16:24, 13 April 2007 (UTC) (though I started doing some in January)
Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 08:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Emx 21:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Responsible? 17:58, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Madmedea 09:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
--Mschel 03:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
--Nori ice 12:46, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Adambro 17:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Boricuaeddie 15:06, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
fuzzy510 00:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
bdesham ★ 21:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Shooke 20:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
--H irohisat ^Talk 22:19, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Doo-dle-doo 22:20, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
-Flubeca^Talk 00:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
— Moe ε 23:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Sebi _[talk] 00:55, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb John Vandenberg 10:00, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Crazy Legs KC 01:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Severa (!!!) 13:35, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Powerek38 23:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikidudeman ^(talk) 16:36, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Oc t ane ^{[improve me]} 15.11.07 1759 (UTC)
jonny-mt^(t)_(c)Tell me what you think! 14:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Storkk (talk) 20:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Choihei (talk) 01:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Ipoellet (talk) 19:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
MisterWiki (talk) 22:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Million_Moments (talk) 22:06, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Glacier Wolf 02:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Andreworkney (talk) 16:01, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
—Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 18:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Lego K^ontribs T^alkM 17:58, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Ejg930 (talk) 17:35, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
O s a m a K 10:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

{{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}
{{Convert to SVG and copy to Wikimedia Commons}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons/UBX}}
{{un-commons}} - User talk page notice for newish users who upload free images here.
{{MFIC}} - a userbox for your user page. Results in