How to copy an image old site to new site.
~ Aristotle Sabouni |
How to port an image (this happens to be in a review, but should work for any article the same way):
Image collision[edit | edit source]
What if an image already exists? (I start to port or add an image, and it had a different image).
There's sometimes a problem in that the site will default use a local image, but if there is no local image, it'll see if there's one at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
If there is, it uses that. (Which is good -- it means I can link to images that are already in commons, without having to make local copies of everything).
However, if the workflow is to copy over an article before an image, you now have an image in place, instead of the easier, "no image" error to fix.
Here's the work-around (to avoid trying to replace the image in commons, and instead replace/add a local version)
- go to Special:Upload <- this is the single image upload page
- click the upload button and pick the local file that you want to upload
- It will throw a warning "A file with this name exists already, please check File:XXX.jpg if you are not sure if you want to change it."
- you ignore that, and hit the upload button on the bottom of the page.
That fixes it.
If you refresh the article that contained the image, it should use the new image and not commons one now.
👁️ See also
- Help - This is the root of the help pages. These vary from simple to detailed programming
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