Commons:Cross-wiki media upload tool

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The Cross-wiki media upload tool is an upload tool which allows the remote upload of files from any Wikimedia wiki to Wikimedia Commons. It is integrated into VisualEditor and wikitext editor on the sister projects of Wikimedia Commons. Uploaded files are tagged in the recent changes and the logs as Cross-wiki upload.

History

MediaWiki 1.27 started supporting the cross-wiki upload tool in 2016.

Before 2019, the Multimedia team in the Reading department at the Wikimedia Foundation was responsible for maintaining the tool. Since then, the tool is not in active development.

Links

mw:Upload dialog - Extended documentation at MediaWiki.org
"Crosswiki - Uploading and file storage" open tasks at Wikimedia Phabricator