Correctly licensed files on
"shared"/"wts" should be transferred to
Commons. This is a process that's best organized by the community as
licenses have to be vetted, templates adapted, etc. If a file is
uploaded to Commons under the same name under which it was previously
uploaded to WV, then it should "just work". If it needs to be renamed
to avoid naming conflicts on Commons, then pointers to it will have to
change as well.
Is there any way to retain the file history when transferring files to
Commons? And will it be okay to list as the "source" of the file a link to
a site that will no longer exist?
As has been noted, non-free media can only be uploaded
locally, and
only if a wiki has an "exemption doctrine policy" as per the WMF
licensing policy:
Do we need to get the EDP approved by WMF? And if so, how do we do that?
Powers &8^]