Thread:Starfleet Academy/@comment-20637203-20140313164307/@comment-3441771-20140314092438

Oooh, that's a tough one. :) I don't believe there's a one-click solution to this, sadly. Also, I don't know of any way to include the "File history". I've had a tinker with doing this on my test wiki and it doesn't keep the upload version history. However, it does keep a log of previous uploads/ers in the history.

You would have to be an administrator to do this (obviously): As far as I can ascertain, MediaWiki does not record the version history of files &mdash; you can tell this by just looking at the XML document (Special:Export/File:TheImageYouWant.jpg) &mdash; so anything's better than nothing. Unless the image is due to be deleted off the other wiki, then link back to the page in the Special:Import summary. If it is going to be deleted, then link back to wiki and say "deleted from X". The quick and dirty solution is to copypasta the bare URLs in these cases for people to copypasta into the address bar. However, interwiki links do work in edit summaries although it is impossible to link to old revisions.
 * 1) Export the page "File:TheImageYouWant.jpg" to your computer;
 * 2) Grab (Save as) the full size image from the link below the preview on "File:TheImageYouWant.jpg";
 * 3) Then upload the XML document with Special:Import to your new wiki. (The page should just display a "broken" file at this point);
 * 4) Upload the image using the "upload it" link that appears on nonexistent files (or just go to SERVERNAME.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=TheImageYouWant.jpg)

Even WikiMedia Commons hasn't solved this file history issue, so I wouldn't worry about it. I don't believe I've given you exactly what you were looking for, sadly, but that's the nature of the game sometimes. Let me know if I haven't explained something well enough, or if you get stuck somewhere.

Happy editing! ;)