Forum:Importing images from wikipedia and commons

Is there a add on like the Flickr upload tool to help import images from wikipedia or commons with the copyright / license data included, rather than manual copying to the computer and then uploading and having to manually add all the attached data and back links to source. In some article were suitable images are unavailable from my own collection a image from commons would be useful to illustrate the article. - BulldozerD11 00:44, March 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * I upload the image to Wikia, and then link back to the free image on the Commons or Wikipedia. Here is a template you can copy:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:From_Wikimedia


 * I leave on a note on the Wikia image page to go to the Wikimedia page for attribution, sources, and more info. This is easy, and very helpful for charts that get updated using new source links, etc.. I don't have to keep copying new source info after every update. --Timeshifter 01:08, March 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks Timeshifter, but thats the std Wikia template, which includes no details and involves manually uploading the file and adding any extra info manually, rather than the Flickr upload tool which i'm on about that 'automates' the process more. I'm sure some body will have a 'add-on' to do the job on one of the sites, or could re-code the flickr tool to do commons. I've ported some of the more complex liecnse templates from commons ut filling in all the info is long winded, so i rarely bother importing images, mainly using my own. I have a fair number of pages based on wikipedia article as the backgound for may own amateriaial or to define terminology (all with the 'Wikipedia template' to credit source. (which a lot of wikia sites fail to do) But as a wikipedia editor I belive should be done, as I release my photos and edits under the attribution license, so its only fair. (some of my commons photos appear on a number of other sites, with various levels of acknowledgement of the source). - BulldozerD11 12:05, March 17, 2010 (UTC)