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This page contains a collection of tools and services to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to the work with Wikimedia Commons. Some of the tools here are optionally directly integrated within the Wikimedia Commons web interface. If you want to know how to play back and view contents of Wikimedia Commons have a look at the media help page. If you are in search for software editing and creating media files have a look at our software page. There is also a automatically generated list of commons tools on Toolforge.

Some tools have a gadget available to provide convenient access. Gadgets can be activated in your Preferences.

Tool integration[edit]

Some of the tools described here are directly integrated into the web interface of Wikimedia Commons via gadgets (notably ExtraTabs2). Gadgets can be enabled via the Gadgets tab of a user's Preferences. Tools marked with an asterisk (*) on this page have an associated gadget.

Authenticating tools (OAuth and TUSC)[edit]

There are two primary ways for authenticating externally hosted tools to use your Wikimedia Commons account:

  • More recently developed tools use MediaWiki's OAuth support to provide seamless integration and allow tools to securely take actions under your username. An example is CropTool. No separate account is required for using tools which support OAuth.
  • The Toolserver User Screening Tool (TUSC) was a community-developed legacy system that permitted many of the tools listed below to authenticate your connection to your Commons account, without requiring that you disclose your Commons password on the toolserver.org site. You can create a new TUSC account here: TUSC. It is recommended not to choose the same password as your Commons password. And be sure to create one for "commons" (not wikipedia) if you want to use the tools here at Commons. See also the overview on German Wikipedia (automatic machine translation to English).

Upload media[edit]

See Commons:Upload tools

Download media[edit]

Main page: Commons:Download tools.
  • Imker (Java desktop application)
  • User:AzaToth/wikimgrab.pl is a simple script to download source images, useful when combining panoramas, when there might be many consecutive images.
  • User:Siznax~commonswiki/wp image.py is a python script to get the URL (and check the HTTP status) of a Wikimedia File/Image from its name.
  • CommonsDownloader (a Python module) -- downloads a specified set of images in full resolution or up to specified width
  • commons-downloader (a Java program)
  • wimgs (a Ruby script) -- downloads all images in a specified category, or all images used by specified articles, in full resolution or up to specified width (not maintained since 2015).

Content navigation[edit]

Check usage[edit]

Special:GlobalUsage is a special page which can be used to check where commons media is used throughout the Wikimedia universe.

PetScan (formerly known as Cat-Scan)[edit]

Allows you to find images (images are a type of 'page') that are in two categories (category intersection), or images in a category by a certain template. It also searches in subcategories of a specified depth.

Commons:WikiMiniAtlas[edit]

A JavaScript plug-in that displays geocoded images on a world map. Developed by User:Dschwen.

CatFood[edit]

Screenshot of JavaScript Catfood

A category-based RSS feed by Magnus Manske. Shows thumbnailed image, author/uploader, and license (if found). Links back to commons image/page.

Discover media[edit]

FastCCI[edit]

FastCCI
  • FastCCI is a JavaScript gadget to discover Featured/Quality/Valued images in and below the current category. It can also be used to display All images in the current category and its subcategories, and can find media in category intersections, again including subcategories. Labeled "Good pictures", it is located to the right of the category name on desktop displays and clicking on the down triangle shows its options. FastCCI stands for Fast Commons Categories Intersection.

GeocodingToDo[edit]

GeocodingToDo Tool categorized images not yet geocoded.

The Usual Suspects[edit]

The Usual Suspects (Was "Bad Old Ones" and "Bad Boys" on toolserver.) lists images in a given category (and subcategories) with dates of their last edits, thumbnails, description, and usage on other Wikimedia projects. Intended for categories containing "bad" images, e.g. Category:Unknown. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

My "No Information"[edit]

Finds all images not using {{Information}} for a specific user. Invokes Add information.

Search[edit]

Default search is Special:Search. See en:Help:Searching for proper use. There is a gadget providing an easier to use interface to the advanced search. Activate the advanced-search gadget now!

CatScan 3[edit]

An older version of PetScan. Also allows to search for images with or without one or several categories, with or without a certain template, etc. (User:Magnus Manske)


Maintenance[edit]

Commons Commander (CC)[edit]

HotCat[edit]

Quickly categorize or recategorize a file.

Cat-a-lot[edit]

Cat-a-lot is a JavaScript gadget that helps with moving images between categories or adding categories to search results.

Commons Mass Description Tool[edit]

CMD helps to add descriptions to Wikimedia Commons images at once. Inspired by the Extension:Translate of Mediawiki.

De-Grandparent (DGP)[edit]

De-Grandparent is a tool to remove files from a category if they are in one or more of its subcategories.

MultiDesc[edit]

MultiDesc generates multi-language descriptions for galleries or images on Wikimedia Commons. All you need to know is the name of the corresponding article on a Wikipedia. You can usually copy and paste its output straight into the article page, although be sure to remove any strange descriptions that didn't come out quite right. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

LicenseToKill[edit]

Screenshot of LicenseToKill

This tool provides a simple GUI to allow easy deletion of multiple files within one category or from a list. Only for Windows with .NET 2.0. Developed by User:Dake.

Locator-tool[edit]

The Commons:Locator-tool is a Commons:Geocoding tool. It quickly adding {{Location}} information to already uploaded images. You can specify a list of images to geocode (e.g., by querying a category), select their respective location on a map and let the {{Location}} be added/updated automatically.

GeoLocator tool[edit]

The GeoLocator tool is an interactive coordinate editor, allowing easy generation of {{Coord}} templates to images. Developed by User:Teslaton.

Add information[edit]

Analyze the free-text description of an image and try to fit it into a standard {{Information}} template. Developed by Magnus Manske.

Find Wikipedia/Commons dupes[edit]

Tool for finding local Wikipedia files which are also uploaded to Commons. It can be used to add NowCommons tag to them.

OrphanTalk[edit]

Find all talk pages without a subject page in a certain namespace. Optionally filter out redirects and/or subpages:

BlankPages[edit]

List all blanked pages in one or more namespaces:

VisualFileChange[edit]

Duplicates and Hash-based search[edit]

FileDupes[edit]

Compare images marked as duplicates. Developed by User:Magnus Manske.

Find files by SHA-1 hash (content-based)[edit]

System-search.svgSee also: COM:SHA1.

The API lists all files which have a given SHA-1 hash. Example use: That can be used to query the Commons server about existence of a file before upload to avoid uploading exact duplicates. The SHA-1 hash can be computed locally with many tools (e.g. sha1sum – a standard program on Linux systems).

File Analyzer[edit]

Given an image sha1, provides a list of deleted images.

Tool for matching Institution templates with Wikidata item[edit]

Toolforge tool [dead link] shows list of Institutions who are active on Commons and don't have a Wikidata item associated with it.

File-Check[edit]

Searches for problematic files on concerning (Media)wiki pages (mainly Commons files) included.

filesMetaData[edit]

Shows textual metadata on media files and description pages. Avoid download of hundreds of thumbnail files on regular MediaWiki pages and prepare sortable filtered concise data tables

Patrolling and notification[edit]

Twinkle[edit]

Twinkle is a set of JavaScripts that gives registered users several new options to assist them in common maintenance tasks and to help them deal with acts of vandalism.

Intersect Contribs[edit]

This tool intersects the contributions of two users and showing the pages edited by both of them. It can help in discovering sockpuppets.

Newbie uploads[edit]

Recent uploads by users not in local usergroups.

Recent unpatrolled edits[edit]

Unpatrolled IP and user edits from the last ~31 days.

Commons File Counter[edit]

The tool determines the number of files within a given category and its subcategories on particular dates within a defined time period.


Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles[edit]

Wikidata Images[edit]

Wikidata Images project creates and maintains a system of categories on each participating Wiki listing all the articles without images which are linked with wikidata record that includes an image. See d:Q16742293 and follow the links to your favorite wiki.

FIST[edit]

Magnus Manske's FIST is a tool which allows to search a category of articles for articles without images. Than FIST uses article names to search a dozen image repositories like Flickr for images with license compatible to Commons and provide tools for easy transfer to Commons.

GLAMify[edit]

GLAMify tool for identifying images in a Commons category which are used in articles in one wiki and could be reused in same articles in other wikis.

Glamorous[edit]

Tool to keep track of Commons images used on other projects.

Gallery generator[edit]

Create a MediaWiki gallery from a Wikimedia Commons category with custom options.

See also[edit]

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