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== Export Photos to Wikimedia Commons with digiKam ==
Transcribed from Dmitri Popov's blog, 25th June, 2012

Sharing is caring, and there is probably no better way to share your photographic masterpieces with the world than adding them to the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons] pool. While the project’s website features its own tool for uploading photos, '''digiKam’s''' Wikimedia Export Kipi plugin can come in rather handy when you need to export multiple photos in one fell swoop without leaving the convenience of your favorite photo management application.

[[Image:MediaWiki KIPI uploader - 1.png|center|500px|thumb|Using the Wikimedia Commons Kipi plugin]]
[[Image:MediaWiki KIPI uploader - 2.png|center|500px|thumb|Using the Wikimedia Commons Kipi plugin]]


The plugin can be evoked by choosing the <menuchoice>Tools -> Export to Wikimedia Commons</menuchoice> command. If you don’t see the command in the menu, then you are either using an older version of '''digiKam''' (the plugin has been introduced in version 2.6) or the plugin has not been enabled. In the latter case, you can activate the plugin by choosing <menuchoice>Settings -> Configure digiKam</menuchoice>. Switch then to the <menuchoice>Kipi Plugins</menuchoice> section and enable the <menuchoice>Wikimedia Export</menuchoice> plugin. Before you start using the plugin, you should also create an account with Wikimedia Commons.

Using the plugin to upload photos to Wikimedia Commons couldn’t be easier. Select one or several photos in a '''digiKam''' album and choose <menuchoice>Tools -> Export to Wikimedia Commons</menuchoice>. This opens the export dialog window. In the <menuchoice>Wiki</menuchoice> field, type the URL of Wikimedia Commons API (''http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php''). Enter then your user name and password in the appropriate fields and press <menuchoice>Log In</menuchoice>. In the <menuchoice>Information</menuchoice> section, specify the author’s name and choose a license. If you want to resize photos before uploading them to Wikimedia Commons, check the <menuchoice>Resize photos before uploading</menuchoice> check box, and adjust the quality and size settings. Hit the <menuchoice>Start Upload</menuchoice> button, and the plugin takes care of the rest.

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