Help:Commons Commander

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Commons Commander (CC) allows editors to add, change or remove categories on files by selecting them through thumbnails. These thumbnails are obtained through search or querying categories or user contributions.

Features

Two-pane browsing (can be switched to one pane)
Browsing files by
1. category
2. uploader
3. recent uploads
4. file search
Filter current file list by title (e.g. all files in the current category/user file list with "Paris" in the title)
Thumbnails or detailed list, sorted by name, size, or upload date, ascending or descending
“Eternal scroll” - load some files initially, loads some more as you scroll towards the bottom of the list
Eternal scroll works for browsing files in a category, user uploads, and search results
Recent uploads will add new files every 30 seconds instead
Search for categories and browse the category tree in a special tab
Open a file description page on double-click
Select one or multiple files with Ctrl and/or ⇧ Shift keys, or with buttons at the bottom
Removing from / adding or moving to a category (where possible) by buttons in the category sidebar

The right-click context menu for files can be used to:

Quickly add a file to a category (or move, when browsing a category)
Rename a file
CheckUsage
Go to file view/edit
Show other files uploaded by the same user
Show related files (searches for “significant” parts of the file name)
Show categories of a file in the category browsing tab

Screenshot of Commons Commander running on Special:Commander: Categorizing files by dragging them from the user uploads panel on the left a category on the right

The right-click context menu consisting of options for opening and renaming the file as well as options to show the categories the file is categorized in.

How to use

Just try it without installing

Commons Commander is a JavaScript tool. You do not have JavaScript enabled.

To permanently install Commons Commander:

Add

importScript( 'MediaWiki:Commander.js ');

to your user script file.

Navigate to Special:Commander or use one of the toolbox-links in the sidebar while enjoying user or category pages.
The version hosted at toollabs:magnus-toolserver/commcomm/ is currently not working.

Known issues/limitations

(Please add here or use the talk page to mention other issues)

Category view for categories with some special characters can only be opened through the gadget
changing categories with sortkeys doesn't work
Some may prefer "Single click clears other selections" and "Two panes" options to be de-activated by default.
"Make subcategory of" doesn't appear to work
If the confirmation screen to add/move/remove files lists many entries, use "tab" to reach the lower part of the screen
When searching for categories to add or move files to, the search is somewhat slow after the first three characters.