Thread:Taldin/@comment-27659888-20180227125303/@comment-33142455-20180311015859

I think we can go ahead. All other wikis (except fr & de) look to the English wiki for files. Since they're all "borrowing" files, they will have the exact same images as the English wiki. Once the file names are changed on each wiki, they will point directly to the new image and the redirect page with the original file name can be deleted. This is the original process you outlined: 1) rename file on English wiki 2) change file names on foreign-language wiki pages 3) delete the redirect page. That's it.

It's only slightly more complicated for the French and German wikis. They will continue to show their own uploaded images until the links are changed. At that point, they'll go look for the image on the English wiki because no page with that file name exists on the fr/de wikis. The old images will need to be deleted on each of those wikis.