Hi, Kaldari has been polishing the work done during Google Summer of Code by Ankur Anand to support importing correctly licensed Flickr photo(-sets) using Upload Wizard. You specify a photoset URL, and Upload Wizard should treat it like a batch upload. You can test the feature here:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (you'll need to make a new test user account) Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started. Since UW performs a license check, UW will also add a "VerifiedByUploadWizard" template which should help with the long term validation of licenses for Flickr imported content. Known issues: * Getting a better 'source' value for each image - ideally we want the regular Flickr URL, not the farm server URL * Getting the description for each image, this may require separate calls to the Flickr API. * Making the 'author' value a link to the Flickr account * Supporting the feature to copy metadata across a whole batch, which is shown for regular batch uploads Now's a good time to start playing with it. You can leave feedback here: http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Flickr_testing - or file in Bugzilla against the UploadWizard extension. Thanks! Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
