Improving image text pages with better metadata and templates falls under good housekeeping. Approaching the uploader and seeing if the improvements can be done collegiately and agreeing an approach would be the best way forward.
If there are several hundred or thousands of files, it may be worth asking for advice or volunteers to help with automation. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests Fae On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, 10:01 Arne Wossink, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > One of our GLAMs was working on a small upload of PD photos from their > collection. They were planning to do the upload with Pattypan and use > creator, language templates etc. to enrich the metadata as much as possible. > > However, these photos were already available on their Flickr account under > a PD license with basically the same information about the photos > (description was limited anyway). Another user has recently transferred > these with Flickr2Commons. So these images are now already on Commons, but > their description and other information is not as good as could have been > if all available templates etc. had been used. > > This is a first for me. I'm aware that nothing could have been done about > the Flickr to Commons transfer except not putting them there in the first > place, but clearly the current situation is not in our best interest or > that of the GLAM and is certainly not a best practice. > > Any comments on this? What would be a good way to handle this situation? > > Arne Wossink > > Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland > > *(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, > Thursday)* > > Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505 > E-mail: [email protected] > > *Post/bezoekadres:* > Mariaplaats 3 > 3511 LH Utrecht > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >
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