This should be quite easy with pywikibot if the file-names and translations to add are given. If there are no indonesian translations currently in the descriptions the new translation can simply be appended after "|information=" Mvg, Bas > From: fae...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:36:19 +0100 > To: j.m.mul...@hccnet.nl; glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Glamtools] adding 3134 captions after upload? > > There's no 'painless' solution. I have made similar housekeeping > updates to very large batch uploads post-upload using pywikibot using > short scripts. Amongst other things, pywikibot can pull up the > specific image page history and tell which past edits have been made > and by whom, then make intelligent decisions on whether to add > information or how to best do it. Terribly handy for avoiding doing > something twice. > > I suggest not being in a hurry. Focus on getting the translations > done, if amenable to it, it would be worth training up the translator > so they write the new text directly into the image templates rather > than somewhere else. If this would be too difficult, then just get the > translations as a file or spreadsheet, mapped against the related > Commons images or reference numbers. There are several bot writers > that might be interested in plugging the extra translations seamlessly > into the current image pages once the data is ready. The best place to > ask for a Commons bot specialist is on the bots work requests page.[1] > > As you do so much of this stuff, I strongly recommend you try playing > around with Python and pywikibot yourself, perhaps delaying this > translation fix so you can use it to practice with. A script to do > what you are looking for might only take around 20 or 30 lines of > original programming, most of pywikibot's power lies in the handy > modules that have been written to do exactly this sort of thing. See > the advice and code examples in the manual.[2] > > Links > 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests > 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot > > Fae > > > On 9 May 2016 at 12:19, Hans Muller <j.m.mul...@hccnet.nl> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > ** Is it possible to add 3134 captions to existing images on Commons? > > ** (without removing earlier work on the images, metadata and categories) > > > > This nice question presents itself in the following case. Recently, i > > uploaded 3134 images from Dutch University Library Leiden UBL and KITLV to > > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITLV_2016_-_Art_-_Temp > > (309 colonial works of art) > > > > and > > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITLV_2016_-_Temp > > (2805 colonial photographs) > > > > with captions in Dutch and English. I corrected the metadata, categorised > > the images and put them into Wikipedia articles (only a few ;-) > > > > Now a translator might be paid to translate the captions into Bahasa > > Indonesia, the language of the people perhaps most interested in these > > historical images. If the translator succeeds, that would mean require > > language templates like > > > > {{id|1= ... }} > > > > to the description fields. > > > > Re-uploading with GWToolset proved to be impossible if another user has > > worked on the metadata since upload. Categorisation and my own corrections > > to the metadata would be lost. > > > > * Is there another, painless solution putting in the new translation while > > keeping the previous work on these files? > > > > Thanks for you considering this problem, > > Best regards from a sunny Utrecht, the Netherlands, > > > > hans muller > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hansmuller > > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > Glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
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