Thanks for the code-example Bas! > Op 23 mei 2016, om 14:20 heeft Hans Muller <j.m.mul...@hccnet.nl> het > volgende geschreven: > > Dear all, > > thanks for your help. The translation for the 3134 (or less) captions has > started. > Best regards, hansmuller > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hansmuller > > Op Ma, 9 mei, 2016 4:16 pm schreef Bas vb: >> Hi Maarten, >> I still had some similar code laying around. See >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Basvb/appendexample for the >> basics of what would be the possible python script in the case described >> by Hans. Mvg, >> Bas >> From: w...@maartenbrinkerink.net >> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:21:48 +0200 >> To: glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: Re: [Glamtools] adding 3134 captions after upload? >> >> >> I would love an example of such a method/action! >> Best, >> Maarten >> Op 9 mei 2016, om 14:14 heeft Bas vb <bas_...@hotmail.com> het volgende >> geschreven: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_KITL >>>> V_2016_-_Art_-_Temp >>>> (309 colonial works of art) >>>> >>>> >>>> and >>>> >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITL >>>> V_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 >>> >> _______________________________________________Glamtools mailing >> listGlamtools@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/list >> info/glamtools >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glamtools mailing list >> Glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools >> _______________________________________________ >> Glamtools mailing list >> Glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > Glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
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