On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started. > Nice work. I like the integration with Upload Wizard. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to work (for me). I tried uploading a photo but it seems stuck on an infinite "Uploading..." for me (filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39948). > > 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. > Ideally it would use the {{flickrreview}} template so that it integrates with the patrol workflow (so far it exists). Similar to how [[User:FlickreviewR]] auto-reviews files on Commons (except that it wouldn't be a separate edit). Though to avoid hardcoding details for Commons too much, it could be done from an interface message (similar to Extension:NewUserMessage, with a message containing the wikitext boilerplate with $N parameters for various bits of information). > 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 > Not sure what the current planning is, but it'd be nice if those features/issues would be resolved before deployment on commons.wikimedia.org so that we can fully obsolete the Toolserver tool that is currently often used for this (which afaik does have these features): http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
