Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2011-01-04 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Hey Bryan, > Did you ever make any progress on getting a Flickr uploading extension > going? If not, I would like to go ahead and propose it as a project for > the WMF to work on. > Not yet, perhaps February or March. I think it would be good t

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2011-01-04 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Hey Bryan, Did you ever make any progress on getting a Flickr uploading extension going? If not, I would like to go ahead and propose it as a project for the WMF to work on. Ryan Kaldari On 10/30/10 2:51 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Magnus Manske > wrote: >

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-11-04 Thread Magnus Manske
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > As a proponent of agile development, I would actually suggest not > worrying about non-Flickr transfers for a first iteration. Most of the > non-Flickr cases can be adequately supported by bots and manual > uploading in the meantime. If we cou

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Dale
clicked send to fast... AMW refers to Add Media Wizard: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard and its Flickr not fliker ;) --michael On 11/03/2010 06:04 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > The AMW has a mode to import assets from fliker directly during the > article editing process, it d

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Dale
The AMW has a mode to import assets from fliker directly during the article editing process, it does it best to match the existing description templates, uses the highest quality assets, only searches properly licensed content etc. Maybe we could address bug 20512: ( it would only work in sync mod

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-11-03 Thread Ryan Kaldari
As a proponent of agile development, I would actually suggest not worrying about non-Flickr transfers for a first iteration. Most of the non-Flickr cases can be adequately supported by bots and manual uploading in the meantime. If we could get a working Flickr-transfer extension enabled on Comm

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-10-30 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > I agree, but whenever I'm going to do this, I am going to make a > generic interface for sites that can output metadata in a structured > way. This means that Flickr, Picassa and others can be easily > supported, but that MediaWiki will on

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-10-30 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > It should be comparatively simple > to write a more generic "transfer" parent class, which then would have > derived classes for each of these sites; a simple method (e.g. for an > image page on flickr, give me the URL of the most high-res f

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-10-30 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > Hi all, > > As most of you probably know, I wrote Flickr upload bot back in May > 2007 because there was a lot demand for uploading free images from > Flickr to Commons. And apparently people find it useful, since as of > September 2010, ov

[Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-10-30 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hi all, As most of you probably know, I wrote Flickr upload bot back in May 2007 because there was a lot demand for uploading free images from Flickr to Commons. And apparently people find it useful, since as of September 2010, over 80k images have been uploaded via this bot. In addition over 50k