Kelson added a comment. Our bug tracker has already a pretty rich and long history of tickets requesting a machine readable API to retrieve files metadata on Mediawiki in general and with Commons in particular. This one seems to be the last one and, from a technical point of view, the most promising one.
I think I don't ignore the complexity of its implementation but I'm a little bit surprised that this is considered as a "low priority" and to not see more activity on this although "structured data" is probably the most important move currently running on Commons. We have free content, but our solution simply does not allow Commons re-using on an industrial scale. For example, at Kiwix, we spread millions of ZIM files which simply don't respect the free licenses (by not correctly attributing the pictures with corresponding license/author). That's why I want to ask what is the status/timeline on this and why this ticket does not have the highest priority? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T585 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Kelson Cc: Kelson, Gilles, JanZerebecki, Aklapper, Fabrice_Florin, Tgr, MingleTerminator, daniel, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Ricordisamoa _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
