I've re-added wikitech-l to the header since it was originally
addressed to both and your question
and my answer will update them at the same time.
And since it's now mostly tech-oriented feedback from them would be
nice as well.
A general note: If you're filing a new bug or feature request [0], be
sure to check open tickets [1] first ;-)
Right now the purpose / features of the plugin are:
* Easy searching of images on commons with autosuggested subjects
* Click-and-pick from the results to insert it in the page or post. A
WordPress shortcode is inserted
into the post ([photocommons file="Example.jpg" with="200"
align="right"]) which will be made
into a linked thumbnail with hover tooltip when parsed
* No need to maintain your posts if a file is moved on Commons,
redirects work finen (since there are
no paths or <img>-tags hardcoded
* No need to download/upload locally
* Promote Wikimedia Commons as an easy-to-use source to add images to
your blog or website and
avoid people from googling for images and uploading or hotlinking
random copyvios.
On March 4 2011, Teofilo wrote:
> 1) I have never used wordpress. What do I need to try wordpress and
> your tool as a beginner easily for the first time ?
> 2) How does your tool attribute photographers ? Can you provide a
> screenshot showing attribution ? Is the attribution printed on paper
> when the user prints the resulting page ?
> 3) Are you using http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa ? If relevant,
> see my remarks at
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Stockphoto.js#.22Use_this_file.22_box_html_code_for_videos
1)
Like for MediaWiki, you need a simple local AMP environment (eg.
Apache, MySQL, PHP. So
install something like LAMP or XAMPP, or get FTP access to an existing
server with this).
Then these 4 steps:
* Install WordPress from the control panel of your webhost (if you
have one) or download it from
http://wordpress.org/, upload files, browse to them, follow
instructions on-screen
* Right now it's a development plugin, meaning not a plug-and-play for
the general public yet,
but for commos users and developers to see how it works and how it
could be made better. To
install the PhotoCommons plugin, check out most recent version from
SVN [2] or download zip[3]
* Follow install instructions (unzip, upload to /wp-content/plugins/wp-
content, browse to your
wp-admin -> Manage Plugins -> Click Activate)
* Create or edit a new page or post on the wordpress site, next to the
buttons to upload files locally
to your blog there now is a Commons icon above the editor. Click it
and have fun!
* There's no step 5.
2) Since it is impossible right now to reliably extract such
information we have choosen not to attempt
to regex, hack, uglify our way out of it one way or another. We are
waiting for the License
integration project to finish at which point we will be able to
dynamically extract this information
from the API in a snap and cache it and display attribution and
license under the thumbnail. For now
we are taking the same approach as the Wikimedia wikis do (slightly
better actually [4]), linking the
thumnail directly to the Commons file page and the title of the image
as tooltip when hovering the
thumbnail.
3) We are not, see 2). I'm totally convinced this should be done, and
we will as soon as licenses are
integrated this will be done.
--
Krinkle
[0]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Tools&product=PhotoCommons
[1]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&component=PhotoCommons&resolution=---&product=Wikimedia%20Tools
[2]
* http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/wp-photocommons/
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SVN#Check_out
* $ cd mywordpress/wp-content/plugins
* $ svn checkout
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/tools/wp-photocommons
[3] http://files.wmnederland.nl/downloads/latest.zip
[4] Slightly better in that Wikimedia wikis link to the local cached/
transclusion instead of Commons directly.
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