Hi,
Kaldari has been polishing the work done during Google Summer of Code by Ankur Anand to support importing correctly licensed Flickr photo(-sets) using Upload Wizard. You specify a photoset URL, and Upload Wizard should treat it like a batch upload. You can test the feature here:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (you'll need to make a new test user account)
Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started.
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.
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
Now's a good time to start playing with it. You can leave feedback here: http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Flickr_testing - or file in Bugzilla against the UploadWizard extension.
Thanks! Erik
All awesome and I'll test a bit, but just a thing.
Erik Moeller, 30/08/2012 03:10:
Now's a good time to start playing with it. You can leave feedback here: http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Flickr_testing - or file in Bugzilla against the UploadWizard extension.
Can we move the feedback page to Commons or some other stable wiki? Test wikis are often deleted (this surely will be as it's in wmflabs.org) leading to huge loss of information.[1] Thanks, Nemo
[1] If you're really interested in examples and discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test_wikis
On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Erik Moeller [email protected] 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