In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr.
Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
Not that due toolserver problems, several wikipedias, notably en, are not available to search right now. German wikipedia works, though, in case you want to test.
URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/watchflickr.php
I have already found, uploaded, and used about a dozen "celebrity" images, both adding a new image and (on en.wp) replacing fair use and placeholder images.
Cheers, Magnus
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr.
Oh that looks nice!
Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Not that due toolserver problems, several wikipedias, notably en, are not available to search right now. German wikipedia works, though, in case you want to test.
URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/watchflickr.php
I have already found, uploaded, and used about a dozen "celebrity" images, both adding a new image and (on en.wp) replacing fair use and placeholder images.
Cheers, Magnus
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On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Nice :-) Can it take the URL as a parameter to pre-fill the form? (If so, how?)
Magnus
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Nice :-) Can it take the URL as a parameter to pre-fill the form? (If so, how?)
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload?link=Now_it_does_;)
Magnus
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On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Nice :-) Can it take the URL as a parameter to pre-fill the form? (If so, how?)
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload?link=Now_it_does_;)
And you're ... in! :-) (That is, watchflickr now has a link to your tool for each image, and you can enter your username once, so it gets prefilled as well...)
Magnus
On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Is it possible to exceed the current limit of six images/hour? With this new tool, I'm constantly having to wait! ;)
-Matt
On 10/4/07, Matthew Brown [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Is it possible to exceed the current limit of six images/hour? With this new tool, I'm constantly having to wait! ;)
Of course. By leaving me a message on my talk or telling me your username in some other way.
I'll also increase the general limit to 20, which should suffice for most people.
-Matt
Bryan
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On 10/4/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
On 10/4/07, Matthew Brown [email protected] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
psst... http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload (not working until the databases are working again).
Is it possible to exceed the current limit of six images/hour? With this new tool, I'm constantly having to wait! ;)
Of course. By leaving me a message on my talk or telling me your username in some other way.
I'll also increase the general limit to 20, which should suffice for most people.
-Matt
Bryan
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Also, maybe we should advertise Magnus' & my tool somewhere? Probably more people are interested.
On 05/10/2007, Bryan Tong Minh [email protected] wrote:
Also, maybe we should advertise Magnus' & my tool somewhere? Probably more people are interested.
Yes, absolutely!
Please take some screenshots showing each tool step by step (especially the bot - when I walk people through it they don't immediately understand the last step). When we have a nice howto page, we can write to foundation-l and wikien-l again.
cheers Brianna
Wow Magnus, this is a great tool. I've already used it to find photographs of five Dutch musicians. Keep up the good work!
-- Hay / Husky
On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske [email protected] wrote:
In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr.
Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
Not that due toolserver problems, several wikipedias, notably en, are not available to search right now. German wikipedia works, though, in case you want to test.
URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/watchflickr.php
I have already found, uploaded, and used about a dozen "celebrity" images, both adding a new image and (on en.wp) replacing fair use and placeholder images.
Cheers, Magnus
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"Magnus Manske" [email protected] wrote on Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:55 PM
In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr.
Awesome. I've found it via del.icio.us BEFORE I read this mail .... in case anyone wants to join me, be my guests at http://del.icio.us/Flominator and add me to your network.
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and to Flominator's Flinfo tool.
I'm flattered. Thank you :)
Best regards,
Flo
2007/9/30, Magnus Manske [email protected]:
In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr.
Looks great, and works surprisingly fast. However, when I tried it out today, it found no Flickr images for pages where it found quite a few before. Might there be something wrong with its connection to Flickr at the moment?
On 10/2/07, Andre Engels [email protected] wrote:
2007/9/30, Magnus Manske [email protected]:
In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr.
Looks great, and works surprisingly fast. However, when I tried it out today, it found no Flickr images for pages where it found quite a few before. Might there be something wrong with its connection to Flickr at the moment?
Don't know what happened; wrong API key. Strange.
Works now again.
Magnus