maybe quite the same subject, this is a mail that I sent to the person
who have med commonist, but since h* hasn't replaied I maybe can post
my suggestions here to see if anybode can make somthing of it:
I don't know how hard this is to implant but I think it would a really
great function.
let me explain it in a couple of steps..
1. I open up an image list on my Wikipedia.
2. I download a bunch of pictures to a local folder on My computer
3. I load this folder int commonist
4. Now comes the new function, I chose the new alternative, move to commons
4.1 Move to commons ask me what laguage version I'm moving from
4.2 Commonist uses
http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/commonshelper.php
or an own version of the same thing to fill in the same information
4.3 Commonist tells me if any of the files names exists on commons
(
http://ln-s.net/+Sv may help)
5 I upload the files
6 Commonist or myself marks the files with {{NCT}} or {{NowCommms|changed name}}
7 optionally it would be cool if Commonist would know if I have
changed the files name after I loaded it into commonist and then
correct the links on the wikipedia, but I guess the two last functions
would mean that a bot account would be needed in some cases.
What do you say?
Sincerely
[[sv:Grön]]
2006/4/18, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>om>:
Since there are some really good tools being written
lately, I thought
I'd throw up a request for one. :) This one would be quite easy to
make, I think. Just saves some typing. (I would like it for en.wp but
I think it would be pretty easy to make for any language.wp.)
Articles on Commons frequently have no contextual information - just a
heading and images. Sometimes this is OK but usually short description
blurbs and interwiki links would be better. The easiest way to make
these is to find the en.wp article, copy the list of interwiki links,
add the English interwiki link, then convert these to description tags
and either leave just the article name as the description, or add the
first sentence from the article.
e.g. today I fixed up this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%27s_Seat&oldid=17…
The description tags look like this:
{{en|This is where the first line of the article would go.}}
not a far leap from [[en:article name]] at all, really. You can also
link to the WP article in the description tag, or bold the subject, or
do neither.
Typically I only put the full description for English because I'm
usually fixing up other people's articles, then I just put the article
name for the other interwiki links _if it differs to the English
name_. For example with species, quite a few wikis put them at the
Latin binomial name (as does Commons), so I don't think it's necessary
to list 50 "translations" of a word that already appears on the page.
as an example see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Malamute ,
where I have only translated the labels that are not 'Alaskan
Malamute' (in this case they are different scripts).
Anyway does what I've described make sense? Basically I'd like to put
in the name of the relevant en.wp article, and get out the description
tags and interwiki links that I can paste right into my Commons
article.
Not at all urgent, of course...
cheers,
Brianna
--
"Mathematicians do it with Nobel's wife."
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