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> 1. Re: Upload-by-URL for
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> 2. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Eusebius)
> 3. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Liam Wyatt)
> 4. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Eusebius)
> 5. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Gerard Meijssen)
> 6. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Daniel Kinzler)
> 7. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Jastrow)
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> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:09:01 -0700
> From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Upload-by-URL for
test.wikipedia.org
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> On 3/21/09 9:59 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>> In addition to being able to handle large files without an ugly manual
>>> download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for
>>> future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media
>>> picker to fetch freely-licensed files from Flickr,
Archive.org, and
>>> other places.
>>
>> The way I wrote the URL upload back in the day would make it an entry
>> point for POST-style uploads from third-party tools. I hope that still
>> works - it might ease mass "single shot" uploads from people or groups
>> who want to push an existing set of their files over to Commons.
>
> This is how Michael Dale's ongoing work with a media-add wizard is
> currently using it, though he's been talking about adding an API
> interface for it too.
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> -- brion
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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:42:17 +0100
> From: Eusebius <wikipedia(a)eusebius.fr>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues
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> David Gerard a ?crit :
>> 2009/3/22 Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net>et>:
>>
>>
>>> I could see adding an {{information incomplete}} (do we have one
>>> already?) to images that meet our minimum requirements to stay on
>>> commons, but are lacking details - often images are uploaded from some
>>> other site, people not realizing that there is a definitive source with
>>> more information.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's a good idea! At least then if a gallery says "But you don't
>> have complete information" we can say "There's the 'so fix
it' tag,
>> your information would be most welcome and will be added."
>>
> And how should we know that there is more information available somewhere?
>