[Commons-l] an idea for a commons help tool

[Joakim Larsson]

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 at gmail.com>:
> 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=1728248
>
> 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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