[Commons-l] Two new tools for Flickr

[Florian Straub]

"Brianna Laugher"  wrote on Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:07 AM:


> On 17/05/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Now the second tool is really handy (imho ;P). It allows you to easily
>> upload images from Flickr:
> 
> If you find any security bug in
>> the upload part, the bot that performs the uploads and to be blocked
>> is Flickr_upload_bot.
> 
> Magnus had a similar idea, a bot that performed transfers from (eg)
> Wikipedia to Commons. I asked him to disable it...
> 
> I kind of have a problem with this is in that it allows essentially
> anonymous uploads.  At least in this case they are restricted to
> images from flickr with suitable licenses, that is better than totally
> anonymous, but still. What stops me putting the username 'Bryan' in
> and putting up whatever irrelevant, offensive, invasive, stupid images
> I can find on Flickr? oh... nothing.

What about using http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php instead?

Regards,

Flo