hi james,
glad to hear that you're getting ready to upload with gwtoolset. sorry that you're running into an issue. at the moment the following characters are replaced with a '-' in a title without a method to override any of them:
'#','<','>','[',']','|','{','}',':','¬','`','!','"','£','$','^','&','*','(',')','+','=','~','?',',',';',"'",'@'
this list was comprised based on several wiki articles:
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_naming * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restric...) * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bad_title * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
i'm not sure who would or what process would “approve” the issue of relaxing that restriction to also allow the characters: '(',')',','. maybe someone else on this list would know. my guess is that if the commons admins and community are okay with it, then we can go ahead and allow those characters, but i don't know how that's done. maybe via an rfc or village pump article with votes ...
with kind regards, dan
On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:02 AM, James Heald j.heald@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to upload a few hundred images that have been released by the British Library.
I am all set to go, with carefully designed Commons filenames; but the GWtoolset uploader is wrecking all the commas and brackets in my filenames.
What I want is:
File:Large flowering sensitive plant (Mimosa grandiflora) - New illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus (1807) - BL.jpg
File:Cherries - Pomona Britannica (1812), pl.10 - BL.jpg
File:Rape threshing - The costume of Yorkshire (1814), plate XV - BL.jpg
What it's giving me is:
File:Large flowering sensitive plant -Mimosa grandiflora- - New illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus -1807- - BL.jpg
File:Cherries - Pomona Britannica -1812-- pl.10 - BL.jpg
File:Rape threshing - The costume of Yorkshire -1814-- plate XV - BL.jpg
How do I turn this behaviour off, please, or how do I work around it, to get the more easily human-readable names that I want?
Thanks,
James Heald.
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