This is really fantastic, and makes me very very happy. This represents the best of what makes the Wikimedia projects great - someone identifies a need and then rolls up their sleeves and fills that need. Well done, Shrini, and thank you.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Shrinivasan T <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tshrinivasan@gmail.com">tshrinivasan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Friends.<br>
<br>
Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons<br>
media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world.<br>
see the announcement here.<br>
<a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en" target="_blank">http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en</a><br>
<br>
To upload the photos there are two ways available so far.<br>
<br>
1. The web based upload wizard<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard</a><br>
<br>
2. Java based upload tool - Commonist<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist</a><br>
<br>
We have to provide a detailed filename and description to the images<br>
for uploading.<br>
<br>
When we have a bunch of photos to upload, we have to select them,<br>
crop, or edit them before uploading.<br>
<br>
Found that that "GThumb Image Viewer" can show the files, edit the<br>
files and add IPTC tags to the images.<br>
<br>
We can view,edit,delete,rotate,crop and add the required Description<br>
and Title to the images<br>
for uploading to wikimedia commons.<br>
<br>
How to upload the files?<br>
There are two tools already.<br>
But, I wanted to plugin to any image viewer to upload to wikimedia<br>
commons directly.<br>
No image viewer has that plugin.<br>
<br>
DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released.<br>
<br>
So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a<br>
folder to upload to mediawiki.<br>
<br>
Here is it.<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader/</a><br>
<br>
Usage details are available in INSTALL and README files.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the wikipedia users Surya and Sodabottle for their valuable<br>
suggestions.<br>
<br>
Please report if there are any issues.<br>
<br>
Provide your suggestions for improving too.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
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--<br>
Regards,<br>
T.Shrinivasan<br>
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