Please, stop using national flags for denoting human languages. Both
entities do not match. Using flag is discriminating minorities - it is
not appropriate to discriminate someone even if this would actually
improve accessibility.
These misleading flags are that small that I often must look twice to
recognize them; and if recognized, it isn't even sure that I know what
they mean! I don't watch TV and that's probably why I'm not familiar
with all these modern flags.
Instead of flags use a cobination of language code (ISO) and the native
name:
de - Deutsch
en - English
es - Español
ja - 日本語
etc.
For reference see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Templates_for_galleries (where
you must change the templates) and
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump . As long as
this feature is under discussion we should stay away from announcing
it; at least, for the time being we must make it as neutral as possible:
Display {{german}} as <nowiki>{{german}}</nowiki> .
It is important for me to get this issue right.
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'''de:''' Bitte teilt mir mit, ob das alles soweit OK ist; wenn ja,
folgt als nächstes der komplette Upload der 10.000.
'''en:''' Please tell me if there are any problems with the images
uploaded so far, if not, I will proceed to upload the rest.
An Karl: Alle Datumsangaben sind jetzt im ISO-Format.
Viele Grüße
Erik
I have now imported some of the artist metadata from the Directmedia
"10,000 masterpieces" DVD that was kindly donated to Wikimedia. For this
purpose, I have created a new "Creator:" metadata namespace on the
Commons. You can see all pages in this namespace at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&nam…
As you can see, I have written some conversion routines to translate
date information from German into English. Other information, however,
is primarily in German.
Note that the current bot output still sometimes produces a *de: bullet
point when it should not pass any parameter at all to the template,
i.e., when the field is blank. For this reason, I have not completed the
import, and will run the bot again after this bug is fixed. (Also, the
bot didn't have a bot flag, with so many pages, that was very annoying
on Recent Changes.)
Before I proceed, however, I ask you to take a look at the current
imported pages, and tell me about any other issues with the metadata as
it is.
What's the point of this? Simple, using this content, I can now put
{{Creator:Johann Anwander}}
on an image page, or on a gallery page, and get instant metadata
information as well as a proper category with sort key. I will add these
{{Creator:Xy}} tags to all the uploaded images. This avoids redundancy
across different pages where the same information is used, and thereby
makes updating and extracting artist metadata easier. Effectively, we
are modelling the structure of the relational database using templates
(yay, Wikidata without Wikidata ;-).
After the bot run is finished, I will upload a few example images from
the DVD, and if that is to everyone's satisfaction, we can go for the
full load.
All best,
Erik