Hi,
Kaldari has been polishing the work done during Google Summer of Code
by Ankur Anand to support importing correctly licensed Flickr
photo(-sets) using Upload Wizard. You specify a photoset URL, and
Upload Wizard should treat it like a batch upload. You can test the
feature here:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (you'll need to
make a new test user account)
Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started.
Since UW performs a license check, UW will also add a
"VerifiedByUploadWizard" template which should help with the long term
validation of licenses for Flickr imported content.
Known issues:
* Getting a better 'source' value for each image - ideally we want the
regular Flickr URL, not the farm server URL
* Getting the description for each image, this may require separate
calls to the Flickr API.
* Making the 'author' value a link to the Flickr account
* Supporting the feature to copy metadata across a whole batch, which
is shown for regular batch uploads
Now's a good time to start playing with it. You can leave feedback
here: http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Flickr_testing -
or file in Bugzilla against the UploadWizard extension.
Thanks!
Erik
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Erik Möller
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