On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started.
Nice work. I like the integration with Upload Wizard.
Unfortunately it doesn't appear to work (for me). I tried uploading a photo but it seems stuck on an infinite "Uploading..." for me (filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39948).
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.
Ideally it would use the {{flickrreview}} template so that it integrates with the patrol workflow (so far it exists). Similar to how [[User:FlickreviewR]] auto-reviews files on Commons (except that it wouldn't be a separate edit).
Though to avoid hardcoding details for Commons too much, it could be done from an interface message (similar to Extension:NewUserMessage, with a message containing the wikitext boilerplate with $N parameters for various bits of information).
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
Not sure what the current planning is, but it'd be nice if those features/issues would be resolved before deployment on commons.wikimedia.org so that we can fully obsolete the Toolserver tool that is currently often used for this (which afaik does have these features):
http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload
-- Krinkle