Hi Gilles,
Thanks for your email!
Since I'm new to the Wikimedia ecosystem, I have many questions on how to
do that:
- first of all, is it acceptable to associate one (or several) external
links to a file/picture stored on Commons?
Depends, but generally, yes. We typically link back to sources (eg Flickr),
to authoritative sources (museum database, cultural heritage database,
biodiversity catalogue, etc.)
- is there any existing format to point an
OpenStreetMap resource? Should
I create a template for that? and/or use other_fields in the Information
template?
We do have <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:On_OSM> but I have
never been happy with it. I think it would be worth creating one. What
wouls this template do exatcly - just create a link to a OSM node?
- apart Title and Description, is there any required
or strongly
encouraged fields that the user should enter?
Date should be automatically filled by the upload process.
Author is mandatory, as well as a license.
Another request, a little embarassing... Yesterday,
I've tried to send a
dummy picture to Commons [5], just to see how it works, but now I'm not
sure how to undo this... I've found the {{speedydelete}} tag, is it the way
to go?
Yes, it is. I went ahead and deleted your test upload. That's no problem.
By the way, is there any dev instance of Commons where
I can play safely
with the API?
Yes, there are several ; I believe <http://test.wikipedia.org> is your best
bet (please someone corrects me if I'm wrong)
Hope that helps,
--
Jean-Frédéric