Thanks for trying to bring this Flickr group back to life!
I don’t use use either the Commons or Flickr as much as I'd like to, but I’ve been an editor/user on both sites for a long time and I’m happy to be added as a moderator to the Commons group on Flickr.
Caroline: as far as I can tell, Flickr will let you search *for* CC-* or (for Commons purposes) CC licenses that allow commercial reuse within a group [1], but not the inverse. I wonder if there’s some way we could throw all 23.5k photos into the moderation queue, then automatically moderate the 14k photos that have the right license so we can figure out what to do with the others. We should probably send Flickr a feature request for an enforced restriction that “photos submitted to this group must have one of these licenses”, even though that’s unlikely to be implemented any time soon.
The Flickr API does have an endpoint that lets you download all the photo metadata from a group, including the license [2]. I don’t think it would be too hard to write a Python script that downloads all that information into a spreadsheet that we can stick on Google Drive to coordinate our efforts or something, but I won’t have the time to do that for several weeks or months :(
Can we do a search on CC licenses to pull out incompatible ones?
Once we’ve handled the backlog it should be easier to manage the daily additions.
Caroline
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Hi Cary,
Thank you for bringing this up and your efforts in managing the Wikimedia Commons Group on Flickr. Currently, we have more than 28.1K photos of the Flickr group. In that case, I wish there was any tool that could prevent uploading images that are not incompatible with CC licenses. By human effort, it does not seem practical.
I'm looking for people to help moderate the group to remove photographs that don't have licenses compatible with Commons, and remove users who repeatedly add photos with incorrect licenses. Maybe leave a message for them but honestly, some of these people are just submitting photos to every group they can.
Also, if something falls completely outside the scope of Commons, probably remove those too...
Cary
I use flicker but i am unclear about your. request.
I'm an admin of the
Wikimedia Commons Group on Flickr, a group that has, up until now, had no moderation for numerous years. Given my uptick in activity on Flickr (resulting from my uptick on Commons) I'm hoping to change that.
Photographs in the group ought to be able to be readily able to be ported to Commons, thereby having a free license. People who sign up for the group agree to that rule. However, currently numerous people are just sharing photographs that they share on numerous other groups for exposure.
I do not have the bandwidth to moderate completely on my own. Is anyone else currently a regular Flickr user that would be willing and able to help out?
Cary Bass-Deschenes [[User:Bastique]]
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