On 03/09/07, Florian Straub Flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Someone, I believe it was Magnus, wrote SumItUp which collects the first sentences of an article in all available languages. Maybe someone could write a tool, that uses CheckUsage in order to retrieve image descriptions from wikipedia articles.
There used to be a bot that did that... it copied any caption the image was given in any Wikipedia to its Commons page. Haven't noticed it on my watchlist for a while so probably it's having a bot sleep. Let's make sure we don't re-invent the wheel, folks :)
To Bryan, if people want to provide captions they would probably prefer to be able to pick a topic to do it for rather than just random. So get people to supply a keyword, find the closest category via CommonSense and just go through all the images in that category.
cheers Brianna