maybe quite the same subject, this is a mail that I sent to the person who have med commonist, but since h* hasn't replaied I maybe can post my suggestions here to see if anybode can make somthing of it: I don't know how hard this is to implant but I think it would a really great function.
let me explain it in a couple of steps..
1. I open up an image list on my Wikipedia. 2. I download a bunch of pictures to a local folder on My computer 3. I load this folder int commonist 4. Now comes the new function, I chose the new alternative, move to commons 4.1 Move to commons ask me what laguage version I'm moving from 4.2 Commonist uses http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/commonshelper.php or an own version of the same thing to fill in the same information 4.3 Commonist tells me if any of the files names exists on commons (http://ln-s.net/+Sv may help) 5 I upload the files 6 Commonist or myself marks the files with {{NCT}} or {{NowCommms|changed name}} 7 optionally it would be cool if Commonist would know if I have changed the files name after I loaded it into commonist and then correct the links on the wikipedia, but I guess the two last functions would mean that a bot account would be needed in some cases.
What do you say? Sincerely [[sv:Grön]]
2006/4/18, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com:
Since there are some really good tools being written lately, I thought I'd throw up a request for one. :) This one would be quite easy to make, I think. Just saves some typing. (I would like it for en.wp but I think it would be pretty easy to make for any language.wp.)
Articles on Commons frequently have no contextual information - just a heading and images. Sometimes this is OK but usually short description blurbs and interwiki links would be better. The easiest way to make these is to find the en.wp article, copy the list of interwiki links, add the English interwiki link, then convert these to description tags and either leave just the article name as the description, or add the first sentence from the article.
e.g. today I fixed up this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%27s_Seat&oldid=172...
The description tags look like this:
{{en|This is where the first line of the article would go.}}
not a far leap from [[en:article name]] at all, really. You can also link to the WP article in the description tag, or bold the subject, or do neither.
Typically I only put the full description for English because I'm usually fixing up other people's articles, then I just put the article name for the other interwiki links _if it differs to the English name_. For example with species, quite a few wikis put them at the Latin binomial name (as does Commons), so I don't think it's necessary to list 50 "translations" of a word that already appears on the page.
as an example see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Malamute , where I have only translated the labels that are not 'Alaskan Malamute' (in this case they are different scripts).
Anyway does what I've described make sense? Basically I'd like to put in the name of the relevant en.wp article, and get out the description tags and interwiki links that I can paste right into my Commons article.
Not at all urgent, of course...
cheers, Brianna
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