On 17/05/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As you might, or might not know, I have been quite
busy with Flickr
lately, especially with [[User:FlickreviewR]]. I have written two
tools (or actually, one tool with two functions) with helps Commons
users with images for Flickr.
The first is a database of all images reviewed images from Flickr:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/browse You can search on nsid,
username, photo_id, link, and Commons image. The database contains
over 28,000 images, which is over 70% of the total number of Flickr
images on Commons :) [1]
Whose username, Flickr or Commons? And if Commons is that reviewer or
uploader or what? What is nsid? No search I tried actually returned
any results. Bit more help, please?
Now the second tool is really handy (imho ;P). It
allows you to easily
upload images from Flickr:
If you find any security bug in
the upload part, the bot that performs the uploads and
to be blocked
is Flickr_upload_bot.
Magnus had a similar idea, a bot that performed transfers from (eg)
Wikipedia to Commons. I asked him to disable it...
I kind of have a problem with this is in that it allows essentially
anonymous uploads. At least in this case they are restricted to
images from flickr with suitable licenses, that is better than totally
anonymous, but still. What stops me putting the username 'Bryan' in
and putting up whatever irrelevant, offensive, invasive, stupid images
I can find on Flickr? oh... nothing.
I think there's a good reason MediaWiki requires users to be logged in
before uploading, and I don't think we should use bots that circumvent
that requirement.
At the very least I think there should be a bot approval thing for
this bot, where we can discuss as a community if we want to allow this
kind of thing to happen.
cheers
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise