On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of content into commons:
The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more details are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At some stage the plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to Wikipedia articles.
I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers.
Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before the mass uploading starts?
Thanks
Andrew
[1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Turvey schreef:
On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of content into commons:
The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more details are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At some stage the plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to Wikipedia articles.
Nice project, great score!
I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers.
Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before the mass uploading starts?
What information is going to be included in the images? How are you going to add categories? You might want to have a look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading
Doing a couple of test uploads to get some feedback is very useful.
Maarten
Thanks
Andrew
[1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
Great news. I would suggest letting people know on the VP and doing a test upload of, say, 10 images just to check there are no technical problems or other issues that might need to be discussed before mass uploading starts.
Michael
Andrew Turvey wrote:
On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of content into commons:
The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more details are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At some stage the plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to Wikipedia articles.
I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers.
Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before the mass uploading starts?
Thanks
Andrew
[1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
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Just FYI: Wikimedia Nederland is currently busy with a similiair project, called Wiki loves art / NL. We have around 250 images now in our Flickr pool (http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilovesart), the project runs until the end of this month and we're planning to upload all images to Commons in July and August. Hopefully the US project would give some best practices for these kind of projects.
-- Hay / Husky
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael MaggsMichael@maggs.name wrote:
Great news. I would suggest letting people know on the VP and doing a test upload of, say, 10 images just to check there are no technical problems or other issues that might need to be discussed before mass uploading starts.
Michael
Andrew Turvey wrote:
On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of content into commons:
The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more details are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At some stage the plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to Wikipedia articles.
I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers.
Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before the mass uploading starts?
Thanks
Andrew
[1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
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