Fae, thanks for the suggestions and pointing out some tools & groups I was not yet aware of, I'll go and check them out. Yesterday I happened to stumble on the VisualFileChange tool, which I find highly useful for post-upload cleanup & housekeeping.

Best regards, Olaf ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nice work.

Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer!

I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]

Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to check these by hand.

Links 1. GLAM Dashboard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard 2. Advanced Commons searching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch 3. VisualFileChange tool https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js 4. Map workshop https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop

Thanks, Fae -