Hi;

I was in some GWToolset talks in last Wikimania.

Congratulations for the tool and the project.

Following I'll explain 2 cases in which it is necessary to upload files to Commons but I'm afraid that, by now, GWToolset it is not still the solution.

Then this is a call for alternative options to do it.

[1] Case 1: Illustraciència

Illustraciència is a Scientific Illustration Award promoted by ACCC (Catalan Science Communicators Association).

By an agreement with them when the participants submit the images they can choose the option to "liberate with CC-by-sa to upload to Commons".

In the last edition 200 participants chose this option.

Now they need to upload it, but they don't have a database online, only high resolution files in a computer folder and posts in a WP blog with low resolution images.
http://illustraciencia.blogspot.com.es/
http://illustraciencia.cat/en/galeria-segona-edicio/

Commonist it is not the option neither the UploadWizard, because every image have a different author.

There is any solution for them now? And for the future Award editions?

[2] Case 2: local archives

I'm in contact with two local communities archives in two
neighbourhoods in Barcelona area. They have lots of photos of the neighbourhoods evolution, social events and historical struggles for political and civil rights.

The idea is to upload several collections of 100 or 200 photos with similar subjects but from different authors (they will do a task of contacting copyright holders to liberate it). Again Commonist and UploadWizard are not the adequate tools and uploading one by one could be hard and would make them desist.

What we can do in this cases?

There is an option to do that?

Thanks in advance;

David Gómez

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