Dear All,
** Is it possible to add 3134 captions to existing images on Commons?
** (without removing earlier work on the images, metadata and categories)
This nice question presents itself in the following case. Recently, i
uploaded 3134 images from Dutch University Library Leiden UBL and KITLV to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITLV_2016…
(309 colonial works of art)
and
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITLV_2016…
(2805 colonial photographs)
with captions in Dutch and English. I corrected the metadata, categorised
the images and put them into Wikipedia articles (only a few ;-)
Now a translator might be paid to translate the captions into Bahasa
Indonesia, the language of the people perhaps most interested in these
historical images. If the translator succeeds, that would mean require
language templates like
{{id|1= ... }}
to the description fields.
Re-uploading with GWToolset proved to be impossible if another user has
worked on the metadata since upload. Categorisation and my own corrections
to the metadata would be lost.
* Is there another, painless solution putting in the new translation while
keeping the previous work on these files?
Thanks for you considering this problem,
Best regards from a sunny Utrecht, the Netherlands,
hans muller
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hansmuller