Hullo!
On 5 May, 2014, at 6:21 am, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5 May 2014 13:01, Hans Muller
<j.m.muller(a)hccnet.nl> wrote:
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Author Creator:Bert en Lilian Mellink Pieter
Christiaansz Bor
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This is a bug that has been a problem on my NYPL uploads (which I have
yet to fix). What *probably* should be happening, is that the <author>
field should be checked for a possible match to a {{creator}}
template, and the template *then* used. Unfortunately it seems to use
it for everything instead.
No quick fix, this needs to be reported as a bug and fixed for
everyone. If when you have completed your uploads you leave me a
prompt on my Commons talk page with a link to your parent category for
uploads, I can let Faebot do the tidy-up as a housekeeping job (or you
could use a tool like VisualFileChange to fix them); I'd probably get
around to it within a day of your request.
What about checking for the the Creator page on the fly? When I was playing around with
uploading a bunch of BHL (
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/) images to the Commons last
year, I wrote a template that, given a creator’s name, would check for a “Creator: …” page
with the same name. If it found one, it would insert the appropriate {{Creator}} template
automatically; otherwise, it would display the name by itself with a note beside it
inviting users to create the {{Creator}} page themselves. You can see an example at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_Sparrow_making_a_home_in_a_…
— one of the photographer/illustrator has a creator page, but the other does not. If
someone were to create a Creator page for Herman T. Bohlman, the template would insert it
automatically the next time the page was purged.
It’s a quickly thrown together template, and definitely not the most efficient, but I’d be
happy to help improve it if anybody finds it useful! The source is available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Agent
cheers,
Gaurav
