Op 9 mei 2016, om 14:14 heeft Bas vb
<bas_v_b(a)hotmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
This should be quite easy with pywikibot if the file-names and translations to add are
given.
If there are no indonesian translations currently in the descriptions the new translation
can simply be appended after "|information="
Mvg,
Bas
From: faewik(a)gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:36:19 +0100
To: j.m.muller(a)hccnet.nl <mailto:j.m.muller@hccnet.nl>;
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Subject: Re: [Glamtools] adding 3134 captions after upload?
There's no 'painless' solution. I have made similar housekeeping
updates to very large batch uploads post-upload using pywikibot using
short scripts. Amongst other things, pywikibot can pull up the
specific image page history and tell which past edits have been made
and by whom, then make intelligent decisions on whether to add
information or how to best do it. Terribly handy for avoiding doing
something twice.
I suggest not being in a hurry. Focus on getting the translations
done, if amenable to it, it would be worth training up the translator
so they write the new text directly into the image templates rather
than somewhere else. If this would be too difficult, then just get the
translations as a file or spreadsheet, mapped against the related
Commons images or reference numbers. There are several bot writers
that might be interested in plugging the extra translations seamlessly
into the current image pages once the data is ready. The best place to
ask for a Commons bot specialist is on the bots work requests page.[1]
As you do so much of this stuff, I strongly recommend you try playing
around with Python and pywikibot yourself, perhaps delaying this
translation fix so you can use it to practice with. A script to do
what you are looking for might only take around 20 or 30 lines of
original programming, most of pywikibot's power lies in the handy
modules that have been written to do exactly this sort of thing. See
the advice and code examples in the manual.[2]
Links
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests
2.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot
Fae
On 9 May 2016 at 12:19, Hans Muller <j.m.muller(a)hccnet.nl> wrote:
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
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