On 22/07/2014, Crockford, Ally a.crockford@nls.uk wrote:
The NLS has some digitised books that I am keen to upload to Commons where appropriate and I'd like to do so as separate image files (for a number of reasons - can go into them if you'd like but would rather save time).
My question is whether anyone has done this in the past and has found a way to include the booknavibar template when uploading? I was thinking of incorporating the template into the XML file the organisation generates for upload, as they can shape that pretty freely, but wasn't sure if I would run into an issue with mapping. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Ally,
I think you would be the first. You can create a custom ingestion template, though I would probably choose to make this part of post-upload housekeeping. It would be a good experiment either way.
I believe community views are mixed on book uploads as to whether to upload individual page scans, as opposed to loading this as djvu or pdf. My largest book files have been part of the WDL collections, many of which I "re-compiled" as new PDFs based on PNGs of the individual pages, as the PDF versions the WDL made available where un-usably small in page resolution. Some of my books are listed at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_uploaded_by_F%C3%A6
I suggest testing out your ideas for templates and file formats by creating a manual example, and discuss this on a batch upload page (if there are sufficient to warrant a batch upload project page); often it is worth highlighting the project page on the Village pump, folks are unlikely to notice it otherwise. :-) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading
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