Re: [Glamtools] VisualFileChange: Good tool for post processing GW-toolset batch uploads

Thanks Olaf! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Jason

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On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 15:00 BST, Olaf Janssen Olaf.Janssen@KB.nl wrote:

Hi everybody,

I thought this was worth sharing:

I've just finished uploading 3 batches (3100+ images (*)) using the GW-toolset. I was looking at ways to do some automatic post-upload cleaning of metadata in all the 3100+ files (eg. getting rid of unwanted semicolons that the GW-tool adds in the mapping process).

I was about to file a bot request, but came across the VisualFileChangehttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js tool, very helpful for mass Find-Replace operations. It is a tool that can be used for mass-changes of one author's uploaded files, or files in a category. It's a web-tool and can be launched directlyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Bots/Work_requests&withJS=MediaWiki:VisualFileChange.js.

Might be something to add to the GW-toolset end user manual https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GWToolset ?

(*)

•     Categorie:Atlas Schoemaker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Schoemaker> (2579 images)
  
  

•     Categorie:Atlas_van_der_Hagen<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen> (446 images)
  
  

•     Categorie:Atlas_Beudeker<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Beudeker> (133 images)
  
  
  

With kind regards

Olaf Janssen

Wikipedia & open data coordinator

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