Files are now up, at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_released_by_British_Libr… Luckily I asked for and was given file-mover permissions last week, so I am now slowly going through and restoring the punctuation. 35 done, 395 to go... I'll come back with some more thoughts in a bit; but even in this form thank you for a very useful tool. Best regards, James. On 05/03/2014 07:57, dan entous wrote:

On 05/03/2014 07:57, dan entous wrote: In respect of the list above, the links actually indicate a lot of flexiblity. From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bad_title it's clear that there is no technical problem with most of the characters -- it gives the example of Some¬`!"£$^&*()_+-=~?/.,;:'@ as something the software could handle, if necessary. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist highlight some characters that would be a problem, but they are a lot more esoteric than anything I want (so long as none of my filenames contain rude parts of the body). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_res… contains a much shorter list of restricted characters - just # < > [ ] | { } which leaves https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_naming with its rather vague statement to "Avoid "funny" symbols (control characters, unneeded punctuation, etc.) that might be significant in future wiki markup." (Vagueness in the draft seems to be one reason why it has never been adopted, but is still only a working proposal). For me, the apostrophe in St John's Gospel or Cicero's Aratus or Breviari d'Amour *is* essential punctuation, and the strange and unreadable Breviari d--39-Amour is not an acceptable substitute. Similarly parentheses and commas are used in the names of so many images, that it would break far too much now for them ever to become "significant in future wiki markup". I can request confirmation at Commons:Village Pump if it is really necessary; but just doing what the other bots do, per Jean-Frédéric's suggestion, seems a good way to go. Sorry to keep harping on this, but as I said in my other post, it's really blocking me, because a full reupload of the files is going to be the only sane way to sort these issues out; and until that's happened I can't do anything to integrate these files into the wiki, because it will all just get wiped out (as will the work of anybody else who tries to work on or with them). So if this isn't too big a fix to ask, I would be very very grateful. All best, James.

The GWT allows quotes and normal brackets, I have not tested other Commons allowed characters. For example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22No.1_Seminary_Building._No._3_Mo… Some of the problem might be how the XML file is encoded to UTF-8 by the user, rather than how the GWT handles it. Fae On 4 May 2014 19:50, Maarten Dammers &lt;maarten(a)mdammers.nl&gt; wrote: -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote.

On 5 May 2014 13:01, Hans Muller &lt;j.m.muller(a)hccnet.nl&gt; wrote: ... ... 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. Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

On 5 May 2014 13:59, Fæ &lt;faewik(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: On request I reverted to allowing red-links for "Images released by British Library Images Online". If anyone would like Faebot to remove red-linked creator templates from their GWT uploads, let me know what parent category they all appear in and I'll kick Faebot to sort it out. As there are mixed views, I'm not planning on running the fix across all GWT uploads again. Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

as far as i know, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62909 took care of this issue with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121094/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125401/ with kind regards, dan On May 4, 2014, at 21:52 , Fæ &lt;faewik(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: