hi david,

based on situations you’ve described, i agree, it looks like none of these tools would be able to help you at the moment: GWToolset, Communist or UploadWizard. from what i can tell, you’d have to write a custom script to take care of each scenario and that script would have to be granted permission to upload to commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots.

below i’ve added some comments regarding how GWToolset might help if you can get the mediafiles online and an XML output of the metadata.

On Sep 2, 2014, at 10:53 , David Gómez dvdgmz@gmail.com wrote:

Hi; I was in some GWToolset talks in last Wikimania. Congratulations for the tool and the project.

Following I'll explain 2 cases in which it is necessary to upload files to Commons but I'm afraid that, by now, GWToolset it is not still the solution. Then this is a call for alternative options to do it.

[1] Case 1: Illustraciència Illustraciència is a Scientific Illustration Award promoted by ACCC (Catalan Science Communicators Association). By an agreement with them when the participants submit the images they can choose the option to "liberate with CC-by-sa to upload to Commons". In the last edition 200 participants chose this option. Now they need to upload it, but they don't have a database online, only high resolution files in a computer folder and posts in a WP blog with low resolution images. http://illustraciencia.blogspot.com.es/ http://illustraciencia.cat/en/galeria-segona-edicio/ Commonist it is not the option neither the UploadWizard, because every image have a different author. There is any solution for them now? And for the future Award editions?

if there’s anyway to get an XML file generated that could be used by GWToolset; something like the following. it might also be interesting to write a script for wordpress that would be able to auto-generate the XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <records> <record> <title>Ocimum Basilicum</title> <url>http://illustraciencia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/albahaca_-con-textos_I...</url> <photographer>Italo Ahumada</photographer> <license>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</license> <description lang="es">TÉCNICA: tinta acrílica sobre papel AÑO: 2014 DESCRIPCIÓN: Ilustracion Botánica de la "Ocimum basilicum", comunmente conocida como, albahaca (español), basil (inglés), basilico (italiano), basilic (francés), tulsi (indio), basilienkraut (alemán).</description> </record> <record> ... </record> </records>

[2] Case 2: local archives I'm in contact with two local communities archives in two neighbourhoods in Barcelona area. They have lots of photos of the neighbourhoods evolution, social events and historical struggles for political and civil rights. The idea is to upload several collections of 100 or 200 photos with similar subjects but from different authors (they will do a task of contacting copyright holders to liberate it). Again Commonist and UploadWizard are not the adequate tools and uploading one by one could be hard and would make them desist.

for GWToolset, you’d have to sort out a way to get the mediafiles online and then generate the XML file that refers to the metadata you have available.

What we can do in this cases? There is an option to do that?

Thanks in advance;

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