New subject: VisualFileChange: Good tool for post processing GW-toolset batch uploads

22 Jul 2015


      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 Schoemakerhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Schoemaker (2579 images)
*         Categorie:Atlas_van_der_Hagenhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen (446 images)
*         Categorie:Atlas_Beudekerhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Beudeker (133 images)
With kind regards
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data coordinator
Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
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