On 22/07/2014, Crockford, Ally <a.crockford(a)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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