2012/9/8 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl:
Hi guys,
I'm doing some clean up. First I try to add identifier templates to as many images as possible because that's the basis of all magic.
That's good. Thing is, I've had a bot request for the exact same thing, and noticed that you miss lots of images. You might want to check out https://code.google.com/p/wikiro/source/browse/trunk/robots/python/pywikiped... and see what's different.
Second problem is actually a warning: don't use categories as either source or destination of monument ids (for Romania). They're currently a mess that needs to be sorted out manually.
Based on that I have been working on improving and expanding the automatic categorization. While doing that I ran into a lot of countries that needed some extra attention:
- In the US I added over 2000 Commonscat links
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_monuments_in_Romania contained over 6000 images, I sorted that out. Also someone created a template that categorized images. That's frowned upon at Commons so I added the images directly to the category and fixed the template.
It might be frowned upon, but it is still the easiest way to categorize this many images - if you add the same category manually and then we realize that the code is wrong, we'll need to change 2 things instead of one, increasing the chance of mistakes. I personally disagree with these edits.
Strainu