Us at the Catalan Countries use a Python script I created which basically does everything automatically (JoRobot). We run it, like, one time a day so nothing accumulates at the end of the month (like last year; it was a mess).
It fetches a list of photographs @ the flickr group, filters those already uploaded (this year or last year), checks license & other stuff, checks for a tag named ID= which contains the monument ID and with that it queries the monuments DB.
The file is uploaded with the data fetched via pywikipedia.
I think it's better to upload periodically instead of leaving it for the end of the month. It ends up being a mess. On the other hand, I would also recommend using the approach above; maybe it's too late for this time, but it makes the job easier and more efficient.
Joan Creus.
2012/9/27 David Narvaez david.narvaez@computer.org
Hi all,
Related to the other thread about the checklist, I wanted to ask about the following situation:
We have a rather large amount of photos participating in the contest that are in Flickr and I was wondering when is it good to import them into Commons. I was thinking maybe Oct 1st, and filtering by upload time, so to avoid leaving photos behind. How does that affect the overall count etc? How are other organizers dealing with the Flickr import?
Thanks in advance.
David E. Narvaez
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