Yaroslav,
I agree that is bot work. However, in our case, we just followed a
somewhat different approach in face of the circumstances: we proposed
ourselves to review image by image - please keep your flames out of the
discussion :-))
We developed a tool to verify the photo data[1] so users can manually
verify legitimacy/correctness of the data. This is obviously a lot of
work, so we also did a tool to allow to verify/accept/reject the image
with a single click, propose categories or add categories we had already
mapped.
[1] http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.pt/tools/verify/?debug=0&wlm_id=70523
The verification tool transparently fetches this info and acts upon user
decision: reject/accept, but the big thing is that we automatically get
the images categorized with a bigger accuracy. Here's an example (with a
single click):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Castelo_de_S._Jorge_(20)...
This is just another option put on the table countries may consider, so
no one relies on a bot we never saw, and barely heard of.
--
Nuno Tavares
Wikimedia Portugal
http://www.wikimedia.pt
Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
estamos a fazer.
Participe também:
http://www.wikimedia.pt
Em 01-10-2011 18:27, Yaroslav M. Blanter escreveu:
> Unrelated to my previous post (which is apparently so long that nobody
> bothers to read it through)
>
> Now we have a lot of work to do on Commons to accomodate the images, and I
> came across the following problem. Let me cite an example.
>
> There were 12 files uploaded of the St. Paul and the St. Peter Cathedral
> in Peterhof, Russia. Most, if not all of them are uncategorized (meaning
> only have the categories autoimatically inherited from the template). This
> is one example (I have just categorized it):
>
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%BF...
>
> The cathedral has an id which is 7801172001. All pictures uploaded under
> WLM have the template with the ID.
>
> There are also pictures of the cathedral uploaded before September 2011.
> There is a separate category for the cathedral:
>
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saints_Peter_and_Paul_Cathedral_%...
>
> They have no id template.
>
> Can the following work done by a bot?
>
> 1) I (or somebody else) puts in the category the ID template for a certain
> monument (this of course only works if a category corresponds to one and
> only one monument);
>
> 2) A bot searches for all files with this monument ID and addes the
> category (possibly removing the parent category if applicable);
>
> 3) A bot adds the ID template to all files in the category.
>
> Is it feasible? Is it reasonable? Could it be done on a regular basis? I
> guess it would save a lot of time to those who work on Commons. Though
> categorizing 12 files and adding templates to 20 more files is not a big
> deal, doing this for every popular monument can be a bit annoying.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>
>
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