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%B…
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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