2012/11/15 David Narvaez <david.narvaez(a)computer.org>rg>: I beg to disagree. The more years you go on with the contest, the less important flickr becomes, but in the first year and probably the second, it can still be hugely important because it gives you (the organizers) easy access to a huge library of pictures which can be freed with a single click of the mouse. One should never underestimate the power of complacency in people! For instance, each year we had one serious flickr uploader which was willing to free his collection. Perhaps they would have contributed also on commons, but certainly with less pictures. As to the flickrriper script, you can always write another one if you feel like it, or you can just automate submissions to Bryan's [1] or Magnus' [2] tools. Strainu [1] http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload [2] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/flickr2commons/

2012/11/15 Raimond Spekking <raimond.spekking(a)gmail.com>om>: I promise I *won't* look at this uber, uber cool not-yet-unveiled feature :P Thanks Raimond! Strainu

Hi all Personally, I don't know much about the codings and API stuffs, but what I'm wondering is, can we get an API for use on Google Picasa? flickr's got tons of images. But have we considered the tens of tons of photos on Picasa? Now all photos uploaded onto most websites (if not all) are dumped into Picasa and synced on all Google platforms. The idea of importing photos from an external website, for me, is a nice idea and should at least continue, but as David explained, it should be so problematic that users lose interest both in its usage plus the WLM contest. One more question: Was and/or is the Flickr Ripper thing developed by Wikimedia Foundation? If not, then I think when the WMF also becomes a part of its development, its reliability and robustness will improve. Sorry David, I just could feel how annoyed that must have been. :-/ thanks rex On Thursday, November 15, 2012, David Narvaez wrote: -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>