I've translated interface messages which are NECESSARY for the contest.

But, these messages are not useful for now. :)

But, I'll do this ASAP. :)

Thanks Geard for notice it. :)

Actually Shrinivasan didn't mentioned the contest upload wizard. It is here. ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&camp... )

Most of the messages have been translated. :)

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On 15 December 2011 05:23, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:

Hoi, Help yourself and the contestants by localising the last 150 messages of the UploadWizard. Thanks, GerardM

http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-uploa...

On 15 December 2011 14:10, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:

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Friends.

Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. see the announcement here. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en

To upload the photos there are two ways available so far.

1. The web based upload wizard

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

2. Java based upload tool - Commonist

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist

We have to provide a detailed filename and description to the images for uploading.

When we have a bunch of photos to upload, we have to select them, crop, or edit them before uploading.

Found that that "GThumb Image Viewer" can show the files, edit the files and add IPTC tags to the images.

We can view,edit,delete,rotate,crop and add the required Description and Title to the images for uploading to wikimedia commons.

How to upload the files? There are two tools already. But, I wanted to plugin to any image viewer to upload to wikimedia commons directly. No image viewer has that plugin.

DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released.

So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a folder to upload to mediawiki.

Here is it. http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader/

Usage details are available in INSTALL and README files.

Thanks for the wikipedia users Surya and Sodabottle for their valuable suggestions.

Please report if there are any issues.

Provide your suggestions for improving too.

Thanks.

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Hey Shrinivasan, this is brilliant. Bala had mentioned last week at our Coimbatore meetup that this fellow from ILUGC had uploaded 10 high definition shots before being dissatisfied with the upload tool and then went off to code his own. Congrats on your heroic efforts. Now, I can use this to tell photography friends who haven't contributed to the contest yet and say It's easier and that they have no excuse to not upload. Brilliant! Kudos on your amazing work.

On 12/15/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Shrini,

We never imagined someone developing tool/script for participating in the contest. Good work #WIN :)

-- Regards Srikanth.L

Prad, thanks for sharing that with us. Let's hope this piece of code results in tons of freely licenced content pouring into the Commons.

On 12/15/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com wrote:

hi Shrinivasan,

Sumana has forwarded this email to the cultural/GLAM list as well where there was need felt on batch uploads and people there might also benefit from what you've coded.

Thank you.

warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609

On 15 December 2011 20:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.ghoda@gmail.comwrote:

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Hey Shrinivasan, this is brilliant. Bala had mentioned last week at our Coimbatore meetup that this fellow from ILUGC had uploaded 10 high definition shots before being dissatisfied with the upload tool and then went off to code his own. Congrats on your heroic efforts. Now, I can use this to tell photography friends who haven't contributed to the contest yet and say It's easier and that they have no excuse to not upload. Brilliant! Kudos on your amazing work.

On 12/15/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:

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Hello Shrini,

We never imagined someone developing tool/script for participating in the contest. Good work #WIN :)

-- Regards Srikanth.L

-- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

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+1 to Philippe & Tinu's comments.

Thanks, Shrini, for such wonderful initiative and great work! I read you saying you are relatively new so, Big Welcome!

Warmest Regards,

hisham

On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:20 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

#WIN.

-TC

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.org wrote: This is really fantastic, and makes me very very happy. This represents the best of what makes the Wikimedia projects great - someone identifies a need and then rolls up their sleeves and fills that need. Well done, Shrini, and thank you.

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com wrote: Friends.

Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. see the announcement here. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en

To upload the photos there are two ways available so far.

1. The web based upload wizard

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

2. Java based upload tool - Commonist

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist

We have to provide a detailed filename and description to the images for uploading.

When we have a bunch of photos to upload, we have to select them, crop, or edit them before uploading.

Found that that "GThumb Image Viewer" can show the files, edit the files and add IPTC tags to the images.

We can view,edit,delete,rotate,crop and add the required Description and Title to the images for uploading to wikimedia commons.

How to upload the files? There are two tools already. But, I wanted to plugin to any image viewer to upload to wikimedia commons directly. No image viewer has that plugin.

DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released.

So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a folder to upload to mediawiki.

Here is it. http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader/

Usage details are available in INSTALL and README files.

Thanks for the wikipedia users Surya and Sodabottle for their valuable suggestions.

Please report if there are any issues.

Provide your suggestions for improving too.

Thanks.

-- Regards, T.Shrinivasan

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hi arjuna,

thanks for the wishes.

I am also very new to wikipedia. please give some more details on categories.

shall we give any text as category or some pre defined text are there to pick up from?

use gthumb to add some meta data. we can parse it and use them as categories.

please share your ideas.

Agreed. This tool is definitely an asset. I hope somebody has forwarded this to the Commons mailing list as well as the Tech and Foundation lists to show the dedication that Shrini has shown here.

On 12/19/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.comwrote:

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hi arjuna,

thanks for the wishes.

I am also very new to wikipedia. please give some more details on categories.

Please see Wiki Conference India as a sample category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011

The listing sees around 537 out of which I came to know around 300 or so were contributed by User:RameshNG. I am sure the contributor would have spent a lot of time adding categories to all such images.

...

shall we give any text as category or some pre defined text are there to pick up from?

use gthumb to add some meta data. we can parse it and use them as categories.

Yes, Looks like a good idea.

Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala

is there any image viewer in windows where we can add comments and notes to images?

the meta data we add is called IPTC tags.

if so we can use this application in windows too.

please find it and share here.

thanks.