On 07/12/2007, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, at upload time, automatically. It should be possible to request that a fields "author" and "licence" be filled and to automatically update the corresponding EXIF tags if they are void. Or even to have some elementary data-mining component that would extract the data from Template:information and such things.
That would be cool, but not likely to happen for a while (but don't let that stop you opening a bug report :)).
And maybe advertise the issue to users, pointing to easy ways to EXIF-tag the images.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Manipulating_meta_data
Unfortunately users are already rather "overwhelmed" with issues being advertised at them.
Anyway let us know if you find out any more about this mysterious database, Rama.
cheers Brianna