[Commons-l] One new and one old tool

Florian Straub flominator at gmx.net
Tue Feb 20 21:47:28 UTC 2007


"Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote on  Sunday, February 18, 
2007 11:44 AM:

> On 18/02/07, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
>> "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote

>> > It would be useful if a few things were changed:
>> > * possibility to input image url instead of image ID. (shouldn't be
>> > that hard...)
>>
>> It could be difficult, since there are various kinds of image urls at
>> flickr, but I'll see what I can do.

> well, it doesn't have to be perfect. The two obvious cases (the image
> page, where comments and tags are, and the 'photo zoom' version which
> has different sizes) should be relatively easy. for anything else, it
> can always throw an error which explains how to find the image ID.

still thinking ....


>> > * include the {{flickrreview}} template in the pastable output (I
>> > thought it used to?)

done


>> > * make translatable, since if other langs update their special:Upload
>> > forms, they will want to link to a version in their language
>>
>>  What exactly should be translateable?
>
> Subtitle ('the easy way to upload pics from Flickr'), field name
> ('ID:'), submit button text ('Get Flickr-Info'), link names ('Open
> upload form', 'Download original size'), preview button text
> ('preview'), any error messages. You know, basically any piece of text
> aside from the paste-able content.

done

> I would also make the URL of the 'open upload form' link
> translate-able. For EN it can be
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?uselang=fromflickr&title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=$1

done


> I would also create a page just for feedback and comments on the tool,
> rather than only linking to your userpage. (And make it on commons or
> meta, please. :P) And on the page you can give info about how people
> can provide translations.

done, please use it for all further comments about Flinfo
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Flominator/Flinfo 




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