[Commons-l] Finding the description page of an image on Flickr with its static address

[Guillaume Paumier]

Hello,

One problem when checking licenses of images coming from Flickr is some
users provide the static link to the image on Flickr, instead of the
description page showing the license. That makes the verification very
difficult because you have to search Flickr images hoping you'll find the
good tag that will lead you to the good image.

I've contacted the Flickr support team to know if there was a tool or a
special page to help finding the description page from the static link.
Their answer is below and it seems to work. I hope it will help.

Cheers!
Guillaume

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Flickr Support <case202439 at support.flickr.com>
Date: 29 Jan 2007 20:41:51 +0000
Subject: [Flickr Case 202439] Re: Other Issues
To: guillom.pom at gmail.com

Hi there,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you -- we're
swamped!

You can find the original photo page thusly:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/357298706_b406a56e06.jpg

to:

http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=357298706

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Ben

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
http://www.wikimedia.org
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