[Commons-l] Wikimedia Outreach Project

[Florian Straub]

"Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote on Monday, September 03, 
2007 8:41 AM:

> On 03/09/07, Florian Straub <Flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Someone, I believe it was Magnus, wrote SumItUp which collects the first 
>> sentences of an article in all available languages. Maybe someone could 
>> write a tool, that uses CheckUsage in order to retrieve image 
>> descriptions from wikipedia articles.
>

> There used to be a bot that did that... it copied any caption the
> image was given in any Wikipedia to its Commons page. Haven't noticed
> it on my watchlist for a while so probably it's having a bot sleep.
> Let's make sure we don't re-invent the wheel, folks :)

Any idea how to find him again? I don't think that it will be much trouble 
reinventing this thing, since some people already have decent frameworks at 
hand ...

Anyone willing to search this guy or to code?

Regards,

Flo