On 10/2/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On 10/1/07, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
"Brianna Laugher" brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote on Monday, September 03, 2007 8:41 AM:
On 03/09/07, Florian Straub Flominator@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?
If the mystery author is not found, I'll commence with wheel re-invention tonight :-)
OK, the new, improved, reinvented wheel: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/whatisthat.php
Example: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/whatisthat.php?image=Beatriz_Paredes.jpg
This works by screenscraping HTML. This was the only way I could find around the potential template hell :-( Works nice, though, except for image captions that are not given as thumbnail desc.
If there are several captions in a language (like for en in the example), it will simply append them.
Cheers, Magnus