[Commons-l] Too announcement : WatchFlickr

[Husky]

Wow Magnus, this is a great tool. I've already used it to find
photographs of five Dutch musicians. Keep up the good work!

-- Hay / Husky

On 9/30/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and
> placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written
> a new tool, WatchFlickr.
>
> Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in
> that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr
> for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr
> thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to
> Flominator's Flinfo tool.
>
> Not that due toolserver problems, several wikipedias, notably en, are
> not available to search right now. German wikipedia works, though, in
> case you want to test.
>
> URL:
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/watchflickr.php
>
> I have already found, uploaded, and used about a dozen "celebrity"
> images, both adding a new image and (on en.wp) replacing fair use and
> placeholder images.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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