[Commons-l] Wikipedia Loves Art

[Maarten Dammers]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Turvey schreef:
> On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of 
> content into commons:
>
> The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more 
> details are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At 
> some stage the plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to 
> Wikipedia articles.
Nice project, great score!

>
> I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers.
>
> Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before 
> the mass uploading starts?
What information is going to be included in the images? How are you 
going to add categories?
You might want to have a look at 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading

Doing a couple of test uploads to get some feedback is very useful.

Maarten

>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
> [1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART
> [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art