Hey Maarten, all,
Here's the latest output from my upload script: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FWS_1_Local_resident_working_on_dog_s...
This includes all of the changes that I was planning to make. What do you think? Shall I go ahead and upload all of the images that I have downloaded at http://images.freeculture.org?
FWIW, the code is here: https://github.com/gameguy43/usable_image_scraper In particular: https://github.com/gameguy43/usable_image_scraper/blob/master/wikiuploader.p...
Thanks for all of your help so far! Thanks also to valhallasw for helping me with pywikibot, and Thehelpfulone for helping me get set up testing on test.wikipedia.org
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi Parker,
Op 19-5-2011 1:16, Parker schreef:
Hey gang,
I'm looking for advice on this project: http://images.freeculture.org/
I've scraped out images and metadata from a bunch of federal agency image libraries, and I want to make them more easily discoverable. I'm looking for feedback.
Do you know that I'm uploading NAVY images every day with an automated script? See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/w/index.php?title=Special:Log... for what's coming in. At https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading you can find the different USgov sites in different stages of completion. See https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/multichill/bot/usgov for the source code (NAVY and FEMA up and running, rest might work).
- What's the easiest way to cross-post the images to wikimedia commons?
Batch upload bot? Maybe you are able to reuse some code.
- What else should I do to make the images easier to find?
Good categories is probably the most important thing.
- Any other feedback?
There are several open batch uploading request for USgov sites. Maybe you feel like working on that? If you use the pywikipedia library (like I do) you can easily upload the images once you extracted the metadata.
Maarten
This essay has the background on my thinking for this project so far: http://madebyparker.com/blog/2011/03/usable-more-than-just-open/
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