Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/11/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
It's uncontroversial to move images individually, people do it all the time. Mass moves seem like less of a good idea, unless you had a group that had already all been vetted for source and license. Commons doesn't have the resources to clean up after a move of, say, 100K images of which 5% are copyvios.
It is such a painful, slow process to manually transwiki an image that I pray to god that someone will start doing mass moves.
I understand that we would not want to blindly move tens of thousands of images at a time, but surely there is a middle ground. Someone could make a tool whereby you could quickly just tick off a list of acceptable images, and the move would "happen"?
I think Magnus did something semi-automatic, can't find a ref to it now. Image history will be more meaningful once we have single-login, so I've hanging out waiting for that. It will go faster if en:'s free-license categories are scrubbed of copyvios, so there's plenty of work available now. :-)
Stan