I'm not sure i'd have good enough programming skills to take this on myself, 
but one thing that would be very useful for the flickr tool - which I use all 
the time and is really invaluable by the way - is if you could do group uploads 
or more than one image at a time. Please could you pass this on to whoever 
comes forward to do any re-write. 

----- "Bryan Tong Minh" <[email protected]> wrote: 
> From: "Bryan Tong Minh" <[email protected]> 
> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Monday, 3 August, 2009 11:35:07 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, 
> Portugal 
> Subject: [Commons-l] Maintainers of collection of flickr tools 
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> 
> In the past few years I have been creating some Flickr related tools. These 
> are: 
> * FlickreviewR: A bot that reviews the licenses from images uploaded from 
> Flickr 
> * FlickreviewR human reviewer: A bot that re-reviews reviews by humans 
> * Flickr upload bot: A web interface that allows easy access 
> 
> FlickreviewR has over 110k edits and with Flickr upload bot over 12k 
> uploads have been performed. Unfortunately I have not always been able 
> to care of those bots decently. 
> 
> Therefore I would like to propose to add maintainers to those bots; 
> preferably as a stable toolserver project on stable.toolserver.org. 
> Who would be interested in maintaining these bots? 
> 
> The bots are written in Python and use the mwclient library to edit 
> and upload, which I also wrote. I will also give commit access to 
> mwclient on SourceForge to maintainers. 
> 
> The FlickreviewR bots' code are in relatively good shape, reasonably 
> ok documented and can be easily understood I believe. 
> 
> The Flickr upload bot however has horrible code. It was basically my 
> first large webapp and I had some strange design ideas by then. I have 
> attempted rewriting it, but have not had the time yet. 
> 
> 
> Feel free to forward this mail to other people who might be interested 
> in co-maintaining. 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Bryan 
> 
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