As a proponent of agile development, I would actually suggest not worrying about non-Flickr transfers for a first iteration. Most of the non-Flickr cases can be adequately supported by bots and manual uploading in the meantime. If we could get a working Flickr-transfer extension enabled on Commons, that would be a huge step forward and then it could be refactored to support interwiki or generalized file transfer (and to address feedback from the initial version).
To answer your question, the things I like best about the current tools are: * Automatic license verification * Being able to use a variety of different URLs and the tool being smart enough to pull the maximum resolution version regardless * Automatically pulling descriptions/metadata It would also be nice to be able to pull an entire set/feed/pool in one go, but that should be for version 2. Ryan Kaldari On 10/30/10 1:29 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > Hi all, > > As most of you probably know, I wrote Flickr upload bot back in May > 2007 because there was a lot demand for uploading free images from > Flickr to Commons. And apparently people find it useful, since as of > September 2010, over 80k images have been uploaded via this bot. In > addition over 50k images have been uploaded via a similar bot by > Magnus Manske. > > Unfortunately as you may know, every other day those tools break (mine > more than Magnus'). Both have an annoying authentication mechanism, > which requires you to do extra stuff to be able to upload (either post > a token to a file page, or use TUSC). Both problems would be solved if > there was a MediaWiki extension to handle this task. > > I eventually plan to write a MediaWiki extension that does such a > thing and get it enabled on Commons. Therefore, I need to know what > you like and dislike about those tools, so that I can take this > feedback into account when writing this extension. Don't expect to see > something in the short term though, but I hope that in the mid-long > term we will have such an extension on Commons. > > > -- Bryan > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
