clicked send to fast... AMW refers to Add Media Wizard: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard and its Flickr not fliker ;)
--michael On 11/03/2010 06:04 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > The AMW has a mode to import assets from fliker directly during the > article editing process, it does it best to match the existing > description templates, uses the highest quality assets, only searches > properly licensed content etc. > > Maybe we could address bug 20512: ( it would only work in sync mode > until the code is brought up-to trunk and synced with Bryan's updated > jobqueue version, but 30 seconds should be enough time to import images > for now ) > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20512 > > --michael > > On 10/30/2010 01:29 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 _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
