Hi Gilles, Thanks for your email!
Since I'm new to the Wikimedia ecosystem, I have many questions on how to > do that: > - first of all, is it acceptable to associate one (or several) external > links to a file/picture stored on Commons? > Depends, but generally, yes. We typically link back to sources (eg Flickr), to authoritative sources (museum database, cultural heritage database, biodiversity catalogue, etc.) > - is there any existing format to point an OpenStreetMap resource? Should > I create a template for that? and/or use other_fields in the Information > template? > We do have <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:On_OSM> but I have never been happy with it. I think it would be worth creating one. What wouls this template do exatcly - just create a link to a OSM node? > - apart Title and Description, is there any required or strongly > encouraged fields that the user should enter? > Date should be automatically filled by the upload process. Author is mandatory, as well as a license. > Another request, a little embarassing... Yesterday, I've tried to send a > dummy picture to Commons [5], just to see how it works, but now I'm not > sure how to undo this... I've found the {{speedydelete}} tag, is it the way > to go? Yes, it is. I went ahead and deleted your test upload. That's no problem. > By the way, is there any dev instance of Commons where I can play safely > with the API? Yes, there are several ; I believe <http://test.wikipedia.org> is your best bet (please someone corrects me if I'm wrong) Hope that helps, -- Jean-Frédéric
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