Guarev: I sent you an invitation to submit one of your photographs to the group. Don't worry about the picture, but in order to make you a moderator you have to be a member.
Thanks, Cary (Bastique) On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 7:23 AM Gaurav Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cary, > > Thanks for trying to bring this Flickr group back to life! > > I don’t use use either the Commons or Flickr as much as I'd like to, but > I’ve been an editor/user on both sites for a long time and I’m happy to be > added as a moderator to the Commons group on Flickr. > > Caroline: as far as I can tell, Flickr will let you search *for* CC-* or > (for Commons purposes) CC licenses that allow commercial reuse within a > group [1], but not the inverse. I wonder if there’s some way we could throw > all 23.5k photos into the moderation queue, then automatically moderate the > 14k photos that have the right license so we can figure out what to do with > the others. We should probably send Flickr a feature request for an > enforced restriction that “photos submitted to this group must have one of > these licenses”, even though that’s unlikely to be implemented any time > soon. > > The Flickr API does have an endpoint that lets you download all the photo > metadata from a group, including the license [2]. I don’t think it would be > too hard to write a Python script that downloads all that information into > a spreadsheet that we can stick on Google Drive to coordinate our efforts > or something, but I won’t have the time to do that for several weeks or > months :( > > Cheers, > Gaurav > (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ggvaidya and > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurav) > > [1] > https://www.flickr.com/search/?group_id=30009679%40N00&view_all=1&content_types=0&video_content_types=0%2C1%2C2%2C3&license=4%2C5%2C6%2C9%2C10 > > [2] > https://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/flickr.groups.pools.getPhotos > > On Sep 20, 2024, at 7:57 AM, Caroline Ford <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Can we do a search on CC licenses to pull out incompatible ones? > > Once we’ve handled the backlog it should be easier to manage the daily > additions. > > Caroline > Sent from a mobile device. > > On 20 Sep 2024, at 12:43, Moheen Reeyad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Cary, > > Thank you for bringing this up and your efforts in managing the Wikimedia > Commons Group on Flickr. Currently, we have more than 28.1K photos of the > Flickr group. In that case, I wish there was any tool that could prevent > uploading images that are not incompatible with CC licenses. By human > effort, it does not seem practical. > > *--* > > *Moheen* > [[User:Moheen]] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Moheen> > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 6:40 AM Cary Bass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for people to help moderate the group to remove photographs >> that don't have licenses compatible with Commons, and remove users who >> repeatedly add photos with incorrect licenses. Maybe leave a message for >> them but honestly, some of these people are just submitting photos to every >> group they can. >> >> Also, if something falls completely outside the scope of Commons, >> probably remove those too... >> >> Cary >> >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM Gabriel Joe Amuzu < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I use flicker but i am unclear about your. request. >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 8:44 PM Cary Bass <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> (cross posted from Commons talk:Village Pump >>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Wikimedia_Commons_group_on_Flickr> >>>> and Commons talk:Flickr files - Wikimedia Commons >>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Flickr_files#Wikimedia_Commons_group_on_Flickr> >>>> ) >>>> I'm an admin of the Wikimedia Commons Group >>>> <https://www.flickr.com/groups/30009679@N00> on Flickr, a group that >>>> has, up until now, had no moderation for numerous years. Given my uptick >>>> in activity on Flickr (resulting from my uptick on Commons) I'm hoping to >>>> change that. >>>> Photographs in the group ought to be able to be readily able to be >>>> ported to Commons, thereby having a free license. People who sign up for >>>> the group agree to that rule. However, currently numerous people are just >>>> sharing photographs that they share on numerous other groups for exposure. >>>> I do not have the bandwidth to moderate completely on my own. Is anyone >>>> else currently a regular Flickr user that would be willing and able to help >>>> out? >>>> Cary Bass-Deschenes [[User:Bastique]] >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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