Hullo! On 5 May, 2014, at 6:21 am, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5 May 2014 13:01, Hans Muller <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> Author Creator:Bert en Lilian Mellink Pieter Christiaansz Bor > ... > > This is a bug that has been a problem on my NYPL uploads (which I have > yet to fix). What *probably* should be happening, is that the <author> > field should be checked for a possible match to a {{creator}} > template, and the template *then* used. Unfortunately it seems to use > it for everything instead. > > No quick fix, this needs to be reported as a bug and fixed for > everyone. If when you have completed your uploads you leave me a > prompt on my Commons talk page with a link to your parent category for > uploads, I can let Faebot do the tidy-up as a housekeeping job (or you > could use a tool like VisualFileChange to fix them); I'd probably get > around to it within a day of your request. What about checking for the the Creator page on the fly? When I was playing around with uploading a bunch of BHL (http://biodiversitylibrary.org/) images to the Commons last year, I wrote a template that, given a creator’s name, would check for a “Creator: …” page with the same name. If it found one, it would insert the appropriate {{Creator}} template automatically; otherwise, it would display the name by itself with a note beside it inviting users to create the {{Creator}} page themselves. You can see an example at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_Sparrow_making_a_home_in_a_hornet%27s_nest.jpg — one of the photographer/illustrator has a creator page, but the other does not. If someone were to create a Creator page for Herman T. Bohlman, the template would insert it automatically the next time the page was purged. It’s a quickly thrown together template, and definitely not the most efficient, but I’d be happy to help improve it if anybody finds it useful! The source is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Agent cheers, Gaurav _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
