hi david, based on situations you’ve described, i agree, it looks like none of these tools would be able to help you at the moment: GWToolset, Communist or UploadWizard. from what i can tell, you’d have to write a custom script to take care of each scenario and that script would have to be granted permission to upload to commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots.
below i’ve added some comments regarding how GWToolset might help if you can get the mediafiles online and an XML output of the metadata. On Sep 2, 2014, at 10:53 , David Gómez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi; > I was in some GWToolset talks in last Wikimania. > Congratulations for the tool and the project. > > Following I'll explain 2 cases in which it is necessary to upload files to > Commons but I'm afraid that, by now, GWToolset it is not still the solution. > Then this is a call for alternative options to do it. > > [1] Case 1: Illustraciència > Illustraciència is a Scientific Illustration Award promoted by ACCC (Catalan > Science Communicators Association). > By an agreement with them when the participants submit the images they can > choose the option to "liberate with CC-by-sa to upload to Commons". > In the last edition 200 participants chose this option. > Now they need to upload it, but they don't have a database online, only high > resolution files in a computer folder and posts in a WP blog with low > resolution images. > http://illustraciencia.blogspot.com.es/ > http://illustraciencia.cat/en/galeria-segona-edicio/ > Commonist it is not the option neither the UploadWizard, because every image > have a different author. > There is any solution for them now? And for the future Award editions? if there’s anyway to get an XML file generated that could be used by GWToolset; something like the following. it might also be interesting to write a script for wordpress that would be able to auto-generate the XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <records> <record> <title>Ocimum Basilicum</title> <url>http://illustraciencia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/albahaca_-con-textos_Italo-A-719x1024.jpg</url> <photographer>Italo Ahumada</photographer> <license>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</license> <description lang="es">TÉCNICA: tinta acrílica sobre papel AÑO: 2014 DESCRIPCIÓN: Ilustracion Botánica de la "Ocimum basilicum", comunmente conocida como, albahaca (español), basil (inglés), basilico (italiano), basilic (francés), tulsi (indio), basilienkraut (alemán).</description> </record> <record> ... </record> </records> > > [2] Case 2: local archives > I'm in contact with two local communities archives in two > neighbourhoods in Barcelona area. They have lots of photos of the > neighbourhoods evolution, social events and historical struggles for > political and civil rights. > The idea is to upload several collections of 100 or 200 photos with similar > subjects but from different authors (they will do a task of contacting > copyright holders to liberate it). Again Commonist and UploadWizard are not > the adequate tools and uploading one by one could be hard and would make them > desist. for GWToolset, you’d have to sort out a way to get the mediafiles online and then generate the XML file that refers to the metadata you have available. > > > What we can do in this cases? > There is an option to do that? > > Thanks in advance; > > David Gómez > Dvdgmz > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
