I would love an example of such a method/action! Best,
Maarten > Op 9 mei 2016, om 14:14 heeft Bas vb <[email protected]> het volgende > geschreven: > > This should be quite easy with pywikibot if the file-names and translations > to add are given. > If there are no indonesian translations currently in the descriptions the new > translation can simply be appended after "|information=" > > Mvg, > > Bas > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:36:19 +0100 > > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>; > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Glamtools] adding 3134 captions after upload? > > > > There's no 'painless' solution. I have made similar housekeeping > > updates to very large batch uploads post-upload using pywikibot using > > short scripts. Amongst other things, pywikibot can pull up the > > specific image page history and tell which past edits have been made > > and by whom, then make intelligent decisions on whether to add > > information or how to best do it. Terribly handy for avoiding doing > > something twice. > > > > I suggest not being in a hurry. Focus on getting the translations > > done, if amenable to it, it would be worth training up the translator > > so they write the new text directly into the image templates rather > > than somewhere else. If this would be too difficult, then just get the > > translations as a file or spreadsheet, mapped against the related > > Commons images or reference numbers. There are several bot writers > > that might be interested in plugging the extra translations seamlessly > > into the current image pages once the data is ready. The best place to > > ask for a Commons bot specialist is on the bots work requests page.[1] > > > > As you do so much of this stuff, I strongly recommend you try playing > > around with Python and pywikibot yourself, perhaps delaying this > > translation fix so you can use it to practice with. A script to do > > what you are looking for might only take around 20 or 30 lines of > > original programming, most of pywikibot's power lies in the handy > > modules that have been written to do exactly this sort of thing. See > > the advice and code examples in the manual.[2] > > > > Links > > 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests > > 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot > > > > Fae > > > > > > On 9 May 2016 at 12:19, Hans Muller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > ** Is it possible to add 3134 captions to existing images on Commons? > > > ** (without removing earlier work on the images, metadata and categories) > > > > > > This nice question presents itself in the following case. Recently, i > > > uploaded 3134 images from Dutch University Library Leiden UBL and KITLV to > > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITLV_2016_-_Art_-_Temp > > > (309 colonial works of art) > > > > > > and > > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITLV_2016_-_Temp > > > (2805 colonial photographs) > > > > > > with captions in Dutch and English. I corrected the metadata, categorised > > > the images and put them into Wikipedia articles (only a few ;-) > > > > > > Now a translator might be paid to translate the captions into Bahasa > > > Indonesia, the language of the people perhaps most interested in these > > > historical images. If the translator succeeds, that would mean require > > > language templates like > > > > > > {{id|1= ... }} > > > > > > to the description fields. > > > > > > Re-uploading with GWToolset proved to be impossible if another user has > > > worked on the metadata since upload. Categorisation and my own corrections > > > to the metadata would be lost. > > > > > > * Is there another, painless solution putting in the new translation while > > > keeping the previous work on these files? > > > > > > Thanks for you considering this problem, > > > Best regards from a sunny Utrecht, the Netherlands, > > > > > > hans muller > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hansmuller > > > > -- > > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Glamtools mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools>
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