Dear all, thanks for your help. The translation for the 3134 (or less) captions has started. Best regards, hansmuller
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hansmuller Op Ma, 9 mei, 2016 4:16 pm schreef Bas vb: > Hi Maarten, > I still had some similar code laying around. See > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Basvb/appendexample for the > basics of what would be the possible python script in the case described > by Hans. Mvg, > Bas > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:21:48 +0200 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Glamtools] adding 3134 captions after upload? > > > 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] >> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:36:19 +0100 >> To: [email protected]; [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_KITL >>> V_2016_-_Art_-_Temp >>> (309 colonial works of art) >>> >>> >>> and >>> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_KITL >>> V_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 > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/list > info/glamtools > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools > > _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
