Re: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons

2018-11-14 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Hi, I would like to add more information to what Matanya shared with you. We are working on a blog post for the international blog, but meanwhile here is the summary: If you know this, it means that you are around for (too) many years, but 6 years ago Wikimedia Israel managed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons

2018-11-14 Thread Steinsplitter Wiki
Hello, WOW! Thank you for your work! Best Steinsplitter Von: Wikimedia-l im Auftrag von mata...@foss.co.il Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. November 2018 07:15 An: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives

Re: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons

2018-11-13 Thread Pete Forsyth
That's wonderful news. For those of us who don't speak Hebrew, can you say a bit more about how this project came about? -Pete On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 10:16 PM Hello, > > It is a great pleasure for me to let you all know that wikimedia Israel > had developed a web scraper that crawled in various

[Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons

2018-11-13 Thread matanya
Hello, It is a great pleasure for me to let you all know that wikimedia Israel had developed a web scraper that crawled in various archives in Israel and uploaded more than 28K free images to commons. The tool (https://github.com/wmil-1946/wikiscraper) was developed to crawl the web site