https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29793
Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #6 from Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> 2012-06-01 20:10:05 UTC --- I have to question this. Now, it could be interesting to fill a source URL by this, but I'm not sure it's worth a call to an API that may or may not exist....anyway, I digress from the original point. If we tried to use this API (which may not exist) to detect whether the image exists, a large portion of the traffic would be turned away, as I understand it. Many of the images uploaded through UW are uploaded from another source, which is perfectly legal if the license is right. Since I don't see any way we could detect the license of the image from a Google Images search, with or without an API, we are in the soup. I could maybe see this working with an image host's API, because I think they might store licensing information in a simple format, and that would allow us to pre-fill a lot of information (original source, author name, EXIF data possibly, licensing information), but it's a pretty small chance that the image exists on the image host. Maybe. Of course, this is all contingent on the image hosts' ability to search by image contents, which could be tough. Maybe this is the sort of thing that we could consider implementing as a super-extra feature for communities that extensively use a specific image host and disable it for Commons, etc., where the images come from all over. Just a thought! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
