On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Just click the "Import from Flickr" button on the first page to get started.
Nice work. I like the integration with Upload Wizard.
Unfortunately it doesn't appear to work (for me). I tried uploading a photo but
it seems stuck on an infinite "Uploading..." for me (filed
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39948).
Since UW performs a license check, UW will also add a
"VerifiedByUploadWizard" template which should help with the long term
validation of licenses for Flickr imported content.
Ideally it would use the {{flickrreview}} template so that it integrates with
the patrol workflow (so far it exists). Similar to how [[User:FlickreviewR]]
auto-reviews files on Commons (except that it wouldn't be a separate edit).
Though to avoid hardcoding details for Commons too much, it could be done from
an interface message (similar to Extension:NewUserMessage, with a message
containing the wikitext boilerplate with $N parameters for various bits of
information).
Known issues:
* Getting a better 'source' value for each image - ideally we want the
regular Flickr URL, not the farm server URL
* Getting the description for each image, this may require separate
calls to the Flickr API.
* Making the 'author' value a link to the Flickr account
* Supporting the feature to copy metadata across a whole batch, which
is shown for regular batch uploads
Not sure what the current planning is, but it'd be nice if those features/issues
would be resolved before deployment on
commons.wikimedia.org so that we can
fully obsolete the Toolserver tool that is currently often used for this (which
afaik does have these features):
http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload
-- Krinkle