Jean-Frederic is correct. The Flickr importing feature in UploadWizard is currently limited to admins and image reviewers. If the Flickr Upload Bot is going to be retired, someone should probably start an RFC on Commons about opening up the Flickr importing in UploadWizard to everyone. Personally, I would support such a proposal, but there are at least 2 potential arguments against it:

1. It makes it easy for anyone to import hundreds of images from Flickr (via Photoset importing), which could mean a big increase in Flickr-washing problems (i.e. unintentional copyvios).

2. The feature still has some bugs (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43450) and no one is actively maintaining it at the moment (although hopefully the new Multimedia team will be assuming that responsibility).

Ryan Kaldari

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Bryan,

With the pending toolserver shutdown, I was thinking about retiring Flickr Upload Bot. However, this bot is apparently still used about 2000-4000 times per month.
I was under the impression that the upload wizard would replace this bot, however, I couldn't find any references to this. Does anybody know what the status of uploading from Flickr using the upload wizard is?

I penned <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard/Flickr> some time ago. It’s scarce and probably not up to date but the essential information is here : UploadWizard for Flickr is reserved to sysops and image reviewers at the moment.

This would explain why your (awesome) bot is used.

Hope that helps,

-- Jean-Fred, who loves this bot so much he made a userbox for it <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Boxes/Flickr>

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