Dror Kamir wrote:
3. The images uploaded will be screened for abuses
before and after
they are uploaded to the Commons.
That's what I was requesting. :)
All we ask is that the admins
inform us before deleting or renaming an image uploaded through this
project.
What about giving you a CommonsTicker?
3. We want to show people how they can use the Commons
via a localized
interface as a tool to learn about their own local history and
geography. For this purpose we want to upload the images to the
Commons, but at the same time keep our own "catalog", which will have
categories and descriptions relevant to Israeli users. Searching the
images using this "catalog" will be available through the localized
site. The problem is, that we need to locate the image on the commons,
once we find its ID on our "catalog". We though to attach an ID to the
file's name, but any other idea is welcomed.
YOu should define what file names you want to use on pikiwiki. Will
people refer to files using a number? Using a hebrew name? An English
name? Which name of those will be provided at commons? (eg. you could
use hebrew name at pikiwiki, and have the reviewer to put an English
name to the image, used on commons).
For Wikimedia Commons, the identifier is the filename. If you also use
the filename as id, they can be the same (also handy for you to show
other commons images). OTOH, if you use a different one (eg. a nuumber)
there will be a need to match them in both directions.
Pikiwiki will ahve a link to commons, and commons to pikiwiki so
including the id into the file name is not so important (of course you
can still do it if you wish). It may provide a little help when
searchign for the source from a reuser site, but finding where to put
the id is probably equally hard as to get to the proper search box to
put the filename.
If you want to intrinsecally attribute the file to you, add the
ppikiwiki link and image url to the metadata (unless you want to provi).
4. Naturally, people will describe the images in
Hebrew. We can offer
them to supply an English description as well (most Israelis speak
some English), but we cannot present our project as an Israeli one and
force people to use English. Translating the description can be done
gradually.
Of course, that can't be a hard requeriment. Although adding the ability
to easily place descriptions on other languages would be nice.