Hey, Thanks for the info. Was the the image you were trying to import? http://www.flickr.com/photos/26155200@N00/4787954 I've made some changes and it seems to work now: http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php/Image:On_Vaci_Utca%2C_Budapest… I like the idea of importing the description as well, I'll look into that. Travis On 12/8/06, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/10/06, Travis Derouin <travis(a)wikihow.com> wrote: And don't get the original size of a picture :( http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php/Image:The_Guggenheim_%28Subtit… http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=308895239&size=o On 12/10/06, Travis Derouin <travis(a)wikihow.com> wrote:

Hi I also found, that if you search for something and click on next, then you get an empty page, because the next link doesn't pass on the query (ie. it links to http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php?title=Special:ImportFreeImages… of http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php?title=Special:ImportFreeImages…) Also if you use the search box after clicking next it passes on the query to index.php instead of index.php/Special:ImportFreeImages (eg. I get http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php?q=tate+gallery when searching after clicking next). Could this be because after clicking next the url changes to index.php?title=<title> form from index.php/<title> ? Regards, Bence On 12/10/06, Bence Damokos &lt;bdamokos(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Thanks. I've updated the global variable names to be more specific. I support an improvement that could be made could be to put the display configuration parameters, the license parameter and the sorting parameter as an option in the Mediawiki namespace. It might not be a good idea though to put the API key there however. Travis On 12/10/06, Rob Church &lt;robchur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Thankfully since it's in SVN if someone feel particularly strong about something like this - they have the option of implementing it themselves. On 12/11/06, Rob Church &lt;robchur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

On 11/12/06, Simetrical &lt;Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: But these are essentially already reviewed! That's why it appears so useful to me. The only case this would miss is where the Flickr uploader has lied and the work is not actually their own (eg they uploaded all the promo images for their favourite band, and just happened to set the license as CC-BY for all their files).But I think only human intervention can avoid these cases and they seem to be luckily relatively rare, anyway. $wgFlickrLicense should take CC-BY *and* CC-BY-SA. As Rob suggested, I have a feeling $wgTemplateName should just point to something in MediaWiki: namespace. As Luiz said, we really need to download the original hi-res version of images, too. Also, it really needs an option to write a filename in. Flickr filenames are frequently meaningless. In the same vein, it appears to silently overwrite existing images of that name (see http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php/Image:Punk.jpg ). This is very, very bad. :) cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise

On 11/12/06, Simetrical &lt;Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: OK, sure. Heck, there are some wikis that are If you try to import a Flickr image when you're not logged in, the "you need to login to upload" MediaWiki warning still comes up. I already tried it. :) cheers, Brianna

Maybe by default be one-click, but have a checkbox for changing the default name, and also ask for a new name if a file by the same name exists. Bence On 12/11/06, Travis Derouin &lt;travis(a)wikihow.com&gt; wrote:

On 12/10/06, Brianna Laugher &lt;brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: They aren't reviewed however. It takes the flickr page for granted... better than nothing but still. It happens. Also this doesn't address flicker users who have accidentally selected a free licenses without conscious intent. Such cases are not a release under a free license. Also this fails to take the opportunity to invite free content friendly flickr uploaders to come participate in our community directly. These issues could be addressed by coupling the images with a review process which will have us contact the flickr uploader, as we've currently been doing for our older flickr images. [snip] Yes. Nothing like this should be implemented without support for grabbing the full image. Good catch.

On 12/11/06, Brianna Laugher &lt;brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: No it's not.. hopefully you are also sanity checking in other ways... For example, the human readable flicker comments sometimes make it clear that the image is a copyright violation. Sometimes the image is of a movie poster or is something else that is clearly a derived work. People do catch these sort of problems in flickr review. The current review process asks the reviewer to leave the flickr contributor a comment thanking them for freely releasing their image. For the same reasons that anyone else would contribute. Many people don't know that Wikipedia is user submitted content. Thanking a photographer whos work we are using is a great opportunity to educate and solicit participation from a wider collection of people. I only replied because your prior post caused me to think that you considered this tool a replacement for a review process. I think an uploader tool is great, especially if we can figure out how to make it facilitate the review process, for example by pre-tagging the image for review and by collecting as much data as possible.