On 12/8/06, Travis Derouin <travis(a)wikihow.com> wrote:
I've converted some code we've been using into
an extension for importing
properly licensed photos from flickr into a Mediawiki installation:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImportFreeImages
It makes use of the phpFlickr package for the API calls.
Feel free to play around with it here:
http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php/Special:ImportFreeImages
Glancing over the code, I didn't notice any permission controls.
Maybe it would be best to set up a user permission. It could default
to everybody but be configurable, so that only
sysops/autoconfirmed/etc. could upload them. IIRC, on Commons there's
a huge queue of images from Flickr that need to be reviewed by sysops
to ensure that their license as labeled is actually correct, so they
might want to restrict this easy-upload to sysops only.