On 11/12/06, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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