User talk:Bryan/Flickr wishlist

.JPG in Flickr images

Hi, i often use your flickr upload bot, thx very much. I frequently forget to check the filename, images on flickr are often named "abc.JPG", the automaticly generated filename for commons is "abc.JPG.jpg". I usually rename the images to "abc.jpg" but i sometimes forget this. In many cases renaming images is necessary, in some cases it is better to keep the flickr name so other users can see, that an image is already transfered to commons. Keeping filenames like abc.JPG.jpg is not accurate imo. Is there any chance to make the bot appreciate not only the correct filename (File already exists. Please choose another name.) but also very similar filenames, like in this example the missing .JPG? Please excuse my poor english. --Martin H. (talk) 00:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Date retrieval with Flickr upload bot

Yo Bryan, sorry if this has been asked a million times before, but have you considered having the Flickr upload bot scrape the "Taken on [date]" info from Flickr? I keep having to add it manually, and it would seem like the kind of thing that could be done easily by bot. Cheers! Astrojunta (talk) 13:37, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Flickr upload tool: include attribution?

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for your excellent Flickr upload tool. I was wondering if it could be extended to include the author’s name as an argument in {{Cc-by-2.0}} or similar template, if applicable (if attribution is required)? (The proximate reason is Image:Necco factory with water tower.jpg).

I understand that you are busy; I program heavily and know Python, so if you could point me to the relevant source code, I could presumably make a patch and send it you.

Thanks again, and hope I can help.

Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 19:34, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

(Minor modifications at 19:36, 14 September 2008 (UTC))

Bot idea

I had an idea for a Flickr bot that I thought you might be able to code, if you had time. I find occasionally that manually reviewed Flickr images aren't the largest size available on Flickr. What if we had something like RotateBot, where if I find that Flickr has a larger size image (and it's the same -- i.e., hasn't been cropped or anything), then I could tag the Commons image and the bot would come around occasionally to the category and grab the largest versions. I know FlickreviewR does that on images that it reviews, but we have no process for manual images except doing it ourselves. Anyway, it's just a thought. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 20:49, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Picasa Web Albums

Hi. Did u know that Picasa Web Albums give a opportunity to publish photos with Creative Commons? So, maybe could your bot upload photos from it too? ;) --Serdelll (talk) 20:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

flickr Upload Bot

Ich versuche es mal in Deutsch (du hast ja immerhin de-1). Antwort auf englisch ist ok.

Flickr hat GEO-Tags. Der Upload-Bot übernimmt diese nicht. flinfo übernimmt diese, es ist also möglich. Kannst du das mit einbauen?

Flickr The Commons flinfo übernimmt die Lizenzbedingungen in Permission (Beispiel). Das ist nicht zwingend notwendig. Aber es wäre gut, wenn der Bot es dennoch machen würde.--Sarkana _{frag den ℑ Vampir} 00:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

FlickreviewR

I noticed File:Red-whiskered_Bulbul-web.jpg is tagged as failed. I think the Flickr user and the user who originally uploaded the image to en: (from which it was cropped and sharpened, and then uploaded to commons) are the same person, in which case there's no issue. Do you attempt to maintain a list of folks who have both wikipedia and flickr identities? Seems like this might not be terribly uncommon. -- Rick Block (talk) 21:07, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions for the Flickr upload tool

• Add the tokenId to the edit summary that the tool generates when it initially creates the image page. This would make it easier to retrieve and report several tokenIds at one time in the event of a problem with uploading a series of photos.
• Provide an option to save the user-editable fields (description, categories) to use a starting defaults for the next photo. This would reduce the multiple copy and pastes per photo when the user is uploading multiple photos from a series that all depict the same subject. I don't know how easy that would be for you to do. When I use Flinfo, I can save a copy of the wikitext for a photo to a text file, and edit it more efficiently for the next photo in a text editor, when the next photo will use similar information, but this is also not ideal since Flinfo requires me to manually download the Flickr photo and then upload it to Commons.

Thanks. --Teratornis (talk) 20:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

FlickreviewR

This is just a suggestion about your FlickreviewR bot. When the bot returns that no Flickr link is found it would be helpful if it could notify the uploader if this is relatively easy to implement. This way, people who had forgotten to add a link could go back and do so since they would propably know where they found the image.

Natl1 (talk) 20:47, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for Flickr Upload Bot / Flickr Web Tool

Hi,

I just used for the first time your Flickr upload tool. I uploaded two images of Joan Baez. Unlikely, the title of the page was the same. The result was: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Joan_Baez.jpg&action=history. As you can see, the two descriptions had been inserted in the same page, and now I wonder how the bot will choose which image he will upload and what to do with the other...

It might be useful that the tool would check whether or not there is a page of the specified title.

Sorry for the inconvenience and for the poor English. Regards, — Delhovlyn (discuter / talk) 21:39, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, my problem has been sorted out. I should have wait before submitting the second image. — Delhovlyn (discuter / talk) 22:01, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

hi Bryan, I had the same problem, as your (great!) tool recognizes existing names only for files that are actually uploaded already. If you take - lets say - a full series of flickr images that have the same title, it's not recognized (of course). Suggestion: if creating the automated file name for the commons image, set it to the flickr title (not unique on flickr) + the flickr id (unique). It was done in a similar way with the images from the Bundesarchiv, see i.e File:Bundesarchiv Bild 116-121-103, Mitglieder des Deutschen Reichstages.jpg. Regards, --Elya (talk) 13:55, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

How can a user track images they upload?

Does your upload tool credit the upload bot for the upload, rather than the person who used the tool? I'm asking, because having uploaded a lot of images using the tool, they don't appear in my gallery, and there now seems no way to keep track of them. --Geronimo20 (talk) 10:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Handling HTML tags

As many image descriptions on Flickr contains HTML code it would be nice if at least some of them were converted to the Wiki equivalent. Especially the <a href=url>text</a>tag should be converted to [url text]. // Liftarn (talk) 12:23, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Additional accepted license

Would it be possible to get the Flickr upload bot to accept images where it's licensed as "United States Government Work"? An example of that would be this image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehearttruth/4365706717/

Thanks. Tabercil (talk) 03:34, 14 November 2010 (UTC)