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Commons:Village pump

‎Automatic production of credit lines for Commons images
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I've written some code to generate [[Commons:Credit_line | credit lines]] for any image on Commons. It's a bit like [[Help:Gadget-Stockphoto | Gadget-Stockphoto]] but is designed for batch processing large numbers of images, so instead of scraping Commons directly, it goes through the [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/commonswiki/latest/ xml and sql data dump files]. The code is a bit messy, though! It's at [[User:HYanWong/imagenames2credits.pl]] if anyone is interested.

I've written some code to generate [[Commons:Credit_line | credit lines]] for any image on Commons. It's a bit like [[Help:Gadget-Stockphoto | Gadget-Stockphoto]] but is designed for batch processing large numbers of images, so instead of scraping Commons directly, it goes through the [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/commonswiki/latest/ xml and sql data dump files]. The code is a bit messy, though! It's at [[User:HYanWong/imagenames2credits.pl]] if anyone is interested.

[[User:HYanWong|HYanWong]] ([[User talk:HYanWong|talk]]) 05:35, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

[[User:HYanWong|HYanWong]] ([[User talk:HYanWong|talk]]) 05:35, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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:I do not know the details of your code, and I did not tried it, but any code trying to automatically make sense of often messy file descriptions will run into trouble. It is a little of "trash in trash out" problem. For example [[Help:Gadget-Stockphoto | Gadget-Stockphoto]] suggested attribution for [[:File:Deborah ReadFranklin.jpg]] is "By oil on canvas by Benjamin Wilson (Attributed)[see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons", which makes little sense to me. [[Help:Gadget-Stockphoto | Gadget-Stockphoto]] attribution for [[:File:Alexander Phimister Proctor - Buffalo - Walters 2815 - Side A.jpg]] is "Walters Art Museum [Public domain, CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons", which is quite wrong since the photo is not in PD. It is hard for people to figure those things out, and it is even harder for automatic codes. --[[User:Jarekt|Jarekt]] ([[User talk:Jarekt|talk]]) 12:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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