Commons talk:Flickr2Commons

The maintainer doesn’t read this page. Magnus Manske prefers it if you take tool issues to his Bitbucket.

Source code and issue tracker?

I was trying to find the source code and issue tracker for flickr2Commons. Where is it? Should this link to it?

-- Harry Wood (talk) 23:52, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

It's here: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/flickr2commons vip (talk) 17:55, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Bug 🐛

Flickr2Commons uploaded this picture with the description of this picture, the weird part is that I never selected the latter. The first was a duplicate with an already uploaded image on Wikimedia Commons and I specifically deselected the second image to upload this image (which became green but wasn't uploaded). --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) ("The Chinese Coin Troll" 👿) (Articles 📚) 09:50, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

File names

I've just had a large batch (too many to rename manually) fail, because "Transfer failed [1] : /⧼titleblacklist-custom-filename⧽". The files have names like (30756156060).jpg, so that's fair.

It would be good if Flickr2Commons had a file renaming feature, like that in the Upload Wizard. This would allow the user to set a name, say, "Foobar museum by John Doe", and would then append sequential numbers (so "Foobar museum by John Doe - 01", ""Foobar museum by John Doe - 02", etc. Alternatively, allow the user to specify a prefix, like "Foobar museum by John Doe", and upload the images as, say, "Foobar museum by John Doe - (30756156060).jpg" Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:47, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

File size anomalies

Look at File:Neckera crispa (11747892883).jpg and its source https://www.flickr.com/photos/58896109@N02/11747892883/ . The largest image I can find on the Flickr page is 2048 × 1622, 1783 KiB, whereas on Commons we have 3304 × 2616, 9598 KiB. Where is the latter from: resampling? Served with a URL hidden from me? And why data size differ more than 5× with less than 3× difference in number of pixels? Sizes in pixels similarly differ for File:Most probably Liris niger (31773344033).jpg: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/256/31773344033_1b3dce9823_h.jpg (which I presume to be the source) is 1600 × 1027, 363 KiB, whereas this revision uploaded to Commons is 1808 × 1160, 419 KiB.

May @Magnus Manske or anybody else explain what is this? Is it a problem with my browser not getting—from Flickr—a link to each of highest-res images? May Flickr alter files since the transfer event? A mistake by human operator? Or, perhaps, a bug in Flickr2Commons? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 21:32, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Incnis Mrsi, the max sizes 3304px resp. 1808px are downloadable from flickr as I just tested. --Achim (talk) 14:33, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Which are URLs and are they static? Why can my browser (Pale Moon 27.0.2 on Unity desktop (Ubuntu), 1366 × 768 ) ignore the highest resolution? Or may I miss some special button? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 15:14, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Request to add Language parameter to descriptions

I find Flickr2Commons incredibly helpful, but one small issue is that when automatic descriptions are transferred, they lack a language template (e.g. {{En}} or {{Fr}}). Similar to the option in Upload Wizard, I would like to request a language menu be added to enable selecting a language. Perhaps the default could be no language (as is the current situation_, or the preferred language of the User. Thanks, -Animalparty (talk) 23:23, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

The default would be, obviously, the language preferred by the Flickr account. In any case, what hinders to add enveloping {{en|…}}, {{ja|…}}, or similar by hand? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 10:51, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

It is a huge hindrance when transferring large amounts of images, such as a Flickr album. What's faster, copying and pasting 200 file descriptions, or clicking one button? Animalparty (talk) 17:57, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

@Animalparty: you can develop a user script which adds the enveloping language template in one click. This solution can work in any Web application and doesn’t require any change to the latter. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 18:19, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

@Incnis Mrsi: I know nothing about script developing or web programming, which is why I requested a change. I believe a single change here be more efficient than a daisy chain of tools and scripts. A script to automatically add language templates to existing unspecified file descriptions already on Commons would certainly be helpful, but if language could be specified before importing, all the better. Animalparty (talk) 22:29, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

+1, perhaps it's possible to add in the head of form to add only the language, so to the descriptiosn will be added automatically the corresponing template. -K@rl (talk) 12:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

The link doesn't work anymore

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T189424

I noticed that this link on this page no longer shows the user interface for Flickr2commons. Is this a bug? Jarble (talk) 18:38, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

@Jarble: I confirmed this and reported it in phab:T189424.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 18:50, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

It does work after this change. Vcohen (talk) 17:41, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

new update issues

@Magnus Manske: (or anyone else). It looks like this tool was refurbished about a week ago. I've noticed some issues. First, embedded URLs in Flickr descriptions appear to get disrupted when imported (compare File:Exploring (9369722804).jpg to its counterpart). Secondly, the upload comment ("Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons") no longer includes the link (previously "Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons"). Lastly, the File name field seems a lot smaller than before, making it more difficult to edit or view file names. Thanks! Oh and one additional issue: The square format of the thumbnails makes it somewhat more difficult to evaluate photos, e.g. if I only need to import a subset of photographs from an album, having pats of the image cut off makes it more difficult to identify the intended iamges. -Animalparty (talk) 21:15, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Flickr-User is not the photographer

With Flickr often a group of user use only one account. The photographer is named in the description of file. My question: How is it possible to set instead of the Flickr-User name or additional the name of photographer, which is necessary with CC licences. Because my english is not so high, so I will repeat it in german too. In Flickr benutzt oft eine Gruppe von Fotografen den gleichen Account. Der Fotograf ist dann miest in den Beschreibungen separat angeführt. Meien Frage ist, ob es möglcih ist, entweder statt oder zusätzlich zum Flickr Konto auch den Fotgrafen anzugeben. Als Beispiel führe ich das Foto https://www.flickr.com/photos/159530260@N03/40229039734/in/datetaken/ an. Hier wird gefordert ein Fotocredit: BMF/citronenrot, der aber nicht in den Fotografen eingesetzt wird, siehe File:2018 Budgetrede Finanzminister Hartwig Löger (40229039734).jpg hier steht nur das BMF drin. danke K@rl (talk) 14:50, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps an idea for the future, to make the possibility of {{cc-by-2.0|attribution=BMF/citronenrot}} K@rl (talk) 06:19, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Hide Flickr2Commons from my uploaded images

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T192236

Hi,

How I could hide the pictures uploaded using Flickr2Commons tool from my upload list ?. Thanks --The Photographer 00:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

A possibility would be, if you use a separate Username for this operation. --K@rl (talk) 07:47, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

K@rl Yes but I allready uploaded more than 10.000 pictures using this tool and it do difficult see my pictures taken from me and not uploaded using this tool. I know that every image that is uploaded using this tool is taged in the summary with "Flickr2Commons" word, And it should be posible see the images uploaded with a filter to show only the images uploaded without the tag "Flickr2Commons" --The Photographer 19:43, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@The Photographer: What's your Flickr ID?   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 02:14, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Jeff It´s My Flickr, however, I use Flickr2Commons to upload pictures from flickr users that not are me, not my pictures. --The Photographer 16:37, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

The Photographer: I have replied at phab:T192236#4133930. Nirmos (talk) 15:30, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

You can see how I've done it at User:Nirmos/common.js and User:Nirmos/common.css. Nirmos (talk) 15:38, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Nirmos thanks nice work, I hope that wmf can do something on server side, the mediawiki changes became too slow --The Photographer 23:27, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Nirmos take look to my script, the idea is use the same upload log page to filter by tagname, however, I don't know how generate a thumb image having the filename. --The Photographer 01:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done Well I created a script to solve this problem that can be found User:The Photographer/UploadLogToGallery.js --The Photographer 01:37, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Invalid CSRF token

In the new version, I get increased the error Invalid CSRF token for some images of a big amount of them. What could be the cause? --K@rl (talk) 12:06, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this problem is open and unanswered. Perhaps somebody kann solve or help me. regards. --K@rl (talk) 10:38, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Flickr2Commons does not check for duplicates (or ignores them)

File:Molière (33310309985).jpg from https://www.flickr.com/photos/huntingtontheatreco/33310309985/ was uploaded on 21:19, 10 April 2018. It is an exact duplicate (with bogus license) of File:Moliere2.jpg which was uploaded in 2005. - Alexis Jazz 19:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

This issue have been reported here [1] and here [2]. Rudolphous (talk) 10:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

That site doesn't work well with any of the browsers on my iPad. :(   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 12:25, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

See also COM:VPP#Restrict usage of Flickr2Commons.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:40, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

duplicates

Currently there are thousends of duplicate images uploaded through flickr2commons - see here. Is there any possibility to check if the same hash-value (or what ever) is allready on commons before uploading a file and decline the upload then. This would be very helpfull. Thx. --JuTa 11:13, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@JuTa: literally the section right above this one. Also, there is a notice at the top of this page: the maintainer does not read this. - Alexis Jazz 01:04, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Down again

Reported at https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/flickr2commons/issues/45.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 11:50, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Up again.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 05:08, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Excuse me, see the disclaimer above: "The maintainer doesn't read this page." Vcohen (talk) 08:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

@Vcohen: I was informing the people who do read this page.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 08:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

@Magnus Manske: See also https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/flickr2commons/issues/59/loading-forever.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 20:12, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Or not.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 18:12, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Another issue has been filed at https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/flickr2commons/issues/63/not-finishing-loading.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 08:23, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Please Help Me

I am trying to upload this photo, but the tool is very unintutive and refuses to do if, for unknown reasons.

I Have spent the better part of 40 minutes trying to upload this photo per the instructions here, to no avail. The instructions say "copying the last string of numbers in the URL when you are on a webpage for a photo." which is "16049400225". I do that, and click the run button, and get a box requesting more input, man. After repeating three more times, I add the usernumber "30478819@N08", and press run. If then proceeds to run a little process telling me that "12907 files found so far (100% done)" which I already found by going to Marco's page on flickr. I am aware the maintainer does not read this

No way to rerun the process or check if I have fixed whatever the process is

Thanks, L3X1 (talk) 02:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@L3X1: Sorry, Marco Verch is what we call a "bad user". If you mess up usage of his files even a little, he sues for a lot of money. So now we don't accept his files.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 03:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. L3X1 (talk) 04:48, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Files already on Commons

Hello! Is there a way of searching for images that have already been uploaded to Commons? I have tried to upload this but is (very briefly) says it is already uploaded. I have tried to search commons with the name of the file as given on Flickr (Chamber February 2018) and the description (Black Rod, Sarah Clarke, on her first day in the chamber), and variations on the URL including just the number (40393347742). I would greatly appreciate any pointers or even someone finding the file for me, otherwise this image is lost in ether. Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 10:48, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@Gaia Octavia Agrippa: Sorry, but that file is 'Licensed at the source as "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License", which is not a free license.'   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 11:45, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing that out Jeff G.! Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 16:01, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@Gaia Octavia Agrippa: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 17:08, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

"The file you submitted was empty"

I've tried to upload [this image https://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/30944544780/], but its coming back as red/"The file you submitted was empty". I can see the image next to the file name/description/categories boxes so I'm not sure why this is. Can anyone help please? Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 18:42, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

I tried again and it worked this time. The question of why "The file you submitted was empty" appears still stands though. What does it mean? Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 18:46, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

UI problem

So I enter a «single Flickr photo ID» into the upload form and it immediately switches to the next step, with zero files selected. Needed to make it happen a few times to glimpse a message saying that this image is already in Commons, that shows for less than one second. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 21:17, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Down again (2)

The prgram is since july 10th down again. Do somebody knows more about the problem? - thx K@rl (talk) 08:33, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Prefix for files names

I inserted a value for prefix: it should be Tag-der-Einsatzkräfte-2019- but not one of the files in the Category:Tag der Einsatzkräfte 2019 has such prefix - what could it be the problem on my failure or from software? -- thx K@rl (talk) 11:23, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Something missing

It doesnt say how to write categories. Should we write it like this [[Category:something]] or just "something" or "Category:something" without the "[[". Please explain that in this page.--SharabSalam (talk) 19:32, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect format for location template

When transferring an attempt is made to populate {{Location}} template, however the source is being added incorrectly. Currently it looks like this: {{location|0|0|source:Flickr}}, however, it should be {{location|0|0|attributes=source:Flickr}}. It would be nice to have that fixed. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 03:50, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

API key invalid

I'm getting an "Invalid API Key (Key has expired)" error. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:07, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Trying to upload an "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) "

I'm trying to upload an "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)" image (this one). Is this outside of the scope or is something wrong with the tool? Thanks, Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 22:54, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

The Flickr2Commons tool is still under repair or maintenance. Please wait in a few more days to continue to use the tool. Alex Neman (talk) 05.36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Is a timeline foreseen with an end of maintenance? --K@rl (talk) 09:19, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Unable to transfer

Why the photographe https://www.flickr.com/photos/freebourg/2218790927/in/album-72157600062359712/ is not able to find with flickr2commons? - The license is okay so. thx for the help. regards K@rl (talk)

Unablo to OAuth

What can be the cause, that it's not possible to authorize. After press "allow" the https://magnustools.toolforge.org/flickr2commons/index.html is appearing. Like yesterday, also today, an authoruization is not possible for me oder all? I don't know. Perhaps somebody can help me. thx -- K@rl (Discus) Mid Abstond hoidn xund bleibn 08:25, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Same problem here. There is an error message right after page load. Please see screenshot--Renek78 (talk) 08:22, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

It's possible, if you make a login via the polish language, than back to your language - so it was for me in german possible. ---- K@rl (Discus) Mid Abstond hoidn xund bleibn 09:20, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@Renek78 and Karl Gruber: the URL for authorizing this tool has been changed.

• The old URL was http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/oauth_uploader.php?action=authorize

• The new, current URL is https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org/api.php?action=authorize

For every interface language this URL has been changed for the key "auth_warning" using the Translation Tool, e.g. for german (change the language code for your language)

• https://tooltranslate.toolforge.org/#tool=6&languages=en,de&interface_language=de

For the polish language this already has been done, now I changed it also for the german language. If it not yet working for your interface language you just access the URL

• https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org/api.php?action=authorize

directly to authorize this tool for the current browser session. --M2k~dewiki (talk) 21:20, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Wrong copyright claim at the source

At https://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/4369670659/in/set-72157623341498971/ they tagged all the photos as CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, although they were taken on December 1959 and are therefore {{PD-Portugal-URAA}}. Due to this mistagging, Flickr2Commons cannot import any of these. Any suggestions? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 15:14, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

"Running" indefinitely when trying to transfer

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T276253

I hope this is the place to ask, but recently (last few days or so), I've been suddenly unable to make transfers: when I enter the url of the Flick image or collection and click "run", it just stays on "running..." indefinitely. Tried waiting, clearing cache, and two different browsers, but same issue. I wanted to at least check whether any other users are encountering this issue, or any suggestions for troubleshooting? Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 21:44, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@R Prazeres: This is not just your problem. The malfunction has been occurred for more than a week. You can see also F2C talk page on Meta and message on bitbucket--A1Cafel (talk) 01:45, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Cool, just glad to know it's not just me. Thanks for the response. R Prazeres (talk) 02:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

@R Prazeres: The problem is fixed. --A1Cafel (talk) 14:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for the heads-up! R Prazeres (talk) 15:57, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Can you set range?

Similar to "first N pictures from flickr", is it possible to set a range? e.g., photos starting from 10000th photo to 20000th on a photographer's stream —Vis M (talk) 05:23, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

I have the same question! — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 11:29, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Category formatting

Realised after adding a fair number of images that whilst the formatting for "append everywhere" is [[Cateogry:CATEGORY NAME]], the correct formatting for the space under each image is just CATEGORYNAME. Otherwise you end up with extraneous [[Category:]] under your image... Posting here before changing the wording on the main page in case there's history I'm unaware of.... Lirazelf (talk) 12:04, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Link to wikihow article broken

Basically it seems like Flickr has decided that only Pro users can batch change all their image licenses: https://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/license/batch I guess documentation on this page might need to be modified slightly ♦♦♦thibaultmol♦♦♦ (talk) 16:59, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Village pump

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Duplicate_files_uploaded_in_the_last_4_days. RodRabelo7 (talk) 06:18, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

... and now COM:VP##Flickr2Commons.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:00, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Flickr Foundation adopts Flickr2Commons

Please see Commons:Village pump#Flickr Foundation adopts Flickr2Commons. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:23, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Now at Commons:Village pump/Archive/2023/06#Flickr Foundation adopts Flickr2Commons.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:06, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Duplicates

F2C doesn't detect duplicates when I try to download an album but successfully detect them when I want to download an entire user's photoset or single image from Flickr. Can we enable duplicate detection for albums? Юрий Д.К 20:44, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

@Юрий Д.К. I experienced the same issue of Flickr2Commons' non-detection. I ended up importing this Flickr photo as File:Fort Point, Boston (Manu H) - Flickr.jpg, even if that photo already exists. Before it used to detect already-existing imports. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 19:33, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Same issue arises at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by A1Cafel#Files uploaded by A1Cafel (talk • contribs) 2. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 01:21, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

See here for an older discussion of that topic: Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 91#Flickr2Commons_-_the_duplicate_machine. --Edelseider (talk) 14:22, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Flickr2Commons isn't the duplicate machine if it used correctly. I don't advise to upload albums from Flickr if an user doesn't know how many files from the album are already here. Use it for entire user's photoset or for uploading files by tags or if you want to upload a single image. Following these simple tricks it will allow to avoid uploading dupes by almost 100%. Юрий Д.К 14:59, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Presentation about the new Flickr-Commons-bridge

Hi all, as part of the Commons Photographers User Group's next virtual meeting, George Oates from the Flickr Foundation will talk about "Flickypedia", the new Flickr-Commons-bridge that will replace the Flickr2Commons tool in the near future. You can register for the event on August 5th by simply signing up at the event page (you don't have to be a user group member to attend). Best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:00, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Tool down, use this copy

URL - https://flickr2commons-ng.toolforge.org/

Following the discussion at Commons:Village pump#Flickr2Commons, I enabled a copy of the tool at https://flickr2commons-ng.toolforge.org/ and the tests using it seem okay - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=OAuth+CID%3A+9374 -- DaxServer (talk) 10:49, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

@DaxServer: Thank you. Do you plan to develop it? I know a number of us have wish-lists for it... Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:03, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing Yes, I am planning to develop this tool, albeit slowly. Is there an effort earlier to streamline the development? -- DaxServer (talk) 20:46, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

@DaxServer: Not so far as I am aware. My most pressing feature request is discussed at Commons:Village pump/Archive/2023/08#Upload Wizard should allow trusted users to import Flickr images regardless of claimed licence. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

That could certainly help me.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:05, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Flickr descriptions - see Village Pump

See Commons:Village pump/Copyright#Are we allowed to copy descriptions from Flickr? -- DaxServer (talk) 18:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Unable to upload

Flinfo says 'bad user'. Thyj (talk) 13:52, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

There is also "The file you submitted was empty." Thyj (talk) 14:21, 4 November 2024 (UTC)