User talk:ACrockford

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 15:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Batch uploading

Hi Ally,

Quick introduction: my name is Jean-Frédéric and I have handled the technical part of several batch uploads with French institutions. I was also involved in the GWToolset project. So feel free to ask me any questions on this topic :)

Some quick answers first:

there is some documentation (pre-GlamWiki toolset) available at Commons:Guide to batch uploading.
for the GWtoolset, see Commons:GLAMwiki Toolset. Basically, to get going, you need 1/ to have the files available somewhere online at a URL and 2/ to have metadata structured in XML format. We can see to convert metadata to XML for you if possible.

Best way forward in my opinion would be to open a page at Commons:Batch uploading to discuss the specifics of your project.

Hope that helps!

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 13:50, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I have re-read your email on glam-l and I see you already mentionned that the files were available online and that metadata format was not an issue. The Toolset would suit you I think then. Jean-Fred (talk) 13:53, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jean-Frédéric, thanks for getting back to me so quickly - it does seem like one of the barriers to understanding how to get started is that I haven't been granted access to the Toolset yet. I've requested in a couple of places so I'm just waiting on that. Perhaps a page on Commons:Batch uploading is a better place to ask this question, in which case I will migrate it, but below is an example of the raw metadata as it's coming out of our databases:

-<record>

<title>Women at Boulogne station, France, 5 April 1919</title>

<shortTitle>Women at Boulogne station, France, 5 April 1919</shortTitle>

<description>Group, primarily of nursing personnel and French and British officers, at the pier station, Boulogne. The group is probably awaiting the arrival of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig on his departure from France as he stepped down as Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force. The woman in civilian clothes speaking to the officer at the right hand side of the photograph is Lady Dorothy Haig, wife of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig. The woman next to her is her sister, Lady Alexandra Worsley. The fourth woman from the right in the long pale coat is Dame Emma Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief, BEF, 1914-19. [Original reads: No original caption.]</description>

<isSIE>1</isSIE> -

<keyword keywordTableID="1008" keywordAuthority="AAT">Dress (culture-related concept)</keyword>

<keyword keywordTableID="1500" keywordAuthority="AAT">Group portraits</keyword>

<keyword keywordTableID="2079" keywordAuthority="AAT">Military uniforms</keyword>

<keyword keywordTableID="2264" keywordAuthority="AAT">Officers (military officers)</keyword>

<keyword keywordTableID="2478" keywordAuthority="AAT">Platforms</keyword>

<keyword keywordTableID="2669" keywordAuthority="AAT">Railroad stations</keyword>

<keyword keywordTableID="3591" keywordAuthority="AAT">Wives</keyword>

</keywords> -

<who>

<name whoType="Depicted" whoTableID="3012" whoAuthority="LCNA">France. Armée</name>

<name whoType="Depicted" whoTableID="3548" whoAuthority="LCNA">Great Britain. Army</name>

<name whoType="Subject of text" whoTableID="5391" whoAuthority="No Authority">Haig, Dorothy Maud Vivian Haig, Countess, d. 1939</name>

</who> -

<place latitude="50.7167" longitude="1.6167" placeType="Place depicted" TGNPlaceName="Boulogne" placeTableID="581" placeAuthority="TGN">Europe, France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Boulogne (inhabited place)</place>

</places>

-<events>

</events>

</record>

What I'm wondering is whether this would serve as the basis for a template, and I guess then whether I would be able to design a template to use with the Toolset (in place of Template: Artwork, which seems to be the one I see in screenshots) that corresponded to the fields we wanted to use? Apologies if this doesn't make much or any sense... ACrockford (talk) 14:08, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I saw and answered your email on glamtools@ but forgot to cc you. Here’s what I said:

« Are you referring to gwtoolset.wmflabs.org ? This is really a test/demo instance in my understanding, not sure this is the best place for you.

I would suggest you use the Beta Cluster − a copy of Wikimedia Commons for testing purposes. The Toolset is installed there as well. And you can break everything there too :) I’d be happy to grant you GlaWikiToolset access there. »

I created you an account on the beta cluster, and granted you access to GWToolset. You should have received an email, please let me know if not.

Jean-Fred (talk) 14:26, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That is fantastic - yes I got the e-mail so I will play around and hopefully that will help a lot. I thought that the GWToolset was the best way to go about uploading the content; if not, is there a relatively simple alternative? I've seen some existing scripts for uploadbots, but I'm not sure whether this is the best approach either. Thanks again for everything! ACrockford (talk) 15:12, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The GWToolset is designed to only rely on (a) your mapping of the metadata (in xml format) to one of the Commons standard templates using the visual front end, (b) xml data including links to where the images can be uploaded from and (c) the source website for the images being added to the "whitelist" of upload sites. There other tools, see Commons:Upload tools, but the mapping of metadata to use on the image page then becomes more tricky to ensure it is done well.

Stick with it, 2,500 images is relatively modest, but this would be a good case study to demonstrate the GWToolset.

--Fæ (talk) 10:59, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Fæ! That's my hope, too. Testing on the Beta cluster should give me what I need to get started with the Toolset, and uploads proper will be coming soon. ACrockford (talk) 11:15, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

{{Rename

Hi, Please use "{{Rename", NOT "{{Rename " , it breaks the filemover script. --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:06, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Expiry of GWToolset user group memberships

There is a proposal on the Bureaucrat's noticeboard to automatically expire GWT memberships after one year unless the user requests an extension. Please add your views and suggestions to the discussion. The reasonably informal process for getting access to GWT access will remain as is.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Revi. 15:42, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Per the proposal mentioned above your access to the GW toolset has been removed. Please feel free to request back at any time via the Bureaucrats' noticeboard. --Krd 07:58, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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