User talk:Flominator/Flinfo

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[edit] Todo

Topic Description Status
Translation interface A way to enable people to easily contribute translations Brainstorming
URL input Call Flinfo by using a Flickr-URL instead of the ID Brainstorming
test categories Just convert the tags with existing categories Symbol OK.svg OK since 9. Oct 2007
html2wiki Convert html links to external links Symbol OK.svg OK since 18. Oct 2007
geocoding Add Template:Location dec where suitable Symbol OK.svg OK since 3. Dec 2007
LoC images Support PD-Bain, PD-USGov-FSA and LOC-image Symbol OK.svg OK since 20. Jan 2008
no categories test categories didn't work longer, because the API had been changed Symbol OK.svg OK since 24. Mar 2008
whitespace categories categories like Category:Shiny Toy Guns weren't detected correctly Symbol OK.svg OK since 20. Apr 2008
Powerhouse images images from the latest commons addition are tagged with Template:PD-Australia Symbol OK.svg OK since 20. Apr 2008
Brooklyn Museum images from the Brooklyn Museum are now tagged with Template:Flickr-Brooklyn-Museum-image and Template:Flickr-no known copyright restrictions Symbol OK.svg OK since 4. Jun. 2008
pipes removed some images from the Brooklyn Museum contained the pipe character, which is now replaced by "-" Symbol OK.svg OK since 4. Jun. 2008
e-mail addresses convert e-mail addresses, like the one at [1] by a clickable link Brainstorming
notify removed the message that asks to notify the Brooklyn Museum is now included in Template:Flickr-Brooklyn-Museum-image and will be therefore removed from the description Symbol OK.svg OK since 5. Jun. 2008
wrong form the links to the upload forms were outdated, since Commons changed them some days ago Symbol OK.svg OK since 5. Jun. 2008
unknown source all images from new sources, like the ones from the Smithsonian Institution are tagged with Template:Flickr-no known copyright restrictions Symbol OK.svg OK since 19. Jun. 2008
Fonds Trutat pictures from Bibliothèque de Toulouse taken by Eugène Trutat are marked with Template:PD-old Symbol OK.svg OK since 11. Jul. 2008
only correct dates timestamps before January 01, 1970 and those after today are no longer inserted Symbol OK.svg OK since 11. Sep. 2008
copy to upload form template {{information}} is automatically copied to the upload form Symbol OK.svg OK since 29. Nov. 2008
disclaimer links disclaimers of institutions participating in Flickr's TheCommons are linked at the permission field (but only if there is a rights statement for the institution) Symbol OK.svg OK since 29. Nov. 2008
Oregon + Florida added the disclaimer links to Oregon State University Archives and Florida Memory Symbol OK.svg OK since 07. Mar. 2009
Getty added the disclaimer link to Getty Research Institute Symbol OK.svg OK since 16. May 2009
Scotland added support for pictures from National Galleries of Scotland Commons. Symbol OK.svg OK since 29. May 2009
White House pictures marked with United States Government Work are translated into Template:PD-USGov-POTUS Symbol OK.svg OK since 29. May 2009
Field Museum Library added support for their pictures Symbol OK.svg OK since 22. Aug. 2009
Nantucket Historical Association added support for their pictures Symbol OK.svg OK since 22. Aug. 2009
input parameters you can now configure Flinfo's output (see User:Flominator/Flinfo) Symbol OK.svg OK since 22. Aug. 2009
name as fall back description when now description is entered at Flickr, Flinfo will take the name of the image as description Symbol OK.svg OK since 22. Aug. 2009
Swedish National Heritage Board added support for their pictures Symbol OK.svg OK since 19. Sep. 2009
LLGC/LSW added support for two new organisations: [2], [3] Symbol OK.svg OK since 8. Nov. 2009

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Please post German postings at w:de:Benutzer Diskussion:Flominator/Flinfo

[edit] geocoding?

Hi! Do you have any plans to add geocoding to the info gathered by Flinfo? This would be a useful feature. Cheers--Ragesoss 22:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I didn't think about it yet. Please show me some examples on Flickr und Commons and I'll see what I can do. --Flominator 09:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Done. --Flominator 18:52, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Locations

Hi. A question about locations has come up at User talk:Jeff_G.#Stated_location_on_Commons:Questionable_Flickr_images.3F. Would you please address it there? Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 19:02, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Download link

The download link on the Flinfo page doensn't work for me. It seems Flickr is blocking it. Is this a known bug? I don't mind downloading direct from Flickr's site, but it's annoying to have that broken link, because I know I'm going to click it. :) Superm401 00:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flinfo down

Flinfo is down for me, and it's worked in the past. VanTucky 21:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flinfo minor bug

Just a minor error, but when it detects something like "all rights reserved", it says {{copyvio|Flickr, licensed as "All Rights Reserved" which is no free license --~~~~}} when it should be "not a free licence" rather than "no free licence". -mattbuck (Talk) 00:30, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Changed. --Flominator (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Update your Flickr 2 Commons scripts

Hello

I may update these scripts : http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php http://toolserver.org/~magnus/flickr2commons.php because Smithsonian Institution has join Commons.

Thanks. I already noticed it. I just need to know which template to use. --Flominator (talk) 09:06, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fill in upload form

I find this script very valuable, so thank you very much. I have one more suggestion. For the upload form link, if you use the wpUploadDescription parameter and encode the content of the description appropriately, you can have fill in the description field automatically. Superm401 - Talk 00:00, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Nice idea. I will look into it. --Flominator (talk) 20:04, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Worked very well. Thank you for the inspiration. --Flominator (talk) 21:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Replace Template:Information by Template:Flickr

Hello.

I think you can replace, in Flinfo script and here, the Template:Information by Template:Flickr. This template:flickr include Flickr image in Flickr category.--ComputerHotline (talk) 10:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't really understand what that would change ... --Flominator (talk) 15:17, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
The actual Flinfo and the actual flickr2commons uses "Template:Information". I think these scripts would use this template "Template:Flickr", not "Template:Information". --ComputerHotline (talk) 18:52, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
I understood that. What I didn't understand was the reason. --Flominator (talk) 09:47, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Replace in yours scripts the Template:Information with Template:Flickr. This Flickr template include automatically the image in "Flickr" category. --ComputerHotline (talk) 16:57, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Support of this site

Hello.

Your scripts (Flinfo script and Flickr2commons) may supports this site which joined The Commons.--ComputerHotline (talk) 11:53, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Flinfo supports every uploader with an appropriate license. Do you think that Template:PD-NL-Gov may be applicable? --Flominator (talk) 09:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I don't know. --ComputerHotline (talk) 15:09, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Download link again

I tried to upload the following file from Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/dbfrom1kb1/2041518247/ , when I clicked on download original size I get http://static.flickr.com/2347/2041518247_a3a027eda9_o.jpg, but the image is there as I can manually download it; it just appears to be calling for the wrong link. It seems that it should be calling for http://static.flickr.com/2347/2041518247_f8d41b5ba9_o.jpg this. Is this a bug in Flinfo, something wrong with Flickr, something I'm doing wrong, or something else?--User:Doug(talk • contribs) 00:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Doug, it seems that is has something to do with the fact, that this image is hidden in flickr. --Flominator (talk) 09:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I guess I don't understand something. Other users have said that they can't see these images, but I can search and view these files without difficulty. Does this have to do with the safe search filter on Flickr?--User:Doug(talk • contribs) 14:15, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I can only see the image by accessing the direct file file above. I changed safe-search but wasn't able to see them either. I think it also has something to do with the country from which you want to access the pictures. I've heard that they've blocked something for German users. May I ask where you are from? --Flominator (talk) 11:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
US - north of Boston.--User:Doug(talk • contribs) 22:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Australian War Memorial collection

Hello

The Australian War Memorial collection has joined the Flickr Commons. You can integrate it in Flinfo and Flickr2Commons. --ComputerHotline (talk) 08:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Do you think, I should assign Template:PD-Australia to these pictures? --Flominator (talk) 09:56, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I don't sure. You can read it to know the answer at the question. --ComputerHotline (talk) 19:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Imperial War Museum

Hello.

Imperial War Museum has joined commons. You can integrate it in yours scripts. --ComputerHotline (talk) 19:05, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

New sites should be integrated automatically. --Flominator (talk) 11:05, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flinfo not working for me

When I tried using the Flinfo tool [4] I got this message:

Problem while retrieving picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/phaudio/967190500/

I used this Flickr upload tool instead:

So the photo is uploaded here:

Has the Flinfo tool been superseded by http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/flickr/upload ?

Should the Flinfo link be removed from here:

Please see MediaWiki talk:Uploadtext/fromflickr. --Timeshifter (talk) 11:19, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Timeshifter, no Flinfo wasn't superseeded. These are just two different tools. For the rest, see the talk page you linked. --Flominator (talk) 19:45, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Unable to load Flinfo

For the last few hours my server has been unable to locate Flinfo. Is this the fault of my server, or is Flinfo down? --Geronimo20 (talk) 00:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Flinfo date question

How do you get the time the image was uploaded? --Odie5533 (talk) 07:38, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I receive $photo['dates']['taken'] and use strftime to format it. Sorry for the late reply. --Flominator (talk) 20:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Any more Flinfo input parameters?

I wrote a {{Flinfo}} template so I can edit a list of calls to Flinfo for uploading a set of photos. Or just to document individual uploads on a user subpage of notes. I almost always want to edit the filename, description, and categories that Flinfo produces. This makes the "[Open upload form]" link less useful than it could be. It would be nice if I could tell Flinfo what to use for those three items, so the [Open upload form] link would be directly useful with no need for subsequent editing in the upload form. I would rather do all the editing in one place (on a user subpage, before I call Flinfo), which makes it easier when uploading a set of related photos that all require the same or similar corrections to filenames, descriptions, and categories. I could put those items into the {{Flinfo}} calls, and generate a link to Flinfo that would pass them as input. Otherwise, I have to make the same corrections repeatedly in individual browser tabs for each photo, which is tedious and error-prone. Does Flinfo accept any URL parameters other than ?id= ? --Teratornis (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Teratornis, nice thing you got there. I think, I can get Flinfo to use such input parameters. Just give me some time. --Flominator (talk) 20:57, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much. In the meantime, see my experiments with using the sed command to generate the wikitext I use to upload all photos from a Flickr photoset. If I could tell Flinfo the description text (to replace or append to the Flickr description), the categories, and the filename, I could almost automate the upload of a whole photoset in one step. Except for the need to save all the largest photo sizes to local disk. --Teratornis (talk) 21:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
You might want to as Magnus for access to the bot behind Flickr2Commons to avoid that, as well. --Flominator (talk) 09:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Done. --Flominator (talk) 08:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] "Download original size" link is broken for me

I have the same problem that other users reported with the "Download original size" link - it never works for me. For example, for this photo:

the Flinfo result page is:

which displays the link:

which always redirects to:

The actual largest size is here:

--Teratornis (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

This seems to be a flickr problem with some pictures. Please use the Flickr interface and download the large version from there. --Flominator (talk) 20:59, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
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