[HN Gopher] Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia...
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       Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons
        
       Author : edward
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2023-12-06 16:34 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.flickr.org)
        
       | politelemon wrote:
       | Does the Wikimedia account need to belong to the person who owns
       | the Flickr photos?
        
         | edward wrote:
         | No. That's the magic of Creative Commons.
        
           | toomuchtodo wrote:
           | Amazing work on this knowledge graph engine component edward
           | (and whomever else was involved). Flickr Foundation is
           | already paying dividends. Is there some way to push signal
           | from Wikicommons as to photos needed that could be added to
           | Flickr with the appropriate license for Wikicommons
           | consumption?
        
       | maelito wrote:
       | I've been developping a map web app for a few weeks. It's amazing
       | how wikimedia commons's geotagged photos can help build a nice
       | experience.
       | 
       | Of course it's far from Google Maps in terms of numbers. Like an
       | order or magnitude lower. And almost nothing about commercial
       | POIs. But still ! It's free.
       | 
       | Bringing beautiful, up to date and tagged photos to Wikimedia
       | commons could power dozens of cool applications.
        
       | alberth wrote:
       | Why is a Wikimedia account needed at all?
        
         | jessamyn wrote:
         | The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in
         | there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the
         | Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this
         | tool out and let us know what you think). It was created in
         | partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation.
         | 
         | Project page on Wikimedia Commons:
         | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia Feedback
         | collection here:
         | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Flickypedia
        
         | tuukkah wrote:
         | The images could be uploaded using a bot account, but if the
         | user corrects any of the metadata during the upload, you don't
         | want those contributions attributed to the bot.
        
       | dllu wrote:
       | As someone who has uploaded lots of photos to Wikimedia Commons
       | [1], I think one main challenge is coming up with an encyclopedic
       | description and the right categories.
       | 
       | Searching for categories is remarkably difficult, manual, and
       | unintuitive. For example, I recently uploaded a photo of a
       | Caltrain at San Jose Diridon station [2]. So I put "Category:San
       | Jose Diridon station" as a category. But this was in fact
       | incorrect, since there's a more specific category called
       | "Category:Trains at San Jose Diridon station". On Wikimedia
       | Commons, the UI to add a category only tells you if a category
       | exists or not, but doesn't let you search nicely.
       | 
       | There are also location/time categories like "Category:December
       | 2023 in California". Probably less than 1% of photos taken during
       | December 2023 in California get added to such categories, even
       | when GPS and EXIF data contain information about the location and
       | date of capture.
       | 
       | As for writing a description, it should be comprehensive,
       | descriptive, yet succinct, in an encyclopedic tone, and with
       | links to relevant categories on Wikimedia Commons or to relevant
       | pages on Wikipedia as necessary. Again, making the relevant links
       | is mildly tedious.
       | 
       | As a result, when uploading any single photo, I would need to
       | open dozens of tabs to verify the right pages and categories.
       | 
       | I therefore really admire some tireless contributors on Wikimedia
       | Commons who are constantly patrolling new uploads and adding the
       | right categories. To be honest I have no idea how they manage to
       | do that.
       | 
       | [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dllu
       | 
       | [2]
       | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caltrain_Stadler_KIS...
        
         | LorenzoGood wrote:
         | I love your Line Scan Photos
        
       | renewiltord wrote:
       | For me, the hardest part was that people's photos are hard to get
       | into Wikipedia/WikimediaCommons. You have to go through OTRS and
       | it was a solid pain in the ass. In the end, I didn't do very many
       | as a result. Things, on the other hand, you can do much more
       | easily.
        
       | toddcooke wrote:
       | Link to the repo 404s
       | https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia/about/
       | https://github.com/Flickr-Foundation/flickypedia
        
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