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Re: Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons

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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 incorrec…

I love your Line Scan Photos

Re: Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons

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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 incorrec…

> 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.

Sounds like a job for a bot.

Re: Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons

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No. That's the magic of Creative Commons.

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?

There's no need to add these photos to flickr, just upload them straight to Commons.
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