Commons:Batch uploading/Flickr images by user

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Flickr batch autouploader

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Is it possible to create some sort of tool to allow a user to upload all CC tagged photos by a certain photographer on flickr? I'm thinking of goldmines like Ferdinand Reus and Babasteve. (I have already uploaded all of Ferdinand Reus's photos manually, which took ages.) Occasionally there is photographer so good that the vast majority of their content is useful.

Possible objections, with responses

  • Some flickrstreams are awful and should not be uploaded, and inexperienced users will do this
    • The tool could be limited to a trusted list of users if needed, and new users probably couldn't find the tool anyway
  • Even good flickrstreams may contain some unuseful or copyvio images
    • Uploaded images could be tagged with some sort of tag that gets them autodeleted after X number days, requiring a prompt manual review of all uploads

Thoughts? Mangostar (talk) 14:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Opinions

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 SupportI would definitely support this as it would ease our pain in uploading PD or CC-BY/By-Sa image sets to commons. A good collection would of course be The commons that has very valuable images by great authorities.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 19:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done - added to UploadWizard for users with ImageReviewer permission. Kaldari (talk) 19:01, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]