Commons talk:Upload tools

iOS app not available in UK

Is there any reason for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugsbray (talk • contribs) 12:54, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I am outside UK - what app are you talking about please and can I upload video? Chidgk1 (talk) 09:35, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rafee Faizi (talk • contribs) 12:47, 03 October 2016 (UTC)

Upload 100 of Tasnim albums

Hello, I want to upload many images from Tasnim News. see here a selection of albums. Upload Wizard will take too much time as I have to describe and put in to categories for every individual image. What is the best way to do this? Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 14:43, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Upload without field pre-filling

Is there an upload method which supports writing wiki markup manually (e.g. using {{Information}}) instead of pre-filling fields using one-by-one input fields? —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:37, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Google Photos

Nothing for uploading from Google Drive or Google Photos? Drat.Jim.henderson (talk) 22:37, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Uploader

Re [1], I can't see the source code on http://www.wikiuploaderapp.com/index.html nor https://github.com/lyudmylai . We don't advertise unfree/proprietary software in our pages. Nemo 12:10, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Book Uploader Bot

It seems that the link in the article for BUB (in the Internet Archive subsection) is now dead [2] (current revision). According to Wayback Machine, it was online February 2019. --158.195.4.7 08:30, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Slow speeds

Add a upload form that works with e.g., 64k ADSL upload rates. Jidanni (talk) 07:23, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

user:CommonsMaintenanceBot/wgCopyUploadsDomains.json

Due to mailarchive:wikitech-l/2020-January/092960.html I am unable to access the Phabricator instance and therefore Maniphest; could someone help me by creating a ticket to alter the 'cdm16062.contentdm.oclc.org' line to include other server numbers (I'm trying to upload from 'cdm16022'); if the server numbering scheme is known, that can be represented in regex to allow for a minimal fitting; otherwise it should just be cdm[wildcard]. Thanks! Arlo James Barnes 19:28, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Found a workaround for the Phab bug, created a ticket: phab:T255386 Arlo James Barnes 23:28, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

FileImporter

I suggest that we make FileImporter the preferred/recommended way to move files from xx.wiki to Commons. --MGA73 (talk) 12:42, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes. please, it should be the first entry in the "Transfer from other Wikimedia projects" section, right before Commons Helper. I tried to move it there, but didn't manage to that because the translation stuff kept throwing errors. --El Grafo (talk) 11:05, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

FileImporter is great, and it should be the default option for moving files, but there's still so many edge cases that cause it to just give up when trying to transfer a file. Just the few I regularly encounter are files having broken or incorrect license templates on the origin wiki that FileImporter refuses to process or correct, having any OTRS tags whatsoever in any edit of the page, having any deleted revisions whatsoever, and cases where only the current revision of a file should be moved. Together, those represent about a fourth of all of the enwiki to Commons transfers I do on a regular basis. It's a really slick tool, but I'd love it so much more if it wasn't so willing to fail out on transfers that aren't formatted perfectly. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 01:50, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Purpose of having a whitelist?

What's the point of having a whitelist, when it's so easy to circumvent by downloading the file to one's own computer and then uploading it as a local file instead of by URL? ← PointyOintment ❬t & c❭ 19:39, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

It's still worth it to make copyvios take more effort even if it is impossible to make them impossible :) Arlo James Barnes 14:42, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

The fact remains that Wikimedia Commons is replete with files with copyright problems. This is due to false claims of authorship and license. Wikimedia Commons policy of allowing uploads from anyone is too permisive. The task of verifying new files is tedious, and there are too few editors to do it. Senator2029 10:59, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Url2Commons

Could anyone create a page Commons:Url2Commons about that tool and how to use it? The original page at Wikisource seems to be outdated a bit... — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:23, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

@Draceane: I tried to use URL2Commons, but no matter what I do, it's not saying I'm logged in. Over a year and this still hasn't been fixed. Lizardcreator (talk) 23:49, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

@Lizardcreator: You should click on "log in" (no matter if you are already logged in on WMF projects) and the authorize OAuth and then start using U2C. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:50, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Gov sites

Several *.NOAA.gov and *.gov sites are added. Shouldn't all .gov sites be added, or at least the *.NOAA.gov ones since the source is {{PD-USGov-NOAA}}? --special:contribs/0w0 catt0s 00:30 UTC, 25 March 2021

I was coming here to ask about whitelisting https://fbi.gov/image-repository/*, but then thought about it a little and realised that government agencies may host work they didn't produce or otherwise not in the public domain; after all, they make no claim to being a libre image repository like Commons' does. So things can be uploaded from them where PD is indicated, but not as a blanket whitelist entry. Arlo James Barnes 03:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Recommended tools for uploading

Hello, as part of a small wiki toolkits project's workshop, we are trying to identify a few recommended tools from Commons:Upload_tools for uploading files to Commons, including the tools with support for multiple uploads. Anyone here monitoring this page might be able to help put together a list? Srishti (talk) 00:14, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Pattypan not working

Please note Pattypan uploader tool is not working for months. It has been a great tool. Will someone look into it? Please see this post too.--Vinayaraj (talk) 17:38, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

dvidshub.net

apparently their download server is now located at "dvidshub-media.s3.amazonaws.com", so can this be added to the whitelist?Stemoc 11:51, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Is there a fast way to upload thousands of images embedded in a public domain work on Wikisource?

I have 24 volumes of The Green Book, a magazine that ran from 1889 to 1914, and which has pictures or photographs typically taking up between a quarter and a third of a page, every few pages (e.g. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Green_Bag_(1889%E2%80%931914),_Volume_01.pdf/27). I'd like a way to pluck out and upload just these pictures, with reference to their Green Book volume and page. Does such a tool exist? BD2412 T 21:40, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi @BD2412: , I've found Commons:CropTool to be immensely helpful for cropping images from PDF. I've been using it many times and the cropped image result are better than if I were to crop it manually and upload it. Tips: when cropping a lot of images from a pdf, it'd better to create a new category (recategorize the original pdf) with its own name, otherwise, the cropped images will pollute other categories. Bennylin (yes?) 01:21, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

@Bennylin: Many thanks, I will give it a try. BD2412 T 02:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

If it is really thousends of images, that sounds a bit cumbersome. I would create a script with wget or curl to download the pages:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/The_Green_Bag_(1889%E2%80%931914)%2C_Volume_01.pdf/page468-1525px-The_Green_Bag_(1889%E2%80%931914)%2C_Volume_01.pdf.png C.Suthorn (talk) 08:41, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

@BD2412: One possible issue with the CropTool (as brilliant as it is) is that it'll still only be using the image from the PDF. In the case of The Green Book, it looks like there are higher-resolution scans available at IA, e.g. the above Vol. 1 iss. 1 p.10 has a file called sim_green-bag-an-entertaining-magazine-of-the-law_1889-01_1_1_0009.jp2 which might be of better quality. — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 09:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Need a tool to easily upload video from iphone

As Commons:video2commons is no longer maintained presumably someone has already requested a tool to easily upload video from iphone? If not how do I formally request one please? Chidgk1 (talk) 09:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

v2c is not maintained but it mostly works. I assume you want to upload videos in Apple's ".MOV" format? What other hardware can you use for upload? MacOS? Linux? Windows? Android?

While there may be a way to formally request a tool, it is unlikely that a tool for iphone/ipad will be made soon. The developer would need to pay a yearly fee to Apple to publish it and the Apple App store is the only way to install an app on an iphone. C.Suthorn (talk) 17:50, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Separate fields for author of file and author of original work in Upload wizard?

I have now been accused twice here and here of allegedly claiming to be the creator, author or owner of a work I photographed. I do not aim to claim to be the author nor being the owner of the painting/sculptor artwork etc. I photograph. I usually add in the description ... by (painter/sculptur etc)...to the files I upload (if its not of a landscape etc.). But I am the creator of the file/photograph, which is also demanded to be mentioned so it can be published into public domain. Are there separate fields for author/photographer/recorder of the uploaded file and author of the original work somewhere on the upload wizard? If not, what I suspect, (because many of the files I check don't make such a difference) could the modality be added? Then the ones who tag files for deletion without checking the description of the file and the uploaders of files which do not add the demanded licenses would likely have less conflicting arguments.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 02:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Is there any tool for easy importing from Google Books?

There are a lot of old books from there that I want to import. Thanks. Bennylin (yes?) 10:07, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

@Bennylin Many free Google books have been imported to the Internet Archive. You can import from the Internet Archive. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm) (talk) 06:22, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

That was not the question. My question is there a tool to import many books that are not in Commons or Archive. Bennylin (yes?) 08:09, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

No, there isn't any special tool for Google Books. Yann (talk) 08:31, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Video tutorial

Can anyone prepare the video tutorial of uploading photos using command line (python) into Wikimedia Commons. Akbarali (talk) 10:55, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Commonslab Android app

How come it isn't in the Google Play Store? Jim.henderson (talk) 01:21, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Maybe because the Developer is unwilling to pay 25US$ to Google for access to the Play Store? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm) (talk) 06:20, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Which tool for macOS?

Which tool is recommended for someone using macOS (Intel) and some dozen uploads a month? I use several Java tools for years, but I fail running Pattypan (nothing happens after starting it) or VicunaUploader (the last version I get running is 1.23, which is broken regarding uploads). I haven't tried ComeOn!, as it is severely limited (only jpg). OpenRefine certainly does what it is supposed to, but I don’t understand it. Sunflower is promising, but lacks basic features. Commonist is broken. LrMediaWiki is certainly nice, but doesn’t fit my use case (I only upload PD images from external sources, not my own photos from LR).

Thanks, --Polarlys (talk) 19:28, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Multifile Basic upload

Could it be conceivable to update the Basic Upload tool to support multiple files, like the Wizard does? This would be useful when uploading views of the same artwork from different angles, where you have to use {{Artwork}}. At the time being, this has to be done by hand, yielding a rather repetitive task for humans. Rama (talk) 11:01, 7 January 2024 (UTC)