Source to upload from

• https://www.legislation.gov.uk/

License

As they are hosted on legislation.gov.uk, they are licensed under {{OGL3}}.

Description

Around early April 2025, National Archives (which operates legislation.gov.uk) replaced Stationery Office booklet scans of British Acts to scans from the annual Public General Acts collections ("PGA collections") by overwriting their hosted files, which affected Acts until 1990. This is identifiable by the lack of table of contents and the page numbers. For example, one may refer to the current version of Theft Act 1968 on Commons with the one now hosted on legislation.gov.uk.

Fæ uploaded the available scans of Acts to here up to 1975, but the rest are wiped out by the National Archives. Fortunately many of the requested scans are archived on the Wayback Machine, and the original links follow the format of https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/YYYY/CC/pdfs/ukpga_YYYY00CC_en.pdf, where:

• YYYY is the year of enactment; and
• CC is the chapter number, and should be filled with a 0 if the chapter number is smaller than 10 (e.g. chapter 1 means 01).

And as a secondary request, I also request that post-1990 Acts can also be batch uploaded to Commons at the same time. They are unaffected by National Archives' move, so I believe bot uploads for them would be easier to deal with.

To preserve the aforementioned files, I request this batch upload process. Please feel free to comment if there are any other information needed, thank you.廣九直通車 (talk) 13:07, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

The title of each file on commons should be of the form "ActName (UKPGA YYYY-chapnum qp)". For acts passed during the reign of Charles III replace qp with kp. ToxicPea (talk) 01:26, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

Example (for File:Iron Age Coin, Stater of the Corieltauvi (FindID 622777).jpg):

Source

https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/473330

Catalog

https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/473330/recordtype/artefacts archive copy

Artefact

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/622777

License

Various Commons-compatible CC licences

Description

User:Fæ was making these uploads on a regular basis (as of January 2021, there were over 614,980 files; I assisted with subsequent categorisation) before they left the project. AFAICT, no work has been one since then. The images are highly valuable from an historic and educational PoV.

See User:Fæ/Project list/PAS for detailed documentation.

Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:17, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Opinions

I've requested a property for the image ID to track it better: d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID -- DaxServer (talk) 13:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Created as ‎Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID (P13556). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:03, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

I'll file a bot request to fill the property for the ~600,000+ files in a couple of days. Once that is done, let's review the batch upload -- DaxServer (talk) 19:19, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing I've filed a bot request at Commons:Bots/Requests/CuratorBot (6) for the SDC to begin with. Also, there are some corrections to be done (see that page for the info). If you some ideas on how we can fix the errors, let me know -- DaxServer (talk) 15:54, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. No idea on the errors. How odd. How are you finding them? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Source to upload from

All images to be uploaded will be added to Wikimedia Poland's Google Drive

License

Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )

The Wojciech Korfanty Institute is the owner of the property copyrights to the submitted works under Article 12 of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights, as the authors performed these works as part of their official duties while being employees of the Institution.

File sharing consent was sent to: permissions-pl@wikimedia.org, and its number will be added to the template when uploading.

I confirm that above mentioned consent with the list of pictures has been sent to VTR: ticket:2025031410006899. Polimerek (talk) 13:48, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Description

Uploading of photos taken as part of the “Silesian Digitarium” project is made as part of the cooperation between Wikimedia Poland and the Wojciech Korfanty Regional Institute of Culture.

I will be adding all photos to Wikimedia Commons using Open Refine and the official Wikimedia Poland account: User:Ada Jakubowska (WMPL). I will do this in several rounds, with the first round being a trial, with a small number of photos (max 40). The planned number of photos to be uploaded is 4 753, and each will include templates such as: - Template:Wojciech Korfanty Institute partnership (Mobile Digitization Centre) - License template with upload consent number Each photo will have a category: Category:Media contributed by the Mobile Digitization Centre and, if possible, a category related to the ritual shown in the photo The source in the description of each file will be: Wojciech Korfanty Regional Institute of Culture (Q28672957)

Names of images in the Commons will be named according to the formula: [event name]_[file number]_RIKiWK_MCD

Ada Jakubowska (WMPL) (talk) 13:39, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

• Main collection: https://museovirasto.finna.fi/
• API access: https://api.finna.fi/v1/

License

386,935 images are licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

Description

Each image comes with extensive metadata through the Finna API including:

• Original titles in Finnish and sometimes Swedish
• Descriptions and historical context
• Dates and time periods
• Creator/photographer information
• Geographic locations
• Subject keywords and classifications
• Collection and archival references
• Technical image information

The images will be categorized using: 1. Primary tracking categories

• Media contributed by the Finnish Heritage Agency
• Collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency

2. Content-based categories derived from Finna metadata:

• Location categories (from "Aiheen paikka")
• Time period categories (from "Aiheen aika")
• Subject matter categories (from "Aiheet")
• Photographer categories (from creator fields)
• Media type categories (from "Aineistotyyppi")
• Cultural heritage categories

Technical details:

• The Finna API (api.finna.fi) provides full programmatic access
• High-resolution images are available
• Structured metadata enables automated categorization
• API includes pagination and filtering capabilities

Template usage:

• Information template for core metadata
• Institution template for Museovirasto
• Creator templates for photographers
• Multilingual descriptions (Finnish/English where available)

The upload will be conducted in phases: 1. Initial test batch (100 images) 2. Themed batches by subject matter 3. Systematic upload of remaining collection

--Apinanaivot (talk) 18:41, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

https://www.youtube.com/@Psych2Go

License

{{YouTube CC-BY|Psych2Go}}

Description

The videos addresses different psychological-related topics; often with references. The topics are based on psych health, love and social relationships, and more.

PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 12:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

All digitised photographs have been uploaded to this Google Drive

License

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

George Michell as the sole owner of the physical photographic slides has released the copyright of that work under the above license.

Detailed discussion with the Wikimedia VRT agent and link to the ticket is available in this section of the Discussion tab of the Wikimedia Grant page.

Description

1. All the metadata including file names and locations is in this Google Sheet.

2. Photos are within folders named after sites photographs were taken. The metadata file has references to locations.

• Do the media URLs follow a pattern: Yes, metadata file has details.
• Does the site have an API: Not sure. It is a Google Drive folder.
• What else could ease uploading: Metadata file.
• Did you contact the site owner: Photos are uploaded to my personal Google Drive.
• Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages, or should one be created: In the metadata file.

AmitGuha (talk) 18:02, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello @AmitGuha. Rows 469 and 470 has no Creator. Should it be assumed to be George Michell or be left blank? -- DaxServer (talk) 09:48, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Are the GPS coordinates: of the building or of the photographer? -- DaxServer (talk) 10:31, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Would you be able to provide some Wikimedia Commons categories for the files?

By default, they'd added to Category:George Michell and Category:Centre for Studies in Social Sciences -- DaxServer (talk) 10:42, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Is Commons:Batch uploading/George Michell Bengal Temples request a duplicate? -- DaxServer (talk) 11:08, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

There are quite some discrepancies in the Sheets compared to the Drive. Please refine them, it's becoming harder for me to validate -- DaxServer (talk) 14:40, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks @DaxServer for the comments above.

1. I will fix all of the missing creator and discrepancies on sheets vs drive and respond here.

2. Yes, I will provide additional Wikimedia Commons categories

I have found some other errors as well. I will need a couple of weeks to fix this and will respond and tag you here when I'm done.

On the other questions:

1. The GPS coordinates are of the buildings

2. Commons:Batch uploading/George Michell Bengal Temples is a duplicate and can be removed

Thanks again! AmitGuha (talk) 21:51, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

https://russiainphoto.ru/search/years-1937-1953/?query=&author_ids=171

License

Public domain - {{PD-Russia}}{{Yevgeny Khaldei as TASS photographer}} (2,453 files)

Description

• Do the media URLs follow a pattern?
  • Description page: for example https://russiainphoto.ru/photos/180701/, but not all files are in order in the catalog numbering system
  • Description pages contain plenty of metadata such as title, caption, source museum, date taken, place taken and keywords, which should be included
  • Full size images: for example https://735606.selcdn.ru/thumbnails/photos/2017/09/04/ztjzboam0rskxuxz_1024.jpg, however not every file was uploaded on the same day and some files have urls like https://735606.selcdn.ru/thumbnails/photos/9/6/o/96o52b30d244f515_1024.jpg
• Does the site have an API? - Yes
• What could ease uploading? The source code for every image page brought up by search query includes source code with this text.

<div class="share share_size_small b-photo__share-block" data-description="" data-title="Подвеска авиабомб в самолет Пе-2, 1941 год" data-url="https://russiainphoto.ru/photos/180589/" data-image="https://735606.selcdn.ru/thumbnails/photos/2017/09/04/qpip0gtkuggujqqo_1024.jpg"></div>

• • Information from the field data-title should be the image title
  • data-url is the description url
  • data-image is the link to the full size image
• Did you contact the site owner? - Not necessary
• Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages, or should one be created? - Not necessary

Kges1901 (talk) 17:37, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded the photos from before 1946 because Template:PD-Russia-1996 says "created by an employee of TASS, ROSTA, or KarelfinTAG as part of that person’s official duties between July 10, 1925 and January 1, 1946"  ${\displaystyle 999}$REAL 💬 ⬆   09:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/home.php is the starting point of the archive. However, to ease navigation for this purpose, I made a list of the (in my opinion) contents most intresting for commons, mostly photos and maps:

TOTAL 649,253

License

All content is either public domain (age/created by government), and if not, everything is licenced under CC BY 3.0. (see terms of use: Some of the digitized archive records in the finding aid system of the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg are still subject to copyright protection, some are exempt from copyright protection as official works, and some are in the public domain. Where they are protected by copyright, the State Archives hold the corresponding exploitation rights and grant a Creative Commons CC-BY license.)
The source "Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg" and the archive reference ID of the image needs to be mentioned when using the image - this information is also always present on the image when downloading fron the website.

Description

• Do the media URLs follow a pattern?

Yes, from what I can see: Each image can be viewed in an image viewer. The image viewer can be accessed from the archive series page (example)
Those image viewer links look like this: https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/zoom.php?bestand=SERIES_ID&id=IMAGE_ID&gewaehlteSeite=FILE_NAME (for example https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/zoom.php?bestand=21715&id=2836819&gewaehlteSeite=02_0001128649_0001_2-1128649-1.png)
The image file can be downloaded by using https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/download.php?&id=IMAGE_ID&bilddatei=FILE_NAME (example https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/download.php?&id=2836819&bilddatei=02_0001128649_0001_2-1128649-1.png)

• Does the site have an API?

No.

• Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages, or should one be created?

Since there is a huge amount of files, creating one might by a good idea.

TheImaCow (talk) 09:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I started scraping and it is going well. Do you know of files that fall under CC BY 3.0 ? -- DaxServer (talk) 07:55, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

All 25,700,000 digitized objects do, per the terms of use.

There is already {{Landesarchiv-bw-image}}, which references

- the archive location (collapsed sections above, see the "Table of identification codes" on the template documentation)

- the archive signature of the object (such as "W 145/4 Nr. 0091")

- the permanent link ID to the digitized object such as "5-790216-1" (http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=5-790216-1)

This can be used in an information template "accession_number" field.

As for the |source= field, there is clear guidance: We cite the archive signature, if known the author and the permalink, such as

"Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 145/4 Nr. 0091 / Fotograf: Leopold Adler"

Example without known/specified author:

"Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg K 414 I Nr 273"

As for the licencing template, I think we should use a custom version of the {{Cc-by-3.0}} template, I created {{LABW}} (for parameter 1, use the same value as for "source" described above)

What data exactly is there to scrape? Is there a way to tell if an object is a photograph or something else (map, drawing, text)? (to decide weather to use {{Photograph}}) ~TheImaCow (talk) 11:03, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm scraping the metadata and the images associated with an object. An object can contain one or more [digitalized] images (of course, only those Findbücher that are digitalized).

• The metadata can be accessed by clicking the Details in the Strukturansicht view. URL format - https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/druckansicht.php?id_titlaufn=IMAGE_ID&bestand=SERIES_ID In the example above from permalink http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=5-790216-1 - click on the Details, it will open a small popup with info. The direct URL would be https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/druckansicht.php?id_titlaufn=3092053&bestand=23318
  • From this view, this particular object has good metadata to determine what it is, for example:
    • Art der Infomation = Bild
    • Art der Vorlage = Glasplatte
    • Format = 16 x 11 cm
  • Not all objects have such good info.
• The info on the images can be obtained from the thumbnail view - that's the magnifying glass icon in the Strukturansicht view. URL format - https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/thumbnails.php?bestand=SERIES_ID&id=IMAGE_ID An example would be
  • https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/thumbnails.php?bestand=7564&id=7278223 for multiple images all of which have the same Bestellsignatur
  • https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_zoom/thumbnails.php?bestand=23318&id=3092053 for single image

I haven't yet explored the data that I've gathered so far, so I've limited info atm. -- DaxServer (talk) 12:13, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Things I noted regarding file names - some images have no title (eg "Keine Angabe"), then we should only use the archive ID (PL 723 DK 94-2), and if the images have title, we should probably start the file name with the archive ID, because they are sometimes sorted by date or relation etc, and this preserves the original file order in the categories, e.g. "PL 723 DK 55-20 - Bf. Kupfer", where the "20" is a running number.

I removed some series from the above table...

- T 1 (Zugang 2008/0013)/SERIES ID 22257 only text documents

- T 1 (Zugang 2008/0032)/22664 only low quality scans of personal photos, probably out of scope

- T 1 (Zugang 1983/0018-01)/10461 only text documents

- J 153/political party advertising often recently collected by the archive, unlikely if actually free

- Q 2/50 - 17,000 negative photo bags containing ~520,000 individual photographs, unfortunaly low scan quality, so extracted images are of very poor quality

All objects seem to have their "category tree" as part of the description, such as

Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg

\/

Deposita, nichtstaatliche Archive und Nachlässe / 1335-1997

\/

Nachlässe (ohne Deposita)

\/

PL 723 Nachlass Hans Noller: Sammlung zum Eisenbahnwesen in Württemberg / Ca. 1844-2011

\/

2. KB-Dias

\/

Stuttgart - Horb ("Gäubahn")

\/

Diakasten 18: Stuttgart - Horb I

at this object: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-5340602-1

I think it would be a good idea to automatically copy these category trees as commons categories, as this would make the manual categorisation needed for the images significantly easier. Such a category tree has already been created for the US National Archives upload, see Category:US National Archives Record Groups. ~TheImaCow (talk) 12:42, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

TheImaCow I was able to collect 375,357 records (many with multiple files). Here is a statistic of the metadata:

• Bemerkung shall be merged with Bemerkungen
• I'm not sure if we want to merge "Autor" and "Autor/Fotograf/Künstler"
• Do you want them to be uploaded with translation into EN? Or simply use the {{de template and be done with that?

Let me know how you want to proceed now. -- DaxServer (talk) 22:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I added some {{Information}}/{{Photograph}} template values for the original keys to the table. I think we should only use the original "{{de" values, english translations should be done manually. To proceed, probably a test upload? (there is also the {{Landesarchiv-bw-image}} template for |accession_number=, see above)~TheImaCow (talk) 22:49, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

@TheImaCow Here're the stats into Archivalienart:

• Amtsbücher - 3
• Fotos - 228950
• Karten und Pläne - 47749
• Nachlässe - 7
• Personenakten - 7062
• (blank) 91585

-- DaxServer (talk) 09:30, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I wanted to do some test, but the website has some issues https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/bildexplorer.php?bestand=21569 (on archive). Tweeted to them, but maybe they're all in Holidays. Will wait and see. -- DaxServer (talk) 09:44, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Possibly that collection got removed intentionally from the website for whatever reason, it must have been between "FAS K" and "FAS Pa ST" here, at the bottom. Now this collection is missing from the list. (only 90 items affected) ~TheImaCow (talk) 22:00, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

It seems some information has been changed from the last time I gathered the data. I'll have to do a refresh on the 375k items collected. This will take a few weeks it seems 😵‍💫 -- DaxServer (talk) 18:29, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

@TheImaCow Can you give me an example for merging the values for medium= and collection=, for example this one: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=3-558838

Also, how should the <br/> be translated into wikitext? - line break, wikitext break, special character, or something else -- DaxServer (talk) 10:15, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Medium: medium=Bild - 9,9 x 6,0 cm //// (medium=Art der Information - Format)

Collection: collection=Kommunalarchive im Hohenlohekreis<br>Kreisarchiv Hohenlohekreis<br>Sammlungsbestände<br>Foto-, Dia- und Postkartensammlung<br><br>KrA SF 2<br>Fotosammlung: Ehemals eigenständige Gemeinden Adolzfurt - Lassbach / um 1860 - 2011<br>10. Bitzfeld<br>10.2 Gebäude, Bauten :::

/// collection=Einordnung des Bestands<br><br>Aus Bestand

Hope this is understandable/answers the question, here is an example on how it could be rendered:

I had the idea with the little arrows ↓↓↓ on the collection tag spontanous, they could be added too. ~TheImaCow (talk) 21:52, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

@TheImaCow I wanted to normalize the Laufzeit field to fit into {{complex date}} but it seems to take too much of my time. Would you be able to convert them? If so, I can email you an export with that data. If not, I'd add the original data into some other_fields parameter. Let me know -- DaxServer (talk) 12:10, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunaly I'm quite clueless with such data processing, I don't think I could make that work. Lets do the solution with other fields. ~TheImaCow (talk) 22:45, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

@TheImaCow It seems all pre-work is done. Maybe I'll add couple of SDCs. Also, request for whitelisting domain: MediaWiki talk:Copyupload-allowed-domains#Allowlist request - Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg Online-Findmittelsystem -- DaxServer (talk) 12:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

BTW, can you design some categorization schema? -- DaxServer (talk) 13:25, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

I suggest creating a category for each series (the ones listed in the collapse boxes above, first value in the "Aus Bestand" field e.g. Category:KrA SF 2 Fotosammlung: Ehemals eigenständige Gemeinden Adolzfurt - Lassbach / um 1860 - 2011

These categories should be categorized into already existing Category:Collections of Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, Category:Collections of Staatsarchiv Freiburg, Category:Collections of Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen etc. ~TheImaCow (talk) 11:28, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

@TheImaCow Extracting the Bestand info seemed a bit more complicated with the data format I have right now. So I fellback to using Category:Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe Findbuch O format.

I uploaded 10 test files: Special:Search/hastemplate:LABW file:

Let me know how they look. -- DaxServer (talk) 13:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Looks good overall! Two things:

• File name: A better format would probably "<Titel> - LABW - <Bestellsignatur>"
  We need to use some amount of description per Commons:File naming. It looks to me like the "Titel" field is a good fit for that. "Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg" can be abbreviated to LABW (to avoid too long file names). The "Bestand"/"Permalink" IDs can be left out, as they are only the ID numbers automatically assigned by the digital finding aid, without a direct weblink, they are pretty useless. The "Bestellsignatur" archive signature should be sufficient.
  Example:
  Photograph from Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart M 700-4 Nr. 100 Bestand-6587 permalink 1-852418-1.jpg
  ↓to↓
  Soldaten im Schützengraben (Gruppenbild) - LABW - Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart M 700/4 Nr. 100.jpg
  This will result in some duplicate file names where multiple images are assigned to the same object, so it looks we can keep the digit(s) after the last "-" in the "Permalink" ID to make the filename unique e.g.
  Photograph from Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart J 317 Nr 10 Bestand-23838 permalink 1-1335908-2.jpeg
  to
  Herbst 1902 - LABW - Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart J 317 Nr 10 -2.jpg
  Exception i've seen: On media where "Archivalienart" is "Personenakten", we must use "Name" field instead of "Titel", as a title is often not present there.
  Hope I explained this understandable
• Collection field/Arrows ↓: These arrows are at every line break, not just at the "collection level", which can lead to situations like here Easiest to probably just leave them away then.

~TheImaCow (talk) 11:54, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

@TheImaCow There are some entries where they put description as Titel like this one: https://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=5-348952 I don't think I can extract a meaningful filename for such. Any ideas? -- DaxServer (talk) 14:49, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

@DaxServer If it's possible we could limit the title to maybe the first 200 characters or so. However, it is probably better to just leave out that particular collection. It seems to be consisting entirely of text documents which are difficult to properly curate on Commons anyway. Are there more collections with such long titles? (I've seen collection A 25/1 Landgericht Freiburg with the same issue, lets leave that out too)~TheImaCow (talk) 19:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

@TheImaCow Here's the updated test:

• https://editgroups-commons.toolforge.org/b/OR/3249b63c509/
• https://editgroups-commons.toolforge.org/b/OR/b2bb6b3e574/

-- DaxServer (talk) 11:27, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Looks good! ~TheImaCow (talk) 15:57, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Applied Commons:Bots/Requests/CuratorBot (4) -- DaxServer (talk) 17:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Opinions

Source to upload from

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-icon-theme

License

This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See version 3 of the GNU General Public License for more details.GNU General Public License v3GPLv3http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.htmltrue

Description

• Do the media URLs follow a pattern?

Sure do. Example: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-icon-theme/blob/master/Sea/apps/scalable/accessories-text-editor.svg

• Does the site have an API?

Yes.

• What else could ease uploading?

Not sure.

• Did you contact the site owner?

Nope.

• Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages, or should one be created?

User:Psiĥedelisto/Deepin icons

Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 18:51, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Opinions

Assigned to	Progress	Bot name	Category
	Half done		Category:Deepin Icon Theme

@Psiĥedelisto: Hi! I looked deeper into this and uploaded the majority of the icons. Unfortunately, some icons are covered by copyright, as they are derivative work. --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 19:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC) Category:Commons batch uploading#Batch%20uploading

Source to upload from

https://www.youtube.com/@ibmresearch/videos

License

Virtually all uploads to the IBM Research channel are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, per the License tag in the description of each video.

Description

784 videos (and counting, as of the time I'm writing this) of pure IBM and technology-related gold. Lots of great photography and headshots to extract from these. Some of the content therein may contain non-free elements over the de minimis threshold, but from what I've watched so far those are few and far in between. Would be trivial to download all videos using youtube-dl; reencoding each video to fit within the 100 MB upload limit is a different story however. DigitalIceAge (talk) 04:52, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

The limit is now 5 GB. Yann (talk) 20:12, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

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• Try to upload files from time to time --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 18:16, 22 August 2024 (UTC) Category:Commons batch uploading#Batch%20uploading

@DigitalIceAge 437 files are Category:Videos by IBM Research uploaded to date --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 16:23, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

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• There are PDF files, but over 500 MB each. Yann (talk) 20:26, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

  Yes. I already uploaded them here. In 2023 there were no PDF. We can close this request. Thank you for looking this up. Bennylin (yes?) 07:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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• file:Discothyrea dryad.stl
• file:Proceratium bruelheidei.stl Category:Commons batch uploading#Batch%20uploading

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Were these photos published prior to 1925, or merely taken prior to then? Publication needs to be pre-1925 for {{PD-US-expired}} to be allowed. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 08:25, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: The about page states The collection ... is believed to have come to Pomona College included with the papers of Charles Luther Boynton, a Pomona College alumnus and missionary to China. Boynton himself graduated from Pomona around 1900. I can't say for sure the year his papers came into possession of the college, though (which I assume would be the date of publication?). The library would probably tell us if we asked, though. Sdkb (talk) 05:47, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Acquisition by the college would not be considered publication for the purposes of copyright. Only use in a publicly released printed material, or on a webpage, is considered publication. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:48, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: does being added to a library not count as publication? The collection has presumably been housed in the special collections department and publicly available to anyone who requested access since it was obtained. Sdkb (talk) 20:55, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

A collection merely being in a library does not constitute publication, by my reading. Under copyright law, publication is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership or by rental, lease, or lending. Offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of people for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display also constitutes publication. (From here.) Is the death date of Boynton known? If it was before 1950, then {{PD-old-70}} applies. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:14, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: According to here, Boynton died in 1961, so not quite. The above would seem to me to indicate being in a library counts, though, because of lending, which is what a library does. Sdkb (talk) 19:11, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

A collection in the library would be the originals (not copies) and is likely for use only in the library (not lending). I understand that you wish to have this collection available on Commons, but from the available evidence I do not believe the images are public domain. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:58, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

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Unfortunately I think this collection is now being locked down. The link above 404s and there is no obvious way to get to a collection from the root website (best link is https://baseballhall.org/the-museum/collections/photo-archives). – BMacZero (🗩) 07:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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• Comments by Animalparty.

• {{PD-USGov}} would be the most inclusive template, but is rather vague. More specific templates include {{PD-USGov-NPS}} and {{PD-USGov-Interior}}. Any Photographer field that says "NPS Staff" or "NPS Photo" (e.g. ) should automatically get PD-USGov-NPS.
• I think {{Photograph}} or {{Information}} are fine, ideally with detailed semi custom fields for keywords, collection, location, etc., as seen in the Library of Congress images uploaded by User:Fæ (example).
• The more pre- or auto-categorization, or at least clearly noting collection, yeear/decade, geographic unit, etc., the better, else we dump thousands of unsorted of images into already cluttered categories like Yosemite National Park.
• There may be overlap with some material on Archives.gov , individual National Park Flickr feeds/websites, and such material already uploaded. But I think the value of the images uploaded at their largest file size and with curated metadata outweigh the inconvenience of some duplication.
• Many files have geographical coordinates, but I suspect that many are generic coordinates of the center of the National Park or Monument, rather than being unique to the photograph.
• Thanks for initiating this, sorry if these comments are basic/obvious to experienced mass uploaders. --Animalparty (talk) 01:29, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

On some more inspection, certain images may be a bit problematic in terms of copyright, namely works of art (e.g. paintings and sculptures) not explicitly credited to NPS employees, but that are nonetheless labeled "Public domain:Full Granting Rights". Some of these appear to be created by Artist-in-Residence programs (e.g. this gallery and this one), and from browsing elsewhere it appears that different parks may have different rules regarding copyrights. Rocky Mountain National Park states "Artists are also required to provide the copyright for this artwork to the National Park Service. The National Park Service will not allow the commercial use of any donated artwork once it is selected and accessioned into the Park's permanent museum collection", which is a restriction against public domain. Perhaps no art from Rocky Mountain was transferred to NPGallery? These 2 images from the U.S.S. Arizona memorial are labeled PD on NPGallery, yet on a different NPS page their status is ambiguous, with the included usage disclaimer "Multimedia credited with a copyright symbol (indicating that the creator may maintain rights to the work) or credited to any entity other than NPS must not be presumed to be public domain; contact the host park or program to ascertain who owns the material" (emphasis added).

Side note: I think every photograph I've viewed on NPGallery has the Copyright disclaimer "Permission must be secured from the individual copyright owners to reproduce any copyrighted materials contained within this website. Digital assets without any copyright restrictions are public domain.", but every file is also labeled Public domain in the Constraints Information.

Another snag I've noticed, just from browsing the term "Artist", are that some images are scans/photographs from newspapers that were most likely not originally created by Federal employees (although the derivative scans/photos are): for instance Louis Grell illustration album, with cartoons by Louis Grell published in World War I. These are still PD via pre-1924 publication (and possibly by {{PD-USGov-Military}}), but it hinders accurate bot-designation of PD template.

And public domain rationale is ambiguous on this vido, with Copyright" "Photo courtesy of Betty Maya Foott, Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative" (so, probably not a federal employee), yet is nonetheless labeled "Public domain:Full Granting Rights". I may have just found a relative handful of exceptions. But there are also probably a good deal of historical photographs that are PD-1923 or PD-no-notice yet not US Government works. Perhaps a generic umbrella template similar to {{Flickr-no known copyright restrictions}} could be used to encapsulate different possibilities, like {{PD-NPGallery}}.

I think it would be a good idea to contact someone at NPGallery to double check that all media labeled public domain is in fact public domain, for some reason, especially when rationale is ambiguous or lacking. We also might want to consider not transfering the somewhat intimidating, potentially misleading Copyright message "Permission must be secured from the individual copyright owners to reproduce any copyrighted materials contained within this website. Digital assets without any copyright restrictions are public domain." This may be a liability disclaimer on NPGallery's end, but ideally, everything we transfer to Commons would be in the public domain, and so no permission need be secured. --Animalparty (talk) 11:45, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Working on adapting my bot to handle this. I'll contact them, and also start with only things that are obviously PD. BMacZero (talk) 17:50, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

I e-mailed NPGallery a while back about the public domain statuses of images and neglected to share here. Unfortunately got a not-too-helpful response essentially saying that the licenses and attributions are not "consistent" and "there is not a good way to assure an asset id is truly in the public domain, or not". We'll have to figure out what types of signals we can rely on to decide whether {{PD-USGov-NPS}} or other templates apply. Of course, publication pre-1924 will be a good one to start. BMacZero (talk) 04:30, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm currently harvesting a list of all the images. It's going a bit slow but it should only a take a few days. After that I'll start downloading the metadata, which may take several days. BMacZero (talk) 04:45, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Ah, a shame about the inconsistent licensing criteria. I guess pre-1924 and files credited to "NPS staff" or similar can be prioritized for now. --Animalparty (talk) 19:13, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Started downloading the item metadata. You can check on the progress on this fun page I made. BMacZero (talk) 15:49, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

BRFA filed (Commons:Bots/Requests/BMacZeroBot 6). BMacZero (talk) 05:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Started uploading last night, will probably be ongoing for quite a while. See Category:Images from NPGallery to check to help with validation and categorization! – BMacZero (🗩) 16:35, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Assigned to	Progress	Bot name	Category
User:BMacZero	In progress	User:BMacZeroBot	Category:Images from NPGallery to check

See Also

• Commons:Deletion requests/File:(l-r) Anne Spillane, Amanda White, Maureen McLean, Steve Redman, Kristyn Loving, Carolyn Loren, Casey Overturf, Curt Jacquot (c7b4d30d8a614e7e9c67602d2a1c9d3d).jpg
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:A great blue heron shows off its fish-catching skills on the banks of the Mississippi River (41077c6c-4921-4138-8443-7cf97d9c15bb).jpg Category:Commons batch uploading#Batch%20uploading

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•  Support Seems like an interesting project --Kristbaum (talk) 16:00, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Info Template:PD-NASA-HiRISE has been created for these images! -- Meisam (talk) 17:31, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

  @Meisam: - I am interested in pursuing this. I think it would be a logical extension of my work with uploading from ESRS. Do you have any suggestion as to how we most efficiently store the PDS data with each image? Askeuhd (talk) 08:28, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

  @Askeuhd: I don’t have any good solutions. I suppose we can store them as tEXt chunks in the PNG image and also add them in a table (using wiki templates) to the image description page. -- Meisam (talk) 11:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

  @Meisam: - I would personally much prefer the latter option, I fear that the former option may not be very user friendly. We will also have to parse as much of the data as possible to SDC. I will try to think of a suitable paradigm. Askeuhd (talk) 11:40, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

PDS data import proposal

Proposal for the import of PDS data for each image, to ensure as much as possible is added to SDC and necessary data for the user is displayed prominently in the wikitext.

I propose that the entire LBL file is imported as a collapsible text field in the template for each file, preserving all formatting and indentation, so that researches or other users familiar with the PDS format may be able to utilize plain text search for the values we will not be able to add to SDC, similar to this:

In addition to this, I have broken down the example file, to try and maximize possible SDC data migration, as well as adding some of the data to a custom wikidata template for this particular import. I am highly interested in any suggestions. I take the libery of pinging @Multichill: as you have previously been very helpful in a similar endeavour with the ISS photos. I hope you would be interested in adding your valuable input here as well.

I will make a couple of example files in a few days or so to test the SDC structure and a potential template, before starting any peliminary coding, so the concepts can be tested out.

Reference to be set as stated in (P248) --> "Planetary Data System" for all SDC values imported from PDS.

All PDS identifiers can be looked up here for clarification. The LBL example file also contains some in-line comments.

Additionally I propose the following the properties

• media type (P1163) --> "image/png"
• source of file (P7482) --> file available on the internet (Q74228490) --> ((described at URL (P973) --> value: url to LBL file) and (full work available at URL (P953) --> value: direct URL to JP2 file) and (operator (P137) --> University of Arizona (Q503419)) and perhaps (file format (P2701) --> JP2 (Q27979401)))
• copyright status (P6216) --> public domain (Q19652) --> determination method or standard (P459) --> work of the federal government of the United States (Q60671452)
• instance of (P31) --> photograph (Q125191)

@Meisam: --Askeuhd (talk) 16:08, 7 June 2022 (UTC) Category:Commons batch uploading#Batch%20uploading

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@Guanaco: There is a lot of copyrighted material within these images, e.g. . (Just because this is a U.S. government web site this does not mean all the material is U.S. government material and by this means freely usable!) Actually I have not found too many images that really can be used (e.g. ). You should at least provide a procedure how to distinguish between copyrighted and free material. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 11:02, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Reinhard Kraasch: The gallery search function has a filter by copyright status.

I've found that the URLs linked by the thumbnails provide species information within <title>: https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=HACA2&photoID=haca2_003_ahp.jpg#

• and correspond to the URLs of the actual files: https://plants.usda.gov/gallery/pubs/haca2_003_php.jpg
• as well as the URL with copyright status and recommended attribution info: https://plants.usda.gov/java/usageGuidelines?imageID=haca2_003_ahp.jpg

The search is navigable with &page=2, 3, 4, etc.

I'm actually interested in scripting this myself now, though it would be my first batch upload task. Guanaco (talk) 14:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco: Well, just go on... On the other hand it always is a good idea to have a second opinion with such a batch upload - especially for the non-technical aspects. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 20:52, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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The bot account is technically already flagged from the last bulk upload a couple of years ago, however I would like to submit the current plan to community review before restarting uploads. If there are any opinions on the bot's design or the format of uploads or other issues, I am happy to hear them. We'd also like to know whether to limit what is uploaded in any way—as in, would Commons actually be interested in 15 million files, or might some of these, like the millions of census cards, not be of interest. Also, if anyone is interested in helping out with the coding or other tasks, please feel free to let me know. This is a big undertaking. Thanks! Dominic (talk) 17:25, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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Source to upload from

https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/

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{{PD-author}}

{{PD-author|BioArt}}

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• They can be used in medical diagrams and various other information graphics and are of high importance because not only are such often used in important health education but also Biorender icons can't be used due to their licensing and these icons could be used as an alternative or even to substitute these.
• Please add them to Category:NIH BioArt further categories in addition that better enable people to find these would also be good. Please make sure to use descriptive titles and descriptions, probably by using the title on the site and its description and keywords.
• The website doesn't load properly on my end. Don't know why that is but it makes it even more important to upload these icons here and integrate it into this large media repository.

Prototyperspective (talk) 15:15, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

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