Commons talk:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/map tag campaign

Questions

Please add any questions in a new section below, signing your question with four tildes, (ie ~~~~). -- Jheald (talk) 21:51, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

migrating to commons & Workflow

A question from one of our colleagues in Europe, "these images are interesting but if I see one I like I will want to migrate it to commons so that I can use it on Wikipedia, if so what tag do you want me to add to the image and what template should I add to the image I have posted to commons". Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 19:45, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

@Jonathan Cardy (WMUK): There is an ingestion template at

Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection#Image_descriptions

Please use this, and it will automatically set up a link-back template, and appropriate categorisation for the collection; it will also order the images from a book into page-number order, and publication-date order for a general category. (But please also then add a description, and specific categorisation for the image).

If you are adding a number of images from a book, please also create a category for the book, with the title and author of the book in free text in the category header, plus the template {{BL1million bookcat}}; such book categories can be found linked to in green on the index pages, using the template {{HasBookCat}}, as described here.

In terms of tagging the images on Flickr, there was a plan to do this but it never got done, and now we're 20,000 images later. So instead, once the British Library's Ben O'Steen is a little less busy, I will send him a list of the Flickr URLs and the WikiCommons filenames for all the files on Flickr that have WikiCommons images, and he has offered to adjust the main description text on Flickr to add a prominent link to WikiCommons.

I hope this starts to answer the question. All best, Jheald (talk) 20:27, 4 November 2014 (UTC)