Commons:Batch uploading/11k of Areal Photos

11k of Areal Photos

In the course of the arial photo project of the German Wikimedia de:Wikipedia:Projekt Fotoflüge I wrote an article for a pilots magazine. After that I got in contact with a Pilot who wants to share his own created areal photo collection which he created over the past 24 years. It seams that all photos are already geo-referenced and classified (by type like solar power plant, church as well as by region like Europe, Andalucia, Sanlucar). The classification as well as the geo-reference is within the exif data of the images. During a manual upload the geo-reference was recognized correct by commons. Because of the big amount of pictures it would be fine if there is some way to may automize the upload and if possible somehow to match the classification of the pictures to the commons categories. I have no idea if or how this is possible and it would be great to get some information if this is possible or to get some help for this request. The Classification is sometimes in German and not matching the Commons categories. The Pilot has already created a Wikipedia / Commons User and uploaded one example file where you could see how the data is sored within the exif Data.

• Source to upload from:

The files are on a computer of the pilot / photographer.

• • Did you observe an URL pattern
  • Do you know whether the site as an API
  • What else can ease uploading (is the site valid XHTML, WCM they use…)?
  • Did you contact the site owner?

Not the site owner but the photographer User:Graf-flugplatz

• Describe the works to be uploaded in detail (audio files, images by …):

About 11.000 of digital arial photos should be uploaded.

• Which license tag(s) should be applied?

Has to be clarified with Author, but expect "CC BY-SA 3.0" like the example.

Update 18.12.2012: License "CC BY-SA 3.0" is approved by Author User:Graf-flugplatz.

• Is there a template that could be used on the file description pages? Do you think a special template should be created?

Opinions

Nice sample images. I'm from Germany too and I like to help. But not before end of april 2013 because I am away and busy. If this will be ok, just waiting ... --Slick (talk) 17:26, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Ok, how can I get the images to upload? I like to have them here, so I can check the tags they have and can try to find best categories for. Possible solutions are I download them all from a source or you can send it to me on by CD/DVD (I am from germany too). You can contact me (in german please) here about this. Additional I suggest the pilot (or you) fill in a minimal content on his userpage for other they are interesting in the source/creator. (i.E. the same information as in this request) --Slick (talk) 08:51, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Assigned to	Progress	Bot name	Category
Slick	Waiting for user response...