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User:Hansmuller/Bot request KITLV

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Repairing backlinks in KITLV collection ? edit

In 2015 and 2016 Leiden University Library donated thousands of images from their KITLV collection to Wikimedia Commons, which were uploaded by User:Hansmuller. In the metadata of these images a backlink to the Leiden source collection was provided. However, since then Leiden University Library introduced permanent handles so that the original backlinks do not function anymore. Leiden University Library requested repair of these backlinks as specified below, so that people worldwide can access the original digital collection at Leiden University Library as well, starting from the image at Wikimedia Commons.

To be done edit

Link to source image edit


  • How to find the item number 919857 from the input corresponding shelfmark KITLV 100647 ? Well,


  • Given the KITLV integer shelfmark, for example KITLV 100647 as shown above, the item number of the persistent handle, example above 919857, can be found using the lookup table User:Hansmuller/List of KITLV shelfmarks and permanent item numbers. This table was provided by Leiden University Library.
    • example: in this lookup table we find "KITLV 100647 item:919857" as it should be.

Example images with backlinks edit

 
Hamengkoe Boewono VII, the sultan of Yogjakarta, in uniform - Kassian Céphas - KITLV 10001

With backlink already repaired by hand (and an extra string for the general standard backlink to the collection, which was repaired before, please try the links!): 

|source             =<opening square bracket>http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:887133 Leiden University Library, KITLV, image 10001<closing square bracket>
<opening square bracket>https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/imagecollection-kitlv Collection page Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV)<closing square bracket>
 
KITLV - 100576 - Stafhell & Kleingrothe - Medan-Deli

With old backlink still to be changed: 

 | source = <opening square bracket>http://media-kitlv.nl/all-media/indeling/detail/form/advanced?q_search_signatuur=100576 Leiden University Library, KITLV, image 100576<closing square bracket> <opening square bracket>https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/imagecollection-kitlv Collection page Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV)<closing square bracket>

Caveat: a few exceptions edit

For a few partly unknown images, say about ten in the Category:Media contributed by KITLV, the backlinks with permanent handles may already have been inserted, so a custom bot could check whether this is the case. For example, at present the first four images now present in the category were NOT part of the large uploads and lacked a backlink anyway. These images were added by other Commons Users than the uploader of the large uploads User:Hansmuller.

Thank you for considering this request ! edit

Hansmuller (talk) 08:36, 6 November 2020 (UTC) , update

You don't need a bot for that: you can do it (yourself) with a Python script that reads the excel-sheet that has been provided by UBL and that writes the new/redacted source link to the templates on the pages. For easy use, you could use PAWS to execute the script. Good luck, DanielleJWiki (talk) 09:25, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, i knew, didn't want to risk the KITLV collection anyway. Hansmuller (talk) 09:09, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


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