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A tool to copy CC-licensed images from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons
https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia/
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Could Flickypedia highlight divergences between Flickr/WMC metadata? #396

Open alexwlchan opened 2 months ago

alexwlchan commented 2 months ago

There are cases where metadata has been edited after a photo has been copied from Flickr to WMC.

e.g. somebody digitises a photo and on Flickr they set the "date taken" as the date of the digitisation. When it gets copied to WMC, the community decides the "date taken" field should really be the date of the original photograph.

When FlickypediaBackfillrBot tries to update that photo, it will drop the edit because it sees conflicting information between Flickr and WMC.

Would it be helpful to flag these divergences to the original photo on Flickr, if they're a Flickr Commons member?

alexwlchan commented 2 months ago

The next step here is to see at what scale this is actually happening (I don't know).

Are there just a handful of Flickr/WMC divergences, or lots?