Add Template:Artwork as additional base template

[christophbraun]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork

[robinkrahl]

This is a rather complex issue, and I’m not quite sure yet whether and how it would be reasonable to implement this.

[christophbraun]

Would make things easier for digitised content such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vater_ist_im_Kriege,_BLM,_IMG_8847_edit.jpg GLAMs without online metadata databases, and therefore unable to use the GLAMwiki toolset, could benefit from this as well.

[robinkrahl]

It seems to me that this issue as well as #18, #19 and #20 are very specific to the GLAM use case. At the moment, I’d like to focus on LrMediaWiki for regular photographers and I want to release a version 1.0 that satifies most of their needs.

After that has been accomplished, I could focus on the GLAM use case. I think it would be the best to create a separate export target ’MediaWiki (Artwork)’ as there is much custom logic for these files. Is this plan okay?

Is there a specific GLAM project you have in mind where LrMediaWiki could be used?

[christophbraun]

Sure. Looks like individual user workflow is a rather important factor. Might be worthwhile to straw poll amongst existing Lightroom users within the Wikimedia community.

I'd love to try it with https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Museum_f%C3%BCr_Hamburgische_Geschichte We used Vicuna Uploader, Commonist and the standard upload tool in the past with unsatisfying results. There could be some real benefit for GLAM institutions with offline collections if this works out. Ideally we end up with a decent workflow and an additional argument why GLAMs should cooperate with us.

But as you said: first things first.

[JeanFred]

@christophbraun: @EdouardHue tries to address a GLAM workflow through LightRoom with his ComeOn! tool − that might be more suited to your purposes.

[edouardhue]

https://github.com/edouardhue/comeon has a very different approach: instead of uploading directly from Lightroom, you export your pictures to your hard drive with all the EXIF metadata (from Lr or any similar tool), load them in ComeOn!, select a description template (simple examples at https://github.com/edouardhue/comeon-templates) and upload them to Commons. It is quite similar to Commonist or Vicũna but with full support for EXIF and templates as a top level feature. Any information from the EXIF may be used within the templates. It is also able to load additional metadata from a CSV file and link it to the pictures with matching an EXIF attribute with a CSV column.

The tool is still a little crude and misses documentation but you may give it a try (https://edouardhue.github.io/comeon/jnlp-report.html). You'll need to lower Java security settings as I still use a self-signed certificat to sign my code.

I had considered developing a Lr plugin but gave up as I could find no nice way to support any template. I still would love to have category autocompletion added to the keyword suggestions.

[christophbraun]

@JeanFred @edouardhue Thanks for the hint. Full EXIF support sounds awesome, although I have to admit that I'm personally more intrigued by using a Lightroom-based solution. However, a decent workflow for uploading content that can't be handled by the almighty GLAMwiki toolset (such as offline collections) is yet to be conceived.

[Hasenlaeufer]

This issue is implemented by version 0.5 and can be closed.