Commons:Batch uploading/Archives of American Art - Federal Art Project

Archives of American Art - Federal Art Project

285 images are being uploaded as part of the Archives of American Art partnership with Wikimedia. All of these image are federal works, as part of the Federal Art Project. Missvain (talk) 04:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Details about this collection are available at: [1]

One test upload is at File:Archives of American Art - Job Goodman - 2126.jpg and we welcome feedback on how the templates and categories are done. (most of the templates modified from the NARA templates) The upload is being done with a pywikipedia custom script, and is small and slow enough that it probably doesn't need a bot flag at this time. If we do more, larger batches, I (User:Aude) can apply for a bot flag. AAA uploader (talk) 04:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Opinions

Looks good. Please use {{Size}}, {{Other date}} and {{Technique}}, and wrap the notes in an {{lang|en}} or {{En}}.

Maybe we could create a External link template to build the source link ? URLs have a nasty tendance to change over time.

We also need to extend {{Original caption}} (did not know about that one, thanks! :-) to provide the language of the caption.

(I have some Python code lying around for parsing Size and Date taht I can sens you if you want − I really need to put those on the SVN >_<).

Jean-Fred (talk) 12:04, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for these suggestions! I've updated the code to include the size and other date / isodate templates. I need to see what Sarah says about technique. I'm not sure how to classify "photographic print". I've also wrapped things in the {{En}} template.

For external links, these are ugly with no simple id parameter that I know of, but rather include some combination of the title + id. Anyway, I've linked the url to the id, like how NARA does it. Not perfect.

Please let me know if you or anyone has additional feedback. Cheers. Aude (talk) 03:30, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm proceeding with the uploads now. I've tweaked how the templates are done, labelling the photographer as "Photographer" and not "Artist" since the subject of the photographs are artists and it may cause confusion, and adjusted how the description and sources are done, per feedback from Archives of American Art staff. It's a smallish number of images, so if anything needs to be tweaked post-upload, that's definitely doable. Cheers. Aude (talk) 03:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Rather good. The lines beginning with "Identification on verso" could go to the inscriptions fields, since this is what they are. I think it would make the description field easier to read.--Zolo (talk) 17:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Assigned to	Progress	Bot name	Category
Aude	trial	AAA uploader