User:John Cummings/add stuff in/How to
To do
- Write the whole page in user journeys, not just piles of tools that are available
- User journeys for medium mode
- Any kind of documentation for API etc?
Here is a list of tools that can be used by users or GLAM-Wiki projects to add Structured data on Wikimedia Commons media files. If you are looking for more options, there is also a complete list of batch upload tools for GLAM on Outreach Wikimedia, another list for tools in the Wikimedia ecoystem, and a separate list of uploads for Wikidata. A not up-to-date list of GLAM tools is also available on the GLAMwiki Toolset page.
Manual/Easy mode[edit]
Use the editing interface, where are the instructions for this?
Each media file page on Wikimedia Commons has a 'File information' and 'Structured data' tab.
Add multilingual captions to files[edit]
We look at a simple example of a featured image on Wikimedia Commons: Würfelzucker (2018), CC BY-SA 4.0, by Dietmar Rabich.
Under the File information tab, you can add file captions in many languages: short, factual descriptions about the file, without hyperlinks or wikitext. These file captions make the file easier to find in search, in a structured, multilingual way for both humans and software programs alike.
What is depicted (shown) in a file?[edit]
Under the Structured data tab, you can indicate what is portrayed ("depicted") in the file. In this case: twelve white sugar cubes. The screenshot below is animated, demonstrating how the descriptive elements are multilingual. You can see structured data in a different language by switching your interface language setting.
More information: see Commons:Depicts.
Other statements about a file[edit]
Also under the Structured data tab, you can add other bits of descriptive information about the file. This example describes the file's license, creator and quality assessment. All these data elements are properties and items re-used from Wikidata.
More information: see Commons:Statements.
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Using tools/Medium mode[edit]
- Scripts on Commons
- AC/DC
- SD.js
- Toolforge and external tools
- Petscan
- Quickstatements
- Image Annotator
- Minefield
QuickStatements and Minefield[edit]
Currently, there is no tool that batch upload images to Wikimedia Commons from beginning to end and that allows the use of Structured data at the same time.
One alternative to insert Structured data into media files that are already on Wikimedia Commons is the combined usage of the Minefield and QuickStatements tools.
The Minefield tool allows the user to convert the Commons file page titles to media ids (MIDs). QuickStatements version 2 support Structured Data on Commons if the user changes the field Create new command batch for from Wikidata to Commons and, at the commands, uses M numbers (MIDs) instead of Q numbers (QIDs).
More details about this upload process is available on this page.
Add to Commons / Descriptive Claims (ACDC)[edit]
The ACDC gadget allows for mass editing of Structured data on Commons claims for a list of files or category. It also permits deletion of claims, but it needs a special flag to be enabled.
To the gadget on Commons, go to Preferences > Gadgets > Add to Commons / Descriptive Claims (ACDC).
ISA Tool[edit]
ISA is a tool for enrichment and micro-contributions that might be useful for some GLAMs. It was launched on August 2019, during the Wikimania.
- Official pilot project for Structured Data on Commons.
- A tool that allows anyone to add structured data to files on Commons in an easy and fun way.
- Development and communications by Wiki In Africa, Eugene Egbe, and Histropedia.
- Mentored by Sandra Fauconnier, Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Learn more:[edit]
- Project page with documentation: ISA Tool
- Start adding structured data to quality images contributed by Wikimedia chapters (Wikimedia login required).
- Blog post describing the tool, and a successful campaign with images from Wiki Loves Africa: Introducing ISA—A cool tool for adding structured data on Wikimedia Commons
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ISA tool logo -
Mock-up design of the mobile editing interface of the ISA Tool -
At various Wikimedia conferences and on other occasions, people organize mini-challenges with ISA. -
The ISA Tool received a WikidataCon 2019 award in the Multimedia category!
API/Hard mode[edit]
https://magnus-toolserver.toolforge.org/commonsapi.php
Commons:Commons API this page is awful...