User talk:Dcoetzee

Hello,

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Zephyrus 04:39, 19 January 2012 (EST)

Thank you! Dcoetzee 05:51, 19 January 2012 (EST)

Planning to import images affected by the URAA

Hello,

What is the status of your project? Regards, Yann 00:47, 10 October 2012 (EDT)

There is need a bot

Hi! You have made a big mess on Special:RecentChanges. Why don't you register a bot account? For a bot flag you can ask Eclecticology. Regards Electron ツ ➧☎ 17:20, 12 January 2013 (EST)

Okay, I've created User:Transfer from Wikimedia Commons bot and left User:Eclecticology a message, and switched the bot to using that account. However I'm not going to be able to suspend uploads until the bot is approved, because that will probably take a very long time and this is a somewhat urgent matter. Dcoetzee 17:23, 12 January 2013 (EST)

This is rather a small project so it wan't take a long time, I suppose. But if it is urgent, of course you can upload without the bot flag... Electron ツ ➧☎ 17:40, 12 January 2013 (EST)

Sorry for the spam, I'll try to at least keep it to the uploads and not too many small fixes. Dcoetzee 17:47, 12 January 2013 (EST)

URAA material

There is a big problem with adding all this material. It’s looking like a big data dump. While I have no problem with the underlying copyright rationale, there are problems with categorization and with undocumented templates. Many of these have no topical categories, or categories that are so obscure that nobody will ever find them. Some categories may have worked well in Commons in an established category tree, but that doesn’t work here. This project started as a Wikisource spinoff, not a Commons spinoff; we do not have anyone with the experience or desire to curate any significant amount of this material. I would suggest holding off until these matters can be properly addressed. Eclecticology 06:53, 14 January 2013 (EST)

I can help with curation - e.g. I can import the categories and the documentation for the templates from Commons, and in cases where categories are too specific they can be migrated to parent categories and I can take care of that as well. I believe Yann will help also, being a Commons admin. I'll do some recruiting on Commons too. I'm not going to upload such a large number of files in the future all at once - the files uploaded so far represented a backlog of many months of affected files. So there will be plenty of time to curate and integrate new files. Dcoetzee 08:17, 14 January 2013 (EST)