Oh, and I forgot another nice feature of Flinfo: it uses the Flickr blacklist at [[:commons:User:FlickreviewR/bad-authors]] to catch freely licensed media from known active flickrwashers. That could also be built into FlickrChecker.

Sounds great. Please post the source and I'll be happy to integrate it. Or feel free to hack on Flickrchecker yourself if you feel inspired. The existing version is very basic and not yet integrated into UploadWizard.

Ok; I've asked the second author of Flinfo whether he'd agree to publishing the sources and licensing them as GPL. If so, I'll post a zip here; otherwise, I may still send you the code privately, so that you can at least see what we did.

Zip file containing the Flinfo 2.3 distribution

Ryan, I've posted the Flinfo 2.3 source distribution (License: GPL) as attachment. I hope it's of some use to you guys.

attachment flinfo_2_3.zip ignored as obsolete

Awesome, thanks Lupo! It may be a while before we get back to this though, as the Flickr integration has been put on a low priority.

Zip file containing the Flinfo 2.4 distribution.

Obsoletes earlier 2.3 zip file. Flinfo 2.4 fixes a number of minor bugs, contains a much newer phpFlickr library, and can retrieve information about Picasa images.
See the contained "readme" file.

License for flinfo is of course still GPL; phpFlickr is LGPL. The Curly.php cURL wrapper contained in ./lib is also LGPL. Maybe it's useful for somebody.

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Awesome, thanks Lupo! It may be a while before we get back to this though, as
the Flickr integration has been put on a low priority.

Asking Kaldari for info

Should at the very least surface license info from Flickr.

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Asking Kaldari for info

Should at the very least surface license info from Flickr.

I trust he'll know what to do with it when such enhancements ever make it into implementation. Flinfo is a tool to extract image information (including license and the stuff I mentioned in the OP) for images stored at other image repositories. It currently supports Flickr, ipernity, panoramio, and Picasa. Flinfo lives at http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php
running actually V2.4a (no phpFlickr library anymore; it's quirky). The newest source is at http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo/resources/src/

I just updated the V2.3 zip file here because I found a few bugs shortly after I'd posted it.

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

There's currently a huge (HUGE) gerrit patch in the works to fix up the Flickr-related code. Check it out: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/13124/

Looks like we're currently blocked by bug 20512 :(

This is live now for admins on Commons.

Is there any reason only individual photos and personal sets (albums) are supported?

Potentially useful sources are:

• group pools -- http://www.flickr.com/groups/FOO/pool/ and http://www.flickr.com/groups/FOO/pool/USERID/
• users' lists of favorites -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/USERID/favorites/
• users' photostreams -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/USERID/

Also:

• user galleries (albums of photos by many people, curated by a user) -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/USER_ID/galleries/GALLERY_ID/
• user collections (groups of albums) -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/USER_ID/collections/COLLECTION_ID/

Feel free to add these to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42964

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Feel free to add these to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42964

Done, thanks for pointing me to the correct place.