Note: the "supporting class page"

Those descriptions aren't particularly great - No categories or the commonly used https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information template, and more importantly, no copyright information! Certainly migrating to using the Information template, adding a category or 2 and relevant licensing information should really be done before they are uploaded

Thanks for the quick reply Sam!

I had modeled this off the sample bug reports linked at: commons:Help:Server-side upload . I was inferring that simpler was better, and was planning to add the information you discuss manually. But if it's better to include it in the initial request, I am happy to do that.

(I'd like to get this dialed in, because there will be further sessions to upload; and I'd like to be able to provide clear instructions about how to proceed, so that others with less experience can take up this task.)

Anyway, here's info for the additional fields. Anything I'm missing? (I will likely refine and adjust categorization, so this component may change in future requests.)

SOURCE: For each file, the final link in the "description" section. So, in order:

[[w:en:Wikipedia:School of Open course/Round 3/Week 2]]
[[w:en:Wikipedia:School of Open lab/Round 3/Week 2]]
[[w:en:Wikipedia:School of Open course/Round 2/Week 4]]

AUTHOR: [[w:en:User:Peteforsyth|Pete Forsyth]] and the [[w:en: Wikipedia:Communicate OER Team|Communicate OER Team]]

PERMISSION: {{CC-by-3.0}} {{CC-by-sa-3.0}}

CATEGORY: [[Category:Communicate OER]]

(In reply to comment #3)

(I'd like to get this dialed in, because there will be further sessions to
upload; and I'd like to be able to provide clear instructions about how to
proceed, so that others with less experience can take up this task.)

The preferred way would be to have the video files named as wanted, and to create a matching (same name, just replace the extension to ogv) .txt file with the description in it. A list of URLs to them would then suffice, meaning we can just grab them and then "upload" them all with minimal transformation.

There's not much benefit from compressing (gzip, 7zip etc) videos, but if you've got a lot of videos and descriptions, tar-ing (or similar) them together makes download and extraction simplier

(In reply to comment #4)

So the text file should contain the full desired wiki text of the page, i.e. including all those other fields, categories, etc.? I think this will be a very workable approach for us, thank you for spelling it out. Also, when this is completed, I'll add a link to this page to the Commons page on server-side uploads. Hopefully your clear breakdown will be helpful to others taking this on in the future.

For general info, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload

(In reply to comment #4 by Reedy)

The preferred way would be to have the video files named as wanted, and to
create a matching (same name, just replace the extension to ogv) .txt file
with the description in it. A list of URLs to them would then suffice, meaning
we can just grab them and then "upload" them all with minimal transformation.

Reedy: Do you think that's something to cover on above wiki link?

(In reply to comment #6)

For general info, see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload

(In reply to comment #4 by Reedy)

The preferred way would be to have the video files named as wanted, and to
create a matching (same name, just replace the extension to ogv) .txt file
with the description in it. A list of URLs to them would then suffice, meaning
we can just grab them and then "upload" them all with minimal transformation.

Reedy: Do you think that's something to cover on above wiki link?

It's already there, I had misunderstood it -- but I'm happy to rewrite the wiki page a bit for clarity. I'm waiting to get through this upload first so I have a more complete understanding of the process.

(Also, FYI I don't have direct control of the server the files are on -- which is why I didn't change the file name or add a text file this time around. Happy to do so in the future, though.)

(In reply to comment #5)

(In reply to comment #4)

So the text file should contain the full desired wiki text of the page, i.e.
including all those other fields, categories, etc.? I think this will be a
very
workable approach for us, thank you for spelling it out. Also, when this is
completed, I'll add a link to this page to the Commons page on server-side
uploads. Hopefully your clear breakdown will be helpful to others taking this
on in the future.

Yeah, wikitext like you would create for the file if you were doing it yourself. Something like the following would be great:

{{int:filedesc}}

{{Information

}}

{{int:license}}

{{CC-by-3.0}} {{CC-by-sa-3.0}}

[[Category:Communicate OER]]

reedy@tin:/tmp$ sudo -u apache mwscript importImages.php --wiki=commonswiki --comment-ext=txt --user=Peteforsyth uploads/
Import Images

Importing Writing Wikipedia Articles course: week 4 class, round 2.ogv...^AdPHP Warning: SwiftFileBackend::doStoreInternal: Invalid response (0): (curl error: 28) Operation timed out after 300000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received: Failed to obtain valid HTTP response. in /a/common/php-1.22wmf13/includes/filebackend/SwiftFileBackend.php on line 1519

Warning: SwiftFileBackend::doStoreInternal: Invalid response (0): (curl error: 28) Operation timed out after 300000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received: Failed to obtain valid HTTP response. in /a/common/php-1.22wmf13/includes/filebackend/SwiftFileBackend.php on line 1519
done.
Importing Writing Wikipedia Articles course: week 2 class, round 3.ogv...done.
Importing Writing Wikipedia Articles course: week 2 lab, round 3.ogv...done.

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Added: 3