User:Kaldari/Grants:Project/iNaturalist2Commons Version 2

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iNaturalist2Commons Version 2

summaryImprove the user interface and capabilities of the existing iNaturalist2Commons tool

targetWikimedia Commons

type of granttools and software

amount$

type of applicantindividual

grantee• Ryan Kaldari

contact• User:Kaldari

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created on22:17, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

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In 2019, I created the iNaturalist2Commons tool as a hack-a-thon project. The tool is a simple user script that allows Commons users to easily view and import free-license images from iNaturalist within a taxon category on Commons. For example…

Since its creation, iNaturalist2Commons has been used to upload over 41,000 individually selected images from iNaturalist to Wikimedia Commons. Of these, over 6,000 have been used on sister projects, constituting over 17,000 image usages across 94 projects.[1] Many of these images are the only known free license photographs of specific species known to exist and their Wikipedia articles would be unillustrated otherwise.

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My goals for this project are to improve the user interface and capabilities of the existing tool. Specifically:

Add pagination so that all free-license images can be previewed and potentially imported. Currently the interface only shows the 80 most recently added free-license images for the taxon.
Add the ability to change the quality grade filter in the user interface. Currently it is limited to “research grade” observations.
Add the ability to load images from a specific iNaturalist observation in the user interface.
Have the importing script add the observation location to the Commons file description. Currently, it only describes the taxonomy in the description.

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US$50/hour

Community engagement

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If approved, I will host discussions on the potential improvements on both Wikimedia Commons and the Wikiproject Biodiversity Telegram channel. These discussions will be advertised on relevant WikiProjects or Village Pumps for various projects (Commons, Wikispecies, select Wikipedias). In addition, current users of the tool will be personally invited. Once discussions have wrapped up (which I don’t expect to last more than a couple weeks), I will begin development.

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