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#Museum voor Wereldculturen: Analyse & add correct copyright licenses to files of unknown photographers
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Description

Task:
Analyse commons Category:Images from the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam.
For items that have no known author (indicated by field '|author={{Creator:Unknown}}''), batch add template {{PD-anon-70-EU}} (with Pywikibot).

Proposed workflow
Write pywikibot script (?) that:

  1. analyses the media in Category:Images from the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam and exports file information of files that contain value {{Creator:Unknown}} in field 'photographer'.
  2. export the following file information to .csv or spreadsheet (for review for the collection holder):
  • filename on Commons
  • description field
  • value field |author={{Creator:Unknown}}
  • date field (also indicate if the date field is not used)
  1. filter out the files with |author = {{Creator:Unknown}}, and |date=<1948
  2. batch add template {{PD-anon-70-EU}} to files indicated at 3.
  3. save changes

If you get excited, you can extend to the following categories:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen
& subcategories:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collections_from_Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tropenmuseum_Amsterdam

Example files:

Documentation:

Background information:
The National Museum for World Cultures has been an ongoing collaboration partner with Wikimedia project since 2008. With the passing of time, insights have grown into how to correctly register the copyright statuses of their files on Wikimedia Commons, and some maintenance is necessary. It would be great if you could help out!

For more information on the museum, see:
https://collectie.wereldculturen.nl/
or
http://museumovermensen.nl/

For more information, contact MichellevL_WMNL.

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MichellevL_WMNL renamed this task from #Museum voor Wereldculturen: Clean up copyright statuses on their WM Commons collection to #Museum voor Wereldculturen: Analyse & clean up copyright statuses on Wikimedia Commons.Nov 1 2019, 1:21 PM
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MichellevL_WMNL renamed this task from #Museum voor Wereldculturen: Analyse & clean up copyright statuses on Wikimedia Commons to #Museum voor Wereldculturen: Analyse & add correct copyright licenses to files of unknown photographers .Nov 1 2019, 1:57 PM
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Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.May 24 2021, 7:28 AM