The tool Gdrive-to-Commons was built during Wikimedia Hackathon 2019, Prague. The tool is hosted at https://gdrive-to-commons.toolforge.org/ and allows users to select and upload pictures from their Google drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. We tried to replicate all the features available on the Upload Wizard while uploading your picture from your Google drive, which are:
- Add Title, description, Release rights, attribution, date of the first creation, and geographical data.
- Browse and select categories from Wikimedia Commons and add it to your pictures before the upload.
The whole process takes 4 simple steps:
- Login via OAuth to your Wikimedia Commons account.
- Login via OAuth to your Google Drive account.
- Select pictures you want to upload and add the necessary metadata.
- Upload the pictures.
We think the process would make it easier to upload multiple pictures from mobile phones that use Google drive/photos as their primary storage. It took around a year to get the whole process approved by the Google OAuth team. We thank the Wikimedia Cloud team and @Abbasidaniyal who did his Outreachy internship on the project to make it functionally usable.
Code and feature requests welcome on project tag: Google-Drive-to-Commons.
Also a screenshot:
