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This task was not done during the hackathon, but still very valid!

Update: apparently there is a template {{License from structured data}} started by @Jarekt in 2021 (?) which has the basics for this.

After some testing, the template seems to support many commonly used Creative Commons licenses, but not yet public domain statements (?) (more testing needed).

I can imagine it may be a good idea to continue improving this specific template, starting with the most commonly used public domain scenarios.

I can revisit the Module:License code and work on supporting more cases. If someone wants to help I could use a tester adding cases to Module:License/doc cataloging cases where current code gave adequate result and when it did not

In T337023#9425675, @Jarekt wrote:

I can revisit the Module:License code and work on supporting more cases. If someone wants to help I could use a tester adding cases to Module:License/doc cataloging cases where current code gave adequate result and when it did not

Thank you so much @Jarekt - that's amazing! (and Happy New Year to you!)

Do I understand correctly that you'd like us to test the cases at Module:License/doc and add new-to-develop examples and cases there too? Or use the talk page to list these new cases? What kind of process would work best for you?

Based on my (still superficial) tests, the basic Creative Commons licenses work OK most of the time, but it's the many public domain scenarios that still need to be tackled.

I want to bring together a small working group to work on tasks like these (and improvement of other Lua-driven templates, see T354016: ☂️ Fully Lua-driven, minimal Wikitext templates to describe files on Wikimedia Commons for the umbrella task I've created. If you don't mind I'll include you in the communication of this group. Let me know if you don't appreciate this.

In T337023#9428911, @Spinster wrote:

In T337023#9425675, @Jarekt wrote:

I can revisit the Module:License code and work on supporting more cases. If someone wants to help I could use a tester adding cases to Module:License/doc cataloging cases where current code gave adequate result and when it did not

Thank you so much @Jarekt - that's amazing! (and Happy New Year to you!)

Do I understand correctly that you'd like us to test the cases at Module:License/doc and add new-to-develop examples and cases there too? Or use the talk page to list these new cases? What kind of process would work best for you?

@Spinster, test cases in Module:License/doc compare licenses generated by the Template:License from structured data to the original licenses. What you see on that page is automatically generated by the template, and they mostly work. What I was thinking was to test more files with more licenses and find files where it does not work and where the code might need to be expanded.

I want to bring together a small working group to work on tasks like these (and improvement of other Lua-driven templates, see T354016: ☂️ Fully Lua-driven, minimal Wikitext templates to describe files on Wikimedia Commons for the umbrella task I've created. If you don't mind I'll include you in the communication of this group. Let me know if you don't appreciate this.

It is fine

@Spinster, Also I am not sure you are aware but {{Information}} template is fully compatible with SDC since 2018. What that means is that if you have standard SDC properties set up, than you can remove all the wikitext from {{Information}} template. See for example File:OpenRefine Commons editing - wikitext data extension.png file, where I removed all the wikitext from the template and it is pulled from SDC. That is the infobox used by 85M files. See Template:Information documentation (SDC was mentioned there but I just added examples).

At some point there was a plan to modify Commons upload wizard to store the results to SDC instead of Wikitext for new uploads and {{Information}} template backed up by Module:Information was ready for this switch. Latter I noticed that there was actually no ticket for it so I created T245861: Add Structured data during file upload with Upload Wizard in 2020, and promoted it at Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021 where it got a lot of support, but not much happened.