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Hey @KCVelaga , @Aklapper I've created an Initial version of this project let me know how can I improve it more so that we can make this tool to use by other people, I'm happy to work and volunteer, thanks

Working link: https://demo.cc.reimg.cfd/
Github Repo: https://github.com/Mr-Sunglasses/CommonsMetaFetch

Here is the final build version. Similar to the initial version, can be expanded to include images in batch sizes for bulk retrieval. Potential issues might be the limiting rate of the api.

Github repo: https://github.com/kavs1123/wikimedia_hack

In T375968#10199403, @Maneeshmanoj2004 wrote:

Github repo: https://github.com/kavs1123/wikimedia_hack

Why does it fetch metadata from English Wikipedia and not from Wikimedia Commons?

Potential issues might be the limiting rate of the api.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Ratelimit/Wikimedia_sites and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette#Request_limit

Hey, I have started working on this task. following are the design mockups and userflow for the tool. I will be implementing a message queue with rabbitmq for being able to sustain high requests and also caching with Redis. one query, does the application has to built with flask?

@Aklapper @KCVelaga

Hi, please don't ping for no reason - thanks a lot! :)

I am new to contributing to Wikimedia, I apologize for any inconvenience caused by the ping. I will ensure to ping only when absolutely necessary in the future.

We need a new Gerrit repository for a Flask-based tool that extracts metadata
(description, author, license, etc.) in bulk from Wikimedia Commons.

Proposed repo name: labs/tools/wikimedia-commons-metadata-extractor
Purpose: A web tool where users can upload a TSV/CSV of file titles or URLs,
and download enriched metadata as output.

Access: Standard Gerrit permissions, with me (tejashxv) as the initial maintainer.

Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/New_repositories for how to request new Gerrit repositories be created.