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Batch upload
Start by implementing for a whitelist? A Commons admin has to add username to a wikilist for this feature to be offered... or you can post a link to a spreadsheet and someone who's been approved by the script can run the batch upload.
For me the most useful thing would be letting me put all the metadata into a spreadsheet rather than editing a bunch of different file-pages. Both to save time and load-lag, and to let me cut-&-paste similar fields across many rows before upload (it's much harder to see the same field side-by-side for dozens of files).
Abuse is probably less of an issue, though I haven't been able to figure out #78. Also, the API is public and nothing prevent anyone from doing mass uploads, so whitelist has to be implemented on client side, which is essentially useless... (anyone can post on a talk page saying, the way to workaround on the whitelist is by putting blah blah blah in console and hit enter)
I explained about the workflow issue in Commons_talk:Video2commons. Quote:
The current workflow is have the user to enter a url and allow them to edit the filename and file description before upload. In batched uploads there could be dozens or hundreds of files. How should the user be able to access / edit their filenames and file descriptions? Or should there be an alternative workflow?
Please let me know if you have a solution
As you might have noticed I've written a script that categorizes YouTube videos uploaded through Video2Commons based on their date of publication and YouTube channel of origin. see my my script in action
The set of patterns that is being used at the moment is one I entered in a MySQL table directly but could do with an interface.
