Export To MediaWiki¶
Sharing is caring, and there is probably no better way to share your photographic masterpieces with the world than adding them to a MediaWiki pool. While the project’s website features its own tool for uploading photos, digiKam’s MediaWiki Export tool can come in rather handy when you need to export multiple photos in one fell swoop without leaving the convenience of your favorite photo management application.
MediaWiki are the base of Media Repositories available on the Internet where free-to-use images can be uploaded. The goal of these digital libraries is to share contents used across all of the Wikimedia projects as the famous Wikipedia encyclopedia for example.
To upload a selection of images from your collections to a remote MediaWiki server using the Internet, use the menu entry, or the corresponding icon from the Tools tab in Right Sidebar.
The MediaWiki Export Dialog¶
The Items Properties tab of the right side allows to customize MediaWiki metadata of each items present from the upload list. Select one item on the left side to see the properties populated by digiKam, and adjust values if necessary. When all is ready, switch to the Upload Settings tab to be connected to the remote server and transfer files.
The MediaWiki Export Account Settings¶
First, you needs to be connected to the server with an Account. From this view, you can select the MediaWiki service to use with the Login and Password properties. By default, the tool propose a list of popular MediaWiki servers available on the Internet, as:
With the + NEW button, you can append on the list a new MediaWiki based server from Internet or on your local network. The tool will shown a widget to customize the Name and the API Url. Just press on + Add button to confirm values.
The MediaWiki Export View to create a New Server Settings¶
When you are connected to the remote Web service with the Log in button, the Account view must become like this:
The MediaWiki Export Connected to an Account from Wikimedia Commons Web Service¶
While transferring the files, you can customize some Information used by the MediaWiki server to identify the uploading operation. The fields available are listed below:
Author: the author name of the contents as text.
Source: the original source of the contents as text.
License: the license of the contents. Use one entry from the list provided by the tool.
Generic categories: The categories that will be added to the contents as text.
Generic text: The text that will be added to the contents below the Information template.
Upload comments: The text that will be used as upload comments. The value Uploaded via digiKam uploader will be used if empty.
The MediaWiki Export Information Settings¶
During uploading the files, you can also apply some operations listed in Options view. If the Resize photos before uploading option is selected, the photos will be resized before transferring to MediaWiki. The values will be read from the Maximum Size and JPEG quality settings, which can be used to adjust the compression and maximum height. The width calculation will be done so as to have the aspect ratio conserved. You can also drop metadata and GPS coordinates information from the files.
The MediaWiki Export Options Settings¶
Press Start Upload button to transfer items. You can click on the Close button to abort the uploading of photos.
The MediaWiki Export Uploading Contents to the Web Service¶
Finally, you can view the uploaded photos by visiting the MediaWiki website.
The Wikimedia Commons Online Account Displaying the Uploaded Contents¶