Commons:KIPI uploader

Export window in digiKam 2.8.0

The image info tab

The configuration tab

A KIPI plugin for digiKam was made for easy upload of larger numbers of images to Wikimedia Commons and other MediaWiki installations.

Usage

Currently, the easiest way to use this plugin is to run the digiKam AppImage.

Or you can use a GNU/Linux distribution: just install both the digikam and kipi-plugins packages from your software management tool. For some distributions (such as Arch Linux) you need to install libmediawiki additionally.

After you have installed digiKam then you'll just have to select images from your album and click "export" to start uploading to Commons. The plugin is also automatically used by some other programs, for instance gwenview (from the "share" button).

Early versions had some problems, but recent versions (5.9.0 and later) work fine.

Features

• Allow uploads to various wikis.
• Resizing files at upload
• Pre-filling of metadata from digiKam metadata (file name for title, EXIF date and time for date, title for text description, tags for categories, geolocation for latitude and longitude)

See also

• Files uploaded with KIPI uploader

External links

• digiKam official website
• Bug tracker (file a new one)
• Review by Scribbles and Snaps (June 2012)
• kipi-plugins project source code
• Temporary work page
• Article by Guillaume Paumier, who originally launched the project (2009)