[Clipart] Requesting a list of automatic jobs

[Jon Phillips]

I like all these. Please file them for ocal. Ideally we can have some
librian tools and give you guys some power over editing clipart in
bulk...like a global /librarian page and then special tools that show up on
some pages as a librarian....cool

Jon Phillips
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On Apr 11, 2010 4:05 AM, "chovynz" <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

 Hello there!

Bassel would problaby be the one to ask since Aiki is his framework, but I'm
making this an open question since there may be other questions that you
want to ask or answer towards making OCAL better.

*My overall question:*
What is the list of jobs that can be run automatically behind the scenes?
I'd like to know, so that I am not wasting time doing something that can be
done easily with scripts, or something that is scheduled for a later date to
be run automatically.

*My specific questions:*
Doing a search for underscore "_" (
http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=_) revealed a number of clipart
that need "cleanup" for aesthetic purposes. Namely clipart with
long_titles_because_of_underscores_that_break_the_site_CSS_and_design_intent,
and clipart from the old OCAL database with tags such as b_w. Now, Jon
replied that it's a job of the librarians to remove the underscores in
titles, but, combined with tags; that's a mammoth task, and as a librarian,
I'd like to know if these jobs can be done in an easier way.

*Task #1*: Long titles. Can these underscores in titles be searched for and
replaced via a background script to replace the _ in the display title to an
ASCII/hex space character?

*Task #2* : underscores in tags. Same as above.

*Task #2b* : Now that spaces are acceptable for tags, can we please change
tags such as "b_w" to "black and white" or "black & white"? Self explanatory
names seem better in the long run than shortened abbreviations that might
not make sense. (I suggest that this would more affect those who use the
site but choose not to register.)

*Task #2c* : Can we also search the tags for "," and add a space character
to those results? e.g. "country,flag" becomes "country, flag"? I think this
was related to the old way of doing OCAL tags. I imagine this would need an
excluder for those tags which are already ",SPACE" to avoid the error of
",SPACESPACE"? Having the space after the comma would clean up a whole bunch
of clipart that breaks the css site design. e.g.
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/154

*Task #2d* : Can we please search for and remove any tags on svg files that
have "public_domain, svg, media, image"? They are and always have been
pointless on OCAL. The only point from old OCAL was that it HAD to be that
way because of the cchost framework. That's no longer the case, so I'm of
the strong opinion that these tags can be removed without detriment to the
OCAL community. The way I see it,* removal* = cleaner tag lists, more
efficient searches, faster specifics for tagging, less words for confusion.
*nonremoval *= compliance to old traditions that no longer apply, adherence
to more confusion to the end user, broken records spinning broken old songs,
deadweight on backend system, and sheer laziness. (How was that for some
manipulation eh!!? ;) ) For "examples" and "how I did it's" appropriate tags
can be added to those entries only. For jpgs or images those tags can be
added. For a svg, which is the main reason for OCAL yes?, there is no point
having a "svg" tag. Neither is the "media" tag appropriate since that
usually describes moving pictures (current/future svg?) or movies or audio.
Superfluous tags just waste time. Let's update them and remove them!

Are these things able to be done automatically? If not, why not, and what
can we do about these to make this job easier? In this day and age I don't
see why things should be done manually if they can be done automatically
with good clean code, with human oversight.

If you think I'm wrong on any of the points or ideas, or if there are better
ways, I'd like a discussion on it! Thoughts?

Cheers
Chovynz



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