Monday, April 19, 2010

English #Wikipedia picture of the day

Today's picture of the day, shows an Ottoman machine gun corps, before the Second Battle of Gaza, which took place on 19 April 1917.

POTD/2010-04-19
It is a picture from the archives of the Library of Congress. Sadly there is no link on the description page that points back to this image in their digital archive. Consequently there is no proper provenance and we cannot add the template that this is a LoC picture.


With this template in place, we will find at the end of the month that the LoC has generated even more traffic. Such numbers are important to our GLAM partners..
Thanks,
      GerardM

2 comments:

Jean-Fred said...

The description page on Commons is File:Machine gun corps Gaza line WWIb edit2.jpg. Seems there is a en: bot that duplicates in local the pictures of the main page for the day.

For the stats, it would depends on how the scripts work. How do they process local duplicates ; and when do they compute the traffic stats of the pages where the images are included (each day=accurate ; at the end of the month=vague, as the image could be added/removed at any time). Would you know more on this ?

TheDJ said...

This is a new bot, and usually it should copy the contents of Commons to the English Wikipedia. But apparently there is a problem when the page already exists. I have communicated this problem to User:X! who is the maintainer and he will fix it when he gets back from his vacation. I have now manually added the correct information.