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Bug 69914 - data labels in imageinfo API don't make sense
data labels in imageinfo API don't make sense
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
CommonsMetadata (Other open bugs)
master
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: 57189 57847
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Reported: 2014-08-22 18:00 UTC by Ryan Kaldari
Modified: 2014-09-05 12:37 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description Ryan Kaldari 2014-08-22 18:00:44 UTC 
The data currently returned by the imageinfo API assigns the author to "artist" and the source to "credit". Both of these are incorrectly labeled. In particular these labels make it difficult to figure out the proper attribution for the image, as it sounds like you should use "credit", but you should actually use "artist".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=imageinfo&titles=File%3ALiber_Eliensis%2EPNG&iiprop=url%7Cextmetadata
Comment 1 Brad Jorsch 2014-08-22 18:43:14 UTC 
Not an API bug, it's just returning what deeper layers of MediaWiki give it. It sounds like you want the CommonsMetadata extension.
Comment 2 Tisza Gergő 2014-08-22 21:07:47 UTC 
See bug 57189 comment 1 for the rationale behind the field names. In hindsight, I agree it was the wrong decision, but I am not sure it is worth changing all the field names now - the API has other serious limitations and will be eventually superseded by the structured data API when wikibase will be introduced to Commons.
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