Last modified: 2014-08-23 16:45:22 UTC
The author of 6989361936).jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BAMBERG_FRANCONIA_GERMANY_APRIL_2012_(6989361936).jpg is specified as "[http://www.flickr.com/people/28984065@N04 calflier001]" in the {{Information}} template. However, the CommonsMetadata API returns "Picasa" as the "Artist" value for this file because some versions of Picasa apparently claim to be the author of files edited through the software. Evil as this behavior may be, it still seems that the human-edited data in the template should be given precedence, and indeed this is also the behavior specified on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CommonsMetadata : "If we can't extract info from the description page, but the file has the author tagged in exif/XMP/iptc metadata, we should use that as a fallback". API call used: 6989361936).jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=extmetadata">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:BAMBERG%20FRANCONIA%20GERMANY%20APRIL%202012%20(6989361936).jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=extmetadata Perhaps there's another reason why it fails to return the author data in this case; I've not tested with other images.
Bugzilla comment parser fail, but I think you get the idea.
Curated data does get precedence; if it does not show up, the parsing of the template must fail somehow. Other wikis give correct results: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:BAMBERG%20FRANCONIA%20GERMANY%20APRIL%202012%20%286989361936%29.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=extmetadata https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:BAMBERG%20FRANCONIA%20GERMANY%20APRIL%202012%20%286989361936%29.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=extmetadata so this must be another LocalFile issue. Those are hard to debug so for now I'll just wait and hope the ongoing template parser rewrite fixes this.
This file was since deleted. Shall we close this, or have similar problems been found ?
The parser has been completely rewritten since then, it's unlikely that bugs in the old parser would still have relevance.
