Hi,
I’d been using Export to Mediawiki in Digikam for a couple of years to bulk upload / upload multiple images to Wikimedia Commons, but have run into a problem in recent versions (8.7 and 8.8). Earlier, while using the Export to MediaWiki, besides being able to apply common Upload Settings to all files, I could edit the Item Properties of individual images or groups of images. For instance, if I want to apply a particular ‘Category’ at once to 3 of 10 images I’m uploading, I could select all three and type the specific category in the category box and it would apply it to all 3 images at one go, without changing the filename (‘Title’ in Item Properties) or timestamp (‘Date’ in Item Properties). In recent versions of Digikam (including 8.8), any attempt to apply a category or description to multiple items continues to work as before, but ends up changing the ‘Title’ of all the images in the upload queue to become identical to the ‘Title’/filename of the last image in the selected bunch while bulk-applying the category. This does not affect the ‘Date’ field in Item Properties, which remains unique to each image. However, the fact that it changes the ‘Title’ results in a conflict, every image uploaded with the same ‘Title’ may overwrite the previous one or result in an error on Wikimedia Commons. This seems to be a bug, but I wasn’t sure, so I thought I’d check here first. It is a serious issue because, as a result of this problem, each Item can only be individually edited, and it is not possible to apply any category or description at the same time to multiple items any more, which I earlier could and found to be hugely time-saving while doing bulk uploads.
Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Shankar