Content Partnerships Hub/Software/Pattypan

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Pattypan

Pattypan is a tool for uploading large sets of images which has much lower technical requirements than the command line tools. It has been used by GLAM intsitutions and others to upload over 1.2 million images to Wikimedia Commons which are viewed over 80 million times a month across Wikimedia projects.

Development Plan

The primary task is to help volunteer developers to fix the issues with Pattypan that made it unusable for GLAM institutions. After that we may look into less critical bugs and enhancements that would improve the tool.

Our work

Our focus was on packaging Pattypan, which was requested by the volunteer developer. There was an issue that arose with newer version of Java no longer including JavaFX. This now had to be packaged in the JAR file to not require the end user to download and setup them separately.

Having a single, self contained, executable file helps not only when the tool is used by end users, especially those with less technical knowledge. It also make testing for other issues easier during development.