Upload target: Wikimedia Commons?

[nemobis]

Great project!

simply edit that artefact, adding your photos to the collection

Sounds easy, but will it scale? I propose to upload photos to https://commons.wikimedia.org/ (under a free license, of course).
Wikimedia Commons is already used by EU projects like Europeana and has hosted the largest photography competition ever in the world, Wiki Loves Monuments. http://wikilovesmonuments.org

[neshmi]

Will it scale... hahahaha. So true!

I'm interested in the wikimedia idea, especially since it would plug in directly to wikilovesmonuments.

The only problem being, we need to be editing those images, masking them, and I was hoping to do that directly within the site, so each artefact's image may actually end up being two images, the original plus one with an alpha channel mask.

We have our own server running it, and so scaling won't be a problem as we have more servers to throw at it and can run this for quite awhile before we run into major scaling issues.

[neshmi]

Still, thinking about this more, there is no reason why we can't put the original images into wikicommons, and then just do the alpha channel modifications on our own server...

I like the direction of this.

You know the system well enough, would it be fairly easy to embed an upload widget of some sort on the artefact pages, and to pull the appropriate images back? I guess I need to look at some APIs... but sounds like a good way to go...

[nemobis]

Sorry, I don't manage to swiftly follow up on this. I can surely recommend to rely on existing API libraries and the official API documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code