Show caption in media details

[nicolas-raoul]

from Structured Commons.
Show on first line, before title, in user's language or fallback language.

[vanshikaarora]

@nicolas-raoul What is that structured commons you are talking about

[nicolas-raoul]

@vanshikaarora see #2096

[vanshikaarora]

Hey @nicolas-raoul as mentioned by here #2297 (comment). Shall I include the steps from to or should i just change the filename and make it multilingual?

[nicolas-raoul]

@vanshikaarora Can you see the "Captions" section at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R%C3%A9union_publique_de_La_R%C3%A9publique_En_Marche_!_Japon,_avec_le_d%C3%A9put%C3%A9_C%C3%A9dric_Villani_le_jeudi_26_novembre_de_%C3%A0_Akasaka,_Tokyo.jpg ?

The idea is to implement the same section in the app.
Search for this picture in the app, and you will see that captions are not shown.

[vanshikaarora]

Rename the current filename field to "Caption"
Make it multilingual
When uploading, just take the first caption and use it as the filename

@nicolas-raoul So shall I start working upon it this way?

[nicolas-raoul]

No, these instructions are for a different issue (uploading).
The current issue is about the activity when just view a picture within the app.

[vanshikaarora]

So, I can add the field for caption in the UI of that activity.
But from where will I get the caption for the image being viewed?
Shall I add an additional field for caption while uploading the image itself?

[nicolas-raoul]

We don't know either, so you will have to look up Mediawiki documentation. You might have to search for a few hours, good luck!

[vanshikaarora]

OK I'll see the API's currently available

[vanshikaarora]

Hey @nicolas-raoul I have gone through the API's available on the documentation here. For our concern I would this Upload API. OUt of these we can use either if comment or text parameter to send the caption that will be added by user while uploading any image.

Please give me suggestions whether I am working on this correctly or not

[iadeelzafar]

Hi @vanshikaarora , are you working on this or is it open?

[vanshikaarora]

Hi @iadeelzafar actually I had gone through the documentation and other resources for working on this issue. And was awaiting for suggestions. Well if you can also pitch in some suggestions then it would be great. Or if you already know how to work on this then you can go ahead with this issue:)

[brendajerop]

@nicolas-raoul I may have found a way to extract captions:

1. Get the contents of the page containing the file using MediaWiki API- the response is html
2. Extract the captions from the html string using Jsoup
   Tried with a test app and it worked
   
   

[nicolas-raoul]

@brendajerop That's an option in case there is no API :-)

I am pretty sure there must be some kind of API, though... that would be ideal in terms of speed and reliability :-)

[brendajerop]

@nicolas-raoul You're right. There has to be a cleaner way to do this. I'll keep looking

[brendajerop]

@nicolas-raoul So I asked here and when I implemented the solution, the response was...

[nicolas-raoul]

@brendajerop Wonderful! :-) It paste here the URL for reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=commonswiki&titles=File%3AR%C3%A9union_publique_de_La_R%C3%A9publique_En_Marche_!_Japon,_avec_le_d%C3%A9put%C3%A9_C%C3%A9dric_Villani_le_jeudi_26_novembre_de_%C3%A0_Akasaka,_Tokyo.jpg&props=labels&languages=fr&languagefallback=1

[nicolas-raoul]

@brendajerop What is the status on this? :-)

[noahwalugembe]

Is this still available

[brendajerop]

I don't think this was ever assigned to me so it's open. I was only helping in regards to getting the captions:)

[nicolas-raoul]

@noahwalugembe I suggest you start working on #1107 and then get another issue after #1107 is done :-)

[cypherop]

@nicolas-raoul Shall I pick it up?

[namrata-jha]

Can I work on this issue please?

[nicolas-raoul]

@sp2710 It is yours, thanks!