OpenRefine/CommonsExtension

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An OpenRefine extension that helps with Wikimedia Commons editing: start projects from Wikimedia Commons categories; Commons-specific GREL functions.

Stars: 29
Forks: 12
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 32

Dominant language: Java
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 12, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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On uploading: `Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.length()" because "s" is null` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#176 · 2 comments · Opened May 18, 2025
"No edit was generated" when trying to upload my changes back to Commons Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#175 · Opened May 18, 2025
Cryptic error for Commons Reconciler need to be enabled manually for the Extension to work Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#159 · Opened Jan 8, 2025
Installation of the extension from Homebrew Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#141 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Ship CommonsExtension with some default schema templates Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#138 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2024
Simplify release process with "release-please" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#132 · Opened Aug 9, 2024
Error when uploading not sent back to the user in the front-end Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#103 · 12 comments · Opened May 7, 2024
Help information in the Transform window is defective and incomplete Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#100 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 12, 2024
Make sure thumbnails can never block the rendering of the whole grid Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#99 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Commons reconciliation service not installed by default with this extension anymore? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#97 · Opened Nov 17, 2023
Add base Wikitext templates to schemas that can be shared with the community Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#86 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 17, 2022
Memory warning when loading files via CommonsExtension Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#72 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 13, 2022
Configure parsing options screen: add counter that indicates how many rows/records will be generated after loading categories Open

UI

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#69 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 11, 2022
Bug: extractFromTemplate and value.extractCategories GREL functions produce empty columns Open

bug expression language

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#61 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2022
Thumbnail previews of media files from URL, to be uploaded to a Wikibase (or Wikimedia Commons) Open

enhancement wikicommons

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#57 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 29, 2022
Thumbnail previews of media files from local drive, to be uploaded to a Wikibase (or Wikimedia Commons) Open

enhancement wikicommons

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#59 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 29, 2022
Optimize fetching of related categories with "clcontinue" Open

backburner enhancement

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#53 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 12, 2022
Make it possible to Import IIIF collections Open

enhancement wikicommons

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#90 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 6, 2022
Define behavior for when a Category does not have elements Open

commons categories

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#43 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 1, 2022
Define behavior for when a manually set Category does not exist Open

commons categories

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#42 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 1, 2022
Allow manual setting of categories Open

implement feature

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#41 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 1, 2022
Feature request: simple image upload from one or multiple Flickr URL(s) Open

enhancement file upload wikicommons

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#39 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2022
Design a consistent way of reporting fail scenarios during data upload / reconciliation to users Open

enhancement UI

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#33 · 1 assignee · Opened May 2, 2022
Warn user that they are working with one or more file name(s) that already exist(s) on Wikimedia Commons Open

file upload schemas and templates

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#32 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 1, 2022
Onboarding - UI steps / documentation Open

documentation UI

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#31 · 2 comments · 2 assignees · Opened May 1, 2022
Documentation of features of the Commons Extension Open

documentation

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#30 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened May 1, 2022
Build thumbnail support for local and remote URL images Open

enhancement file thumbnails UI

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#27 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 1, 2022
Build dialog window that allows Commons Extension user to work with Commons-specific GREL commands Open

enhancement expression language

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#21 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2022
Support the specific OpenRefine/SDC upload workflow from a IIIF endpoint Open

documentation UX

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#19 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2022
GREL function for {{Creator:Peter Paul Rubens}} {{Institution:Rijksmuseum}} style templates Open

expression language

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#6 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 7, 2022
Support for extracting positional template parameters Open

expression language

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#5 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 2, 2022
Export to MediaWiki's Tabular JSON and upload to Wikimedia Commons Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenRefine/CommonsExtension#82 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 18, 2017

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