As far as the time the contest should run in the US, please make it
12:01 am September 1 to 12:01 am October 1 Hawaiian Time, which is
5:01 am Sept 1 to 5:01 am October 1 New York Time. (The :01 is there
because 12:00 is considered to be ambiguous for the date in the US -
all our laws take effect at 12:01!)
There is a special page for the US NRHP at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_His…
and I assume other projects have something similar.
I'd like to be able to knock an image off this page and have it not
come back - is that possible? The reason is that there are multiple
pix of some sites and some I just don't want to use.
Pete Ekman
User:Smallbones
Greetings Wiki Loves Monuments Community,
The final release of the WLM Android App has been published on the Google
Play store!
We've made many improvements in the user interface and added some
functional enhancements in the past week (and more are coming). Now is the
time to download the app from Google Play and tell us if there are any
issues before the contest starts in earnest.
The main known issues have to do with data in the monument database and
country-specific campaign configuration, which affect the way monuments can
be found in some countries. We are happy to work with the country
organizers on improving these issues, within the realm of what is possible.
Here is the link to the app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm
This version uploads photos to Commons, so it is a good idea to upload
photos of real monuments.
Please write to us with any comments and give us a chance to make any
last-minute fixes. We will update the release as fixes are made.
Thank you for your cooperation and support, and let's make 2012 the best
year ever!
Best regards,
The WMF Mobile Team
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Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
Hi,
I'm trying to find the string ID for the license release step of
upload wizard (i.e. " the copyright holder of this work, irrevocably
grant anyone the right to use this work under the Creative Commons
Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Romania license") Can a commons admin tell
me what the string id is and translate it using the MediaWiki
namespace (since there is no time for a translation update and
deployment)?
The translation is at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Strainu/1 . I can then
translate the strings at translatewiki.net
Thanks,
Strainu
Hi Maarten,
As mentioned in the email thread about WLM marketing, the mobile banner has
been ready. Is there any news in terms of putting it on the main pages of
the languages you thought were appropriate?
Also, I wanted to remind country organizers that banners for the
wikilovesmonuments country sites are available for use.
Everything is here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Marke…
There is a Fact Sheet on Commons, which has numerous translations available
from a link at the top:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Mobile…
Feel free to copy any translated version to your respective country site.
The version of the app on Google Play has been updated today and will be
updated again tomorrow.
Please let me know if there any questions.
Thanks.
Phil
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Phil Inje Chang
Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
415-812-0854 m
415-882-7982 x 6810
Hello all,
so it's now less than 24 hours for some of the countries until the
start of the competition!
I am sure that you are all working hard on making the latest
adjustments and finishing all the preparations; in order to help you
do that, and with a special focus on our international audience, I
have prepared a short page about the flow of the user; how to direct
users and readers from a CentralNotice banner he or she will see on a
Wikimedia page to the lists of monuments and the UploadCampaign for
his/her country.
Please have a look at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Flow_of…>.
This is a wiki, so if you see something missing from there, please be
bold and edit the page.
I would especially like to draw your attention to the contents of your
external website: make sure to have links to the relevant pages on
Wikipedia (lists of monuments, account creation guide, etc.) and
also--if you haven't done that yet--please create a short English
summary of the page, and let us know so we can update the
international English pages list at
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/english-pages/>.
Thanks in advance,
--
Tomasz W. Kozłowski
a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
Hi, everyone!
I'm sorry but this page
http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=search&format=htmllist&sr…
looks very strange:
It loooks like this
*<monuments><monument country="ua" id="80-382-0072" image="" name="Будинок
прибутковий" address="[[Вулиця Архітектора Городецького|Городецького
Архітектора вул.]], 4" municipality="[[Київ]]" lat="50.448611"
lon="30.524167" source="
http://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Вікіпедія:Вікі_любить_пам'ятки/Київ/Печерський&redirect=no&useskin=monobook&oldid=10278605"
monument_article="" registrant_url=""/></monuments>*
Another monuments look the same. Please fix it.
--
Andrij
Thanks Lodewijk for the ideas. I'm not completely at sea on how to do
this manually, though I'm sure 100s of people will come back and tell
me that that system couldn't possibly work well with even 10,000
photos to consider. Well, "not working well" has got to be better than
"not working at all"!
I'm with Katie (below) that we are going to have to have people
self-nominate their photos (or let anybody nominate in an "open
nomination" system). The easiest way I see for the nomination process
is just to tell people to copy the category [[Category:WLM-US 2012 NOM
vote +1]] into the file at Commons. I'll decide on this today.
That will likely reduce the number of photos to be considered by 90%,
say from 100,000 to 10,000. There's also a case for "Administrative
removals" which might reduce the number by another 10%, say down to
9,000. "Administrative removals" would cover the cases where many
near duplicates of the same photo are nominated by the same uploader,
totally washed out or totally dark photos, or photos where they just
take pictures of modern street signs (yes it happens).
This will make it possible to hold off implementing the final voting
system until we get 1,000 nominations, which might be 10 days from
now.
As far as your specific suggestions
*another solution I've heard is setting up a special wiki for this (temporarily)
**Sound ok to me, but I can't do it
*using instant Commons to get all relevant images,
**not sure what instant Commons is
*and using the tools that they used for POTY
**I've only seen the POTY tools work for about 60 photos, not 10,000
Thanks for the feedback, all suggestions appreciated.
Pete
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:06:44 +0200
From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
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Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Automated voting/screening
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Hi,
another solution I've heard is setting up a special wiki for this
(temporarily), using instant Commons to get all relevant images, and using
the tools that they used for POTY.
Does that make any sense at all?
Lodewijk
2012/8/31 aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Peter Ekman <pdekman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nuno,
>>
>> Thanks for the code. It looked promising, but unfortunately I'm not a
>> programmer and the final product never arrived, and I think we'll have
>> to "go manual" at this point.
>>
>> To convert your system to our minimum requirements, we'd have to take
>> your "single person" system and
>> A. Randomly select, 50 or so photos, and have one person rate these, say
>> 1-5.
>> B. Store these results
>> C. give a new screener another 50 or so photos, and store these results,
>> and
>> D. do this so 100,000 photos get rated at least 3 times each, then finally
>> E. Average all the result for each pic.
>>
>
>
> We would need some more time to get this turned into a gadget and the
> toolserver has been a bit slow for the backend part. I am travelling so
> unfortunately can't finish with a gadget by today. :(
>
> Anyway, I am not sure how practical it is to have ratings for 100,000
> photos (each!) x 3 times, so I think we need a simplified process for the
> US.
>
> I was thinking we'd have people nominate photos into another category or
> something. If there was a way to track which batch of photos have been
> looked through for nomination, that would be great, and not sure the best
> way (if any) to do that. Is this a good idea? can someone help set it up?
>
> With a nominated set of photos (not sure how many), then a voting tool
> would be useful, and number of photos manageable.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>