Hello WLManiacs,
as mentioned some time before, we prepared a statistics page for all
Wiki Loves Monuments websites. We use "Piwik" for that, an open source
analysis software running on our own servers. Every country has got its
own ID for the tracking, you can find it at the progress table near your
website URL.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progre…
It takes five minutes to update your Wordpress template, and it's fairly
easy – please follow the instructions at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/FAQ#Ca…
We will provide you with the reports on this mailing list.
If you have any questions, feedback or need help, please feel free to
contact me.
Thanks!
Regards,
Elke
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload Wizard page
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I wanted to update this for Serbia, but I need help with setting up the
Upload wizard first. Anyone available to help me out? You can reply to me
at bebauautu(a)gmail.com
- Tamara -
Hi
Should we update this page ?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_upload
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naveenpf
hi,
would it be possible to restrict the available languages for the
documentation to, say 1-4 ? either take it out of the browser, or have
it configured in the wizard?
rupert.
Hi everyone,
Wiki Loves Monuments will (hopefully/probably) attract a lot of new
users to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is a very nice project,
but it can be very scary and hostile for new users. On the English
Wikipedia they have a new project called the Teahouse
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse). This is a friendly
place to (peer) support new users created because the English Wikipedia
deals we the challenge as we do.
What do you guys think of setting up a similar place as the Teahouse at
Commons for the months September and October to help welcome and keep
our new community members? I made up the name "Château" because that
sounds friendlier that "castle" and makes me think of a historic
building. This is all open for discussion, but I'm especially interested
if people like the concept and would be willing to help out on this.
Maarten
For the past few month we have been diligently preparing the list of sights included in the competition. As you may recall, Israel has no one official list. We could not go to one website and get the information from it. We approached the Society for Heritage Sites which provided us with many lists – in each a list of names of buildings or sites, and it was for our volunteers to locate the site, figure out its address, and whether there is a category in commons or an article in Wikipedia about it (under the name provided by us – or, more commonly when such article or category exists – under another name).
We were also working on publicizing the project, giving interviews to newspapers about the competition and preparing newspaper articles for the holiday seasons in which we suggested sites for people to visit during the upcoming holiday season.
As part of our cooperation with the Heritage society we demanded that they not only give us funding for the project, but also give us weekly guided tours of heritage sites around the country (we requested at least four tours every weekend in different parts of the country). These tours will be open to the public free of charge (we require that people sign up in advance through the competition website – and agree the be part of the Wikimedia Israel GLAM mailing list in the future).
The society further agreed that any active wikipedian who wish to visit a heritage site which has enterance fees, will be allowed into the site free of charge, and so will be his family members (again - registration in advance is required, so we can ensure it is in fact an active wikipedian who requests the free tickets).
We also contacted the biggest photography school in Israel – the Galitz school and ask them to give, as sponsorship, free photography workshops on two weekends prior to the competition. They agreed to give such workshops for 120 participants and these two workshops will be also open to the public free of charge.
A list of all our activities can be seen here (truly badly translated by google):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=U…
Deror
Wikimedia Israel is pleased to announce that it will sponsor the international competition in an amount of $1,000. This amount is aimed at assisting countries without a chapter, or as part of the price money in the international competition.
Deror
Hi,
The Jerusalem post publish today one page article about WLM. I have the
scanning if someone want.. but here is the online version:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=282847
Also, Globes, the largest business magazine, publish 3 page article,
showing CEOs from Israel talking about their favorite heritage site. There
is not online version, but again, have scanning :)
Itzik
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:57:50 +0200
From: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] time, placement list
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Hi Pete,
Op 26-8-2012 2:39, Peter Ekman schreef:
> 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.
Yes, see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Unused_images…
You need to have a Commons tracker template and tracker category. Any
countries missing?
> 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.
If you add a photo to the lists all suggestions with the same id will
disappear from the page. A bad photo is better than no photo at all.....
Maarten
I agree that any picture is better than no picture 99.9% of the time.
The problem is that the 0.01% of the exceptions end up in the page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_His…
There are some true abominations there, which distract from the job
which needs to be done in placing the other pix. I could put a
transparent placeholder in it's place in the list, but then I'd have
to remove it after the contest and good photos of the place wouldn't
show up in the unused list. I could comment out the NRHP registration
number at Commons, but I don't think that is good precedent. Also I
don't think "Ugly as sin on a Sunday" is a possible reason for
deletion on Commons. I'm not knocking anybody here, it just looks
like this pix were taken by soldiers on their last day before being
released by the army, and they were drunk or otherwise unfit for
service. ~~~~
