Does someone know this challenge? I saw it quite prominently advertised
on Metro this Monday.
«The Metro Photo Challenge, the world’s biggest photography
competition, officially launched on Tuesday», «2013 will mark the
seventh Metro Photo Challenge [...] we’re going to ask you to capture
more of a process than a thing [...] sensing the world around you».
<http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-your-senses-enter…>
http://metrophotochallenge.com/
Are they the previous holders of the Guinness world record
("forgetting" to update their claims) or are they just making it up? I
didn't actually try to register but I can't find any information on
licensing; interesting that they felt compelled to add a "we'll donate
to a charity" incentive. They have 5200 photos and and 2700 uploaders so
far.
Nemo
Hi!
I was wondering if there are any plans to implement autotagging of
location/coordinates when uploading using the upload wizard.
For example: When you punch in the monument ID it could fill in coordinates
and possibly some extra information using information gathered by the bot.
Regards
Lars J. Alvik
Hi all,
as you may or may not know, the bot 'erfgoedbot' (run by multichill)
categorizes images to more specific heritage categories, once they have
been uploaded. For this, it goes into the root of the category tree
(usually "category:Cultural Heritage monuments in XYZ") which has been
added at upload, and based on the templates used in your lists it will try
to find more specific categories.
How you can help:
* Add {{Commonscat}} templates to your lists, linking to the right category
in Wikimedia Commons.
* Clean up images left over in the category after the botrun (the bot runs
in the European night)
* Expand and maintain the category tree.
See for more information:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization
Your help here would be very valuable, because I've been told that if the '
leftovers' become too many, it will slow down erfgoedbot (100+ it already
has an impact) and that is of course something nobody wants! Also, the
leftovers are usually either a mistake in the structure (something you'd
like to correct), or a mistake by the uploader, making a typo in the
identifier or just making it up. Keeping those numbers low, should help you
maximizing the number of valid submissions in your country!
Thank you for your help!
Lodewijk
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Hello all,
At the moment we show only a CentralNotice to people who visit Wikipedia/Wikimedia that access the internet through a connection in a country that participates. But many people have family living in another country, live near an international border, have or had their work in another country, have/had study in another country or were spending the holiday in another country. Many many pictures are made by people living in another country which could enrich Wikipedia, but many people do not know that they can contribute with photos to Wikipedia. To inform those people that Wiki Loves Monuments is active, we are working on a banner specially targeting on them. That banner, shown in the second half of September, will lead to a landing page that has to be created where we tell what Wiki Loves Monuments is, that they can participate if they have pictures from monuments in participating countries and we want to tell that one important aspect of Wiki Loves
Monuments is that we want to make the world's cultural heritage visible to the public in lists of monuments. The landing page should primarily contain an overview of participating countries, but secondly also a call for creation of lists to enrich Wikipedia.
To engage those other countries we have set up a project page at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Other_…
Be welcome to help and contribute to this project to engage people in other countries!
Romaine
My first reaction to the Metro contest is that they have an awesome "jury
tool". Check it out - maybe we could try for something like this for next
year.
2nd - They have a claim to be the "World's largest" however tentative, and
we have a better claim. We could ask them to cease and desist making the
claim, but they would likely just ignore us, and there's nothing we could
do about it.
A possibility would be some sort of cooperation for next year with Metro,
i.e. their very large readership could contribute to WLM. With our limited
(but extensive) lists, that would likely be very difficult for them, but
maybe with a different competition on our part something could be done,
e.g. "Wiki Loves Your Hometown"
Pete
User:Smallbones
On 4 September 2013 09:19, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Does someone know this challenge? I saw it quite prominently advertised on
> Metro this Monday.
> «The Metro Photo Challenge, the world’s biggest photography
> competition, officially launched on Tuesday», «2013 will mark the seventh
> Metro Photo Challenge [...] we’re going to ask you to capture more of a
> process than a thing [...] sensing the world around you».
> <http://www.metro.us/newyork/**news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-**
> your-senses-enter-the-2013-**metro-photo-challenge/<
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-your-senses-enter…
>
Hi folks!
Is there any way to know how many pictures are being uploaded using the
mobile application?
Thank you.
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Wikimedia México A.C.
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Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. *
Hello all,
I was wondering how this year was, compared to previous years for total
number of contributions. So I grabbed datas from emijrp and here's a graph
showing the 3 last years with cumulative numbers, day by day :
http://www.geobib.fr/mh/stats/
So we're still progressing in comparation with previous year but only by
30% while last year it was by more than 100%.
Sylvain
Hi all,
I am currently logged in and I can see the WLM banner on it.wiki (the
"WIki Loves Monuments: photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and
win"[*]), if I log off the banner disappers. I have tested this
behavior with 3 browser (Chromium, Firefox, Epiphany on Linux) and I
was wondering if this is intended.
Shouldn't the banner visible for everyone.
Thank you.
C
[*] Translating in English from Italian, YMMV