Dear Community,
Just a friendly reminder about the second Campaign Office Hour for Wiki
Loves Folklore's 2024 edition happening today.
Join us for engaging discussions, guidelines, and collective contributions
to shape the exciting five-year journey ahead. Your active participation is
highly valued, so feel free to share anything related to Folklore within
your community.
Meeting Details:
Date: Saturday, 20th January 2024
Time: 14:00hrs UTC
Venue: Online (Zoom) [1]
Please confirm your participation by sign up on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024_Office_Hour#Partic…>
[2].
Looking forward to your valuable contributions and enriching discussions
that will shape the success of Wiki Loves Folklore 2024.
Best regards,
Isaac Kanguya
Communication Officer WLF 2024
[1] Zoom
<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87530839056?pwd=EdyZ99R2NpPb5KvZFqTfucbj7zmbar.1>
[2] Sign-up link
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024_Office_Hour#Partic…>
Hi all,
Hope you have been well! We have just released v4.2 of the Commons
Android app to production. The update is now available on Play store [1]
and F-droid [2]. You could also build the app directly from our GitHub
repository [3].
An important thing we wanted to communicate. We've changed the Mapbox
API key used by the app in this release (v4.2.1) due to some unforeseen
circumstances. We also had to revoke the old API key that is being used
by the older version of the app (< v4.2.1).
You might face issues with accessing maps in those versions of the app
such as the Nearby screen appearing blank etc. We request your to kindly
upgrade to v4.2.1 in order to continue using the features for which
rendering a map is necessary. Other features should work fine. We regret
the inconvenience that this may cause. Feel free to open an issue in our
issue tracker [4] for any assistance. We'll be glad to help.
This release also includes the done by Ritika Pahwa during GSoC 2023.
This includes changes done to improve the reliability of the failed,
stuck uploads and changes to prevent location metadata loss for uploads
done via in the app.
In case you've been facing issues with the uploads, do give the latest
version a try. It should be better than before. Feel free to reach out
to us with any feedback you may have. It would be very helpful.
Other significant changes:
- Dark mode colour improvements
- Uploading via the in-app camera has been fixed and should work
normally.
- Provide the ability to edit an image to losslessly rotate it while
uploading.
- Category search now shows exact matches without any discrepancies
- We've switched to using MapLibre instead of Mapbox and thereby
disabled telemetry sent to Mapbox. We're also actively exploring
alternatives to Mapbox so that we could completely move away from it.
Check out the related issue [5] for information regarding the same.
- Fix some redundant crash issues
Checkout our changelog [6] for a more detailed set of changes since the
last announcement.
[[ References ]]
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.free.nrw.commons
[3]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/releases/tag/v4.2.1
[4]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues
[5]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/5352
[6]:
https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Best regards,
Sivaraam (User:Kaartic)
Dear esteemed WLM participants and organizers,
We're happy to announce that the WLM 2023 landing page is ready:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Organi…
We anticipate the amazing impressions captured with your camera and
invite you to visit the WLM 2023 pages at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023 for
further information on how to participate in and/or organize the WLM
Campaign in your region.
Looking forward to your submissions from 1st September - 31st October
2023 to expand the collection of more than 3,000,000 pictures
documenting monuments and heritage from all over the world in the last
twelve iterations of Wiki Loves Monuments.
Kind regards,
Manfred / the team of Wiki Loves Monuments international
Dear Commons List,
On the theme of Medieval manuscripts written by women, a new book is
available that translates a fascinating and harrowing account of the
victims of a volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean Sea in 1444, who
were saved by the nuns of Ischia. The book is titled *The Medieval Map and
the Mercy Mission. A Complete Translation of the Voynich Manuscript Map*
. ISBN:9781399954990
It is available as a print-on-demand book at *The Great British Bookshop*:
https://www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the-medieval-map-and-the…
Alternatively available as an ebook at *Google Books*:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=YaG9EAAAQBAJ&rdid=book-YaG9E…
Kindest regards,
Dr. Gerard Cheshire.
Research Associate.
University of Bristol.
Hi all,
Voting is now open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year
contest: <https://w.wiki/6bcP> - please vote! The first round of voting
will be open for 2 weeks. There are over 1,100 pictures being considered
this year and several new categories.
Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2023 is eligible to
vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will automatically check for you.
If you have any questions, please see the help page: <https://w.wiki/6bcQ>.
Thanks,
-- POTY Committee
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