Hi guys,
Last year we build the Wiki Loves Monuments mobile app [1]. In my opinion this was a good learning experience. The app suggested monuments to take photographs of based on you location. This information was coming from the monuments database [2] using the api we build for that purpose [3]. The monuments database contains over a million items [4], but the data isn't very clean and i18n was an issue. We had to do a lot of hacking to compensate for that.
So we need a better structured source of this information and we now have that: Wikidata. Wikidata doesn't support coordinates yet, but that's just a matter of time. At some point in the future it will be possible to get coordinates for an item. If we harvest these items with coordinates and make them searchable by location (point/bounding box) using for example Solr/Lucene, we could have a suitable backend for the mobile app to get information from. This wouldn't just be monuments, but every item with coordinates. We started a task force [5] to import as much data as possible about our cultural heritage, thus making the Monuments database in its current form obsolete.
User story would be something like this: A user would have a way in the app to find things to take photographs of in the app. User selects an object, takes a photo. The fields are already filled out with the information from Wikidata. The photo is uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and tagged with a template like {{Depicts Wikidata|Q12345}}. This template can be used by the bot operators on Commons to enhance the metadata of the image (for example adding better categories).
Are ideas like this on the roadmap for the mobile app? Do you think I missed something here?
Maarten
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database [3] http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Statistics [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Cultural_heritage_task_force
The nearby page for Wikipedia seems to be a good starting point for this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
I wonder if a special version of this could be configured during the course of the competition? It would be great if volunteers could configure other campaigns post wiki loves monuments using the same idea.
e.g. Special:Nearby?campaign=wikilovesmonuments
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi guys,
Last year we build the Wiki Loves Monuments mobile app [1]. In my opinion this was a good learning experience. The app suggested monuments to take photographs of based on you location. This information was coming from the monuments database [2] using the api we build for that purpose [3]. The monuments database contains over a million items [4], but the data isn't very clean and i18n was an issue. We had to do a lot of hacking to compensate for that.
So we need a better structured source of this information and we now have that: Wikidata. Wikidata doesn't support coordinates yet, but that's just a matter of time. At some point in the future it will be possible to get coordinates for an item. If we harvest these items with coordinates and make them searchable by location (point/bounding box) using for example Solr/Lucene, we could have a suitable backend for the mobile app to get information from. This wouldn't just be monuments, but every item with coordinates. We started a task force [5] to import as much data as possible about our cultural heritage, thus making the Monuments database in its current form obsolete.
User story would be something like this: A user would have a way in the app to find things to take photographs of in the app. User selects an object, takes a photo. The fields are already filled out with the information from Wikidata. The photo is uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and tagged with a template like {{Depicts Wikidata|Q12345}}. This template can be used by the bot operators on Commons to enhance the metadata of the image (for example adding better categories).
Are ideas like this on the roadmap for the mobile app? Do you think I missed something here?
Maarten
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database [3] http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Statistics [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Cultural_heritage_task_force
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It is *very* much on the roadmap. (plug) In fact my entire Wikimania talk is around this https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Guided_Mobile_Contribut... :)
I'm on restricted internet for another 4 weeks (grr!) so not sure if development / planning out work will start until my hiatus ends. This *is* high priority for the apps team, and we are planning to have a good part of it (campaigns without the discoverability part) in place before Wikimania, and then work towards adding discoverability before WLM (hopefully). We don't have too many details yet, though.
And the Wikidata part is *awesome*. Will make everything much easier, and Max happy too ;) Yay!
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Hi Yuvi,
Op 4-5-2013 16:43, Yuvi Panda schreef:
It is *very* much on the roadmap. (plug) In fact my entire Wikimania talk is around this https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Guided_Mobile_Contribut... :)
Was going through https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission_review and this one also caught my eye.
I'm on restricted internet for another 4 weeks (grr!) so not sure if development / planning out work will start until my hiatus ends. This *is* high priority for the apps team, and we are planning to have a good part of it (campaigns without the discoverability part) in place before Wikimania, and then work towards adding discoverability before WLM (hopefully). We don't have too many details yet, though.
Looking forward to it!
And the Wikidata part is *awesome*. Will make everything much easier, and Max happy too ;) Yay!
Not only Max. Modelling all the information is going to be a big challenge, but the end result is going to be so much better.
Maarten
Sadly neither of the app talks get accepted. Instead we'll just talk in person and start hacking away at it.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi Yuvi,
Op 4-5-2013 16:43, Yuvi Panda schreef:
It is *very* much on the roadmap. (plug) In fact my entire Wikimania talk is around this
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Guided_Mobile_Contribut... :)
Was going through https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission_review and this one also caught my eye.
I'm on restricted internet for another 4 weeks (grr!) so not sure if development / planning out work will start until my hiatus ends. This *is* high priority for the apps team, and we are planning to have a good part of it (campaigns without the discoverability part) in place before Wikimania, and then work towards adding discoverability before WLM (hopefully). We don't have too many details yet, though.
Looking forward to it!
And the Wikidata part is *awesome*. Will make everything much easier, and Max happy too ;) Yay!
Not only Max. Modelling all the information is going to be a big challenge, but the end result is going to be so much better.
Maarten
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