WikiLovesMonuments August 2011

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Two translations request - URGENT
by Béria Lima 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi there people. So, WLM start tomorrow, and we need a couple of things done to upload things on commons. So, We need to translate some things in our own languages. the pages are: 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-… in the upload form in Commons) 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_upload_head… will be used in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_upload ) Please get those translated ASAP. I will poke a few of you to translate that as well, so if i do, i'm sorry in advance. _____ *Béria Lima* <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*

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Monuments api
by Maarten Dammers 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi guys, I haven't looked at the monuments api [1] that closely for a while so I was pleasantly surprised when I took a good look at it yesterday and noticed a lot of things were already implemented :-) I want to do some follow ups after the May meeting [2]. I'm sending this directly because I'm not sure all of you are keeping a close eye on the Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list. What features still need to be added and how do we make it easy for everyone to make use of this api? I have some things: * DynamicKML seems to work. Bit rough, but seems to be working in Google Maps [3] and Earth - Tim, can you try to get dynamickml [4] working in OpenStreetMap? - Platonides, would it be possible to implement a sort by random? That prevents clusters * Raul implemented Layar [5]. Is this part of the api or on it's own Raul? Can you maybe tell a bit more about this? * I believe JSON(P) still needs to be implemented. That makes reuse easier. Anyone? * Joan has been working on HTML lists [6]. This might turn into an easy tool to make lists of monuments you want to take a photo of. Keep us posted Joan! * api.wikilovesmonuments.eu seems to be a good domain to host this api from. I'll see if I can get this setup at the toolserver * gpx and poi also need to be implemented. Anyone? (please add more points) The goal of the api should be to provide a easy but powerful tool that all countries can use. We're going in the right direction now. Keep up the good work! Maarten [1] http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php [2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monu… [3] http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=http:%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F~erfgoed%2Fapi%2Fa… [4] http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=search&format=dynamickml [5] http://owlz.org/?url=http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/layar/location.html [6] http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=search&format=html

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WLM.eu migrated
by Hay (Husky) 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi everyone, because we're expecting quite some traffic in the next few days on wikilovesmonuments.eu and it was running on a server that probably couldn't handle that we've migrated to a new Wikimedia Nederland VPS. The current VPS only runs wlm.be and wlm.eu and will probably be quite capable of getting lots of traffic. The DNS has already been changed so you should see the 'new' site in 60 minutes or so. Let me know if things look weird. -- Hay

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Press!
by Romaine Wiki 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hello all, I noticed the Dutch speaking press in Belgium has taken it up. I totally miss the French and German speaking press, and also the Luxembourgian press, anyone who has send it to those media? Can someone send our press release to those media? See: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.be/w/index.php?title=Press Greetings - Romaine

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Please send out your press releases NOW
by Maarten Dammers 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi everyone, Now is the time to send out your press releases. Would be nice if everyone could have send out their press releases before the weekend. We just send out a press release in the Netherlands and also send out a bunch of regionally targeted press releases in the Netherlands. So start sending out emails. Start twittering. Start using Facebook. And of course: Start sending in photographs tomorrow. Below the email you'll find the European press release for some inspiration. Maarten Wikimedia Volunteers from 15 European Countries Announce Wiki Loves Monuments Pan-European Photo Contest Netherlands, September 1, 2011--- Wiki Loves Monuments, a yearly Wikimedia photo contest announces the first-ever pan-European contest to be held this September in more than 15 countries throughout Europe. Wikimedia invites anyone in the world to submit their best photos of European buildings and monuments taken during the duration of the contest. All photos will be made freely available for use on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. “Europe has hundreds of thousands of monuments, most of which still have no freely-available images on the internet, and aren't available on Wikipedia” said Lodewijk Gelauff, one of the organizers of the European contest. “It’s our goal to change this. Wikimeda’s ultimate goal is to make all information freely available to everyone in the world, and images of Europe’s important cultural structures are needed to complete this mission.” Information about European cultural heritage is an important part of Wikipedia and images of many important cultural structures in Europe are not available on Wikipedia for the 400 million readers who use Wikipedia all over the world. Wikimedia organizers invite people of all ages and backgrounds to take part and help provide images of European monuments and buildings for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The European Heritage Days organized throughout Europe in September are a good opportunity to take photos. The contest is inspired by the successful 2010 pilot conducted in the Netherlands, which resulted in 12,500 freely-licensed images of monuments and buildings now freely available to be used in Wikipedia and by anybody in the world. "We are excited that Wiki Loves Monuments is being organized in so many countries, and is supported by international organizations such as the Council of Europe, the European Commission, Europeana and Europa Nostra,” says Gelauff. Wiki Loves Monuments runs throughout the entire month of September and is organized in independent national contests. Participation is open to anyone interested in taking part. Participants can go to the contest website and register. Winning images from regional contests will then be submitted to the pan-European Jury. More information about the contest and how to enter can be found at: www.wikilovesmonuments.eu -------------------------------------------------- Note for editors (Not for publication) For more information, please contact the organizers of the contest in your country via the contact details on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Pressor via email: info(a)wikilovesmonuments.eu Alternatively, you can contact: Lodewijk Gelauff, European co-ordinator Wiki Loves Monuments, +31 (0)6 49 74 82 81 (Netherlands) - lodewijk(a)wmnederland.nl About Wikimedia Wikimedia is the movement behind Wikipedia, supporting the same goals on realizing a world where all knowledge is freely available for every human being. This is possible through an American foundation and a network of national associations which co-operate closely with the volunteers on the Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia. About Wikipedia Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 390 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property world-wide (May, 2011). Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 18 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people.

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Urgent: Please add links to press relevant information
by Lodewijk 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi all, please make sure that http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Press contains a link to your press contacts for this contest in your country, and also a link to the relevant press release. If you have multiple press releases, please link them on one page and link to that. Thank you, Lodewijk

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What slogan are we going to use?
by Maarten Dammers 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi everyone, I was just working on the central notice. The slogan we have in Dutch is: "Wiki Loves Monuments: Fotografeer een monument voor Wikipedia en win!". In English this translates to "Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!" Is this a good slogan? Do you have a better one? So how is the central notice thing going to work? We have one European central notice banner. This banner has the slogan translated in as many languages as possible. This banner will get cloned for all the countries which have their own website. The only difference with the European banner is that it now links to the local website. The European website will be enabled for all European countries that don't have their own banner. For the other countries the local banner will be enabled. So we have one slogan per language, but we do have different banners depending on the country. My plan is to enable all the banners on Saturday the 3th. Why not Wednesday? Gives us some time to clear small errors before we get the huge group of new users. Maarten

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UploadWizard campaigns / WikiLovesMonuments deployed
by Maarten Dammers 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi everyone, Commons admins can now add campaigns at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadCampaigns . For the people who tested: You need to copy your things from http://commons.prototype.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadCampaigns Maarten

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draft European press release
by Lodewijk 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi, please find below a draft for a European press release we intend to send out to international agencies. We still may change some things, so imput is welcome. Please all make sure your contact details are easily findable. Lodewijk ==== Wikimedia Volunteers from 15 European Countries Announce Wiki Loves Monuments Pan-European Photo Contest Netherlands, September 1, 2011--- Wiki Loves Monuments, a yearly Wikimedia photo contest announces the first-ever pan-European contest to be held this September in more than 15 countries throughout Europe. Wikimedia invites anyone in the world to submit their best photos of European buildings and monuments taken during the duration of the contest. All photos will be made freely available for use on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. “Europe has hundreds of thousands of monuments, most of which still have no freely-available images on the internet, and aren't available on Wikipedia” said Lodewijk Gelauff, one of the organizers of the European contest. “It’s our goal to change this. Wikimeda’s ultimate goal is to make all information freely available to everyone in the world, images of Europe’s important cultural structures are needed to complete this mission.” Information about European cultural heritage is an important part of Wikipedia and images of many important cultural structures in Europe are not available on Wikipedia for the 400 million readers who use Wikipedia all over the world. Wikimedia organizers invite people of all ages, backgrounds take part and help provide images of European monuments and buildings for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The contest is inspired by the successful 2010 pilot conducted in the Netherlands, which resulted in 12,500 freely-licensed images of monuments and buildings now freely available to be used in Wikipedia and by anybody in the world. "We are excited that Wiki Loves Monuments is being organized in so many countries, and is supported by international organizations such as the Council of Europe, the European Commission, Europeana and Europa Nostra,” says Gelauff. Wiki Loves Monuments runs throughout the entire month of September and is organized in independent national contests. Participation is open to anyone interested in taking part. Participants can got to the contest website and register. Winning images from regional contests will then be submitted to the pan-European Jury. More information about the contest and how to enter can be found at: www.wikilovesmonuments.eu -------------------------------------------------- Note for editors (Not for publication) For more information, please contact the organizers of the contest in your country via the contact details on their website (linked at www.wikilovesmonuments.eu) or via email: info(a)wikilovesmonuments.eu Alternatively, you can contact: Lodewijk Gelauff, European co-ordinator Wiki Loves Monuments, +31 (0)6 49 74 82 81 (Netherlands) lodewijk(a)wmnederland.nl About Wikimedia Wikimedia is the movement behind Wikipedia, supporting the same goals on realizing a world where all knowledge is freely available for every human being. This is possible through an American foundation and a network of national associations which co-operate closely with the volunteers on the Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia. About Wikipedia Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 390 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property world-wide (May, 2011). Available in more than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 18 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people.

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UploadWizard campaigns / WikiLovesMonuments deployed - et
by Pikne 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hei! In addition to Raul's notes. Campaign name should be "wml-ee", shouldn't it? 'et' is a language code and 'ee' is a country code. ID-field name should be "Mälestise registrinumber" (two words). Pikne

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