WikiLovesMonuments August 2011

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Prizes for WLM Andorra
by Vicenç Riullop 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

The cultural heritage institution of Andorra features Wiki Loves Monuments on his main webpage and announces the prizes for the best photo of Andorra. Its estimated value is 350 euros and it is not still closed as there are ongoing conversations with another potential sponsor. I am really happy with their collaboration and their prize offered which is more than what I could expect for a target list of 111 monuments. I am grateful to Andorran user Cdani, the very first user who wrote the first articles in a non English Wikipedia more than 10 years ago. Currently he is not an active Wikipedian, but he still helps when needed. Wiki love rocks! http://www.patrimonicultural.ad/ http://www.wikilovesmonuments.cat/2011/08/23/premi-andorra/ (sorry, only available in Catalan) Vicenç

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UploadWizard prototype
by Maarten Dammers 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi everyone, The new upload wizard is available at http://commons.prototype.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=w… now. Please play around with it and report any issues at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monu… <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monu…> Thank you! Maarten

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Press echo in Germany
by Ziko van Dijk 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Hello, It seems that Kilian was very successful in Bergheim, a municipality close to Cologne. Alas, the newspaper did not really understand the character of "Wiki loves monuments", calling it a new platform and "Ableger" (branch, offset, spin-off) from Wikipedia. I always found the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion. A funny thing besides: the local liberal party (FDP) complained about the collaboration between the city and Wikipedia. People could be identified on the photographs taken. So it prefers the local government to take pictures and put them on an official website. Kind regards, and congratulations to Kilian, Ziko http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1313489138488.shtml -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/

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Lists of monuments in Sweden
by Lars Aronsson 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

All 5137 monuments in Sweden that I have in my sources are now listed in the Swedish language Wikipedia with unique IDs, names, and municipality, most of them also with coordinates (97 %) and other details. These monuments are "sites" (anläggningar), some including several buildings. I have not bothered to list the coordinates for each individual building. This was a fast job, because I was late to understand that this was my task, and I had to cut some corners to get it done. Wikipedians are now making the lists prettier, linking the names to existing articles, adding missing coordinates, adding images, and so on. I have updated the progress table, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Progress The template details for Sweden are included here, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Monumen… but the statistics there needs to be updated (it says 950 objects). -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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Jury
by Lodewijk 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hi all, I'm sorry that this is taking longer than expected - Wikimania is really time consuming. I am happy to be able to present you the preliminary jury - some confirmations still necessary. The jury looks like the following: * Heritage specialist: Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary-General of Europa Nostra (to be confirmed) * Heritage specialist: Ann Branch, Head of Unit, Culture Programme and Actions, DG EAC, European Commission (to be confirmed) * Photographer: Proposed: Sebastiaan ter Burg, photographer who also works under CC-BY-SA exclusively. (confirmed) * Photographer: Michael Biedowicz, Director of photography at Zeit Magazin (confirmed) * Wikipedian: Tomasz Ganicz, president of Wikimedia Polska, Wikipedian since 2001 and enthusiast photographer (confirmed) * Wikipedian: Góngora, (to be confirmed) * Wikipedian: vacant We're still looking for a nice position for Wikipedian3 - any suggestions? I think we have a wonderful lineup so far! We are also still looking for a good jury moderator. If necessary, I can take that role upon me, but I would be happy if someone else who has a bit more experience on that is willing to do it. Best regards, Lodewijk

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WikipediaWeekly episode 88
by Edo de Roo 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

http://wikipediaweekly.org/ I listened to the episode of Wikipedia Weekly episode 88, and was surprised that there was a short, but very positive mention of the WLM contest in Europe this year. For all that are interested, just listen to the podcast, it's somewhere in the middle... For all the once that attended Wikimania, listen to the other two episodes too, they are probably at your interest. Edo -- [I don't print e-mails. Do you?]

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Wiki Loves Monuments and video
by Maarten Dammers 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi everyone, Would it be nice to have a special price for video's made for Wiki Loves Monuments? We don't have an awful lot of user made video's and this might be a fun way to promote it. Maarten Ps. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_monuments.ogg is a nice first step :-)

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Upload Wizard preview
by Maarten Dammers 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi everyone, Jeroen is busy working on building the custom upload wizard system we want to use for Wiki Loves Monuments. You can play around with it at http://wiki.bn2vs.com/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=wlm-be Still a lot needs to be done, but now you can see work is being done on this! Maarten

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Template/category infrastructure and translations
by Elke Wetzig (elya) 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hi Maarten, > The template used by every file part in the competition. It requires a country code as a parameter. Based on this country code a category and a logo is set. Is this parameter automatically set by the upload wizard in some way? Could we add an optional parameter for the next regional sub-entity? (don't know what other countries use here, for Germany it would be i.e. DE-NW (North Rhine-Westfalia) or DE-BE (Berlin) That could help greatly with a finer-granulated categorization. Could we - independent of that - please motivate people with a short help text in the wizard to name their images as exact as possible with a suggested structure? (i.e. city + object/address) - sorting stuff in the respective subcats will be a painful monkey work anyway ;-) Thx + regards, elya

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Central notice for Wiki Loves Monuments 2011
by Maarten Dammers 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hi everyone, A heads up: We plan to use global notice in September for promotion of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. The plan: * The banners will be up the month September in European countries * First we set up a catch all European banner in all European countries and in a lot of languages to point at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu * Countries set up their own country based banner (based on the European one) which points to their local website and remove themselves from the catch all European banner This way each everyone in Europe will get a WLM notice, either pointing to the European site or to a local one. This will attract a lot of people. What do you think? Who wants to help? Who wants to set up a good looking banner? Maarten

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