WikiLovesMonuments October 2012

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Several unanswered questions
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback> seems to have many requests related to WLM. Most have probably been archived by the bot without a reply, but it would be useful to answer the remaining ones (or archive them if no longer relevant so that the backlog is reduced). Thanks, Nemo

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Survey translation request
by Tomasz W. Kozłowski 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi there, it is with a great pleasure that I inform you that we have -- thanks to Raymond -- finally managed to get the Wiki Loves Monuments survey pushed onto the Translatewiki for you to be able to translate in an easy way. Please have a look at <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&taction=transla…> and pick up the language you would like to translate the survey messages into. For now, we would like to focus on the 27 main languages used in countries participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. We still lack translations of the messages into the following languages: * Afrikaans; * Belarusian -- both in the normative and in the Taraškievica ortographies, though having at least one would be fine with me; * Catalan; * Czech; * Danish; * Estonian; * French; * Hebrew; * Hindi; * Italian; * Malayalam; * Dutch; * Norwegian (Bokmål or Nynorsk) -- same as with Belarusian; * Polish; * Romanian; * Russian; * Slovak; * Serbian (Latin script); * Swedish; * Swahili; * Tamil; * Telugu; * Tagalog; * Ukrainian. There is no defined schedule for translating the survey messages, but I would appreciate having them ready as soon as possible in order to use the slowly fading attention of our users, as the later we publish the survey, the less answers we are likely to get (I presume). We are going to invite the users to take part in the survey and send them a thank-you note as soon as the survey is ready with an automated "notification system" (in other words, a bot with the flood flag). In any case, thanks in advance for your time and your contributions, and as always, please feel free to ask any questions that you might find helpful in translating the survey. -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]]

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How about having a touring exhibition with the winning photographs? Name us Your exhibition site!
by Barbara Fischer 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

hello, lately we have been in touch with some printing house to find a sponsor for the calendars. We did find one as You know, but we also find a printing house ready to print in high quality and good price the 12 winners (a.o.) on alu-dibond <http://img.seenby.de/120807/css/bond.jpg> in an exhibition format like A1 (594 × 841 cm). And first research on shipping costs let us come to the conclusion, that we could have an exhibition tour with the winner - motive hosted by local partners. As an example: Wikimedia Austria does have the Bundes Denkmalamt as partner. Would they like to host for two weeks in the coming year and than send it further to the next exhibition site previewed? The exhibition would be ready for show and delivered in two boxes including the labels to each image and the shipping papers. We do consider this idea a nice opportunity to show to a broader public our achievements and to deepen the contact with local partners. It might even help to prepare the ground for a coming Wiki loves Monuments edition 2013. Time line: Start of the Tour: not before December 2012 End of the Tour August 2013 (scheduled date for the Wikimania) Taken in account that the exhibition should stay at least 10 - 14 days at each station and shipping might take some time, we could have 6 to 8 stations all together. WLM international would be able to finance the production of the photo plates, boxes and stand for the shipping costs (up to a certain amount). We could help with an press advisory and layouts for promotion material. But we need Your help to find local partners. The partner will host the exhibition and stand for promotion and press work. Would You like to check with your partners, how they like the idea? Please take in account that I will not be able to attend You in the coming three weeks. I will be completely offline, due to health reasons. But than I will be back and love to share Your ideas how and where the tour should go. Best regards Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Europeana GLAM category
by Geer Oskam 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hi all, I've been following and promoting the WLM contest with great joy here at Europeana, congrats with the amount of uploaded images. Our Europeana 'GLAM monuments' category has a little over 1600 entries so far, a very nice score. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_images_from_Wiki_Loves_ Monuments_2012 I was wondering if you could help me adding even more photo's to our category by indicating them as a GLAM monument. I'd like to get the best quality photos from as many different countries as possible: eventually the best photos in our WLM category will feature in a Virtual Exhibition at Europeana.eu (and Europeana will give the overall winner a print version of their photo). All help welcome, thanks! Cheers, Geer Geer Oskam Senior Marketing Specialist <http://www.europeana.eu/> www.europeana.eu <http://www.europeana.eu> Phone: +31 (0)70 31 40 972 Email: geer.oskam(a)kb.nl Skype: GeerOskam Over 20 million cultural records for re-use via Europeana API: find out more and register for an API-key on http://bit.ly/Reuse_API <http://bit.ly/Reuse_API> Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received this email by mistake and delete this email from your system. P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail.

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Deadlines & jury process
by Lodewijk 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi all, I would like to update you on the jury process for the international jury as planned currently. We're already halfway into October, so I hope that all countries have their juries working on the national selections! The deadline for sending in your national selection is *31 October (UTC timezone)*. Please try to submit your nominations before 20 October please - after that date I will start hunting local teams and try to get them :) To submit your nominations, please send a list of url's of your ten nominees (not necessarily in any particular order) to effeietsanders(a)gmail.com . You are allowed to submit less nominees, but not more. Please make sure in the email you send that it is clear and obvious that you are submitting the true nominations. Shortly describe your process (can be one or two sencences) and who was on your jury. Please include at least one jury member in cc. I will ensure it arrives at the jury. I will keep an overview of all received and processed nominations on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progres… . Next, the jury will take three rounds. In the first round, they will go down from the expected 350 nominations (longlist) to ~25-50 (shortlist). Next the jury members get the chance to remove images from consideration by simple majority vote. Then in a third round, the best images will be chosen from the shortlist and ranked by the jury. A jury report will be produced based on these processes. We hope to be able to make the results available to you (and in a press release) by the end of November/begin of December. We will follow a similar procedure in writing a press release as with the awarding of the Guinness World Record. Please respect the deadline of 31 October! If you miss it, things get really complicated and we will probably have to disallow your nominees to participate in the finale. Thank you, Lodewijk Gelauff non-voting jury moderator

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Calendars 2012
by Kelda Niemeyer 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Dear all, as the subject of Wiki Loves Monuments calendars has already been brought up on this list, I feel it's time to provide you with some general information about them, our order process, and shipment information. This is going to be quite a long e-mail, so I'll jump straight to the topic. == Specification == # The calendars are going to consist of 14 pages: the front cover with the overall winner; back cover with licencing information and information about the contest, etc.; and 12 pages, one for each month of the year, with the remaining top-13 pictures. # They are going to be A4 in size, and will be printed on a high quality paper in a environment-efficient way, thanks to the involvement of die Umweltdruckerei. # The weight is not yet known (definitely < 400 g per item), but we'll try to make them as lightweight as possible, as this will have a huge impact on the shipping costs. == Ordering and shipment == # Thanks to die Umweltdruckerei, every country will receive 15 calendars for free. The shipment of those 15 copies will be covered from the international budget, so you won't need to pay anything at all if you order just this number. # If you'll need more than those 15 copies, you'll be able to order more, but you'll need to cover the costs of the additional copies yourselves, and also cover the additional costs of shipment. # The cost of one copy is €3.51 (that's €2.95 + 19% of valued added tax in Germany). # Shipping costs for additional copies will vary depending on the distance. You will receive the estimated shipping costs as soon as possible. # It is currently not possible for individuals to purchase the calendars; it will only be possible if the Wikimedia Foundation or a chapter decides to order a bigger quantity and include them in their own shops or produce the calendars by themselves using our design. # The design file will be released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence, and will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as soon as it's ready, so you'll be able to use it for your own purposes, including selling the calendars in a shop as mentioned above. == Timeline == # All nominations for the international level (ie. results from the national competitions) will /have/ to be in by *October 30*. That's a hard deadline, so please, please make sure not to miss it. # The results of the international finale of the competition will be known by November 18; around that time, we will be starting the production of the calendars. # We are going to ship the calendars to the addresses that were provided to us for the shipment of the paper notebooks sponsored by Lettera27. If you'd like us to ship the calendars to a different address, /make sure/ to let us know before *November 18** (deadline)*; a simple e-mail to < info(a)wikilovesmonuments.org> will do the trick. # Also let us know before November 18 how many calendars you want to order to give us an indication how many you want. Final orders will be done with Die Umweltdruckerei directly. If you don't let us know anything before that time, we will assume you want 15. # The calendars should be ready by December 8, and they will be sent out to you without any further delays, directly by the printing company. For the European countries, the shipment usually takes a number of working days; for the rest of world, the shipment can take a bit longer depending on the distance from Germany and from the nearest courier service hub, usually below 10 days. Please note that we can't make guarantuees on the time the calendars get delivered to you. Best Kelda Niemeyer -- Kelda Niemeyer Projektassistentin Politik & Gesellschaft Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Images from flickr groups not being copied to commons
by Platonides 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

I noticed that a number of images had not been properly copied to commons, due to a mixture of flickrripper and the flickr api. I think this is the same problem mentioned to me by Monica Mora some days ago. The issue can be easily detected by noting that the flickr group shows a different number of images when you are logged out than when you are logged in (as a group member). In our case, as a non-member flickr showed 393 photos, flickrripper was seeing a count of 394 photos (but reading 393) and as a group admin there were 396. Obviously, those three photos hadn't been copied. There are some photos that are only given if the request is done by a group member. In a few cases, the reason is clear, since the image was private (only shown to you due to being in the same group as the photo) or moderated / filtered by SafeSearch. However, in most cases the missed images were publicly viewable, and I have no idea why the api wasn't listing them. The solution was to make flickrripper use an application secret and sign the requests. You will need to authorize it to run under your account and it will now be able to view all the images. The code to do that has been committed to the original flickrripper.py as well as the forked flickrripper_list.py You will need to provide the flickr['api_secret'] in your user-config.py in order to take advantage of it. A handful of images submitted to WLM-ES in 2011 had also been affected by this bug and weren't copied to commons at the time. I added them to WLM 2012. Better late than never. In summary: - flickrripper wasn't copying all the images. - Update your copy and provide an api_secret (and authorise the app). - Run flickrripper again in your group. (if your country did not use a flickr group, you are not affected by this. If you copied the images using a different tool than flickrripper, that tool may or may not have the same problem)

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2013 - wanted: volunteers for the coordinating team
by Lodewijk 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi all, 2012 has been the second year that we have an international Wiki Loves Monuments competition, and it is quite a ride! While we're not finished yet with this years competition, it is probably good to look forward to 2013. A number of countries have indicated they would love to join next year. Some who have already participated this year, some who will be joining for the first time. Some who participated this year, but not to the extent they would have liked to. But for a smooth organization, we will need a dedicated volunteer team for the international coordination. This year the team consisted from Maarten (Multichill), Elke (Elya), Tomasz (Odder) and myself with the valuable support of Barbara who was working from the Wikimedia Deutschland office. At least a few of this team have indicated that they are unlikely to help coordinate to the same level as this year. Lets put it bluntly: without coordinating team, there will be no international competition for Wiki Loves Monuments in 2013. So the question is... are there any volunteers? Maybe you wonder what this coordinating is all about. Most of it is stuff that others will never see. Talking with network partners, keeping track of status and documentation, a whole bunch of technical stuff in tool- and database maintenance and also a lot of knowledge transfer to local teams (chats, meetings, workshops). The time it costs can vary widely, but should not be underestimated (I think a few hundred hours is on the lower side). Of course the more skills and people, the less work per person. Would you be interested? Just drop me a note or ask some questions on this list, in a chat or somewhere else. We don't need to make this decision right now - but if we want another WLM international - we will need to get started with budget requests pretty soon thanks to the more complicated budget allocation rules we're facing. I'm happy to help get that done - but only if I'm confident that there will be a great team once again :) I'm looking forward to any questions or emails on this topic. Best, Lodewijk (not on behalf of anyone)

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Is the portal down ? --- http://wlm.wmflabs.org/
by Naveen Francis 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

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Goslar schilderij
by Jane Darnell 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19779/lot/10/ Jacques François Carabain (Belgian, 1834-1933) Market day, Goslar, Germany signed 'J. Carabain' (lower right) oil on canvas 62.5 x 84cm (24 5/8 x 33 1/16in).

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