Hello,
the calendars were shipped off yesterday! They will hopefully arrive within
the next weeks. Please let me know, when they did.
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.
Hi everybody,
as I wrote in a previous thread on it.wiki the {{commonscat}} template
has been replaced with the more general {{interprogetto}} template. As
of now {{commonscat}} is deprecated on it.wiki, being kept only for
compatibility purposes. That said, though, the template doesn't work
as the versions on it.wiki or fr.wiki accepting only one paramtere
(namely the name of the commons category) and thus there is no way to
change the visualized text which renders the template ugly to put in
the lists.
I have asked for a change, but there is strong consensus against the
reintroduction of {{commonscat}}, moreover it has been noted that the
{{commonscat}} template is deprecated/redirect also on en.wiki and
fr.wiki:
* can the bot be changed to accept the name of the template to search?
(in it.wiki's case {{interprogetto}})
* if not, there is some alternative way to obtain the statistics
provided by that bot?
I have asked the adaptation of {{commoscat}} to follow the same
specifics as in en.wiki (while it will remain deprecated) as a
temporary measure while adapting the bot.
Can all this work?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Cristian
Hi there,
this is just to inform you that we will be closing the participants'
survey with the end of the year, that is on 23:59 UTC, December 31,
2012 -- so if there is anyone that is still waiting with adding his or
her answers to the survey, I ask you not to wait too long :-))
I have been thinking about closing the survey for the past month or
so, but unbelievably, we are still receiving new replies every day!
There have been over 1,750 replies so far, but we'll need to set the
closing date anyway, so I decided it to be December 31.
The survey is available at
<http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlmsurvey/wlm2012.php>.
--
Tomasz W. Kozłowski
a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
Hey,
I just wanted to let you know the calendars arrived in Serbia and also to
thank you for that. They are really remarkable!
Happy holidays to everyone!
Tamara
Hello! A member of WM-ES (user:Invadinado) created a video with some of the best pictures of WLM Spain 2012. This video is avalable on Wikimedia Commons, and all of it (pictures and music) is free, with a license CC allowed in Commons. Subtitles will be added soon.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_Spain.ogv
We hope you like it.
Santi
Hello,
bit by bit we learn that the calendars do arrive. That's fine. The bills to
the chapters that ordered calendars on top of the 15 free copies will
receive them apart in the coming days.
Merry Xmas to all of You that care for that and all the others please enjoy
these days.
gg bfisch
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.
Hi! Calendars of WLM arrived today to Wikimedia Spain. Barbara, thanks for everythink, and please, tell us how and when we must pay them.
Regards
Santi (aka Millars)
Hi,
is there someone who would like to run a bot to give people some Wiki Loves
Monuments barnstars on Commons? Elke created some stunning barnstars for
this, and it would be great if the love could be spread.
They can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elya/xxx
I was thinking about
* a 'finalist' barnstar for all 324 images that were nominated (I can
provide a list of url's - which is slightly more reliable than the list on
Commons itself). Should be placed on image description pages.
* A 'finalist' barnstar for all photographers of any of these pictures
(same list). Multiple barnstars should be given if multiple images got
nominated. Should be placed on user talk pages (single topic/edit).
* A 'winner' barnstar for all 15 international winning images (with their
rank) instead of the finalist template. Should be placed on image
description pages.
* A 'winner' barnstar for all photographers of one of the 15 international
winning images (with their rank) instead of the finalist template. Should
be placed on user talk pages.
Who would be able & willing to run this?
Thanks!
Lodewijk
FYI
-------- Origineel bericht --------
Onderwerp: [WikimediaMobile] Removing Wiki Loves Monuments from the
Android App store
Datum: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:45:20 -0800
Van: Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org>
Aan: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This is a heads up that the Wikimedia Mobile team is going to be un-
publishing the WLM app from the Google Play store.
Practically this means that you will no longer be able download the WLM
app from the market. You *will* still be able to download all previous
releases from :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Release_history#Apps
This change will not affect any of our current users.
Why are we doing this? The app was specifically crafted and resourced
with an expiration date of the WLM contest. Now that WLM has fully
wrapped up we'd like to take what we've learned and apply all of our
energy to meeting our annual goal of 1,000 photo uploads / month. In
order to do this we need to take what we've learned from the WLM app and
channel it into a more generic mobile web and app experience. This
requires us to free up resources that would be supporting the app for
bug fixes, legal updates, etc.
What does this mean to the existing users? Nothing much. The mobile team
put in a redirect so that the app works with the tool server now. That
will make it so that no existing users are interrupted for the life time
of the TS.
As the mobile team executes on the next six months were keenly
interested in building solutions that can easily work for WLM in the future.
Stay update with what were working on by following the engineering
report:Â
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/October#Mob…
--tomasz
Hi all,
just like last year, I am working on applying for recognition of Wiki Loves
Monuments as the World Largest Photography Competition. We should be easily
able to meet this record, but the evidence is always a bit tricky to
generate. Just like last year, I'd like to be able to send them a full list
of all participating images.
However, for other purposes we might need different definitions. I'd like
to suggest a few different definitions here.
== Retention statistics ==
For running retention statistics etc, I'd like to use wide definitions of
participating people and images: If the uploader *thought* he was validly
submitting, that is good enough. After all, here it is the intention that
counts. So this list should ideally include every image that ever contained
the Wiki Loves Monuments template. No matter if the image was deleted,
disqualified or if the country didn't submit finalists.
* No matter which country
* No matter the license / deleted or not
* No matter the monument template
* But within the time frame that the contest was ongoing (to have 'clear'
stats for a full month of contest)
== Guinness ==
This will be the strictest definition because we cannot afford a single
mistake (that would make the process much more painful and long) and we
have easily beaten the record anyway so we can afford this.
For this purpose, we should generate a clean list of images that definitely
fulfill the criteria. This means among others that a submission is for this
definition only considered valid if it really made a chance to win the
international prize (similar to last year). That means for example
unfortunately that images from Belgium & Luxembourg & South Tyrol cannot
participate for this definition. (Belgium & Luxembourg didn't submit
finalists, so strictly speaking those images never made any chance to win
the international competition. For Italy (including South Tyrol) there was
a bit more complicated rule due to local legislation that there had to be a
permission from the soprintendenza (if you want details, please ask the
local organizers!) etc.
* Participating in one of the 33 countries that submitted nominees for the
finale.
* License OK
* Not deleted
* Monument template with existing monument ID in the database has to be
present (should there be exception countries to this?) In the case of
Italy, the monument has to be on the 'cleared list' (can someone provide a
complete cleared list as it was valid for the competition 2012?)
* Uploaded within the time frame for that country. Exception is mass
uploads from mobile platform and Flickr. I believe Platonides has a
whitelist for these bot uploaders?
Am I missing any other criteria that could invalidate according to such a
strict definition? I'm skipping the 'activated email address' because in
practice we have reminded people of activating that if relevant on several
occasions.
I'd like to get started with this soon, so any quick feedback would be
welcome.
Kind regards,
Lodewijk