WikiLovesMonuments May 2012

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35 discussions

Instagram and Creative Commons
by Andrea Zanni 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Dear all, a doubt: is Instagram compatible with Creative Commons? Can I upload *my* Instagram pics on Commons (so could it be used for WLM)? Please consider that I'm not suggesting Instagram pics are good for WLM (they are filtered and all, probably not very suitable for illustrating monuments on Wikipedia) but is a legal matter. Aubrey

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wanted: suggestion for international media partners to WLM 2012
by Barbara Fischer 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Hello all of You, we would love to further the outreach of the WLM contest even beyond the boundaries of the community. For that reason each participating chapter will likely to be organizing its own press information center and maybe try to get media partners for support. In case you like to get support in how to raise a media partnership please do contact me. We are working on a basic pattern for such purpose. In any case please do inform me about Your press activity as soon as it comes to partnerships. On international level we strive for media partnerships aswell. Please let me know, if You do have specific media in mind, that could be interesting to address. Right now we consider magazines on photography and heritage of interest but also web related focus as open access would be fine. If You do have further ideas, come on and share them.Both print and online would be just nice. Here some examples: - National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ - Metro Newspaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_International - Eikon http://www.eikon.at/content/en/termine_wettbewerbe.php - world monuments fund http://www.wmf.org/watch Please help me to complete the list! If You do know who to address to obtain a quick decision please let me know. :)) best regards and have a nice weekend Barbara -- 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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The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
by John Andersson 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Sorry for cross-posting. Dear everybody, My name is John Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) as the Event manager for the project Europeana Awareness[1], a project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer cooperation between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of GLAM institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase awareness of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The project leader for WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will however be responsible for the day-to-day operations. First of all I would like to give you a short presentation about myself so that you know who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip the following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I will work with during the coming 18 months. I will start working full time on the 11th of June but until then I am working merely 35 percent as I am currently at the very end of my university studies at the Master programme in European Studies at Gothenburg University, finishing up my Master's thesis that focuses on decision-making in the Arctic Council's working groups. This time last year I worked as a trainee at the European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels for 5.5 months and from before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå University. During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an exchange student. I have been an administrator on the Swedish language version for 6 years now and have contributed with hundreds of articles and photos. On a more personal note I enjoy learning new things, experiencing new cultures, traveling, meeting friends and reading a good book. Two major tasks that I will work with are firstly the co-organization of a number of GLAM conferences in some of the European countries that have active Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA), obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves Monument competition. I am hoping to help in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing the first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If you are planning to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I hope that you will take the opportunity to contact me and discuss how I could help! For example, adding Europeana as a partner for the event that you are organizing is likely to open new doors and attract more institutions and I am the one to contact about that, I could also help out with man-hours, perhaps supply you with information, contacts and digitized media that Europeana already has (which could be hard and time consuming to collect) or suggest and contact international guests that could participate in your event. The organization of Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later this year. But even though this event is far in the future I hope that you write me an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like to get involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot of time and effort to organize so we might as well start with some initial planning as soon as possible! I am super excited about working with this full time and I really look forward meeting and talking with all of you! Sincerely, John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden Event manager, Europeana Awareness User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private) Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com Skype: johnandersson86 [1] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness for more information. Currently only available in Swedish. [2] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_Wo…

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XML export from Commons with WLM ID, image URL and photo credit?
by Harald Groven 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Are there any tools or bots for making an XML feed of all images in Commons tagged with a WLM ID number from one specific country? The Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage's database, from which the WLM wiki lists of sites in Norway originates, need to import images taken during the previous, as well as future WLM competitions. If the pictures of monuments can be imported to the Cultural heritage database by a bot regularly, a lot of manual work may be saved. It will also make it easier to keep track of which monuments that have already been photographed. I have been looking for tools on Toolserver for exporting KML/XML from the monuments database, but none of the tools seems to export web address to the image the name of photographer (which is required to keep by Scandinavian copyright law). Any tips for how to achieve this? The required fields are - Image name or image url in Commons - Name of photographer - Image license - ID number in WLM - Optional: Image description -- Harald Groven Wikimedia Norway

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Improving the monuments database and tooling
by Maarten Dammers 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hi everyone, Development of the tooling is happening again. List of things I noticed: * We now keep track of the wiki articles. This is either directly in a list or derived (thanks Raul) * We now keep track of an url with more information about a monument. This is based on the identifier in the list (thanks Raul). * The header template in a list can now be used for setting default values for the row template. For example you just set {{header template|municipality=hometown}}. For all the following rows you don't have to include the municipality. Requested by Alex, implemented today by me. * I added support for gpx as an output format of the api. Still in need of some fixes, but Google already understands it. Some feedback would be nice. Example: http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=search&format=gpx&srmunic… * The OpenStreetMap based map for WikiLovesMonuments is now available at http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/map/ . I made it available yesterday. It still needs improvements (like not always starting in Amsterdam). * I altered the OSM map to understand most api parameters. For example all the monuments in Haarlem without an image: http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/map/?srwithoutimage=1&zoom=16&lat=52.38096&l… * I added the "osm" output format to the api. This will just redirect you to the osm without your search options. For example all monuments in Amsterdam on the Prinsengracht without a photo: toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=search&format=osm&srmunicipality… Some things I would like: * Further improvements of the map. For example a search option like at http://toolserver.org/~multichill/coordinates.php * Tracking of images tagged with a monuments template at Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cultural_heritage_monuments_wit…) and making this available through the api. I'm thinking about creating a table monument_templates with the fields: lang, country and template. This would be a really small table based on https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/erfgoed/erfgoedbot/monuments_config.p… with (lang, country) as primary key. The second table would be monument_images with the fields: template, id, image. This would be a much bigger table containing all the images tagged with a tracker template. Not really sure what keys to set here for performance. Any thoughts? In the api you should be able to request images based on country, lang and identifier. For example (nl, nl, 2390) should return https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keizersgracht_609,_Amsterdam.JPG (and maybe more images). * The api should be able to return the formats, countries, props, etc, to automatically fill http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/toolbox/ with the right fields. * Toolbox should be improved. * Internationalization should be improved. * We should probably set up http://map.wikilovesmonuments.org and http://api.wikilovesmonuments.org Anymore suggestions? Who wants to help? Docmeister, where to store this onwiki? ;-) Maarten

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I hate Wordpess
by Maarten Dammers 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

....but I managed to publish http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2012/02/15/monumental-videos/ In Dutch we have a saying: "Beter laat dan nooit." Maarten

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Desktop upload tool
by Platonides 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

As some of you are already aware, I'm doing for this GSoC a Desktop tool for conveniently uploading images to commons. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments/2641 How can you help with this? a) Propose a cool name for this tool b) Suggest new functionalities/requisites Either on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Platonides/GSOC_proposal or in this thread. c) Volunteer for testing the program and giving early feedback (please reply directly to avoid spamming the mailing list with "I can test it, too")

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Update South Africa
by maarten deneckere 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hey all, South Africa is ready to participate! We found a team here that will help, an organisation that will help us (Wikiafrica: Isla), the governmental agencies are willing to help us, the biggest news agency is waiting for our press releases, .... We do have some troubles: 1. an old and difficult monument database, lots of errors, only partially tagged with GPS or even the address. Difficult identifier (something like 302-392-239392-32, impossible to use) 2. no processing of the lists yet 3. mobile upload. South Africans live with their cellphone, would open up opportunities having a "WLM-app" 4. the current monuments are targetted on the "Afrikaans" culture. We want to open the monument to the "previouly disadvantaged people", so we will allow for uploads of things that have not been declared as a monument yet. The uploader will have the opportunity to add some reasons why we should consider this important. This information will be shared with government 5. ... But we're working on it! Grtz, Maarten

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One more approvement for MediaWiki/UploadWizard Campaign handling
by elya 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hello WLManiacs, I happily present one more usability improvement that was developed (by Mark Traceur) after our last year's UpWizard bug list: Problem: * User clicks a hyperlink to an Upload Wizard campaign (which is sth. with parameters etc.) somewhere on a project page, a list etc. * User is not logged in or does not even have an account * Result: gets the "please log in or create an account to upload an image" message. * User creates an account or logs in * User is redirected to MainPage. * User is lost. Solution: * A "returntoquery" parameter was added. After clicking a link to a campaign and being forced to log in/account creation, the user should be redirected to the full campaign url. I sacrificed one test sockpuppet and created a new account and it seems to work for me. However, you can test it with logging out and in again ;-) Please test it as intense as you can, as this is an important usability step. Especially I'd like to know if the recently added "field prefilling/parameter passing" works with this (would be necessary, I tried and failed once). Please add your comments for improvement under * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Upload_wiza… Thank you! Regards, Elke

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Tracking bug for UW issues affecting WLM
by Strainu 27 May '12

27 May '12

On a recent wikitech thread about the Upload Wizard, I was asked if there is a list of bugs affecting WLM and was asked to create a tracking bug. I there such a list already? If not, let me know of any bugs you _really_ want to see fixed before September and I'll create the tracking bug. Strainu

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