Dear all,
please help to acualize the map on our web site. Who is able to do so?
Here is the list of countries being certain to participate (dark red in
the map): 28
Andorra
Argentina
Austria
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Panama
Poland
Portugal
Spain
South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United States
Vatican City
and the countries that show deep interest (light red): 13
Belarus
Canada
Egypt
India
Ireland
Israel
Mexico
Norway
Philippines
Romania
Russia
United Kingdom
Venezuela
Here is the link to the map:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participating_Countries_WLM_2012.svg
--
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 everyone!
It is my privilege to introduce to you Els Arends. Els has been hired by
Wikimedia Nederland to coordinate the Dutch version of Wiki Loves Monuments.
Some of you may know that Els was involved in WLM NL 2011 before and she
already has quite some experience with our competition.
Els can be reached at els(a)wikimedia.nl, if there are any questions about
WLM in the Netherlands.
Welcome back Els!
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Vriendelijke groet,
Cyriel
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…
And now I also did Poland, which removed some 200 - 250 images
unfortunately (a few people have been uploading a lot before/after the
contest)
That brings the total to... 168,208!
Can someone please ASAP export the list of raw url's from this category
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments…>to
a set of txt files with, say, 5000 url's per file? (or another easy way to
count).
Thanks a lot!
Lodewijk
2012/6/13 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> For Russia, several removals have been restored - because they were
> re-uploads of erroneous uploads (two uploads under same file name).
>
> I checked Portugal, and removed two images which were cropped, retouched
> etc and the template was erroneously copied. I left one picture uploaded
> before 1 September (test upload) and several after the deadline because
> they were admitted by the local team explicitely even though they were
> uploaded too late.
>
> I started checking Poland, but because of the huge number I'll first check
> back with the organizers before moving forward. Removed several submissions
> up to July 2011.
>
> Checked Norway, removed about 20 too early submissions.
>
> Checked Germany. 2 early submissions were actually new images with the
> same file name. Didn't touch images uploaded before 0:00 UTC. A lot was
> already done by Kilian, thanks for that.
>
> Please note: in all cases I *only* removed the template "{{Wiki Loves
> Monuments|xx}}" and not any categories etc. Might be a need for another
> botrun to fix that in your country.
>
> France was already Thesupermat
>
> Estonia only had pictures which were too late for their timezone but still
> before 0:00 UTC. I left all those there.
>
> So, except for Poland, we're all done!
>
> Lodewijk
>
>
> 2012/6/12 Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com>
>
>> On 12/06/12 14:57, Lodewijk wrote:
>> > Many images I encountered so far, were intentionally marked with the
>> > template - that means someone has copied the template manually into the
>> > description; most likely they would just copy the parameter as well.
>> >
>> > Lodewijk
>>
>> I havealso seen that. I don't know the reason. Maybe they are just
>> copying every wiki markup from a sample image, including WLM template,
>> [[Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard]]...
>> As well as the id template which is probably what they wanted.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list
>> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments
>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
>>
>
>
dear all,
as we have mentioned before we are looking for international media partners
to promote the contest beyond our community boundaries. How would you feel
about the idea, that these partners could present themselves through their
logo (interactive / or not due to fiscal implications) on your respective
national site? We do have a request running with National Geographic at the
moment, to give an example of the kind of media partners we think of.
We are also planning to have an animated banner on the international WLM
site on the left, where all our partners will appear in a loop of switching
logos. We could offer you to integrate this feature to your site.
Please let us know your opinion.
Barbara, WLM international team
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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 all,
as you may recall, we have applied for recognition as a guinness world
record with the 165.000+ images of 2011. However, to finalize that
application, I need some help. We need to determine the final number of
submitted picture - and will need two witnesses who will sign a statement.
I'm pretty far with the witnesses - but need some help in making it easy
for them to confirm the full number of images.
I thought the easiest way would be twofold:
- make sure that the category 'Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2011' is
"clean" - that there are only valid images there.
- create a list of url's with all submitted images.
To do that, I'd use the following definition of a valid submission:
- For Switzerland, images submitted in July, August or September 2011
(starting time is in UTC+2, closing time in UTC+0).
- For all other countries, images submitted in September 2011 (including
Hungary, since the images submitted later were not considered for the
international contest)
- For all countries, possible delayed bot uploads (we'd need to manually
identify those)
- For all countries, the image has to contain the {{Wiki Loves
Monuments|country code}} template (I don't think other templates were in
use)
- For all images, check whether it is a derivative of an existing image
(probably easiest to just list all images that fulfill all other
requirements and have a 'other versions' mention - and manually check those)
This should add up to all the images that were considered as a valid
submission and could have been nominated for the international contest. Am
I missing anything?
It would be great if someone could dig through the category and help clean
it. Also, if someone could use a script to generate this list of url's once
that is done. That way, for the proof we can both make a screenshot of the
category, showing the full number, and count the list of url's and let the
witnesses do some random checks on them.
Best,
Lodewijk
Dear all,
many emails from my part today I am afraid ;)
considering prizes for the winners and promotional material for the
volunteers and for participants are there ideas out there
must haves
nice to haves
like WLM t-shirts, lanyards, digitalframes for the monument photographs,
exposure meter and filters, calendars with the finalists fotos, are just
some ideas.
Who does have contacts to producers, who needs support seting up a sponsor
contract, who has original ideas?
please do not hestitate to turn to me.
best regards 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.
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
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Harald Groven
Wikimedia Norway
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
