WikiLovesMonuments July 2012

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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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Did anyone contacted the winner of the VIDEO price for 2011?
by Bastien 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hi all, I did not have news, neither from the person who said she will contact him, nor from him. Thanks for any update, -- Bastien

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Need some French help
by Maarten Dammers 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hi everyone, I'm working on the monuments database and I ran into some problems for France. I have 43608 items in the database of which 11752 items have as municipality 'non'. This is caused by the variable "commune" which is both in the row as in the header template. Could someone please change this at https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:En-t%C3%AAte_de_tabl… to French equivalent of "hide_municipality"? I can have my bot rename the variable, that's pretty straightforward. That will clear the way for the next step. For easy navigation in the mobile app we are including local information for sources. This was already done for a lot of countries, but not for France yet. If it's setup you can browse: France -> Midi-Pyrénées -> Haute-Garonne -> Toulouse (I left out the arrondissement step). For this to work we need to include some information in the header templates. This is not shown to the user, just used for this navigation. For the top levels we use ISO 3166 codes, for France that is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:FR . For https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_monuments_historiques_de_Toulouse this would be something like: {{En-tête de tableau MH|région_iso=fr-n|département_iso=fr-31|commune=[[Toulouse]]}} Are région_iso and département_iso good names or should it be something different? Who wants to help to get this working for France? Maarten

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jury process - easy and neat?
by Lodewijk 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hi all, is there anyone who would be willing to help set up a jury process tool that can be used in multiple countries? I'm looking for a software tool that makes juring more easy than going through commons categories. Would be happy to brainstorm if someone is willing to work it out. Thanks! Lodewijk

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Piwik statistics for wikilovesmonuments domains
by Hay (Husky) 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hi everyone, because we'd like to monitor stats for all wlm websites globally this year i've installed the open source Piwik package. There were some concerns about using Google Analytics because of privacy issues. The nice thing is: you only need to add a small snippet to your site, i'll add an account for you and you don't need to install any stuff yourself. We're still looking if everything will perform well, so if you want to add the code to your site please send me an email (hay(a)wikimedia.nl) containing: 1) The username you would like on the statistics server 2) The website you're using 3) Which CMS you're using (WordPress, Mediawiki, etcetera) Kind regards, -- Hay (Husky)

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WLM in Portugal.
by manuel.sousa＠wikimedia.pt 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Dear all, As you may know, Wikimedia Portugal (WMPT) took part in WLM in 2011. A team of four ended up making a very successful event with very little money! However, early this year, they said they would not be available to continue and organize the 2012 edition of WLM. By them, João Miguel Vasconcelos and I stepped forward. However, we clearly underestimated the workload involved, as well as the time we both could dedicate to this undertaking. Furthermore, unlike last year, WMPT community seems much less enthusiastic about WLM. So, we discussed the matter internally, and have decided not to hold WLM 2012 in Portugal. I'm sorry to be giving such a bad news, but it is better to announced it now, than to keep postponing it one more month. Thanks & regards, Manuel de Sousa Wikimedia Portugal

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Community voting and jury process.
by Matthew Roth 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hi all, Per Lodewijk's suggestion, I'm bringing this to the larger list. WLM-US organizers have been discussing the value of setting up a community voting process on-wiki for the initial selection of the top 500 or so photos in the WLM-US pool, which we will then send to the judges (though we're thinking it would be wise to have the judges also surface photos they like that don't make the top 500). Can anyone on this list (particularly Russian organizers) give us feedback on what works well and what does not work well? Did you reach out to Commons contributors who had helped with any of the Featured Picture selection or Picture of the Year voting for feedback? A few of those people we've identified live in the U.S., so we're going to reach out to the relevant individuals. We've also been discussing how to incorporate the WikiProject on English WP that deals with our monuments (WP:NRHP) to try to get help from them. We're thinking of it as a group of ambassadors or captains who can help us alleviate some of the challenge for the jury of sorting thousands of photos. Any feedback would be very welcome. thanks, Matthew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> Date: Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Jury process in the US To: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> Cc: Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org>, Katie Filbert <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>, "Richard (User:Pharos)" <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>, Peter Ekman < pdekman(a)gmail.com>, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>, Sarah Stierch < sstierch(a)wikimedia.org> What about discussing this particular issue on the international mailing list? I know at least Russia has some experience with a community WLM vote - and I know India is bumping into the same problems as the US here. Lodewijk 2012/7/28 Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> > Hi Matthew, > > Op 28-7-2012 20:43, Matthew Roth schreef: > >> Hi Maarten and Lodewijk, >> In discussions with Wikimedia DC and other WLM-US organizers, I think >> we're going to try to set up a voting mechanism on-wiki so that Commons >> users can help us select the top 500 photos in the WLM-US pool, which we >> will then send to the judges (though the judges can also surface photos >> that don't make the top 500). We're also talking about having contestants >> have the option to nominate their own favorite photos to help highlight >> their own photos for the voting. Pharos brought up a question about being >> able to put a nomination button in the Uploader so that it automatically >> tagged the photos with a particular category if the uploader chooses to >> nominate particular photos of theirs. Do you think that could be easily >> done from a technical stance? Also curious to hear your thoughts in general >> about the plan. >> > I'm very happy to see things are starting to move in the US. Adding bells > and whistles to the upload process would go against one of the core > principles (https://commons.wikimedia.**org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_** > Monuments/Philosophy<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Philosophy>) > of WLM: Make it easy, so I'm not in favour of that. The jury process > shouldn't cost the organization too much work and it shouldn't bother the > (new) uploaders. I'm not sure how this will work, I don't have any > experience with this model. > > Maarten > > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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translations and English summaries
by Lodewijk 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hi all, it is almost August, that means it is time to get the banners ready! :) For this, we need your help and input. On http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Central… you can find a detailed description on how we plan to move forward. There may be some technical changes, but we will still need the translations in all relevant languages of the banner, and the link to the regular landing page. You can provide that on that page. Please put your information on the talkpage or in an email in this thread if you don't know how to edit a wikitable. Also, we need like last year for every country a one page description page in English (if your regular website doesn't happen to be in English). An example is http://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl/english (maybe with a little less detail). We need this in case that there are foreigners living in your country who want to participate, or tourists who visited your country. We want to link to that English page from our main wikilovesmonuments.orgwebsite and we ask you to link from it from your landing page with a clear icon or something (i.e. a British flag with the word 'English'). Please link this from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progress (third table) or again, just add it in the talkpage or in this thread if you don't know how to edit. Thanks for your help on this! Lodewijk

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Start with the UploadWizard
by Maarten Dammers 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi everyone, I'm starting to do some work on the UploadWizard to get it ready for Wiki Loves Monuments. For most WLM campaigns a changed the header to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_header_Wiki_Lov… . Please help getting this translated! This is just a first step. Much more to come. Maarten

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prizes and sponsorships question
by Matthew Roth 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

Hi Barbara and Lodewijk, We had a question from a recent WLM-US meeting about prize sponsors. If we reach out to a place like Canon or Nikon in the U.S., and they agree to sponsor, can we list them with logo on the international site? I'm trying to figure out what kind of incentive we can offer the prize sponsors that would give them a reason to provide good prizes, but I wanted to check with you the protocol for that. If a marketing/events person asks, "What kind of visibility will we get in return," obviously the international site would be the biggest, I would think. I'm not sure how much traffic wikilovesmonuments.us will get. Any advice is helpful. thank you, Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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