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
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
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
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)
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
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
>
>
--
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Global Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
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www.wikimediafoundation.org
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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
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
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*