WikiLovesMonuments August 2012

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Pre-filled upload campaigns
by Maarten Dammers 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hi everyone, I created https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:UploadCampaignLink some time ago. This template creates a deeplink to the uploadwizard with all the fields pre-filled. Seemed to be pretty convenient to me :-) Now two things need to happen: * First you need to copy the template to your language Wikipedia to make it available. Modify it to your needs. This has already been done in Dutch, English and French. Don't forget to add an interwiki link so other don't double work (like I did :P). * Once you have the link template you need to add it to your row template. Full documentation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Upload… . Please keep that page up to date. Thank you, Maarten

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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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UploadWizard&campaign=wlm-cz
by Michal Reiter 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Hello, can anybody give me please a hint, what I have to do to make work Czech version of upload wizzard }http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wlm-cz) ? BTW czech translation is somehow working on NL version for me :D http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaig… with these strange text strings on second page... " mwe-upwiz-deeds-macro-prompt: Parse error at position 74 in input: Tento server vyžaduje, abyste pro {{PLURAL:$1|tento soubor|tyto soubory}} {{gender:|uvedl|uvedla|uvedli}} autorskoprávní údaje, aby bylo jisté, že {{PLURAL:$1|jej|je}} může každý legálně užívat. Tento soubor je mé vlastní dílo. [mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0-nl] [mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-cc-by-sa-3.0-nl-explain] " Sincerely Limojoe/Michal Reiter

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Jury tool
by Peter Ekman 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

I only got this after my last post. This looks like the best tool I've seen by far! Can we get lots more details? *How many pix will it work with? - 15,000 seemed to work ok. *Can "random voters" participate, or do they need to log in, i.e. can a big group be invited to participate. *How are the votes totalled up (including all voters)? *Do the pix all have to be transfered from Commons to another site, or can it be all done on Commons? *How did it work in practice - were there any glitches last year? Any help appreciated. Smallbones > 2012/6/24 Nuno Tavares <nuno.tavares(a)wikimedia.pt > <mailto:nuno.tavares@wikimedia.pt>> > > Greetings all, > > We had such a tool running on our website. Briefly: > > * We create tokens for each juri; > * We randomly assign images for each token (each will get > TOTAL/TOKENS images approx.), putting them on a "bucket level 1"; > * Then, the token is sent to the juri person, which will use it to > browse through the gallery of his assigned photos, and the selection > process begins. > > * The selection process consists in 2 passes: > -- The juri person either "promotes" interesting images to "bucket > 2" or "demotes" uninteresting images to "bucket 0" (to mark them as > viewed). > -- Most probably, in the end the juri person has selected too much > images for bucket 2, so the last step is to demote images from > bucket 2 to 1 again. > > In the end, the bucket 2 should have the number we established (50) > for him to have present on the juri presencial meeting. > > The tool was further extended for helping during the juri presencial > meeting: people gather somewhere, and the tool merges the 50 > selected photos from each, and then a voting mechanism is due: each > juri present will assign a classification. > > At the end, the selection list is downloaded (for mobility) and > ordered to clear out exequo's (each juri will change his vote > according to the discussion). > > You can have a "status" from last year, here: > > http://wlm2011.ufp.wikimedia.__pt/tools/juri/status.php > <http://wlm2011.ufp.wikimedia.pt/tools/juri/status.php> > > And I believe you can try things (this is a "running copy" of the > old site): > > http://wlm2011.ufp.wikimedia.__pt/tools/juri/?token=a5e88407-__be35-11e1-a7… > <http://wlm2011.ufp.wikimedia.pt/tools/juri/?token=a5e88407-be35-11e1-a7d1-e…>

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Tools
by Peter Ekman 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

In response to Lodewijk's request for tools, at WLM-US we have a particular need for a tool to screen the large number of photos we expect to receive down to a reasonable number that can be judged directly by a distinguished jury. Since the US is very roughly the size of the EU, we very roughly expect to get about the same number of photos as were submitted last year for all of Europe, or perhaps a bit less. If only 100,000 photos are submitted, we have a very big task. In order to get our distinguished jury (which will be officially announced later this week), we've promised them that they will only have to judge the best 500 photos, as determined by community input. So the question is how to go from 100,000 down to 500. I suspect that a large country like India may have the same type of problem, and I'd also like to hear from Germany or any other country that had over 20,000 photos to judge last year. Any suggestions are welcome, but please realize that for most countries their experience last year is smaller by an order of magnitude than what we expect this year. Tools that we are considering - if you know how well these work please let us know! *The system used by POTY this year with voters (ordinary Wikipedians) viewing and voting on randomized pictures in different categories. In all they had 600 photos, divided into about 30 categories with the maximum number in a category being about 60. So this system certainly works for 600 pix, and probably for 1,000. But will it work for 10,000? or 100,000? *Dividing the overall group in 53 categories (50 states, plus DC, PR and other), in the belief that state volunteers can probably do most of the work on about 2,000-3,000 photos per state. A bot might do the dividing by changing the category of the photos. It would likely be divided more like a few hundred each for states like Idaho and Wyoming, and 10,000 each for states like CA and NY. Maybe this division might just make the total work 53 times harder?! *Using a self-nominating and open-nominating system. On or after uploading the uploader, or any other Wikipedian, could nominate any picture for further consideration, likely by changing the category from something like [[Category:WLM-US 2012]] to [[Category:WLM-US 2012 nominated]]. I'd guess this would cut down on the number of pix to be considered by about 90%. But it would also discriminate against newbies - who likely don't know how to edit categories. *Using several tools, or several rounds, but there is a pretty limited time from the closing of the contest to the time we need to get the top 500 to the jury, to October 21 when results are due. Any concrete suggestions would be appreciated. User:Smallbones > Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 16:56:58 +0200 > From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> > To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition > <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Tools > Message-ID: > <CACf6BetKZH3n7VhDh8ES78ETZK4JoZk6cn4Bfp82EKrXTEPzzg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > if you have produced a tool to make the Wiki Loves Monuments life easier, > please share it! Even if you only produced it for your country, other > countries might be interested in using it. So did you produce a tool to > make the jury work easier? To find monuments on a map? To make it easy to > print a selection of monuments to visit them and build a route? Please add > them on our toolbox page: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Tools and > share the sourcecode as described there. > > The toolbox is rather empty at this point, and I believe there are more > tools available :) > > Best, > > lodewijk

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Making centralnotice work in all countries
by Lodewijk 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hi all, I'd like to draw attention to this once again. Many countries still missing in this list, and we need your url's here to make it work! Thanks, Lodewijk 2012/7/30 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> > 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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Tools
by Lodewijk 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hi all, if you have produced a tool to make the Wiki Loves Monuments life easier, please share it! Even if you only produced it for your country, other countries might be interested in using it. So did you produce a tool to make the jury work easier? To find monuments on a map? To make it easy to print a selection of monuments to visit them and build a route? Please add them on our toolbox page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Tools and share the sourcecode as described there. The toolbox is rather empty at this point, and I believe there are more tools available :) Best, lodewijk

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Gagnants de Wikpédia prend Québec - Winners of Wikipedia Takes Quebec city
by Benoit Rochon 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Bonjour à tous, Les six membres du jury ont délibéré et déclaré les gagnants de “Wikipédia prend Québec”. Tout d’abord, je tiens à remercier tous les participants pour leur disponibilité, leur professionnalisme, mais aussi pour la grande qualité des images que vous avez téléversés dans Wikimedia Commons. Nous avons été enchantés de vous rencontrer et d'avoir eu la chance de promouvoir les projets éducatifs, libres et sans but lucratif de Wikimedia. Les organisateurs bénévoles ont beaucoup apprécié l'expérience et nous comptons refaire un autre concours du genre (voir au bas de ce courriel). Ceci étant dit, nous aimerions annoncer une bonification des prix gagnants. À l’origine les prix étaient deux iPads, l’un pour la meilleure photo et l’autre pour le meilleur port-folio. Mais vu la grande qualité des images que vous nous avez téléversées, nous avons décidé aussi de récompenser la deuxième et la troisième position pour les meilleures photos, déterminées par la grille de pointage des jurys. Ainsi, outre le gagnant du iPad pour la meilleure photo, les deux personnes suivantes en terme de pointage se mériteront un chèque-cadeau de 50$ chez le détaillant de leur choix. Voici les gagnants : a.. La Première position pour la meilleure photo se méritant un iPad est attribuée à Sylvain Brousseau (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sylvainbrousseau) qui a obtenu 436 points sur 500 pour la photo "Vue du Moulin Marcoux et de la rivière Jacques-Cartier - Pont-Rouge" (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue_du_Moulin_Marcoux_et_de_la_rivi%…) b.. Le prix du meilleur port-folio se méritant un iPad est attribué à Marc-Antoine Lepage (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malimage) pour son portfolio varié, de qualité et représentatif de la ville de Québec et de ses environs (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikip%C3%A9dia_prend_Qu%C3%A9bec…) c.. La deuxième position pour la meilleure photo se méritant un chèque-cadeau de 50$ est attribuée à Elias Touil (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EliasTouil) qui a obtenu 422 points sur 500 pour la photo "Québec Course De Cyclisme" (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qu%C3%A9bec_Course_De_Cyclisme.jpg) d.. La troisième position pour la meilleure photo se méritant un chèque-cadeau de 50$ est attribué à Jean-Philippe Bourgoin (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bourgoinjp) qui a obtenu 421 points sur 500 pour la photo "Château Frontenac vu depuis le boulevard Champlain" (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chateau_Frontenac_vu_depuis_le_boule…) À tous les participants, plusieurs de vos photos sont déjà dans les articles de Wikipédia, et ce dans toutes les langues. Même que des nouveaux articles de Wikipédia ont été créés grâce à vos photos et grâce à leurs hautes qualités. Pour voir dans quels articles sont vos photos, voir en bas de page de chacune de vos photos, vous pourrez voir dans quels articles elles sont affichées. Si elles ne le sont pas encore, vous pouvez vous-même les ajouter (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Insérer_une_image). Nous vous disons un énorme merci pour votre participation. Les organisateurs, les wikipédiens, les membres du jury, et surtout vous, les photographes, nous étions tous bénévoles. Ensemble, nous avons à notre manière contribués au plus grand ouvrage encyclopédique de l'histoire, et avons fait rayonner la région de Québec dans celui-ci. D'autres évènements photographiques sont déjà planifiés, dont le concours international "Wiki Loves Monuments" tout le mois de septembre, où plus de 35 pays participeront dont le Canada (http://wikilovesmonuments.ca - site en construction). Des prix seront remis aux gagnants nationaux, mais aussi internationaux. Vous êtes bien sûr bienvenus à participer. Un gros merci encore pour votre généreuse participation. Gardez un œil sur la page http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Projet:Qu%C3%A9bec c'est là que tout se passe pour le Québec. Cordialement, Les organisateurs de "Wikipédia prend Québec".

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Bolivia not participating
by Alhen 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

We're afraid we won't be participating this year. We will make the next year for sure, but not this one. Anyway, some of us are trying to help other countries pull their local versions of WLM. I'll keep our community posted about anything they could do to help other countries pull WLM locally. Best regards, Alhen @alhen_ alhen at wikipedia, wikihow, wikispaces, and most places. Promotor de Wikimedia Bolivia 00-591-79592235

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