I strongly suggest that you get some native English speakers, say from
the UK, Canada, India or Australia to review the record banner.
"Participate in the world's biggest photo competition and help improve
Wikipedia!"
It just sounds odd to an American ear, something about mixing formal
words (participate, competition) with more informal words (biggest,
photo). I've also never much liked "help improve Wikipedia!" It's
more understandable at first reading, but is pretty vague on what
"Help" means. You've got to be careful in asking for help or it will
sound like begging.
For the record, we'll likely use something like the following for the US banner.
"Join in the world's largest photo contest! Historic sites, photos and prizes."
Pete
User:Smallbones
Hi,
Did one of our many WLM tools offer an option to generate and direct the
user to Upload campaign link based on a monument ID?
I mean user can enter the ID on our website, and via a WLM web-tool we can
direct him with all the data from the monument ID to the upload wizard (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaig…
*<ID>*&descriptionlang=he&description=*(FROMDB)*&lat=*(FROMDB)*&lon=*
(FROMDB)*)
Itzik
Hello all,
with the contest going quite strong (over 15,2k pictures in total at
the moment) and our banners visible to hundreds of milions of people
from about 30 countries, it's the highest time to think about a banner
record -- a banner that will be pushed on-line when we break our
previous record of about 168k pictures uploaded as part of WLM.
I have brought this topic to this list last month, and there have been
some great suggestions of phrases to use. After some poking and
off-list consultations, I decided to go with a variant of Samat's
idea, which was also later revised by Lodewijk (thanks for the
efforts, guys!): "Take part in world's biggest competition and help
improve Wikipedia!".
Personally, I find this slogan quite good: it has a clear call to
action, mentions the goal of the contest (to help Wikipedia by
uploading photos), and will be true when we push it onto the projects
:-)) However, as this is quite an important change and might have a
huge impact, I would like to get a go-ahead from you--and also maybe
see some better ideas if you have them?
As mentioned above, I'd like to push the new banners on-line when we
break the record; which, in general estimates, might happen somewhere
between September 15 and September 20. This would give us about two
weeks to translate the phrases into the 37 languages we use for our
current banners.
If you'd like to help out and translate this slogan into your
language, I prepared a table similar to the one used before at
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Centra…>.
I know that MediaWiki is not the best tool to use for translating a
message, but there's currently no better way to do that; Commons does
not use the Translate extension yet, and I'll need to move those
translations to Meta (the admin-only MediaWiki namespace) anyway.
Thanks in advance for your translations and ideas!
Tomasz
Hi all,
I think we might have missed that topic before, so I'd like to raise
it now, when we are only at the start of the competition, and the
eventual losses are smaller :-)
One of the main ideas of Wiki Loves Monuments, and I think that we all
agree about that, is to make the competition as easy as possible for
the participants. In this spirit, several of our tools (including the
UploadCampaign) were designed, and we also agreed on some of our basic
principles at the 2011 meeting in May that some of you might have
participated in.
One of this principles was to choose only one licence acceptable for
all pictures uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Monuments--and, for
obvious reasons, this licence is the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0,
also knows as CC-BY-SA 3.0.
To achieve that goal, we have enabled only this licence in our
UploadCampaigns on Commons; so if you see it's there, please /do not/
change it or add other licences; this would only make things harder
for those of the participants that use the UploadWizard--and they are
mostly fresh newcomers, who have never heard of MediaWiki before.
This is more of a philosophy idea than a copyright-related thing,
because obviously nobody is going to check pictures uploaded by
Wikimedians with Commonist or other mass-upload tools; if you want to
read more about the original philosphy behind the competition, please
go to <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Philosophy>;
it really is an essay worth reading.
All questions are, as always, welcome.
Thanks,
Tomasz
Hi all.
Since this morning, we have our site offline due to a 403 error, for the
high number of requests we had to wikilovesmonuments.mx website. We
moved to another
server the site to have it online soon.
I guess automatically the CentralNotice banner is redirecting to the
international site. When it is restored will normalize access to our site?
Or should I consult this with someone?
--
*Atentamente:
Iván Martínez
Coordinador General
Wikimedia México
mx.wikimedia.org
Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. *
Hi,
I currently have the following error in the Wizard:
mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0-ro: Parse error at
position 263 in input: Eu, $2, titularul drepturilor de autor ale
{{PLURAL:$1|acestei lucrări|acestor lucrări}}, ofer oricui dreptul
irevocabil de a folosi {{PLURAL:$1|această lucrare|aceste lucrări}}
sub licența Creative Commons
Atribuire-Distribuire-în-condiții-identice 3.0 România ([ $3 textul
juridic])
and I just can't figure out what the error is (position 263 seems to
be the open round parenthesis). Can someone help?
Thanks,
Strainu
There is no banner in Wikipedia from Switzerland.
Is there any problem?
Regards
--
Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH
Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
Switzerland - 8008 Zürich
Tel: +41764821371
http://www.wikimedia.ch