I think that we posted messages last year in the talk pages of users
without an email address.
Although I can't find evidence of that in the archives, so maybe we only
talked about doing so.
Anyway, I developed a tool for listing WLM participants without an e-mail:
http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/nomail.php
It lists users without an authenticated e-mail. I recommend that each
local organization team
prepares a boilerplate in their local language and posts to the talk
pages of the users that
participated with photos of their country (if they decide sending such
messages).
If when you are going to notify a user you notice that you have the
"E-mail this user" link on
their talk page, then they *do* have an email set, it was a false
positive from my tool
(I saw some instances, either due to replication lag or the toolserver
copy is desynchronized).
There will also be some false negatives, for people that do have an
email address set in their
preferences but have explicitely disabled receiving emails from other
users (which is what we
really care about). Hopefully, there will be few of those.
Regards
Hi guys.
I'm in the very best way shocked by results of the almost finished
Belarusian contest. That is more than 100 contestants with more than
5000 submissions! I'm very happy with great results in other countries
as well.
But as the contest is going to its end, there is a question about the
reviewing proccess. How should jury members pick the best photos?
Which software tools should they use? I'm even thinking about
developing a new one which would just retrieve photos via MWAPI and
then just give the jury members a choice out of hundreds of photos
(beforehand filtered to eliminate all low-quality, non-encyclopedic
stuff).
Looking through the mailing list archives, especially the Jury tools
thread, I haven't yet received an ultimate answer.
So, what is yours?
--
З павагай,
Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas
Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects
p.selitskas(a)gmail.com, +375257408304
Skype: p.selitskas
Here is an idea:
Turn the WLM app into a similar app for uploading photos related to
Wikipedia articles. This was in fact the original goal of the mobile photo
upload project.
One take on this is to use the Nearby search and article search as a way to
find articles, then the upload will be given a title related to the article
and some metadata can include the article ID.
The WLM app will otherwise run the risk of not being functional past
October, due to backend issues.
Just a quick thought. Let the mobile team know if you think this is a good
idea.
Phil
--
Phil Inje Chang
Former Product Manager, Mobile
Wikimedia Foundation
I have been enriching http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/uploads.php
with information from the description page.
(Actually the tool was ready since at least 17th September, but
it didn't catch up with the uploaded files until today)
It's strongest point is that it shows the monument identifiers
along the upload information. If the identifier doesn't appear
in the monument db, it is shown in red, so it's easy to center
on «potentially problematic ids» (but don't take it as final,
several red ids seem ok, looks like incomplete info in the db).
The new files are being parsed right now every 5 minutes. If you
don't see an identifier for an upload there are several options:
1. It hasn't been parsed yet.
2. Your country doesn't use identifiers.
3. The user didn't provide an identifier.
4. The bot didn't found the template.
With different 'solutions':
1. Easy to detect since the country won't be shown either. Wait until it
gets loaded or browse an earlier day :)
2. You have a hard work determining the right images, but there's little
I can automatically do in that case.
3. The case we are trying to find.
4. Maybe the bot was expecting {{Denkmalgeschütztes Objekt Österreich}}
and it was included through {{doo}}, your template allows up to three
identifiers in one template (it accepts fine multiple instances of a
template, but fr and ca needed to check for this case), it used some
different call (eg. id= instead of 1=), it used yet another template
(there are ~10 cases for Germany)... Bring that file to my attention.
I recommend setting an appropiately high limit and browsing the uploads
per day to your country.
With the same backend, there's a tool grouping users:
http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/users.php
As the uploads information lives in a database, it is very simple to
gather statistics from it:
We have 270274 photos right now (increasing constantly, we are at crazy
speed), distributed in the following way:
+---------+-------+
| country | count |
+---------+-------+
| pl | 37316 |
| es | 33592 |
| de | 23281 |
| ua | 23140 |
| fr | 22002 |
| us | 16717 |
| cz | 14058 |
| in | 13355 |
| ru | 11158 |
| at | 8413 |
| mx | 7292 |
| ro | 6718 |
| it | 6276 |
| nl | 5709 |
| by | 5243 |
| co | 4836 |
| ca | 4272 |
| ar | 3957 |
| be | 3494 |
| se | 2659 |
| rs | 2430 |
| cl | 2384 |
| ee | 1987 |
| il | 1869 |
| za | 1566 |
| ph | 1561 |
| ch | 1116 |
| no | 1107 |
| pa | 798 |
| sk | 707 |
| dk | 405 |
| ad | 254 |
| lu | 216 |
| ke | 90 |
| gh | 63 |
| NULL | 31 |
| gr | 20 |
| mk | 1 |
+---------+-------+
(yes, we have 20 photos from Greece and 1 from Macedonia despite the
fact that they don't participate in WLM2012 :)
It's also interesting to show the aggregation of files-per-day (these
are UTC days):
+----------+-------+
| day | count |
+----------+-------+
| 20120928 | 14641 |
| 20120927 | 17227 |
| 20120926 | 13174 |
| 20120925 | 12904 |
| 20120924 | 11507 |
| 20120923 | 14136 |
| 20120922 | 10439 |
| 20120921 | 10142 |
| 20120920 | 8280 |
| 20120919 | 7303 |
| 20120918 | 8423 |
| 20120917 | 9271 |
| 20120916 | 10899 |
| 20120915 | 7743 |
| 20120914 | 8291 |
| 20120913 | 9067 |
| 20120912 | 8706 |
| 20120911 | 8115 |
| 20120910 | 9178 |
| 20120909 | 10307 |
| 20120908 | 8437 |
| 20120907 | 7291 |
| 20120906 | 6539 |
| 20120905 | 7910 |
| 20120904 | 7301 |
| 20120903 | 6808 |
| 20120902 | 8657 |
| 20120901 | 7056 |
| 20120831 | 522 |
+----------+-------+