WikiLovesMonuments October 2013

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Thailand monument id change - please help
by KaewWiki＠gmail.com 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi All, We have used monument codes provided by the Thai Department of Fine Arts for the competition. It was later discovered by our volunteers that the codes are not unique and it was estimated that a few hundred codes are shared by two monuments. Initial contact with the Department resulted in some codes being revised to avoid collision. However, when we reported more issues the department just said that they no longer use the 10-digit coding. They have 7-digit coding in place in their website and it is in our wiki table. I have revised our table on th.wikipedia to reflect this. However, I need help on commons and somewhere else: 1. Monument IDs on uploaded photos must be changed - most of them can be done by bot - in case of id collision, we will do it manually. 2. Monument ID is now designated by "FADlink" rather than "ทะเบียน" - UpLoadWizard and related categorization bots must be revised. If you can help, please reply privately to me. Thank you very much. Taweetham

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Wikimedia should focus on Global South
by Romaine Wiki 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Article about Wiki Loves Monuments and it misses half the world: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2013/Contents… Romaine

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[Jury Tool] Registration
by David Narvaez 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Hi, With most of the usability issues ironed out the last two weeks with the countries that were testing the tool, I have been preparing for deployment for the rest of the countries. Unfortunately, due to persona issues I won't have much time to take care of each installation and configuration as I planned (at least for a couple of weeks), so what I did is roll out all of the installations at http://wlm.wmflabs.org/<country code> At the moment no tool (except for those that were testing it these weeks) have users, so the first thing I'll ask every coordinator in every country listed at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/JuryTo… ist to register in your own tool using the following URL http://wlm.wmflabs.org/<country code>/register I'll take care of promoting the first user registered in every tool as admin of the tool in around 24 hours, which will let that user configure the tool. For countries that are going to test this only, and expect to use the tool on October, feel free to configure it for testing purposes since the tool can be reset. One unimplemented feature that came as a suggestion from Michael Maggs (and was something Lodewijk suggested on our original conversation too) is not to decide the number of rounds upfront, but rather have a way to start a round when needed. I didn't find the time to implement this feature, yet the tool is able to feedback from its own output so if your country does not know exactly how many rounds you will need, just configure the tool for one round, and you'll be able to export all images that meet some criteria, I'll reset the tool, and you can use that output for another round. All questions to my e-mail to keep the mailing list clear, please. David E. Narvaez

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[WLM announce] Fwd: Nomination submissions: Please submit before 25 October.
by Lodewijk 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Summary: please note the *final deadline* of 31 October. This is a hard deadline. If you have problems with your jury, please ask the international team for help as soon as possible. Dear all, let me give a quick recap of what the international process looks like: * National juries (of at least 3 jurors) start now to work, and use October to come to a decision on the national winners. (countries might use popular vote) * The national juries/popular vote must select maximum 10 pictures for the international finale. This is usually the top-10 of the national competition, but there can be exceptions (for example, if there are special categories). This is up to the national jury to decide. * If the national jury wants to submit less than 10 pictures, that is possible. They could theoretically also decide that no picture is good enough for an international finale - in such a case, please submit that decision explicitely. * Please try to submit your 10 nominees as soon as possible, ideally before 25 October. Definitely submit them *BEFORE 31 OCTOBER*, this is a hard, final deadline. * You can submit the 10 nominees by letting one of the jury members or the main organizer send an email with the 10 URL's to lodewijk [at] wikimedia.nland monica.joana11 [at] gmail.com - please make sure the main contact person in your team is always in cc, so that we know the email is genuine. * It is possible to submit your nominees confidentially. We will not publicly announce the nominees (except for the international jury report of course - expected begin of December), we expect the national team to do that. Please link your official announcement on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Winners . On this page we will also create a gallery page with the winning pictures. * If you already know when you will send the nominees, please add the date on the overview too. Please also add that on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Winners . If you have any problems with setting up a jury process, please contact the international team (me for example) as soon as possible! We have a few people in backup that have offered their help to assist as jury member in another country. There is no shame in asking for this kind of help - it would be a shame though if something goes wrong! Please note that to avoid conflicts of interest etc. we ask all countries to make sure that the jury consists of /at least/ three members. Looking forward to lots of amazing pictures, Lodewijk Gelauff member of the international team _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue
by Cristian Consonni 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 2013/10/3 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/October_2013_private_data_security_issue On October 1, 2013, we learned about an implementation error that made private user information (specifically, user email addresses, password hashes, session tokens, and last login timestamp) for approximately 37,000 Wikimedia project users accessible to volunteers with access to the Wikimedia "LabsDB" infrastructure. LabsDB, launched in May 2013, is designed to give volunteers the ability to write tools and generate reports that make use of data from our databases in real-time. This supports bottom-up innovation by the Wikimedia community. As part of this process, private data is automatically redacted before volunteers are given access to the data. Unfortunately, for some of Wikimedia’s wikis[1], the database triggers used to redact private data failed to take effect due to a schema incompatibility, and LabsDB users had access to private user data for some user accounts in these specific wiki databases. As of October 1, 228 users have access to LabsDB, and the window of availability of this data was May 29, 2013 to October 1, 2013. This issue was discovered and reported by a trusted volunteer, and access to the data in question was revoked within 15 minutes of the report. We have no evidence to suggest that the private data in question was exported in bulk or used for malicious purposes, but we cannot definitively exclude the possibility. As a precautionary measure, we have invalidated all affected user sessions, and are requiring affected users to change their password on their next login. We have also sent an email notification to affected users with a confirmed email address. We regret this mistake. LabsDB is still a new part of our infrastructure, and we will fully audit the redaction process, so as to minimize any risk of a future mistake of this nature. Sincerely, Erik Moeller Vice President of Engineering & Product Development Contact information Should you have any questions, please contact us via email to: accountsecurity(a)wikimedia.org You can also reach the Wikimedia Foundation at: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 149 New Montgomery Street Floor 6 San Francisco, CA 94105 United States Phone: +1-415-839-6885 Fax: +1-415-882-0495 [1] List of affected databases: aswikisource bewikisource dewikivoyage elwikivoyage enwikivoyage eswikivoyage frwikivoyage guwikisource hewikivoyage itwikivoyage kowikiversity lezwiki loginwiki minwiki nlwikivoyage plwikivoyage ptwikivoyage rowikivoyage ruwikivoyage sawikiquote slwikiversity svwikivoyage testwikidatawiki tyvwiki ukwikivoyage vecwiktionary votewiki wikidatawiki wikimania2013wiki wikimania2014wiki -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Please write about your activities for Wiki Loves Monuments
by Romaine Wiki 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hello all, Every month a newsletter is published about working together with other organisations and institutions (generally called GLAMs). The information used for the lists of monuments on Wikipedia are in most countries original from a cultural institution. It would be great to describe the co-operation with those organisations so that other people can learn about it and we get a view on how things are going. Please also write about the local activities organized around Wiki Loves Monuments in the past month(s). You can start writing here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can start writing via the section below the table of countries and add your country/area to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2013/Contents If there are any activities planned, please add them to the calendar on: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Events/October_2013 If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask! Thanks & greetings! Romaine

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Total number of pictures for 2013
by Cristian Consonni 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

... seems very close to the one of 2012: https://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/stats.php ~6k picture less on the last day but ~6k pictures more in the next-to-last-day. But there are also ~7k pictures more on the first day and ~4k less on Sept, 23rd. C

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Fwd: WLM CZ
by aktron＠centrum.cz 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Thank you for the informations provided, However, Czech Republic (cs or cz) is still missing... Aktron ______________________ Původní zpráva: ________________________ > Od: <aktron(a)centrum.cz> > Komu: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Datum: 01.10.2013 15:07 > Předmět: WLM CZ > Dear members of the international Wiki Loves Monumens team, The uploading part of our contest (as well as in other countries) ended and we are looking forward for sorting out the pictures. I'd like to gain access for the Jury tool (that I used the last year as well) for evaluation of the pictures we received in the contest. Thank you. Jan Loužek - Aktron Wikimedia Czech Republic

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WLM CZ
by aktron＠centrum.cz 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Dear members of the international Wiki Loves Monumens team, The uploading part of our contest (as well as in other countries) ended and we are looking forward for sorting out the pictures. I'd like to gain access for the Jury tool (that I used the last year as well) for evaluation of the pictures we received in the contest. Thank you. Jan Loužek - Aktron Wikimedia Czech Republic

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