Hi everyone,
As you might know I organized Wiki Loves Monuments, but I'm not part of
the international team this year.
A couple of years ago I started the monuments database
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Monuments_database).
Over time this grew to a collection of tools supporting Wiki Loves
Monuments and other cultural heritage projects. At the end of last year
I transfered the day to day work of these tools to the new WLM team, but
I'm afraid that didn't really work out the way I hoped it would. Nothing
really happened in the last couple of months :-(
Quite of few people approached me about this at Wikimania and we
discussed options. We have some work that needs to be done so that
everything is ready for this years Wiki Loves Monuments. I would like to
propose a code sprint with a group of willing and able volunteers to
tackle the open points.
What needs to be done?
* New sources (new countries) need to be added and some existing
countries (like Switzerland) need to be updated
* Some countries need technical assistance with setting up and improving
their lists
* The api and toolbox side of the tool need to be checked and cleaned up
(several bugs)
* We need a simple tool that works for all the countries to display
monuments to take photographs of on a map
* We should probably complete the setup of a second instance of the
monuments database on labs (already did most of the work, blocking for
months on slow database issues)
* We should revive the WLM Android app as a community project so we have
an app for Android users (most popular phone OS now, app won't be
supported by the WMF)
On the none tech side: Some reports like the unused images and images
that need to be categorized grew a lot. Would probably be very nice to
get rid of the backlog before September so you can keep up with it.
Otherwise it will be though for some countries.
Probably some more things, but this should keep us busy for now. For all
the technical things we have bugs or we'll file bugs in bugzilla so we
can assign tasks and keep an eye on progress.
What do you think? Good approach?
I will contact some people who helped out the previous years and/or
expressed their interest to help out. I'm currently without internet so
I didn't include a lot of links. I will probably reply to this a bit
later with some links and updates.
If you have technical problems related to lists and/or monuments
database. Please send an email to this list so we can start connecting
people!
Maarten
Dear all,
Could you share with us your awards giving algorithm?
We (Wikimedia Ukraine) awarded the winners at the ceremony itself and sent
the prizes by post to the ones that were not able to come in person.
This year there are talks of abandoning this practice and switching to "The
Participant is to be present at the Awards Giving Ceremony to get the
prizes" (but it seems a bit too expensive for me, as we compensate winners'
travel costs, and sending by post is usually cheaper, than paying for
"there and back again"). I have found out that sometimes the contest rules
set some time period for winners to contact, and it sounds something like
this:
The Organizer will use reasonable efforts to contact the Winners, but in
the event the Organizer cannot contact Winners within "_____" business days
from the time of judging, that Participant shall be deemed void.
On one hand, it DOES take time to find out the real person behind the
nickname sometimes, and storing the prizes seems okay for two weeks (a
months?), but after a long while it just seems that people do not care -
why should we?
On the other hand, if a winner really can't come then and there - why
deprive him or her of getting the deserved?
I would root for someting like giving a month to contact the Organizer. If
failed - the prize becomes a donation to some other contest.
I really would love to hear your thoughts about this
Thank you very much,
antanana
As the competition is creeping closer, I'm still very much looking for
candidates! Please make suggestions. I am planning to make a final proposal
on Monday at the latest.
Lodewijk
2013/7/12 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> (summary: please suggest good international jury members. Deadline is 2
> weeks from now.)
>
> Hi all,
>
> Like last year, I would like to use our collective network to find a very
> good jury for Wiki Loves Monuments international! Please let us know if you
> know someone who would be likely to agree to be part of the international
> jury.
>
> What are we looking for:
>
> * A full jury of 7-9 people
> * Ideally: at least 3 active Wikimedians, 2 professional photographers and
> 2 heritage experts. Combinations of these categories are most welcomed.
> * Geographically diverse (especially keeping in mind the diversity in
> different types of monuments on different continents that participate)
> * All international jury members should /not/ be a member of a national
> jury
> * Available in November for jury duty
> * On a volunteer basis
>
> What should they expect:
> * up to 10 images per country will be nominated, which means an expected
> 250-500 nominated pictures for the jury to judge.
> * Each juror will select independently a small number of pictures (in the
> range of 10) from this initial pool. These pictures continue to the second
> round. Each juror will select a ranked list from this second round pool,
> and distribute points. In case of an ex aequo result in the top-25, the
> point distribution or a shootout-vote might occur. Jurors are expected to
> give some reasoning why they make a choice, so that a joint jury report can
> be produced by the jury moderator.
> * The jurors are expected to deliver these judgings timely within the
> mutually agreed upon timeline as will be communicated in September/October.
> * The names of the jury members will be published on the contest
> website(s) and in the final jury report. There is no further compensation.
> * There will be no physical meeting, and unless the jury decides
> otherwise, there will be no other meetings either - all communication will
> happen via email or other online platforms (i.e. the jury tool)
> * There is no particular technical expertise required to participate in
> the jury. I would expect 15-25 hours of time investment per jury member
> between mid October and mid December (mostly in November).
>
> Most likely, we will make sure there is a non-voting jury moderator.
> However, if someone would really like to volunteer for that role (most of
> the work will be mid-September through mid-December), that would be very
> welcome. To be a moderator, you will have to be skilled in Wiki editing,
> communication and moderation (making sure discussions happen and end in
> time with a satisfying outcome). The work includes making sure all national
> juries submit their nominations in time, that the nominations are
> summarized effectively for the international jury members, that the votes
> of the international jury members are collected and tallied and that
> discussion around image qualities take place. Also, the moderator is
> responsible for putting together the jury report based on the jury
> decisions. The moderator should not be partial of course.
>
> Anyway, especially for jury members I sincerely look forward to your
> suggestions! We still have some suggestions from last year, but don't be
> afraid to repeat them. You can send them on-list at wikilovesmonuments at
> lists.wikimedia.org or privately to me. I will then collect them, discuss
> the list with the international team (privately), and make a proposal
> internally. I will approach the candidates if they would be willing to
> serve as a jury member. My initial deadline for making jury suggestions is
> 2 weeks from now.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lodewijk
>
I'd like to share an app developed by a Boston Wikimedian, for generating
walking tours on Googlemaps, based on unphotographed sites in a particular
area:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mim1999.unvisited
The app creator has a lot of Commons experience in photographing sites
around Boston, but he is not very familiar with WLM, so it would be good to
get feedback on if/how this tool, or something like it, might be useful to
broader WLM efforts.
A good place to leave feedback might be here, at the note he left on my
enwiki talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pharos#The_Unvisited_App
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
I'm concerned that good-faith edits (hundreds of them) by one user,
relating to WikiLovesMonumnts in the UK, have i) used date templates
where they're not appropriate and ii) lost lots of existing wikilinks,
including disambiguation, which other editors are now being asked to
replace. Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:UK_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#…
for examples and discussion.
We may need a mass revert (after which the edits can be reinstated in
better shape); or a bot to do cleanup.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
The download location has changed to
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/wlm_wordpress_….
I have not been able to update the pdf, sorry for that. We did add the
link in the FAQ and in the file description.
Hopefully that works!
Lodewijk
2013/8/7 Mircla Nava <m.nava(a)monumentenfondsaruba.com>
> The link for the wordpress template seems to have an error. Is there
> another link where we can download the template?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
>
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Hello everyone,
== Status ==
In the past week I have been working on getting the upload campaigns from last year back active and fully functional. Still there are some bugs, in particular with labels above the fields for identifiers.
Status: you can test the existing upload campaigns: Andorra (ad), Antarctica (aq), Argentina (ar), Austria (at), Belarus (by), Belgium (be-bru, be-vlg, be-wal), Canada (ca), Chile (cl), Colombia (co), Czech Republic (cz), Denmark (dk-bygning, dk-fortids), Estonia (ee), France (fr), Germany (de), India (in), Israel (il), Italy (it), Luxembourg (lu), Mexico (mx), Netherlands (nl, nl-gemeente), Norway (no), Panama (pa), Philippines (ph), Poland (pl), Portugal (pt), Romania (ro), Russia (ru), Serbia (rs), South Africa (za), Spain (es), Sweden (se-bbr, se-fornmin, se-ship), Switzerland (ch), Ukraine (ua), United States (us).
Not yet available are Algeria (dz), Armenia (am), Aruba (aw), Azerbaijan (az), Bolivia (bo), Botswana (bw), Cameroon (cm), China (cn), Egypt (eg), El Salvador (sv), Finland (fi), Guatemala (gt), Hong Kong (hk), Japan (jp), Jordan (jo), Namibia (na), Nepal (np), Pakistan (pk), Senegal (sn), Slovakia (sk), Taiwan (tw), Thailand (th), Tunisia (tn), United Kingdom (uk), Uruguay (uy) and Venezuela (ve). These will follow as soon as possible.
How to test a campaign? Go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=wlm- and put after campaign=wlm- the country code. The campaign can also be pre-filled by adding information in the url. See for more information about the url at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Upload…
== Translations wanted ==
These four templates are missing translations:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_header_Wiki_Lov…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_header_Wiki_Lov…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_use_Wiki_Loves_…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013
Essential languages missing: Arabic (ar), Armenian (hy), Azerbaijani (az) Chinese (zh), Finnish (fi), Japanese (ja), Nepali (ne), Papiamento (pap), Slovak (sk), Thai (th), Urdu (ur)
If you are able to translate these templates in other languages which aren't available yet: please do so!
Other translation request will follow soon!
== Questions and contact ==
If you have any questions or if you notice any bugs, the best way to contact us about this matter (and to prevent an e-mail overload) is using this talk page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/U… This page is watched by the team daily.
If you need direct contact, I prefer using a chatroom: #Wikilovesmonuments at freenode. See for details and how to access it on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Upload…
Greetings!
Romaine
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine
Hi all
WLM in the UK now has a live external website: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/
More content will be added over the next two weeks, and suggestions are welcome.
Michael