WikiLovesMonuments September 2013

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First 2013 photowalk in Mexico
by Ivan Martínez 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Dear all: Just sharing the images of our first Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 photowalk in Mexico City the past saturday 7th. We have an attendance of 72 people perhaps the light rain who surprised us in the Downtown of Mexico City! We're preparing a post in our blog about the photowalk, also. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Primer_recorrido_fotogr%C3%A1fi… Lodewijk, ¿can we share the post in english for the international site? Best regards. -- *Atentamente: Iván Martínez Presidente Wikimedia México A.C. wikimedia.mx 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>. *

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Wiki Loves Monument 2013 India - Victoria Memorial
by Sourendra Das 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Hi Wikipedia, Few Questions that I wanted some information - 1. In this link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State_Protected_Monuments_in_West_Ben… Can't see Victoria Memorial <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Memorial_(India)>? WHY??? So, can we upload images ofVictoria Memorial<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Memorial_(India)> for the Contest??? Victoria Memorial<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Memorial_(India)> IS THE MOST POPULAR MONUMENT IN CALCUTTA. Victoria Memorial <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Memorial_(India)> is a Monument that is evident from these Wikipedia Links - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_in_West_Bengal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_to_Queen_Vict… 2. " Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 India Upload Wizard. Steps and help <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/> - *Find the monument ID !<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monume…> * - Other countries<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_upload> " Is this step compulsory or is it for the Volunteers??? 3. In Pranav Singh's photo, Tomb of Safdarjung, New Delhi Pranav had written "|description={{ASI Monument|4}}" that was corrected by a Volunteer to "|description={{ASI Monument|N-DL-50}}" So, if someone does not know the ASI Monument Number, it will be corrected/included by the Volunteer??? 4. If we put multiple images, can it be the same monument in different angles??? Kindly clear the confusion and please give a contact email where contests can ask for any information? Thanks in advance. (Sent from my iPad or iPhone)

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WLM Streaming tool
by Michael Maggs 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Is this tool still operational? https://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/stream/ It produces a message "Please wait while we load some photos", but then does nothing. Michael

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Guinness World Record participation certificate
by Lodewijk 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Hi all, while I doubt many organizing teams will be interested in it, for the 2012 record, you could order a 'participation certificate' to certify that you participated in the 2012 world record of WIki Loves Monuments. This will be different from an organizer certificate, but some might appreciate it still. For ordering such certificate, you need to provide a 'participation code'. I have this code. If you're interested in ordering this certificate, please contact me off-list. There are costs involved in ordering such certificate - see the website of GWR - which are to be covered by yourself. I'm (unless you can convince me otherwise) only planning to give it out to national organizing teams and people who made a lot of uploads. Anyway, I don't expect a lot of interest in this, but we'll see :) Lodewijk

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[WLM announce] Adding uploaded images to monument lists
by Lodewijk 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Hi all, During Wiki Loves Monuments, thousands of monuments have already been uploaded and that is amazing! It's nice to have a lot of images of monuments on Wikimedia Commons, but it's even nicer to also have these images in use on Wikipedia. You can help by adding these unused images to the lists on Wikipedia. All uploaded images should contain the 'unique identifier' by which you can identify a monument in your country. Thanks to this information, Erfgoedbot recognizes which images belong to monuments that do not have a picture yet in the monument lists on Wikipedia. Erfgoedbot reports these images on the 'unused images' page dedicated to your country-language combination, together with a link to the exact monument list this image should be placed in. An overview of all 'unused images' reporting pages is maintained on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Unused_images, which also explains how to use those pages. If you find a mistake, have a question or just want to say how much you like this tool, you can use the talkpage attached to this overview page. The overview also reports which language-country combinations have the most images that could be inserted into a monument list. Currently the countries that require most attention are: * Russia in Russian - 22,334 unused images (because they recently created the list, there's a bit of a backlog, so this is understandable) * Ukraine in Ukrainian - 5,500 unused images * Flanders (Belgium) in French - 3100 images * Poland in Polish - 2300 images (lots of uploads!) * Flanders (Belgium) in Dutch - 2100 images * Armenia in Armenian - 1900 images * Israel in Hebrew - 1200 images (and their competition hasn't even started yet!) * Switzerland in German - 800 images Good luck with processing this, and please put a note on the talkpage if you need help understanding something. It might make sense to ask some more community members to jump in, if you can't manage by yourself. The lists are updated daily so you probably want to put "your" list on your watchlist so you can keep up. Lodewijk _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Labs-l] Reboot of virt11 Friday Sept 6 at 20:00 UTC
by Maarten Dammers 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Hi Ryan, Op 4-9-2013 23:38, Ryan Lane schreef: > During wikimania I was cleaning up some base images that were eating > up a large amount of disk space and caused an issue on virt11 that > requires a reboot. This will cause a reboot of about 45 instances. > Here's a list of the instances that will be affected: > > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Ask&q=[[Resource+T…> How long will he downtime be and can you please announce earlier? A week is a normal notice time. The Wiki Loves Monuments tools and applications (like the mobile app) rely on this so please keep it as short as possible. Maarten

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UploadWizard bug?
by KaewWiki＠gmail.com 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Hi Romaine, Could you please make ID a required field? BTW, I'm relieved to find that the second and third photos came with proper ID and look a lot nicer than the first. We expect to gear up our campaign next weekend. Many thanks, Taweetham On 1 September 2013 19:00, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote: > I think last year, we did require the field, unless it was a country where > the ID had the format of 1, 2, 3, etc. (so I always advise to at least make > it a little more complex than that) > > Lodewijk > > > 2013/9/1 <KaewWiki(a)gmail.com> > > Thank you, Bas. If possible, we would like to set the UploadWizard so >> that ID is required. >> >> It can be difficult to classify photos with no information given. >> Here is the first photo uploaded to us >> >> File:Image_by_aof.jpg >> >> There is no description at all. >> >> Many thanks, >> Taweetham >> >> >> On 1 September 2013 11:13, Bas vb <bas_v_b(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello Taweetham, >> > >> > It is possible to set the ID on required (it is currently not set as >> > required). I don't really know whether this was done last year? >> > >> > Greets, >> > >> > Bas >> > >> >> From: KaewWiki(a)gmail.com >> >> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 10:01:44 +1000 >> >> To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UploadWizard bug? >> > >> >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> I just did a test a moment ago. I didn't put Monument ID, a required >> >> field into the Wizard but it just went through! >> >> >> >> File:Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png >> >> >> >> Is this a bug? >> >> >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Taweetham >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> >> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >

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Outreach events
by vacio＠riseup.net 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Hi All, As WLM will start in just 3 days, I wander if anyone wants to (or did) share the events you organize in your country to get as much participants and as much (media) attention as possible, Maybe you find our outreach event inspiring :) We will start with a flash-mob in Yerevan (capital of Armenia). We have a group of 20-40 people who are very interested in participating. We'll ask them to come to a central square wearing WLM T-shirts and at a given moment they will all together, "suddenly" start to photograph monuments of this square. Then they will split in smaller groups and go photograph elsewhere. We will give them printed lists of monuments, as well as flyers to distribute them. At the end of the day everyone will come to the city library, where we will have an "upload party" (or "upload-a-thon"). We are going to do the same event in other cities as well. We think, this will attract more people to take part to the competition. Besides, the monuments of these cities will be well documented in Commmons. So, how about you? Cheers, Vachagan Wiki Loves Monuments in Armenia 2013 www.wikilovesmonuments.am

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Fwd: Fwd: [Wlm-global-org] Agendas from Lettera27
by Cristian Consonni 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

I forward this question (and the answer) from Ukraine, since it may be of interest to everybody. --- > Is it for free? Can our country (Ukraine) apply for it? yes, the agendas have been donated to us by Lettera27 Foundation and the shipping cost will be covered by the international team. All local teams can apply. --- C

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Use https when linking to any Wikimedia site
by Maarten Dammers 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

Hi everyone, Https is the default now. So if you make an upload link to Commons use httpS and not http, otherwise the user will get a "you're not logged in bla die bla" error message. Maarten

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