WikiLovesMonuments September 2013

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Metro Photo Challenge
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Does someone know this challenge? I saw it quite prominently advertised on Metro this Monday. «The Metro Photo Challenge, the world’s biggest photography competition, officially launched on Tuesday», «2013 will mark the seventh Metro Photo Challenge [...] we’re going to ask you to capture more of a process than a thing [...] sensing the world around you». <http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-your-senses-enter…> http://metrophotochallenge.com/ Are they the previous holders of the Guinness world record ("forgetting" to update their claims) or are they just making it up? I didn't actually try to register but I can't find any information on licensing; interesting that they felt compelled to add a "we'll donate to a charity" incentive. They have 5200 photos and and 2700 uploaders so far. Nemo

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Autofill during upload
by Lars Jynge Alvik 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi! I was wondering if there are any plans to implement autotagging of location/coordinates when uploading using the upload wizard. For example: When you punch in the monument ID it could fill in coordinates and possibly some extra information using information gathered by the bot. Regards Lars J. Alvik

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[WLM announce] Categorization of images
by Lodewijk 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi all, as you may or may not know, the bot 'erfgoedbot' (run by multichill) categorizes images to more specific heritage categories, once they have been uploaded. For this, it goes into the root of the category tree (usually "category:Cultural Heritage monuments in XYZ") which has been added at upload, and based on the templates used in your lists it will try to find more specific categories. How you can help: * Add {{Commonscat}} templates to your lists, linking to the right category in Wikimedia Commons. * Clean up images left over in the category after the botrun (the bot runs in the European night) * Expand and maintain the category tree. See for more information: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization Your help here would be very valuable, because I've been told that if the ' leftovers' become too many, it will slow down erfgoedbot (100+ it already has an impact) and that is of course something nobody wants! Also, the leftovers are usually either a mistake in the structure (something you'd like to correct), or a mistake by the uploader, making a typo in the identifier or just making it up. Keeping those numbers low, should help you maximizing the number of valid submissions in your country! Thank you for your help! Lodewijk _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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Call for help setting up banner and text
by Romaine Wiki 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hello all, At the moment we show only a CentralNotice to people who visit Wikipedia/Wikimedia that access the internet through a connection in a country that participates. But many people have family living in another country, live near an international border, have or had their work in another country, have/had study in another country or were spending the holiday in another country. Many many pictures are made by people living in another country which could enrich Wikipedia, but many people do not know that they can contribute with photos to Wikipedia. To inform those people that Wiki Loves Monuments is active, we are working on a banner specially targeting on them. That banner, shown in the second half of September, will lead to a landing page that has to be created where we tell what Wiki Loves Monuments is, that they can participate if they have pictures from monuments in participating countries and we want to tell that one important aspect of Wiki Loves Monuments is that we want to make the world's cultural heritage visible to the public in lists of monuments. The landing page should primarily contain an overview of participating countries, but secondly also a call for creation of lists to enrich Wikipedia. To engage those other countries we have set up a project page at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Other_… Be welcome to help and contribute to this project to engage people in other countries! Romaine

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Metro "World's largest"
by Peter Ekman 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

My first reaction to the Metro contest is that they have an awesome "jury tool". Check it out - maybe we could try for something like this for next year. 2nd - They have a claim to be the "World's largest" however tentative, and we have a better claim. We could ask them to cease and desist making the claim, but they would likely just ignore us, and there's nothing we could do about it. A possibility would be some sort of cooperation for next year with Metro, i.e. their very large readership could contribute to WLM. With our limited (but extensive) lists, that would likely be very difficult for them, but maybe with a different competition on our part something could be done, e.g. "Wiki Loves Your Hometown" Pete User:Smallbones On 4 September 2013 09:19, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does someone know this challenge? I saw it quite prominently advertised on > Metro this Monday. > «The Metro Photo Challenge, the world’s biggest photography > competition, officially launched on Tuesday», «2013 will mark the seventh > Metro Photo Challenge [...] we’re going to ask you to capture more of a > process than a thing [...] sensing the world around you». > <http://www.metro.us/newyork/**news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-** > your-senses-enter-the-2013-**metro-photo-challenge/< http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-your-senses-enter… >

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Uploaded photos with mobile app
by Ivan Martínez 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi folks! Is there any way to know how many pictures are being uploaded using the mobile application? Thank you. -- *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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Cumulative year by year
by Sylvain Machefert 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hello all, I was wondering how this year was, compared to previous years for total number of contributions. So I grabbed datas from emijrp and here's a graph showing the 3 last years with cumulative numbers, day by day : http://www.geobib.fr/mh/stats/ So we're still progressing in comparation with previous year but only by 30% while last year it was by more than 100%. Sylvain

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Press mentions
by Jan Ainali 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hello, We had a great coverage in Sweden today, being featured in radio and TV. I started a page to keep track of them like we did last year. Please fill in your mentions too so we can show how this is being spread. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Press_… *Best, Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> 0729 - 67 29 48

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Double check: WLM notice not shown to anonymous user on it.wiki
by Cristian Consonni 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi all, I am currently logged in and I can see the WLM banner on it.wiki (the "WIki Loves Monuments: photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win"[*]), if I log off the banner disappers. I have tested this behavior with 3 browser (Chromium, Firefox, Epiphany on Linux) and I was wondering if this is intended. Shouldn't the banner visible for everyone. Thank you. C [*] Translating in English from Italian, YMMV

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please use toollabs api for your tools
by User Mono 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Can tool labs handle this many hits? --- Original Message --- From: "Maarten Dammers" <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> Sent: September 1, 2013 4:34 AM To: "Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition" <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please use toollabs api for your tools Hi everyone, Many tools have been build on top http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php . Toolserver is quite overloaded so I build a second api with the same codebase. It's a bit more limited, but should work much better for automated tools. You can find it at http://tools.wmflabs.org/heritage/api/api.php . The mobile app also uses this one. See for example https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=http:%2F%2Ftools.wmflabs.org%2Fheritage%2Fapi… for the monuments in my city. Most of the load will be on the database, statistics about that on http://ganglia.wmflabs.org/latest/?r=week&cs=&ce=&c=tools&h=tools-db&tab=m&… Maarten _______________________________________________ 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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