hello there!
has anyone tried locally to organise something around outreach to
photographers whose pictures were made on photographic films?
we have not had such a campaign in Ukraine before, just individual efforts,
like when a Wikipedian convinced an old photographer to upload his pictures
of lost heritage to Commons, they had to scan his films to do that:
https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/photos-of-destroyed-heritage/
as this year (to make sure people are not roaming around taking pictures
for their own safety) for the Ukrainian part of the contest we decided to
accept only pictures taken before February 24, 2022, we thought of maybe
looking for ways to reach this audience -- photographers whose pictures are
on films, so most probably old enough... but maybe there are some
tips/things to be aware of when dealing with scanned films, and somebody on
the list has travelled down this path already, and can share useful
information?
(sorry for crossposting, i have also asked about this on the telegram
channel)
З повагою / Best regards,
antanana
Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine
Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as
a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
As you may know, there are several tools overseen by the WLM international
team for Wiki Loves -like contests. While I myself stepped down from the
team a while back, I wanted to send a (belated) quick reminder of some
tools that are available.
Note that these are not all the tools available around WLM, only the ones
that I (co-)maintain(ed) :)
== Statistics tools ==
https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/monuments/2024
Data is refreshed every 15 minutes.
If you want to know more about the tool, please see
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Wikiloves
The tool, beyond the “country race”, provides each competition with:
* A day-to-day table of image uploads and joiners (uploader who uploaded
their first image on that day).
https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/monuments/2024/Norway
* A sorted table of all uploaders, their upload count (as part of the
competition) and file usage, and their registration date
https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/monuments/2024/Norway/users
These two views may be helpful to gauge the health of your competition
If you notice any issue with the tool (bug, data missing, etc.), please
file a task on Phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=tool…
== ErfgoedBot and Monuments database ==
Some might have noticed it − ErfgoedBot had been broken since March
(GridEngine deprecation). We managed to get back and running just in time
for September 1st.
For more information on the services provided by ErfgoedBot
(categorization, maintenance reports, etc.), please see the documentation
on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database
One of the most relevant tasks is categorization. Unfortunately, the bot’s
work is slowed down by going over and over thousands of images it can't
figure out how to categorize.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization
→ it would be great if humans could have a look at the images left in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorizatio…
== Notification to uploaders without email enabled ==
Every three minutes, ErfgoedBot retrieves the list of users who uploaded,
in the last few minutes, pictures marked as participating to WLM. If an
uploader has not enabled e-mail, the bot leaves a message on their talk
page explaining that it is necessary to win a prize (unless it has already
notified that user).
You can help translating the message in more languages at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/i18nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/heading/i18n
We hope that this will help to avoid situations of winning pictures with no
email enabled, only detected much later when the uploader is not around
anymore.
Hope this all helps,
--
Jean-Frédéric
Hi! This event might be of interest – Wikimedia Central & Eastern Europe
(CEE) Hub is doing a knowledge exchange about Wiki Loves Monuments later
today.
It's at 17:00 CEST / 15:00 UTC / in 1.5 hours from now.
The event is focused on the CEE community but open for communities from
other regions to attend.
See the original announcement for more details:
Best Regards
Anton Protsiuk
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Toni Ristovski <toni.ristovski(a)wmceehub.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Subject: Wiki Loves Monuments session
To: Wikimedia CEE Region mailing list <info-wmcee(a)wmceehub.org>
Hi everyone,
Next Tuesday (3 September 2024) at 17:00 CEST, CEE Hub along with speakers
from Ukraine and Armenia will hold a knowledge exchange session about the
good and bad practices to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments campaign in your
country.
We will share once again the conclusions from the survey that we had during
the summer, and we will open a discussion about the improvements,
especially about the promotion and post-contest activities, as the campaign
will start on 1st of September.
Everyone who wants to be part of this campaign, please save the link
<http://meet.google.com/dhs-befd-xwk> or you write me a message to add you
in the meeting, so you can have it in your calendar :)
See you soon
Toni Ristovski | Тони Ристовски
*CEE HUB | Program Officer*
Tel. +389 72 565 409
Web. www.wmceehub.org
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email to info-wmcee+unsubscribe(a)wmceehub.org.
Hi all,
In our multilingual wikiverse we depend for many things on translations.
Many people speak other languages, but still many people can't.
Today I was wondering how well the name of the photo contest Wiki Loves
Monuments was translated in Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353202> into various languages. Here an
overview: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Wiki_Loves
Still in many languages a translation is missing. If you speak a certain
language, please add a translation by clicking on the pen icon. Also Wiki
Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Africa labels are listed.
In the large photo contests many translatable templates are used to make
Commons as much as possible available in the local language of the users.
You understand English, but many people don't. To make it easier to
understand and join, we often use templates that have been translated. Many
of these templates are only translated for a few languages, which is
restricting who can understand a text or not.
You can help by adding more translations for more languages:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Wiki_Loves_Earth/Languages
Greetings,
Romaine
In both lists only