Hello Maarten & others,
I would be happy to help with that, but I must say I do not have much technical knowledge
with the database. However, I am already checking and fixing monument lists so I think it
would be handy for me and you to participate.
I will check the status of the lists from the past years, but also we need to add lists of
new countries.
If any country needs help with fixing lists or need to know more about setting up lists of
monuments in a country, please let me know.
Romaine
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On Tue, 8/13/13, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Code sprint
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 5:48 AM
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
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