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