Hi michael,
actually this change would be fairly trivial. It would just be a matter of
changing the mother template, and no need to 'fix' the individual pages -
assuming that they all use that template (which is necessary anyway).
The main bottle neck for showing upload links even when there is already an
image, is approval from the community, not the technical side. If need be,
you could make this change on August 30, and revert that early October.
Hope that answers,
Lodewijk
2013/7/21 Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name>
Oh dear! See the thread below from the WLM
International list.
It seems to me that we really must have a direct image upload link built
in to the WLM template on en.W which works even where we have an image of a
building already. Part of the purpose of the competition is to encourage
new editors/uploads and we can't have a system that requires specialist
Wiki knowledge in every case where there is already an image. We want lots
of images of each building!
A question to those who know about bots: how difficult would it be to
change the template on en.W, and then run an update script over all the the
pages that have been done so far?
I'm not sure where it would be best to add the upload link, but it
shouldn't be too intrusive as we may get resistance from the community.
Is the technology behind the template capable of having, for example, a
small '+" button which overlays any existing image and appears in the right
hand corner? Or can anyone come up with something better?
Regards to all. It's looking good at the moment for the UK's first foray
into this competition!
Michael
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki(a)gmail.com>
*Subject: **Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How will competitors access the
upload wizard from the English Wikipedia?*
*Date: *19 July 2013 23:59:05 GMT+01:00
*To: *Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Reply-To: *Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Michael and all,
You raise a good point
* If there is no existing image of a buidling, clicking on the last
column goes to the upload wizard, but if there is
already an image it seems
the competitor will need to do some manual work to find the listing code
and upload separately. That is not good.
What would you recommend? Have I missed something, or do we need to
change the list template so that it always has some sort of visible upload
link?
*
Technically, this can be done easily. I guess it depends more on your
community - for example, on fr.wp, nobody really cared and Maarten (and
then I) just went ahead and tweaked the template ; I understand that on
en.wp the NRHP project had to jump through some hoops (because of some
placeholder policy there).
So yeah, an upload link for each monument can definitely be added - you
just need to know if that is really what you want to have :)
--
Jean-Frédéric
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