I am not sure who has been working on the Scottish and Northern Ireland lists recently. I’ve seen that Andrew has done some work in Scotland, but he may not have enough time to complete this on his own.
Since virtually none of the Scottish lists are up yet, and only about half of the Northern Ireland lists, I have to ask (sorry!) whether it is truly realistic for us to launch the UK competition in those countries. Wales is finished, and although England still needs more work the competition could at least go ahead in many English counties.
I don’t want to be too negative about this, but we have to be sensible. It will look bad if we launch in Scotland and Northern Ireland only to have to admit that there is no way to upload from Wikipedia. One of the main purposes of the competition is to get new editors, and they will never able able to contribute if they have no easy access to the upload wizard from a Wikipedia page.
Could I please ask that everyone who is able to work on the UK lists over the next week make themselves known here, and indicate what might be doable over that period?
I am cross-posting to the International list as well, in case anyone is able to provide some final assistance for us.
Michael
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name wrote:
Hi all
Only 9 working days till the start of the competition and I’m concerned that we may not have enough resources to complete all the gaps in
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_U...
before the competition starts.
Most of the heavy lifting so far has been done by Richard N, Katie C and Dev1. What do you all think? Is there time, or do we need to find you some urgent help?
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For Scotland, the problem is that there are existing lists with a lot of detail - notes, detailed addresses, & coordinates - and copying them over takes some time; there's also been a bit of churn since these were generated, meaning ~1% of entries have been upgraded from B to A (and are new) or have been delisted from A (and need removed). It's nothing overly complex, just a little tricky.
I've generated "new" list templates for each area from Katie's data and I'm copying the details across by hand into this new framework before pasting them in. Happy to provide these blanks if anyone's interested. I think with a solid block of work this weekend by perhaps three or four people we will be able to launch north of the border.
NI looks bad but is probably one afternoon's work to complete - they're pretty small lists.
(Glasgow and Edinburgh are going to be an interesting challenge, though; I haven't yet had time to figure out what the current state of affairs is with these two cities.)
A.
On 21 August 2013 09:05, Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name wrote:
I am not sure who has been working on the Scottish and Northern Ireland lists recently. I’ve seen that Andrew has done some work in Scotland, but he may not have enough time to complete this on his own.
Since virtually none of the Scottish lists are up yet, and only about half of the Northern Ireland lists, I have to ask (sorry!) whether it is truly realistic for us to launch the UK competition in those countries. Wales is finished, and although England still needs more work the competition could at least go ahead in many English counties.
I don’t want to be too negative about this, but we have to be sensible. It will look bad if we launch in Scotland and Northern Ireland only to have to admit that there is no way to upload from Wikipedia. One of the main purposes of the competition is to get new editors, and they will never able able to contribute if they have no easy access to the upload wizard from a Wikipedia page.
*Could I please ask that everyone who is able to work on the UK lists over the next week make themselves known here, and indicate what might be doable over that period?*
I am cross-posting to the International list as well, in case anyone is able to provide some final assistance for us.
Michael
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name wrote:
Hi all
Only 9 working days till the start of the competition and I’m concerned that we may not have enough resources to complete all the gaps in
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_U...
before the competition starts.
Most of the heavy lifting so far has been done by Richard N, Katie C and Dev1. What do you all think? Is there time, or do we need to find you some urgent help?
Michael
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Hi all,
I hope to be able to do some work on all the Sussex lists, and possibly the Surrey ones, before the end of August, in terms of correcting names and locations, wikilinking and so on. Hope that helps. I'm not sure exactly how much time I'll have, but I'm "between articles" at the moment so I'll try to make this my priority.
Cheers Matt Davis (User:Hassocks5489)
From: Michael@maggs.name Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:05:01 +0100 To: wlm2013-l@wikimedia.org.uk CC: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wlm2013-l] Fwd: Do we have the resources to complete the lists in time?
I am not sure who has been working on the Scottish and Northern Ireland lists recently. I’ve seen that Andrew has done some work in Scotland, but he may not have enough time to complete this on his own. Since virtually none of the Scottish lists are up yet, and only about half of the Northern Ireland lists, I have to ask (sorry!) whether it is truly realistic for us to launch the UK competition in those countries. Wales is finished, and although England still needs more work the competition could at least go ahead in many English counties. I don’t want to be too negative about this, but we have to be sensible. It will look bad if we launch in Scotland and Northern Ireland only to have to admit that there is no way to upload from Wikipedia. One of the main purposes of the competition is to get new editors, and they will never able able to contribute if they have no easy access to the upload wizard from a Wikipedia page. Could I please ask that everyone who is able to work on the UK lists over the next week make themselves known here, and indicate what might be doable over that period? I am cross-posting to the International list as well, in case anyone is able to provide some final assistance for us. Michael
________ On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name wrote:
Hi all
Only 9 working days till the start of the competition and I’m concerned that we may not have enough resources to complete all the gaps in
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_U...
before the competition starts.
Most of the heavy lifting so far has been done by Richard N, Katie C and Dev1. What do you all think? Is there time, or do we need to find you some urgent help?
Michael _______________________________________________ Wlm2013-l mailing list Wlm2013-l@wikimedia.org.uk
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