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
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
-------------------------------------------- On Tue, 8/13/13, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Code sprint To: wikilovesmonuments@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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Maarten, I am willing to help, but I don't have a toolserver account. I did get a labs account at the Amsterdam Hackathon though, so I can help with the migration and/or documentation in English. Jane
2013/8/13, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl:
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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