Yesterday I guided a beginner through the upload process, starting from the Swedish competition website wikilovesmonuments.se.
There seems to be no connection between the two paths 1) participate in the competition ("delta i tävlingen"), which leads to the upload form on Commons, and 2) find monuments on the Google map.
I had expected that the Google Map would have an "upload" link for each monument, but I couldn't find this.
In the upload wizard, there was suddenly a field for the monument ID, but no indication of where to find this ID. Luckily I knew where the lists are on Wikipedia, but the upload form had no link to these lists.
Are these two problems unique to the Swedish competition, or are they the same for all languages?
Minor issues: Why is Google Maps used, and not OpenStreetMap? In the upload wizard, the choice of license has a terrible wording in Swedish. Where can this be corrected? Is it part of the WLM competition, or the generic Commons upload wizard?
Hi Lars,
Answering the easy questions.
Op 15-9-2011 23:14, Lars Aronsson schreef:
Minor issues: Why is Google Maps used, and not OpenStreetMap?
Because nobody implemented OSM (yet?) and we did implement Google Maps.
In the upload wizard, the choice of license has a terrible wording in Swedish. Where can this be corrected? Is it part of the WLM competition, or the generic Commons upload wizard?
You can review the standard Swedish translations at http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&task=reviewal... . At https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monum... you can find links to the custom messages.
Maarten
2011/9/16 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se:
Yesterday I guided a beginner through the upload process, starting from the Swedish competition website wikilovesmonuments.se.
There seems to be no connection between the two paths 1) participate in the competition ("delta i tävlingen"), which leads to the upload form on Commons, and 2) find monuments on the Google map.
Well, we solved this by putting the links to the lists BEFORE the upload link in the relevant page on our website:
http://wikilovesmonuments.ro/participare/
The first step is called "Monuments that can participate" and contains a short explanation of the copyright rules and of what that code is, then we have links to the lists on wikipedia.
The user then has to scroll down to see the upload options. We tried to make this as wizard-like as possible.
We only had 2 questions so far on where to find the code and 1 user on commons that just put random text in the relevant field, but I guess this is largely due to the video tutorials my colleague made.
I had expected that the Google Map would have an "upload" link for each monument, but I couldn't find this.
I don't really think this is feasible the way the UploadWizard is configured now. We might want to put an enhancement on that for next year's WLM.
In the upload wizard, there was suddenly a field for the monument ID, but no indication of where to find this ID. Luckily I knew where the lists are on Wikipedia, but the upload form had no link to these lists.
We should have a tooltip, like the other fields do. Another enhancement idea. :)
Are these two problems unique to the Swedish competition, or are they the same for all languages?
Minor issues: Why is Google Maps used, and not OpenStreetMap?
Awkward, I must have missed the Google Map link, I only know about the OSM map that Kolossos made:
http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/wlm/wlm-on-osm_api.php?zoom=5&lat=61.869...
In the upload wizard, the choice of license has a terrible wording in Swedish. Where can this be corrected? Is it part of the WLM competition, or the generic Commons upload wizard?
Strainu
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