Hi Maarten,
Am 30.05.12 22:46, schrieb maarten deneckere:
South Africa is ready to participate! We found a team
here that will help,
an organisation that will help us (Wikiafrica: Isla), the governmental
agencies are willing to help us, the biggest news agency is waiting for our
press releases, ....
This is wonderful news!
1. an old and difficult monument database, lots of
errors, only
partially tagged with GPS or even the address. Difficult identifier
(something like 302-392-239392-32, impossible to use)
You have the chance to improve that with the contest ;-) – don't worry.
Some ideas:
* prefilling fields with Upload Wizard is already possible. Which means,
you can configure your lists in a way that people click on a button to
upload images for a certain monument. They don't need to fill in the
monument ID manually (if they use UpWiz).
* I think "no GPS" is almost standard, unfortunately, in some countries.
However, how do you identify a monument without address (or let's say,
location description?) – sounds like a real scavenger hunt.
2. no processing of the lists yet
* In which
format do they exist, and how many monuments are there?
* How can we support you?
3. mobile upload. South Africans live with their
cellphone, would open
up opportunities having a "WLM-app"
We have a two-way-approach to this: WLM is quite on a good way to
develop a native app (Android first), that allows upload directly and
especially for WLM. I'll give a general update on this in the next days
on th ML. A private sponsor/partner is planning to develop something
similar especially for WLM on the base of an existing POI app with
address-GPS-coding – this might lack language localization first
(German), but will include all data from the monuments database and
might open a different, a bit more touristic target group as
participants for us.
So I'm quite optimistic with that!
4. the current monuments are targetted on the
"Afrikaans" culture. We
want to open the monument to the "previouly disadvantaged people", so we
will allow for uploads of things that have not been declared as a monument
yet. The uploader will have the opportunity to add some reasons why we
should consider this important. This information will be shared with
government
I'm sure you find a good approach for that, I like the idea.
But we're working on it!
Thank you!
Regards,
Elke