Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here?
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:
Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com:
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here?
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:
Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
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I restored the image, the info still there in the history.
Ciell
2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com:
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here?
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:
Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing listWikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonumentshttp://www.wi...
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Thanks!
OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners.
The general question for best practices stands though - especially given the deletions that sometimes happen with regards to freedom of panorama. It would be nice if we could at least catch those earlier.
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:17 GMT+01:00 Ciell Wikipedia ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com:
I restored the image, the info still there in the history.
Ciell
2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com:
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here?
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:
Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing listWikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonumentshttp://www.wi...
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Hi Lodewijk,
On 30-01-17 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:
Thanks!
OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners.
Some of the Commons admins, especially the one that deleted this image, are very sloppy. They seem to act more like robots than like a humans. I'm afraid we already lost quite a few good images to these people. This kind of behavior is hurting not only Wiki Loves Monuments, but Commons as a whole.
Maarten
Maarten,
What do you think is a good way to change this? I realize that Commons Admins have a tough job, and mistakes will naturally happen, but I think this is a significant problem worth fixing. I'm not sure where to begin, though.
Stephen
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi Lodewijk, On 30-01-17 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:
Thanks!
OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners.
Some of the Commons admins, especially the one that deleted this image, are very sloppy. They seem to act more like robots than like a humans. I'm afraid we already lost quite a few good images to these people. This kind of behavior is hurting not only Wiki Loves Monuments, but Commons as a whole.
Maarten
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Usually in WLM-IT we check the top 10 thoroughly and we ask the jury to select 2 reserve winners just in case problems arise.
Nemo
I think that I have raised this issue back in September, and at that time Mr. Lodewijk told me that Commons admins are special people who are not supposed to read and check anything. They simply delete an image if they want to do so, while the rest of the community should shut up and comply. I am not sure whether Mr. Lodewijk is going to reconsider his opinion now, but at least it is good to see that others find such behavior of Commons admins detrimental.
Regarding our own license checks, we of course do that for Russian WLM, and we also tried to take care of no-FoP images by systematically tagging them and transferring them to other projects under fair use. However, we quickly found out that Commons admins take advantage of this process and delete the images before we have a chance to transfer them (the notorious sysop Jcb was also part of that story). From that point on, we had to adopt a different strategy and make sure that no-FoP images simply stay on Commons, because there is no reasonable way to organize the file transfer without the danger of having the files deleted before the transfer occurs.
More generally, I am sure that the Commons community has to reconsider their attitude toward the WLM photos. These photos are not regular uploads, and there are always people who are ready to take care of them if problems occur. It will be very natural if WLM organizers get notified about potential problems and have their say before(!) the files are nominated for deletion. I believe that the international organizers should seriously push forward this idea. Otherwise, we can easily face a situation when all winning photos are inconspicuously deleted under weird pretexts like 'no license', and none of us would even understand what happened, because files have been deleted, and all evidence lost.
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:
Thanks!
OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners.
The general question for best practices stands though - especially given the deletions that sometimes happen with regards to freedom of panorama. It would be nice if we could at least catch those earlier.
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:17 GMT+01:00 Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com mailto:ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com>:
I restored the image, the info still there in the history. Ciell 2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org <mailto:lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>>: People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg Best, Lodewijk 2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin@gmail.com <mailto:altsirlin@gmail.com>>: The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here? Sincerely, Alexander On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:Hey all, As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent? I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this? I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas? Best, Lodewijk _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org>_______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org>
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Hi Alexander,
Thanks for sharing your experiences again. It is appreciated.
There are (at least) three issues playing in parallel here, and while they interfere, they require different approaches: * Sometimes admins move too quickly or don't follow the right process. This is something we have to sort out through the regular channels on Commons - because it affects all uploads and not just Wiki Loves Monuments. I don't want to downplay this, but to some extent, this will always happen. * We need to find good pathways to identify photos that are not matching criteria. Sometimes we can make the extra effort to fix it (like in this case, where someone has removed information that was already there). Someone could make a tool to identify these images, and make a report. This seems to be what you're asking: to be informed. If normal processes are followed, a deletion template/category would be added to the image, and this is actually something that could be reported by a bot. You'd only need to find someone to write that for you. * What I was concerned about, is that an image gets deleted after the jury process is finished for a valid reason. This happened a few times. There is nothing we can do (or should want to do) to avoid these deletions. However, what I can imagine, is a better process to detect these images earlier, so that they are not nominated in the first place. I went through the top-50 manually, and checked for all kind of suspicious activity. If the metadata looked suspicious, or if anything was missing, I would contact the author. I know that at least one national team also checked each image through google images to see if it was available elsewhere on the web. However, that doesn't scale. But, I'd like to collect approaches here, and then maybe someone can come up with a good way to automate :)
I hope that clarifies.
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 23:09 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com:
I think that I have raised this issue back in September, and at that time Mr. Lodewijk told me that Commons admins are special people who are not supposed to read and check anything. They simply delete an image if they want to do so, while the rest of the community should shut up and comply. I am not sure whether Mr. Lodewijk is going to reconsider his opinion now, but at least it is good to see that others find such behavior of Commons admins detrimental.
Regarding our own license checks, we of course do that for Russian WLM, and we also tried to take care of no-FoP images by systematically tagging them and transferring them to other projects under fair use. However, we quickly found out that Commons admins take advantage of this process and delete the images before we have a chance to transfer them (the notorious sysop Jcb was also part of that story). From that point on, we had to adopt a different strategy and make sure that no-FoP images simply stay on Commons, because there is no reasonable way to organize the file transfer without the danger of having the files deleted before the transfer occurs.
More generally, I am sure that the Commons community has to reconsider their attitude toward the WLM photos. These photos are not regular uploads, and there are always people who are ready to take care of them if problems occur. It will be very natural if WLM organizers get notified about potential problems and have their say before(!) the files are nominated for deletion. I believe that the international organizers should seriously push forward this idea. Otherwise, we can easily face a situation when all winning photos are inconspicuously deleted under weird pretexts like 'no license', and none of us would even understand what happened, because files have been deleted, and all evidence lost.
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:
Thanks!
OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners.
The general question for best practices stands though - especially given the deletions that sometimes happen with regards to freedom of panorama. It would be nice if we could at least catch those earlier.
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:17 GMT+01:00 Ciell Wikipedia ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com:
I restored the image, the info still there in the history.
Ciell
2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com:
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here?
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:
Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
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Dear Lodewijk,
If normal processes are followed, a deletion template/category would be added to the image, and this is actually something that could be reported by a bot. You'd only need to find someone to write that for you.
I see that you want to keep everyone busy - person A adds the deletion template, person B writes the script, person C analyzes its output. But we certainly have better things to do, and the problem should be rather prevented from the very beginning. Namely, one should not add the deletion template without a good reason and without thinking about the consequences. Given the current situation at Commons, it is much safer when they simply do not touch any of the WLM images.
And if we are talking about general tools (as Lily just said), the problem of someone removing the valid license template is by far more general. It concerns not only WLM images, but every image on Commons. So this should be solved (or, basically, prevented) on the Commons level.
Best, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 23:55, Lodewijk wrote:
Hi Alexander,
Thanks for sharing your experiences again. It is appreciated.
There are (at least) three issues playing in parallel here, and while they interfere, they require different approaches:
- Sometimes admins move too quickly or don't follow the right process.
This is something we have to sort out through the regular channels on Commons - because it affects all uploads and not just Wiki Loves Monuments. I don't want to downplay this, but to some extent, this will always happen.
- We need to find good pathways to identify photos that are not
matching criteria. Sometimes we can make the extra effort to fix it (like in this case, where someone has removed information that was already there). Someone could make a tool to identify these images, and make a report. This seems to be what you're asking: to be informed. If normal processes are followed, a deletion template/category would be added to the image, and this is actually something that could be reported by a bot. You'd only need to find someone to write that for you.
- What I was concerned about, is that an image gets deleted after the
jury process is finished for a valid reason. This happened a few times. There is nothing we can do (or should want to do) to avoid these deletions. However, what I can imagine, is a better process to detect these images earlier, so that they are not nominated in the first place. I went through the top-50 manually, and checked for all kind of suspicious activity. If the metadata looked suspicious, or if anything was missing, I would contact the author. I know that at least one national team also checked each image through google images to see if it was available elsewhere on the web. However, that doesn't scale. But, I'd like to collect approaches here, and then maybe someone can come up with a good way to automate :)
I hope that clarifies.
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 23:09 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin@gmail.com mailto:altsirlin@gmail.com>:
I think that I have raised this issue back in September, and at that time Mr. Lodewijk told me that Commons admins are special people who are not supposed to read and check anything. They simply delete an image if they want to do so, while the rest of the community should shut up and comply. I am not sure whether Mr. Lodewijk is going to reconsider his opinion now, but at least it is good to see that others find such behavior of Commons admins detrimental. Regarding our own license checks, we of course do that for Russian WLM, and we also tried to take care of no-FoP images by systematically tagging them and transferring them to other projects under fair use. However, we quickly found out that Commons admins take advantage of this process and delete the images before we have a chance to transfer them (the notorious sysop Jcb was also part of that story). From that point on, we had to adopt a different strategy and make sure that no-FoP images simply stay on Commons, because there is no reasonable way to organize the file transfer without the danger of having the files deleted before the transfer occurs. More generally, I am sure that the Commons community has to reconsider their attitude toward the WLM photos. These photos are not regular uploads, and there are always people who are ready to take care of them if problems occur. It will be very natural if WLM organizers get notified about potential problems and have their say before(!) the files are nominated for deletion. I believe that the international organizers should seriously push forward this idea. Otherwise, we can easily face a situation when all winning photos are inconspicuously deleted under weird pretexts like 'no license', and none of us would even understand what happened, because files have been deleted, and all evidence lost. Sincerely, Alexander On 30.01.2017 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:Thanks! OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217>by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners. The general question for best practices stands though - especially given the deletions that sometimes happen with regards to freedom of panorama. It would be nice if we could at least catch those earlier. Best, Lodewijk 2017-01-30 17:17 GMT+01:00 Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com <mailto:ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com>>: I restored the image, the info still there in the history. Ciell 2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org <mailto:lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>>: People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg Best, Lodewijk 2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin@gmail.com <mailto:altsirlin@gmail.com>>: The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here? Sincerely, Alexander On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:Hey all, As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent? I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this? I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas? 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Hi Alexander,
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com wrote:
I think that I have raised this issue back in September, and at that time Mr. Lodewijk told me that Commons admins are special people who are not supposed to read and check anything. They simply delete an image if they want to do so, while the rest of the community should shut up and comply. I am not sure whether Mr. Lodewijk is going to reconsider his opinion now, but at least it is good to see that others find such behavior of Commons admins detrimental.
The language used above is not constructive. It, at the very least, has a tone of accusation. We need to be able to respect each other on this list and I ask you to help us with maintaining a constructive tone here (and everywhere else really).
Thank you.
Lily
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:
Thanks!
OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners.
The general question for best practices stands though - especially given the deletions that sometimes happen with regards to freedom of panorama. It would be nice if we could at least catch those earlier.
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:17 GMT+01:00 Ciell Wikipedia ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com:
I restored the image, the info still there in the history.
Ciell
2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org:
People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg
Best, Lodewijk
2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin altsirlin@gmail.com:
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here?
Sincerely, Alexander
On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:
Hey all,
As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent?
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Best, Lodewijk
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Dear Lily,
No problem, I have just unsubscribed from this mailing list. It is the easiest solution for everyone. You can always reach me off-list if you need.
Best, Alexander
On 31.01.2017 07:02, Lily wrote:
Hi Alexander,
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin@gmail.com mailto:altsirlin@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that I have raised this issue back in September, and at that time Mr. Lodewijk told me that Commons admins are special people who are not supposed to read and check anything. They simply delete an image if they want to do so, while the rest of the community should shut up and comply. I am not sure whether Mr. Lodewijk is going to reconsider his opinion now, but at least it is good to see that others find such behavior of Commons admins detrimental.The language used above is not constructive. It, at the very least, has a tone of accusation. We need to be able to respect each other on this list and I ask you to help us with maintaining a constructive tone here (and everywhere else really).
Thank you.
Lily
Sincerely, Alexander On 30.01.2017 17:28, Lodewijk wrote:Thanks! OK, so in this case the information was apparently removed <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%EB%B4%84%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%A8_%EC%88%98%EC%9B%90_%ED%99%94%EC%84%B1.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=230157217>by someone unrelated to the author - very odd - and deleted by an admin without further checking. I restored the image on the list of winners. The general question for best practices stands though - especially given the deletions that sometimes happen with regards to freedom of panorama. It would be nice if we could at least catch those earlier. Best, Lodewijk 2017-01-30 17:17 GMT+01:00 Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com <mailto:ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com>>: I restored the image, the info still there in the history. Ciell 2017-01-30 17:07 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org <mailto:lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>>: People can also upload images manually. As I'm no longer an admin, I can't check the history of the file - and there was no page with deletion request created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg Best, Lodewijk 2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin@gmail.com <mailto:altsirlin@gmail.com>>: The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here? Sincerely, Alexander On 30.01.2017 11:51, Lodewijk wrote:Hey all, As I noted that two of the national nominees have been deleted after their nomination, I was curious, are there any process improvements we could consider to avoid this to some extent? I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this? I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas? Best, Lodewijk _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org>_______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org>_______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org>-- User: LilyOfTheWest
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Hi Lodewijk,
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
I would be curious to hear some best practices that countries have implemented to check for formalities. For example, I noted that one image from Korea was deleted apparently because the licese was missing. I'm guessing that this is something we could check for semi-automated. Are there countries that do this?
I do some manual checking for the top-50 internationally, just before we enter the final round. But it is very hard to scale that, and it eats up a lot of time. Any other ideas?
Here is what we did in WLM-IR in 2016:
For the top 10 photos, we did the following: * manually checked the licenses * did a quick eyeballing on the meta data in Commons to see possible issues that can be immediately spotted. * used https://ctrlq.org/google/images/ to look for similar photos available on the internet.
The above is not a good approach, it's too manual for things that (at least partly) machines can do better than humans, but in the absence of other technical solutions it was better than not doing any check in our case.
Moving forward, this kind of checks should become more embedded as parts of the systems WLM interacts with, as much as possible. For example, it may be possible and desirable to have Montage surface relevant information that would allow the coordinators or jurors flag possible issues. And/or, this can be handled on Commons end.
One thing that I want to encourage is that if there is interest to work on addressing this problem, we don't do this as a one off service/tool that solves this one specific problem without taking into account the rest of the WLM ecosystem. Instead, we can spec out how the possible tool/service will interact with other tools or services that already are or becoming part of WLM infrastructure.
And of course, if anyone is reading this email and you're interested to work on it, please ping WLM international team. We are eager to hear from you.
Best, Lily
Best, Lodewijk
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