Wikimedia Ghana User Group September 2012

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[Wikimedia-GH] wiki loves monuments statistics ... congratulations!
by rupert THURNER 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

hi, just for info, some statistics about wiki loves monuments. despite the newest participant with least experience, ghana beat andorra, kenya, luxemburg, and südtirol in number of participants and kenya in number of fotos. contratulations! * http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/stats.php * http://toolserver.org/~superzerocool/wlm/?pais=ghana rupert.

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[Wikimedia-GH] Question
by brightmail2012＠ovi.com 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Please is there a possibility that I can be invited to attend the awards program in Hong Kong as it was said in the advert on Wikipedia? Thank you.l

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[Wikimedia-GH] WLM Ended! What's next?
by Nkansah Rexford 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

We are all glad to have many uploads during the WLM event in Ghana. Even though not all requested photos came in, the photos that came in are really good for use. Whats next? These photos will have to be put in articles relating to those photos. That's what's next! We had wikimedia enthusiasts who were on the ground to take the photos. Now, we'll like you to help us put these beautiful photos in their respective articles. You can start working on that even starting from today! You know how to go about editing and adding the photos, don't you? So kindly go ahead and expand these articles. In case of any difficulties or questions, kindly post back to the mailing list and we'll help you out Wish you all the best! -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Wikimedia Commons page User talk:Sathyan.velumani has been changed by Nkansahrexford
by Sathyan Velumani 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

@Nkansahrexford. Thank you for leaving me a message. I have added few more pictures for - James Fort, Accra - Fort St Sebastian, Shama - and a picture of the museum Please add me to the this mailing list. Look forward hearing more. Cheers, Sathyan On 29 September 2012 02:29, MediaWiki Mail <wiki(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Sathyan.velumani, > > > The Wikimedia Commons page User talk:Sathyan.velumani has been changed > on 28 September 2012 by Nkansahrexford, see > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sathyan.velumani for the > current revision. > > See > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sathyan.velumani&d… > to view this change. > See > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sathyan.velumani&d… > for all changes since your last visit. > > Editor's summary: /* Thank you! */ new section > > Contact the editor: > mail: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Nkansahrexford > wiki: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford > > There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless > you visit this page. > You could also reset the notification flags for all your watched pages > on your watchlist. > > Your friendly Wikimedia Commons notification > system > > -- > To change your e-mail notification settings, visit > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences > > To change your watchlist settings, visit > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist > > To delete the page from your watchlist, visit > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sathyan.velumani&a… > > Feedback and further assistance: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents >

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[Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Improved tool for listing WLM uploads
by Nkansah Rexford 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Interesting! Out of the 51 materials and cultural heritage that was input in the WLM database for the 2012 WLM global contest, 61 Pictures were submitted Its so amazing. I never thought we could do that much. Its really impressive. We'll all done a great job and we need to congratulate ourselves. Scroll down to see more of the global statistics of which Ghana is included. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Platonides* Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Improved tool for listing WLM uploads To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org I have been enriching http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/uploads.php with information from the description page. (Actually the tool was ready since at least 17th September, but it didn't catch up with the uploaded files until today) It's strongest point is that it shows the monument identifiers along the upload information. If the identifier doesn't appear in the monument db, it is shown in red, so it's easy to center on «potentially problematic ids» (but don't take it as final, several red ids seem ok, looks like incomplete info in the db). The new files are being parsed right now every 5 minutes. If you don't see an identifier for an upload there are several options: 1. It hasn't been parsed yet. 2. Your country doesn't use identifiers. 3. The user didn't provide an identifier. 4. The bot didn't found the template. With different 'solutions': 1. Easy to detect since the country won't be shown either. Wait until it gets loaded or browse an earlier day :) 2. You have a hard work determining the right images, but there's little I can automatically do in that case. 3. The case we are trying to find. 4. Maybe the bot was expecting {{Denkmalgeschütztes Objekt Österreich}} and it was included through {{doo}}, your template allows up to three identifiers in one template (it accepts fine multiple instances of a template, but fr and ca needed to check for this case), it used some different call (eg. id= instead of 1=), it used yet another template (there are ~10 cases for Germany)... Bring that file to my attention. I recommend setting an appropiately high limit and browsing the uploads per day to your country. With the same backend, there's a tool grouping users: http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/users.php As the uploads information lives in a database, it is very simple to gather statistics from it: We have 270274 photos right now (increasing constantly, we are at crazy speed), distributed in the following way: +---------+-------+ | country | count | +---------+-------+ | pl | 37316 | | es | 33592 | | de | 23281 | | ua | 23140 | | fr | 22002 | | us | 16717 | | cz | 14058 | | in | 13355 | | ru | 11158 | | at | 8413 | | mx | 7292 | | ro | 6718 | | it | 6276 | | nl | 5709 | | by | 5243 | | co | 4836 | | ca | 4272 | | ar | 3957 | | be | 3494 | | se | 2659 | | rs | 2430 | | cl | 2384 | | ee | 1987 | | il | 1869 | | za | 1566 | | ph | 1561 | | ch | 1116 | | no | 1107 | | pa | 798 | | sk | 707 | | dk | 405 | | ad | 254 | | lu | 216 | | ke | 90 | * | gh | 63 | * | NULL | 31 | | gr | 20 | | mk | 1 | +---------+-------+ (yes, we have 20 photos from Greece and 1 from Macedonia despite the fact that they don't participate in WLM2012 :) It's also interesting to show the aggregation of files-per-day (these are UTC days): +----------+-------+ | day | count | +----------+-------+ | 20120928 | 14641 | | 20120927 | 17227 | | 20120926 | 13174 | | 20120925 | 12904 | | 20120924 | 11507 | | 20120923 | 14136 | | 20120922 | 10439 | | 20120921 | 10142 | | 20120920 | 8280 | | 20120919 | 7303 | | 20120918 | 8423 | | 20120917 | 9271 | | 20120916 | 10899 | | 20120915 | 7743 | | 20120914 | 8291 | | 20120913 | 9067 | | 20120912 | 8706 | | 20120911 | 8115 | | 20120910 | 9178 | | 20120909 | 10307 | | 20120908 | 8437 | | 20120907 | 7291 | | 20120906 | 6539 | | 20120905 | 7910 | | 20120904 | 7301 | | 20120903 | 6808 | | 20120902 | 8657 | | 20120901 | 7056 | | 20120831 | 522 | +----------+-------+ _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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[Wikimedia-GH] Hello Folks
by Nkansah Rexford 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Hello Folks, I'm glad to inform that we are doing a nice job in trying to recruit more contributors on board the Planning Wikimedia Ghana Team. Its not easy to do and we know you guys are doing a great job. I'll like to draw attention to the list on the Wikimedia Ghana Meta Page. Do we have some ghost names there? I have not been hearing from some of the initial enlisted members on the Meta page. We love to know how you are working on activities relating to PWMGH and thus will urge you to bring your works out so that we can support you as and when needed. Please do well to write out your profile on the meta page too, to encourage others get to know you! Best regards, -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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[Wikimedia-GH] which media / newspaper to cite in ghana?
by rupert THURNER 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

hi, which newspaper or media would be good to cite in ghana? i read: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Ghana * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Ghana but i am unsure about the direction and quality of journalism. usually it would be great to have both sides of a table, like governement and opposition, left and right, which makes it easier to reach "non point of view (npov)" in articles. rupert

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[Wikimedia-GH] Things you can do to help PWMGH
by Nkansah Rexford 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

*Things you can do * - *Encourage a friend or family to participate* - *Start Contributing!* - Read Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Wikipedia> - Submit a photo to Wikimedia Commons<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> - Join the Wiki Loves Monuments<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_Ghana>photo contest and win a prize - WIKIQUOTE TASKS: There are many quotes from R. Dahl on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4273.Roald_Dahl. Verify them and add them to Wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl We'll love to receive your support in these areas. Happy Wikimedian [?] Rexford

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[Wikimedia-GH] how an author is not necessarily a creditble source about his own work
by rupert THURNER 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

fyi, some insight how wikipedia referring to third party sources work. this is about Philip Roth and Wikipedia, and on how an author is not necessarily a creditble source about his own work: http://quominus.org/archives/979 rupert.

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[Wikimedia-GH] Some Tasks for This week
by Sandister Tei 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Did You Know yesterday was Roald Dahl day? Dahl (1916-1970) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter. Some of Dahl's works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG. Have you read Roald Dahl, contribute quotes from his works to this page bit.ly/UaBaYv. A new editing task to that effect has been added to our noticeboard. Please check the Ghana Wikipedians' noticeboard for details bit.ly/Q7KECI For the newcomers if you need help please contact me Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus

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