Hi all,
This is Sathyan Velumani. My wiki id Sathyan.velumani
I have participated in the Wiki Loves Monuments Contest - Ghana.
I would like to sign up to this list.
Thank you,
Sathyan
www.sathyanvelumani.com/about-me/
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!
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+Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>
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 |
+----------+-------+
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+Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>
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,
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+Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>
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
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.