Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display will really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
To take the, imo, most prominent and easy to reach example, Projects are displayed, eg wiki loves monuments in September. This might be geolocalized to a Ghana page or site.
And if it is designed with a little care it might bring editors and photographers.
The rest of the year is blocked by the fundraiser.
Rupert. Am 22.07.2012 03:54 schrieb "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com:
Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display will really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
Rexford 3D Ghana http://3dghana.webs.com/
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
Setting up this is entirely possible, and something any admin on Meta-Wiki can do (e.g. me ;-) ). Banners can be shown for people with Ghanaian IPs only, you can read a bit more about the system (called CentralNotice) here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice
What would be nice would be a page somewhere (perhaps Meta) about how and why people should contribute, that the banner can point to. I think that would be better than a banner just saying "contribute", but with no more information. I don't think there have been any campaigns like this (to get people to contribute to Wikipedia in general) though, so it *might* need a wider discussion in the Meta community. But I think it is a good idea, for what it's worth.
2012/7/22 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
To take the, imo, most prominent and easy to reach example, Projects are displayed, eg wiki loves monuments in September. This might be geolocalized to a Ghana page or site.
And if it is designed with a little care it might bring editors and photographers.
The rest of the year is blocked by the fundraiser.
Rupert. Am 22.07.2012 03:54 schrieb "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com:
Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display will really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
Rexford 3D Ghana http://3dghana.webs.com/
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
that sounds nice as well! but let me give a little more detail on wiki loves monuments (WLM), and a couple of links.
the goal of WLM is that people take fotos of national monuments and upload them to wikimedia commons under a free license. the best ones get a prize. the basis is usually a list of monuments from some government body or whoever feels responsible. for ghana i found a little map: http://www.touringghana.com/tourist_sites.asp. interesting is that there is no (or little) articles about all these sites, the same true for photos.
an idea could be to do some "mini WLM": switch on a banner for the month of september, linking to some page describing how to register an account, create an article, add a foto to an article, upload a foto to commons and as well the little list of monuments above. don't let you frighten by the timeline of the full-blown wlm contest though.
an additional benefit would be if the ghana organizer could contact the tourist ministery or heritage ministery to have some blessing in general and for the list in special.
links to wlm: * http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ * http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ph/ - one of the better chapter sites * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timelin...
what do you think?
rupert.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Setting up this is entirely possible, and something any admin on Meta-Wiki can do (e.g. me ;-) ). Banners can be shown for people with Ghanaian IPs only, you can read a bit more about the system (called CentralNotice) here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice
What would be nice would be a page somewhere (perhaps Meta) about how and why people should contribute, that the banner can point to. I think that would be better than a banner just saying "contribute", but with no more information. I don't think there have been any campaigns like this (to get people to contribute to Wikipedia in general) though, so it might need a wider discussion in the Meta community. But I think it is a good idea, for what it's worth.
2012/7/22 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
To take the, imo, most prominent and easy to reach example, Projects are displayed, eg wiki loves monuments in September. This might be geolocalized to a Ghana page or site.
And if it is designed with a little care it might bring editors and photographers.
The rest of the year is blocked by the fundraiser.
Rupert.
Am 22.07.2012 03:54 schrieb "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com:
Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display will really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
Rexford 3D Ghana
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
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I think its a brilliant idea.
I think we also have almost all the monument pictures already taken. All there is needed is to get those who have the monuments pictures to upload them under a free license.
I personally do not have pictures of monuments in my records, and even where I live has got only one monument i think ( i live in Koforidua, Ghana)
Also, it is true we do not have articles on wikipedia about almost all the monuments in Ghana.
I will see how best i can go to encourage the organizations in Ghana that have nice photos of such monuments to license them for free use and I will work on documenting such monuments on wikipedia
Thanks for the resource links
Nkansah Rexford
On 7/23/2012 12:27 PM, rupert THURNER wrote:
that sounds nice as well! but let me give a little more detail on wiki loves monuments (WLM), and a couple of links.
the goal of WLM is that people take fotos of national monuments and upload them to wikimedia commons under a free license. the best ones get a prize. the basis is usually a list of monuments from some government body or whoever feels responsible. for ghana i found a little map: http://www.touringghana.com/tourist_sites.asp. interesting is that there is no (or little) articles about all these sites, the same true for photos.
an idea could be to do some "mini WLM": switch on a banner for the month of september, linking to some page describing how to register an account, create an article, add a foto to an article, upload a foto to commons and as well the little list of monuments above. don't let you frighten by the timeline of the full-blown wlm contest though.
an additional benefit would be if the ghana organizer could contact the tourist ministery or heritage ministery to have some blessing in general and for the list in special.
links to wlm:
- http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/
- http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ph/ - one of the better chapter sites
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timelin...
what do you think?
rupert.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Setting up this is entirely possible, and something any admin on Meta-Wiki can do (e.g. me ;-) ). Banners can be shown for people with Ghanaian IPs only, you can read a bit more about the system (called CentralNotice) here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice
What would be nice would be a page somewhere (perhaps Meta) about how and why people should contribute, that the banner can point to. I think that would be better than a banner just saying "contribute", but with no more information. I don't think there have been any campaigns like this (to get people to contribute to Wikipedia in general) though, so it might need a wider discussion in the Meta community. But I think it is a good idea, for what it's worth.
2012/7/22 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
To take the, imo, most prominent and easy to reach example, Projects are displayed, eg wiki loves monuments in September. This might be geolocalized to a Ghana page or site.
And if it is designed with a little care it might bring editors and photographers.
The rest of the year is blocked by the fundraiser.
Rupert.
Am 22.07.2012 03:54 schrieb "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com:
Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display will really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
Rexford 3D Ghana
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
-- mvh Jon Harald Søby
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
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hi rexford,
let me copy as well alex wagner on the mail, who is of great help for some european chapters when creating the list(s). he suggested that http://www.ghanamuseums.org/ would be responsible for the lists in ghana. maybe its the easiest to just copy the monuments off this website onto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana%E2%80%99s_material_cultural_heritage
i am not sure about the best template to use, for switzerland it looks like: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Inventory_of_Cultural_Property_of_Nationa... * and especially one with a small number of monuments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cultural_property_of_national_significa...
alex mentioned some german templates as well: * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_denkmalgesch%C3%BCtzten_Objekte_in_St... this is categorized and leads to: * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Liste_(Kulturdenkmale_in_Nieder%C3%B6...) * and then for the country of austria: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Liste_(Kulturdenkmale_in_%C3%96sterre...)
alex, maybe you could give a hint how to do this on en.wp? this categorization is overkill imo for the first year, we should look to get the 20-30 monuments from the ghanamuseums website onto one page and thats it. what you think?
rupert
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
I think its a brilliant idea.
I think we also have almost all the monument pictures already taken. All there is needed is to get those who have the monuments pictures to upload them under a free license.
I personally do not have pictures of monuments in my records, and even where I live has got only one monument i think ( i live in Koforidua, Ghana)
Also, it is true we do not have articles on wikipedia about almost all the monuments in Ghana.
I will see how best i can go to encourage the organizations in Ghana that have nice photos of such monuments to license them for free use and I will work on documenting such monuments on wikipedia
Thanks for the resource links
Nkansah Rexford
On 7/23/2012 12:27 PM, rupert THURNER wrote:
that sounds nice as well! but let me give a little more detail on wiki loves monuments (WLM), and a couple of links.
the goal of WLM is that people take fotos of national monuments and upload them to wikimedia commons under a free license. the best ones get a prize. the basis is usually a list of monuments from some government body or whoever feels responsible. for ghana i found a little map: http://www.touringghana.com/tourist_sites.asp. interesting is that there is no (or little) articles about all these sites, the same true for photos.
an idea could be to do some "mini WLM": switch on a banner for the month of september, linking to some page describing how to register an account, create an article, add a foto to an article, upload a foto to commons and as well the little list of monuments above. don't let you frighten by the timeline of the full-blown wlm contest though.
an additional benefit would be if the ghana organizer could contact the tourist ministery or heritage ministery to have some blessing in general and for the list in special.
links to wlm:
- http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/
- http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ph/ - one of the better chapter sites
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timelin...
what do you think?
rupert.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Setting up this is entirely possible, and something any admin on Meta-Wiki can do (e.g. me ;-) ). Banners can be shown for people with Ghanaian IPs only, you can read a bit more about the system (called CentralNotice) here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice
What would be nice would be a page somewhere (perhaps Meta) about how and why people should contribute, that the banner can point to. I think that would be better than a banner just saying "contribute", but with no more information. I don't think there have been any campaigns like this (to get people to contribute to Wikipedia in general) though, so it might need a wider discussion in the Meta community. But I think it is a good idea, for what it's worth.
2012/7/22 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
To take the, imo, most prominent and easy to reach example, Projects are displayed, eg wiki loves monuments in September. This might be geolocalized to a Ghana page or site.
And if it is designed with a little care it might bring editors and photographers.
The rest of the year is blocked by the fundraiser.
Rupert.
Am 22.07.2012 03:54 schrieb "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com:
Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display will really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
Rexford 3D Ghana
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
-- mvh Jon Harald Søby
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
-- Rexford 3D Ghana
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The templates for below 100 monuments is not a big deal. Just tell me how it should look, what colums and so on, I'll do the rest. Perhaps you could create a test-list with wikitables including two or three entrys in someones user-namespace?
Greets -- Alexander Wagner User:AleXXw http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:AleXXw
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:01 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.comwrote:
hi rexford,
let me copy as well alex wagner on the mail, who is of great help for some european chapters when creating the list(s). he suggested that http://www.ghanamuseums.org/ would be responsible for the lists in ghana. maybe its the easiest to just copy the monuments off this website onto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana%E2%80%99s_material_cultural_heritage
i am not sure about the best template to use, for switzerland it looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Inventory_of_Cultural_Property_of_Nationa...
- and especially one with a small number of monuments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cultural_property_of_national_significa...
alex mentioned some german templates as well:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_denkmalgesch%C3%BCtzten_Objekte_in_St... this is categorized and leads to:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Liste_(Kulturdenkmale_in_Nieder%C3%B6...)
- and then for the country of austria:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Liste_(Kulturdenkmale_in_%C3%96sterre...)
alex, maybe you could give a hint how to do this on en.wp? this categorization is overkill imo for the first year, we should look to get the 20-30 monuments from the ghanamuseums website onto one page and thats it. what you think?
rupert
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
I think its a brilliant idea.
I think we also have almost all the monument pictures already taken. All there is needed is to get those who have the monuments pictures to upload them under a free license.
I personally do not have pictures of monuments in my records, and even
where
I live has got only one monument i think ( i live in Koforidua, Ghana)
Also, it is true we do not have articles on wikipedia about almost all
the
monuments in Ghana.
I will see how best i can go to encourage the organizations in Ghana that have nice photos of such monuments to license them for free use and I
will
work on documenting such monuments on wikipedia
Thanks for the resource links
Nkansah Rexford
On 7/23/2012 12:27 PM, rupert THURNER wrote:
that sounds nice as well! but let me give a little more detail on wiki loves monuments (WLM), and a couple of links.
the goal of WLM is that people take fotos of national monuments and upload them to wikimedia commons under a free license. the best ones get a prize. the basis is usually a list of monuments from some government body or whoever feels responsible. for ghana i found a little map: http://www.touringghana.com/tourist_sites.asp. interesting is that there is no (or little) articles about all these sites, the same true for photos.
an idea could be to do some "mini WLM": switch on a banner for the month of september, linking to some page describing how to register an account, create an article, add a foto to an article, upload a foto to commons and as well the little list of monuments above. don't let you frighten by the timeline of the full-blown wlm contest though.
an additional benefit would be if the ghana organizer could contact the tourist ministery or heritage ministery to have some blessing in general and for the list in special.
links to wlm:
- http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/
- http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ph/ - one of the better chapter sites
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timelin...
what do you think?
rupert.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com
wrote:
Setting up this is entirely possible, and something any admin on
Meta-Wiki
can do (e.g. me ;-) ). Banners can be shown for people with Ghanaian IPs only, you can read a bit more about the system (called CentralNotice)
here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice
What would be nice would be a page somewhere (perhaps Meta) about how and why people should contribute, that the banner can point to. I think that would be better than a banner just saying "contribute", but with no more information. I don't think there have been any campaigns like this (to
get
people to contribute to Wikipedia in general) though, so it might need a wider discussion in the Meta community. But I think it is a good idea,
for
what it's worth.
2012/7/22 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
To take the, imo, most prominent and easy to reach example, Projects are displayed, eg wiki loves monuments in September. This might be
geolocalized
to a Ghana page or site.
And if it is designed with a little care it might bring editors and photographers.
The rest of the year is blocked by the fundraiser.
Rupert.
Am 22.07.2012 03:54 schrieb "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com :
Hello,
For me, I know that there are at times banners display on homepages of wikimedia projects website like wikipedia. Some of these banners actually inform about upcoming events or ongoing project.
I will like to ask how those banners are put there. Is that banner-display opportunity open to all or its restricted?
I ask because, I think a banner display on all article requests to Wikipedia from Ghana (and Ghana only) directing attention to the ongoing planning of the Wikimedia Ghana will really be worth-the-while.
I know many Ghanaians research on Wikipedia. However, majority of them never know of any ways whatsoever to contribute. Such a banner display
will
really improve traffic to the Wikimedia Ghana meta site and at least more awareness will be created.
Jon and Rupert, any ideas?
Thanks.
Rexford 3D Ghana
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
-- mvh Jon Harald Søby
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Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh
-- Rexford 3D Ghana
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