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From: David Narvaez <david.narvaez(a)computer.org>
Date: 2013/9/23
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Jury Tool] Registration
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
With most of the usability issues ironed out the last two weeks with
the countries that were testing the tool, I have been preparing for
deployment for the rest of the countries. Unfortunately, due to
persona issues I won't have much time to take care of each
installation and configuration as I planned (at least for a couple of
weeks), so what I did is roll out all of the installations at
http://wlm.wmflabs.org/<country code>
At the moment no tool (except for those that were testing it these
weeks) have users, so the first thing I'll ask every coordinator in
every country listed at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/JuryTo…
ist to register in your own tool using the following URL
http://wlm.wmflabs.org/<country code>/register
I'll take care of promoting the first user registered in every tool as
admin of the tool in around 24 hours, which will let that user
configure the tool. For countries that are going to test this only,
and expect to use the tool on October, feel free to configure it for
testing purposes since the tool can be reset.
One unimplemented feature that came as a suggestion from Michael Maggs
(and was something Lodewijk suggested on our original conversation
too) is not to decide the number of rounds upfront, but rather have a
way to start a round when needed. I didn't find the time to implement
this feature, yet the tool is able to feedback from its own output so
if your country does not know exactly how many rounds you will need,
just configure the tool for one round, and you'll be able to export
all images that meet some criteria, I'll reset the tool, and you can
use that output for another round.
All questions to my e-mail to keep the mailing list clear, please.
David E. Narvaez
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Hi all,
During Wiki Loves Monuments, thousands of monuments have already been
uploaded and that is amazing! It's nice to have a lot of images of
monuments on Wikimedia Commons, but it's even nicer to also have these
images in use on Wikipedia. You can help by adding these unused images to
the lists on Wikipedia.
All uploaded images should contain the 'unique identifier' by which you can
identify a monument in your country. Thanks to this information, Erfgoedbot
recognizes which images belong to monuments that do not have a picture yet
in the monument lists on Wikipedia. Erfgoedbot reports these images on the
'unused images' page dedicated to your country-language combination,
together with a link to the exact monument list this image should be placed
in.
An overview of all 'unused images' reporting pages is maintained on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Unused_images,
which also explains how to use those pages. If you find a mistake,
have a
question or just want to say how much you like this tool, you can use the
talkpage attached to this overview page. The overview also reports which
language-country combinations have the most images that could be inserted
into a monument list. Currently the countries that require most attention
are:
* Russia in Russian - 22,334 unused images (because they recently created
the list, there's a bit of a backlog, so this is understandable)
* Ukraine in Ukrainian - 5,500 unused images
* Flanders (Belgium) in French - 3100 images
* Poland in Polish - 2300 images (lots of uploads!)
* Flanders (Belgium) in Dutch - 2100 images
* Armenia in Armenian - 1900 images
* Israel in Hebrew - 1200 images (and their competition hasn't even started
yet!)
* Switzerland in German - 800 images
Good luck with processing this, and please put a note on the talkpage if
you need help understanding something. It might make sense to ask some more
community members to jump in, if you can't manage by yourself. The lists
are updated daily so you probably want to put "your" list on your watchlist
so you can keep up.
Lodewijk
Hi all,
as you may or may not know, the bot 'erfgoedbot' (run by multichill)
categorizes images to more specific heritage categories, once they have
been uploaded. For this, it goes into the root of the category tree
(usually "category:Cultural Heritage monuments in XYZ") which has been
added at upload, and based on the templates used in your lists it will try
to find more specific categories.
How you can help:
* Add {{Commonscat}} templates to your lists, linking to the right category
in Wikimedia Commons.
* Clean up images left over in the category after the botrun (the bot runs
in the European night)
* Expand and maintain the category tree.
See for more information:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization
Your help here would be very valuable, because I've been told that if the '
leftovers' become too many, it will slow down erfgoedbot (100+ it already
has an impact) and that is of course something nobody wants! Also, the
leftovers are usually either a mistake in the structure (something you'd
like to correct), or a mistake by the uploader, making a typo in the
identifier or just making it up. Keeping those numbers low, should help you
maximizing the number of valid submissions in your country!
Thank you for your help!
Lodewijk
Hi,
as discussed before, we provide an international infrastructure for
measuring some statistics for the national Wiki Loves Monuments websites,
using Piwik. For each country that we know the external website of, we
created a piwik code (if your country already has one from last year, it is
identical), you can find it on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Progre…
.
Again: please only use this if you're confident you're allowed to. If you
feel it would be illegal, don't. (probably stating the obvious)
To use this service, you have to install the piwik code on your website.
See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/FAQ#Ca…
for
instructions.
To follow the stats for your country's website, you need an account to log
in to stats.wikilovesmonuments.org . We provide *one* account per country,
and you will only be allowed to see statistics of your own website(s). You
can request it by emailing me and/or Sylvain (cc'd). If you have technical
questions, Sylvain is your go-to-guy.
To be clear: this is visitor stats to your homepage, NOT upload statistics.
Best,
Lodewijk