Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Local contests

In Germany, we download all the pictures, put them on USB flash drives and send them to the members of the jury (due to the large number, each jury member will get an eigth of all uploads). That way, they can do whatever they like to rank them (delete some, create different folders etc.) and don't

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Last sprint to get to 150.000?

Hi everyone, With a little over 24 hours left we currently have 141.000 uploaded files. That's a tremendous number of files. Would be great if we could reach the 150k. So empty out your camera's/Flickr/Panoramio/Shoe boxes/etc and help raise the number of files :-) Maarten __

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Guinness

Hubert wrote: > Another highlight: > > to get 150.000 pictures, it needs 1.600 mails in this mailinglist (until > today) > > :-) > > h. I count 1740. As I send this email, will 86 files get uploaded? :) ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMon

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Guinness

Another highlight: to get 150.000 pictures, it needs 1.600 mails in this mailinglist (until today) :-) h. Am 29.09.2011 22:38, schrieb Jean-Frédéric: > 2011/9/29 Strainu mailto:strain...@gmail.com>> > > 2011/9/27 Andre Koopal mailto:an...@molens.org>>: > >> > - Keep the campaigns open

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] actions for closing of wiki loves monuments

2011/9/29 Strainu > 2011/9/27 Andre Koopal : > >> > - Keep the campaigns open (can just be handy to upload monument > pictures), > >> > ?but remove the wikilovesmonuments category. > >> > > So, is everyone OK with that approach (especially the commons admins)? > I would certainly like to see the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] actions for closing of wiki loves monuments

2011/9/27 Andre Koopal : >> > - Keep the campaigns open (can just be handy to upload monument pictures), >> > ?but remove the wikilovesmonuments category. >> So, is everyone OK with that approach (especially the commons admins)? I would certainly like to see the upload wizard still active, just wi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

WLM-HU try to help with 2000 pictures this night ;) Samat On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 20:59, Maarten Dammers wrote: > I remember joking about this a long time ago when we just started the > project. Would be awesome if we woulg get into the Guiness Book of > Records! > > Maarten > > Op 29 sep 2011

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

Just leave it up to the jury :-) Maarten Op 29 sep 2011 om 14:45 heeft Nina Wikipedia het volgende geschreven:\ > I don´t think everything here is Art-nouveau monuments, and not typi > cally for the style, in fact very little. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_nouveau_images_

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

I remember joking about this a long time ago when we just started the project. Would be awesome if we woulg get into the Guiness Book of Records! Maarten Op 29 sep 2011 om 15:50 heeft Marco Chiesa het volgende geschreven:\ > Hi all, > I was checking on the Guinness Book of Records and it

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Local contests/what do when contest is finished

Categories are easiest to work with for Juries. I'm planning to work on some surveys for organisors and participants on saturday, maybe it's an idea if those who want to help hang around on IRC. Mvg, Bas From: vriul...@hotmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Local contests

I am not sure how many local contests there are with special prizes. I mean not national contests. I know last year there were an award for photos from Vlissingen-Flushing. Now I can identify the images for a local prize in Catalonia, but how to identify them to the jury? With a new category, a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Bas vb wrote: > There are lots of records like: Largest pumpkin/person. Those records you > can't say on forehand that you're gonne break them, I believe if you can > proof afterwards it's fine as well. > I'm pretty sure that the world record for the biggest encycl

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

2011/9/29 Vicenç Riullop : > How deep categories intersect will you run? Perhaps it is enough to add only > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_Nouveau at > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Categories_containing_possible_art_nouveau_images_for_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011. Certai

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

Well it could have helped us. These things usually have a dramatic effect in participation numbers, I believe.. -- Nuno Tavares Wikimedia Portugal http://www.wikimedia.pt Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

There are lots of records like: Largest pumpkin/person. Those records you can't say on forehand that you're gonne break them, I believe if you can proof afterwards it's fine as well. > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:46:17 +0200 > From: valde...@gmail.com > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Sylvain Boissel wrote: > In the French FAQ, it says you have to register *before* attempting to break > a record, and that they can't validate a record if it is not the case. > Sylvain I agree, in general to be in the Guinness the event must be announced before an

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

In the French FAQ, it says you have to register *before* attempting to break a record, and that they can't validate a record if it is not the case. Sylvain 2011/9/29 Bas vb > I don't know, but you should just try until it asks you to pay. > > > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:29:19 +0200 > > From: p

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

I don't know, but you should just try until it asks you to pay. > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:29:19 +0200 > From: platoni...@gmail.com > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness? > > Bas vb wrote: > > Well who tries: > > http://membe

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

Bas vb wrote: > Well who tries: > http://member.guinnessworldrecords.com/register/register.aspx?existing=0 ? Don't you need to pay for that? ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

lets wait until we have the final numbers and all and discuss then :) Lodewijk No dia 29 de Setembro de 2011 17:15, Bas vb escreveu: > Well who tries: > http://member.guinnessworldrecords.com/register/register.aspx?existing=0 ? > > > > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:52:48 +0100 > > From: nuno.tava.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

Well who tries: http://member.guinnessworldrecords.com/register/register.aspx?existing=0 ? > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:52:48 +0100 > From: nuno.tava...@wikimedia.pt > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness? > > :) Then we'll brea

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

How deep categories intersect will you run? Perhaps it is enough to add only http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_Nouveau at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Categories_containing_possible_art_nouveau_images_for_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011. Vicenç > From: maar...@mdammers.nl

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

:) Then we'll break the record of "largest number of photos with few people" :-))) -- Nuno Tavares Wikimedia Portugal http://www.wikimedia.pt Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a faze

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:34:37 +0200, Bas vb wrote: > We'll some art nouveau is a bit more shy like for example: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kampen_rijksmonument_(45).JPG it's > still art nouveau, but not that much. In the netherlands as I recal it > well, art nouveau hasn't been that m

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

But are there any more demands? Like a maximum per participants, the japanese competition had 40k participants, we only have 5k. Mvg, BAs From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:11:02 +0200 To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Makin

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] number of visitors on your national website

2011/9/29 Strainu : > 2011/9/29 Tomasz Ganicz : >> In our case it is hard to say, because the main landing page was >> located on Polish Wikipedia. Sorry for dummie question, but is there >> actually any method to check how many visitors had a single page in >> Wikipedia? > > Yes. See http://stats.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

We'll some art nouveau is a bit more shy like for example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kampen_rijksmonument_(45).JPG it's still art nouveau, but not that much. In the netherlands as I recal it well, art nouveau hasn't been that much used, the architects where a bit against it in tha

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

Also, http://concours.photo.fr/ claims to be the largest photo contest of the world - but they state nowhere (afaict) how many submissions they got. Lodewijk No dia 29 de Setembro de 2011 15:54, Jan Ainali escreveu: > Well, it depends on who you ask. Metro photo challenge 2010 claim to have > re

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

But can they prove it? ;) Susana 2011/9/29 Jan Ainali > Well, it depends on who you ask. Metro photo challenge 2010 claim to have > received 160 000 images. > > http://metrophotochallenge.com/se2011/Om.html (in Swedish) > > -- > Med vänliga hälsningar > Jan Ainali > Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverig

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

Well, it depends on who you ask. Metro photo challenge 2010 claim to have received 160 000 images. http://metrophotochallenge.com/se2011/Om.html (in Swedish) -- Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige 2011/9/29 Marco Chiesa > H

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

Hi all, I was checking on the Guinness Book of Records and it seems we may have broken a world record. The largest photography competition so far could only attract 126,521 entries [1] and we're now well past 133k Congratulations to everyone! Marco (Cruccone) [1] http://www.guinnessworldrecords

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] number of visitors on your national website

look here: http://stats.grok.se/ Am 29.09.2011 09:23, schrieb Tomasz Ganicz: > 2011/9/28 Lodewijk : >> Hi all, >> for the EHA submission, I would like to include an estimate of how many >> people visited our national websites alltogether. Could you please send an >> estimate on how many people wi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

Yes it's jury's task . We have a city in Norway with Art Nouveau buildings sorry for not been able to go there, this is not my pictures: http://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/Kategori:Bilder_fra_%C3%85lesund Maybe next year. Are there not something from Vienna ? Nina nina.wikipe...@gmail.com

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Nina Wikipedia wrote: > I don´t think everything here is Art-nouveau monuments, and not typically for > the style, in fact very little. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_nouveau_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 1. the most part of it is Saint

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

I don´t think everything here is Art-nouveau monuments, and not typically for the style, in fact very little. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_nouveau_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 This is very good: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:53_grand_trouwzaal_-_WLM_2011_-_dr

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Files uploaded after Oct 1 (was: Fundraiser translation banners this week_

Maarten, can you please tell me which are yours (WMNL) then (in the specific case of Flickr and alike)? -- Nuno Tavares Wikimedia Portugal http://www.wikimedia.pt Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

Check second category I created. Will add some bot magic later on. Maarten Op 29 sep 2011 om 11:40 heeft Strainu het volgende geschreven:\ > I am already using cat-a-lot, unfortunately it does not yet allow > crosssections [1], so I still have to go through the whole category > and manually p

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

I am a arthistorien and can look at the pictures when you are finnish. Nina Sendt fra min iPhone Den 29. sep. 2011 kl. 11:40 skrev Strainu : > I am already using cat-a-lot, unfortunately it does not yet allow > crosssections [1], so I still have to go through the whole category > and manually

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

Only for Catalonia I have counted 170 Art Nouveau monuments, probably more, we have to check it. Only the Sagrada Família has 117 submissions till yesterday, and still growing although some users are claiming "please, no more photos of the Sagrada Família" (put here any popular/touristic place

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

I am already using cat-a-lot, unfortunately it does not yet allow crosssections [1], so I still have to go through the whole category and manually pick the images of that monuments. As I am not an art expert, i'm using external information to track down art-nouveau monuments one by one, then mark

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

Hi Strainu, you might want to look into the "cat-a-lot" feature (check out your commons preferences) Lodewijk No dia 29 de Setembro de 2011 11:23, Strainu escreveu: > 2011/9/29 Maarten Dammers : > > Hi everyone, > > > > As you might now we have a special Art Nouveau prize. Finding these > > im

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Art Nouveau Prize images

2011/9/29 Maarten Dammers : > Hi everyone, > > As you might now we have a special Art Nouveau prize. Finding these > images in the total collection of more than 130.000 photos is a bit > difficult. Please help by adding the category > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_nouveau_images_fr

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Files uploaded after Oct 1 (was: Fundraiser translation banners this week_

I will use a separated template and a hidden category for every pictures uploaded from external source. Is it a suitable solution? Samat On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 07:45, Hubert wrote: > +1 > > hubertl > > Am 29.09.2011 00:37, schrieb Nuno Tavares: > > Can all countries please stop transfering im

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] number of visitors on your national website

30k page views in Norway: http://stats.grok.se/no/201109/Wikipedia%3AWiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 Regards, Jørund 2011/9/28 Lodewijk > Hi all, > > for the EHA submission, I would like to include an estimate of how many > people visited our national websites alltogether. Could you please send an >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] number of visitors on your national website

2011/9/29 Tomasz Ganicz : > In our case it is hard to say, because the main landing page was > located on Polish Wikipedia. Sorry for dummie question, but is there > actually any method to check how many visitors had a single page in > Wikipedia? Yes. See http://stats.grok.se/ :) Strainu ___

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How big was your budget?

If this helps, Portugal's initial budget was € 2.876 (prizes, jury meeting, shipping costs, communication, travel expenses). Susana 2011/9/28 Jørund Leknes > We have not had any expenses in Norway that have not been covered for by > sponsors. > > We have gotton prizes valued at approximately 25

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] number of visitors on your national website

2011/9/28 Lodewijk : > Hi all, > for the EHA submission, I would like to include an estimate of how many > people visited our national websites alltogether. Could you please send an > estimate on how many people will have visited your website in the month > september? > Hay, could you try to find a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Files uploaded after Oct 1 (was: Fundraiser translation banners this week_

-1 Most bots are flagged and have "bot" in their username. That should be enough to filter them out. Maarten Op 29 sep 2011 om 07:45 heeft Hubert het volgende geschreven:\ > +1 > > hubertl > > Am 29.09.2011 00:37, schrieb Nuno Tavares: >> Can all countries please stop transfering images fro