Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 1000 monuments for Spain

2012-09-02 Thread Karthik Nadar
Beware all, India is chasing :) On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Racso ra...@colombia.com wrote: 2012/9/1 Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexf...@gmail.com I think he would have uploaded much more faster if his internet connection was twice as fast as his current one. If he really has that insane

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Hungary in WLM 2012

2012-09-02 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/09/12 01:42, Samat wrote: If we couldn't cooperate with the national office, we could try to collect the list of monuments on community base, while the complete list is on my computer. Funny situation ;) Tamás

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Vicenç Riullop
Lodewijk reported last year more than 2000 uploads in day 1. So the ratio would be 1:84! In a paper made by WM-ES you can see a figure with uploads per day:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 02.09.2012 14:08, Peter Ekman wrote: It's fairly important to estimate the total uploads so that we can mobilize the right number of people for tasks such as reviewing the pix, placing them in the lists, and pre-jury screening. So far I've been using the standard scientific method of pulling

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WikimediaMobile] WLM app: create account?

2012-09-02 Thread Platonides
On 02/09/12 02:52, Jon Robson wrote: I'd love this. The problem is the api doesn't currently have a way to do account creation. I heard someone was working on this but don't know where they got with it... Can you add a link which opens [[Special:CreateAccount]] on the device browser? It'd

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Peter Ekman
I'll agree that any estimate at this point is bound to be off - but all estimates are going to be off. I'll strongly disagree that we can't come up with some reasonable estimate that's better than my wazoo estimate. And I need some estimate. What would be perfect for me is a percentage uploaded

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Bas vb
Hello, I think the 1:80 ratio should be our high estimate a 1:50 the low estimate. For US I would estimate 30k-50k. I think Germany, France, India and Spain also will go up to around 30k+total number will probably end somewhere between 300 and 500k. If you want 1 number estimates go with

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Maarten Dammers
Pete, Op 2-9-2012 14:08, Peter Ekman schreef: I'm trying to get a rough estimate of the number of uploads to expect for WLM-US. Just relax and see what happens. Kaldari is improving the tools, you guys will be fine. You don't need to send emails about this every day. Maarten

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WikimediaMobile] WLM app: create account?

2012-09-02 Thread rupert THURNER
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 02:52, Jon Robson wrote: I'd love this. The problem is the api doesn't currently have a way to do account creation. I heard someone was working on this but don't know where they got with it... Can you add a

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Webpage visitors

2012-09-02 Thread Racso
Hello, all. Some days ago, I removed the Wordpress plugin that kept track of the number of visitors from the colombian website to avoid trouble with the no-trackers-from-third-parties rule, and put the code you gave us to start using Piwik for doing the job. Well, I would like to access the data

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WikimediaMobile] WLM app: create account?

2012-09-02 Thread Philip Chang
Hi All, There is a link to create an account on the login screen, which goes to: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogintype=signupuselang=en Unfortunately we do not yet have a mobile version of Commons, due to many factors. We wanted to squeeze that in but there

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Acceptable licences (UploadCampaigns options)

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Andersen
Hi The idea was to have a contest where users upload pictures of monuments with a free license. But some free licenses are better than others. What would happen if one of the winners was a GFDL? Would it not mean that we would have to add the whole GFDL text to the calendar and wherever we

[Wiki Loves Monuments] discussion on blog about WLM and free licensing

2012-09-02 Thread Matthew Roth
Interesting thread here, if anyone wants to read or contribute. I saw on Piwik that nearly 200 folks come over to the US site from the review and stumbled upon this. http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/08/30/wikipedia-launches-historic-monuments-photo-contest-to-expand-commons#comments -Matthew

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] discussion on blog about WLM and free licensing

2012-09-02 Thread Lodewijk
Yes, I tried to answer some of the constructive questions there, but refrained from participating in the less constructive discussions, as the usual participants there seem to handle that just fine. Very interesting read though! We got 4000+ visits from that website to wikilovesmonuments.org!

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] discussion on blog about WLM and free licensing

2012-09-02 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 12:17:28 -0700, Matthew Roth wrote: Interesting thread here, if anyone wants to read or contribute. I saw on Piwik that nearly 200 folks come over to the US site from the review and stumbled upon this.

[Wiki Loves Monuments] CentralNotice slogan translation request (for a record banner)

2012-09-02 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hello all, with the contest going quite strong (over 15,2k pictures in total at the moment) and our banners visible to hundreds of milions of people from about 30 countries, it's the highest time to think about a banner record -- a banner that will be pushed on-line when we break our previous

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Is toolserver under stress?

2012-09-02 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi everybody, whilst trying to access http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/italy/ I got a 500 error. Is this due to a high number of accesses to that page or it's just me :) ? Cristian ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Is toolserver under stress?

2012-09-02 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Hello Consonni, Mine just worked. Maybe, its just you :) Rex On 9/2/2012 9:31 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Hi everybody, whilst trying to access http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/italy/ I got a 500 error. Is this due to a high number of accesses to that page or it's just me :) ? Cristian

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Is toolserver under stress?

2012-09-02 Thread Matthew Roth
I had the same problem earlier. Same error. Working fine at the moment. -M On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexf...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Consonni, Mine just worked. Maybe, its just you :) Rex On 9/2/2012 9:31 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Hi everybody,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Is toolserver under stress?

2012-09-02 Thread Strainu
2012/9/3 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: Hi everybody, whilst trying to access http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/italy/ I got a 500 error. Is this due to a high number of accesses to that page or it's just me :) ? As a certain webpage which I don't remember said, the meaning of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Is toolserver under stress?

2012-09-02 Thread Platonides
On 03/09/12 00:24, Strainu wrote: 2012/9/3 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: Hi everybody, whilst trying to access http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/italy/ I got a 500 error. Is this due to a high number of accesses to that page or it's just me :) ? As a certain webpage which I

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM on the main page on Commons

2012-09-02 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hi there again, just like last year, I think it would be great to have a short information about Wiki Loves Monuments on the various main pages on Wikimedia Commons. I already went ahead and boldly replaced the previous information about the Walters Art Museum on the English page, and it's already

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-02 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/2 emijrp emi...@gmail.com: Please, spread the word about the maps on Twitter, Facebook, and link from official WLM websites when possible. People like to see which monuments they can photograph, instead of reading long lists on Wikipedias. I hope this can help. This helps *a lot*!

[Wiki Loves Monuments] This Month in GLAM: about Wiki Loves Monuments

2012-09-02 Thread Romaine Wiki
This Month in GLAM newsletter on Outreach will be about Wiki Loves Monuments. See: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2012/Contents/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_report Just as the Signpost, you can receive this newsletter on your talk page. Greetings - Romaine

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Some statistics

2012-09-02 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/2 Racso ra...@colombia.com: Algo más: southtyrol aparece como país, pero hasta donde tengo entendido esas imágenes son parte de WLM Italia. Ciao Oscar, the point is the following: * Last year Italy didn't participate for legal difficulties related to the fact that Italian law requires an

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Nuno Tavares
Peter, From here you should be able to get the numbers and do the math to your likings:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-02 Thread Racso
En Colombia no tenemos listas de coordenadas. Por ello, quisiera fomentar que los participantes aporten las coordenadas de los monumentos que puedan. ¿Alguna idea de alguna herramienta que pueda usar para hacerlo fácilmente (por ejemplo, cómo podríamos usar Google Maps / OpenStreetMap para marcar

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-02 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/9/3 Racso ra...@colombia.com: En Colombia no tenemos listas de coordenadas. Por ello, quisiera fomentar que los participantes aporten las coordenadas de los monumentos que puedan. ¿Alguna idea de alguna herramienta que pueda usar para hacerlo fácilmente (por ejemplo, cómo podríamos usar

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-02 Thread Racso
Nice! I think that's just what I need. Thanks! Oscar 2012/9/2 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com Try http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html or http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_geocoding.htm You just need to find an object on the map - click it and the page will create for you a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] first day to total uploads ratio

2012-09-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Peter Ekman wrote: I'm trying to get a rough estimate of the number of uploads to expect for WLM-US. One way would be to look at last year's first day total uploads and compare it to last years total uploads for the month (~169,000 overall). So if the ratio