Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] sorting by upload time - is it possible?

2012-09-03 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
Thank you. Now I'm trying to look next 100 photos but something is wrong with this server (Bad Gateway), Is it possible to fix? Regards, Andrij 2012/9/2 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com On 01/09/12 21:41, Андрій Бондаренко wrote: Hi, Is it possible to sort photos in Images from Wiki

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Maarten Dammers
Talking about Columbia, can you please complete the move from the chapter wiki to the Spanish Wikipedia? Maarten Op 3 sep 2012 om 03:11 heeft Racso ra...@colombia.com het volgende geschreven:\ En Colombia no tenemos listas de coordenadas. Por ello, quisiera fomentar que los

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/09/12 00:48, Cristian Consonni wrote: 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

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] sorting by upload time - is it possible?

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/09/12 09:00, Андрій Бондаренко wrote: Thank you. Now I'm trying to look next 100 photos but something is wrong with this server (Bad Gateway), Is it possible to fix? Regards, Andrij Works for me right now. Although the toolserver has been having a few problems this days. Keep trying.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_geocoding.htm is probably the best option. The template should already have a variable for lat/lon, and automatically create the coordinates templates from that (this should work properly if you work from the Wikipedia main namespaces). Just remember that if it says W

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Strainu
Hi, I currently have the following error in the Wizard: mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0-ro: Parse error at position 263 in input: Eu, $2, titularul drepturilor de autor ale {{PLURAL:$1|acestei lucrări|acestor lucrări}}, ofer oricui dreptul irevocabil de a folosi {{PLURAL:$1|această

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Some statistics

2012-09-03 Thread Strainu
Hi, This is a general question, not directed only to emijrp. Would it be possible to have nice graphs with the evolution by day, like Nuno did last year?

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Unknown Monument ID

2012-09-03 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/2 Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.in: Hi Will there be a bot run to ask Monuments ID ? Many photographs are uploaded without proper monument ID How so? The ID field should be marked as required if you set up correctly the Upload Campaign. (There's still room for having monuments

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Unknown Monument ID

2012-09-03 Thread Strainu
Hi, In Romania we have a rudimentary check in the {{Monument istoric}} template - we check that the code begins with a valid county sign. If it doesn't, we add the files to a special category. You could try something like that, but that still means you'll have to fix them by hand. Strainu

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

2012-09-03 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/2 Michael Andersen m...@tdcadsl.dk: 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 would like to use the photos? I think that it would be

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Unknown Monument ID

2012-09-03 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hi, In Romania we have a rudimentary check in the {{Monument istoric}} template - we check that the code begins with a valid county sign. If it doesn't, we add the files to a special category. You could try something like that, but that still means you'll have to fix them by hand. I second

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
Hi, everyone, Recently I noticed that some participants do not place ID of a monument correctly. For example in this

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:38:27 +0300, Андрій Бондаренко wrote: Hi, everyone, Recently I noticed that some participants do not place ID of a monument correctly.  For example in this photo [1] ID is  marked as Ship_sunk_sev [2], but it is not correct. Correct number of this monument (if I dont

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Some statistics

2012-09-03 Thread Nuno Tavares
Strainu, I'm working on it, will probably have to fix statisticsct, like I did for statistics. -- 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

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Strainu
Hi, No ideas on what the error might be? Thanks, Strainu În data de 3 septembrie 2012, 11:43, Strainu strain...@gmail.com a scris: Hi, I currently have the following error in the Wizard: mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0-ro: Parse error at position 263 in input: Eu, $2,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
I'm afraid my Romanian (or Latin, for that matter) is not good enough to understand it no. Lodewijk 2012/9/3 Strainu strain...@gmail.com Hi, No ideas on what the error might be? Thanks, Strainu În data de 3 septembrie 2012, 11:43, Strainu strain...@gmail.com a scris: Hi, I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Strainu, 03/09/2012 15:28: No ideas on what the error might be? Could have been this syntax error in your translation: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki%3AMwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0%2Frodiff=4199528oldid=4196303 Let's see if LocalisationUpdate fixes it by

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/3 Strainu strain...@gmail.com: mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0-ro: Parse error at Shouldn't that be: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0/ro with slash ro and not dash ro, both pages exist: *

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
If it's possible (I doubt it), Siebrand or someone else should force the update, or if it's not possible, create a temporary message MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0/ro on Commons, because AFAIK it makes UploadWizard non-operable. On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Federico

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Strainu
2012/9/3 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Strainu, 03/09/2012 15:28: No ideas on what the error might be? Could have been this syntax error in your translation:

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners in wikipedia

2012-09-03 Thread Ilario Valdelli
There is no banner in Wikipedia from Switzerland. Is there any problem? Regards -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel:

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
One of Belarusian contestants addressed me a mail with a question: may they reupload the same photo with a better quality and what consequences will it have concerning WLM. So, may the participant replace the file uploaded for WLM with the same file of better quality? Will the new file be treated

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners in wikipedia

2012-09-03 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hi Ilario, thanks for the message. Indeed there is a technical problem--I had to turn off the banners in Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland yesterday evening. We hope to have it resolved in the upcoming hours; I'll let you know as soon as the banners are back (but you'll notice that yourself,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Paul, primarily this question is up to the jury. My personal opinion is that a re-upload of higher quality is simply the same picture and this not a seperate submission. An edited version wouldn't be your own work fully, so wouldn't fit the contest rules. Best, Lodewijk 2012/9/3 Paul

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi Paul, An edited version wouldn't be your own work fully, so wouldn't fit the contest rules. What then? Should the photo be rejected at all? Oh, by the way, what if the uploader fixes the photo by themselves? Will

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Karthik Nadar
Hi, On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Like I said: that is very situation specific, and up to the jury to decide. Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time stamps are default in Camera, and the uploader may choose to upload the cropped version. This

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
exactly, it depends on the situation :) 2012/9/3 Karthik Nadar karthik...@gmail.com Hi, On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Like I said: that is very situation specific, and up to the jury to decide. Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
Thank you guys for your comments! On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: exactly, it depends on the situation :) 2012/9/3 Karthik Nadar karthik...@gmail.com Hi, On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Like I said:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time stamps are default in Camera, and the uploader may choose to upload the cropped version. This issue is situational and all should not be ignored.  I personally always post-process all of my photos before uploading, including cropping, perspective

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
On Mon, September 3, 2012 16:17, Paul Selitskas wrote: If it's possible (I doubt it), Siebrand or someone else should force the update, or if it's not possible, create a temporary message MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-source-ownwork-assert-cc-by-sa-3.0/ro on Commons, because AFAIK it makes UploadWizard

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Roel Balingit
Thanks for bringing this out. This is very informative, I've just encountered the same inquiry. Roel Wiki Loves Monuments Philippines On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ruwrote: Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time stamps are default in Camera, and the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation issue

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazel...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, September 3, 2012 16:17, Paul Selitskas wrote: If it's possible (I doubt it), Siebrand or someone else should force the update, or if it's not possible, create a temporary message

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Andre Koopal
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:14:23PM +0200, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time stamps are default in Camera, and the uploader may choose to upload the cropped version. This issue is situational and all should not be ignored.  I personally always

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
OK, thank you. Indeed it is quiet easy to correct ID if the monument is well-known (as in my first

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Karthik Nadar
Hi, On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Andre Koopal an...@molens.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:14:23PM +0200, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time stamps are default in Camera, and the uploader may choose to upload the cropped version. This issue is

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
2012/9/3 Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl Talking about Columbia, can you please complete the move from the chapter wiki to the Spanish Wikipedia? Is this really, really necessary? As the contest is running, I would like to keep changes at a minimum, and I see that everything is just

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Strainu
2012/9/3 Андрій Бондаренко bondarean...@gmail.com: OK, thank you. Indeed it is quiet easy to correct ID if the monument is well-known (as in my first example), but much more difficult when it is not. Moreover, sometimes users make photo of objects that does not seem to be officially

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
Do you update the coordinates by reparsing the lists? Participants update the data in lists (mostly add coordinates where there are no any). On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm making maps for WLM, if you need a map for your country and have lists with

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
2012/9/3 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org If you're afraid of things failing, you could of course just copy it first and see if everything works. There's no need to delete it. I may try that, indeed. The problem is that, anyway, one would need to do changes in the bots/database/etc. to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
I don't see the problem, Racso. At the moment, the Argentinian, Chilean, Mexican, Panamanian and Spanish contest are working fine on Wikipedia. The templates are updated and working with a direct link to the UploadWizard; it just needs a copy-paste. 2012/9/3 Racso ra...@colombia.com 2012/9/3

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi, Op 3 sep 2012 om 18:02 heeft Racso ra...@colombia.com het volgende geschreven:\ 2012/9/3 Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl Talking about Columbia, can you please complete the move from the chapter wiki to the Spanish Wikipedia? Is this really, really necessary? Yes, it is. As

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Maarten Dammers
The bots look at Wikipedia and so do the users. I can't even edit the lists on your wiki! Maarten Op 3 sep 2012 om 19:41 heeft Racso ra...@colombia.com het volgende geschreven:\ 2012/9/3 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org If you're afraid of things failing, you could of course just

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
2012/9/3 Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl The bots look at Wikipedia and so do the users. That's not 100% right. Some bots are looking in the ext-wiki (in fact, right now the colombian monuments appear fine in the contest database), and the users look where the contest rules say they must

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
2012/9/3 André Costa lokal_pro...@hotmail.com I found that writing a comment in the id field label of the upload wizard drastically reduced the number of incorrect id's last year. See e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-campaigns-wlm-se-bbr-id/en So assuming your id's

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Site offline and redirection WikiLovesMonuments.mx

2012-09-03 Thread Ivan Martínez
Hi all. Since this morning, we have our site offline due to a 403 error, for the high number of requests we had to wikilovesmonuments.mx website. We moved to another server the site to have it online soon. I guess automatically the CentralNotice banner is redirecting to the international site.

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Minor API improvement

2012-09-03 Thread Holger Motzkau
Hej, since most of our Swedish Monuments don't have a useful name or address our monument map http://wikilovesmonuments.se/delta-i-tavlingen/hitta-monument/ only shows the id and municipality. This information is often not sufficient enough at all, if you don't know if you are looking for a house

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/09/12 16:45, Paul Selitskas wrote: One of Belarusian contestants addressed me a mail with a question: may they reupload the same photo with a better quality and what consequences will it have concerning WLM. So, may the participant replace the file uploaded for WLM with the same file

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM maps

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
El 03/09/12 21:24, Racso escribió: Done. Every list is now in Wikipedia. They are listed under the following category: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Anexo:Monumentos_nacionales_de_Colombia. I guess the bots must be updated now? After everything is fine, I will direct the

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

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
Well, although technically possible to print, I do not exclude the possibility that the jury might favor a GFDL-only licensed picture less than a CC BY-SA picture. It definitely makes the image less useful. Anyway - we're bikeshedding. Lodewijk 2012/9/3 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com On

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/09/12 20:55, Racso wrote: 2012/9/3 André Costa: I found that writing a comment in the id field label of the upload wizard drastically reduced the number of incorrect id's last year. See e.g.

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

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
On 02/09/12 21:28, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: 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.

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

2012-09-03 Thread Platonides
On 02/09/12 23:25, Tomasz W. Kozowski wrote: Personally, I find this slogan quite good: it has a clear call to action, mentions the goal of the contest (to help Wikipedia by uploading photos), and will be true when we push it onto the projects :-)) However, as this is quite

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Minor API improvement

2012-09-03 Thread André Costa
Related to this. Is there a way of matching the name entry in the database to a combination of list parameters? To be specific in the case of se-fornmin having name = {{{namn|}}} ({{{raä-nr|}}}, {{{typ|}}}) rather than just the current name = {{{namn|}}} The problem is that only 7% of the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Generate Upload campaign link based on ID

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. Yes, it is possible to carry information in the url. Try for example to click the upload image on the right side of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Delhi . That could give for example:

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

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Selitskas
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 23:25, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Personally, I find this slogan quite good: it has a clear call to action, mentions the goal of the contest (to help Wikipedia by uploading photos), and will be true when we

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Generate Upload campaign link based on ID

2012-09-03 Thread Jean-Frédéric
2012/9/4 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. Yes, it is possible to carry information in the url. Try for example to click the upload image on the right side of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Minor API improvement

2012-09-03 Thread André Costa
If the setting for se-fornmin could be set to that then that should alleviate our problems. Thanks, Andre / Lokal_Profil On 3 September 2012 23:27, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/09/12 00:19, André Costa wrote: Related to this. Is there a way of matching the name entry in the

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Record banner should be in idiomatic English

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Ekman
I strongly suggest that you get some native English speakers, say from the UK, Canada, India or Australia to review the record banner. Participate in the world's biggest photo competition and help improve Wikipedia! It just sounds odd to an American ear, something about mixing formal words

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyvio checking

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
Hello. I have detected that a participant just uploaded photographs he found on internet, so I must proceed to mark them for deletion. Sigh. My question is, Does someone know about any [semi-]automated tool to verify if uploaded images already existed? I use Google image search, but that tool

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
2012/9/3 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com Racso, if you don't have such id, I'd use instead (ver las listas, por ejemplo: 12-345). You provide the id format with an example, and people just wanting to bypass the form get an identifier to pass it (which we can automately disqualify). I think

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyvio checking

2012-09-03 Thread Racso
I think I'll wait until tomorrow before asking for deletion, to let the participant answer (just in case [?]). I have another question about the topic: should I disqualify invalid images (e.g. from monuments that aren't on the lists) immediately, or wait (until when? the end of the contest?)?

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyvio checking

2012-09-03 Thread Mike Dupont
http://www.tineye.com/ and others http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/whostolemypictures-find-duplicate-pictures-online/ On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Racso ra...@colombia.com wrote: Hello. I have detected that a participant just uploaded photographs he found on internet, so I must proceed to