[Wiki Loves Monuments] Interview Wiki Loves Monuments in Canada

Hello, worldwide volunteers of Wiki Loves Monuments, Alan Walker, Vice President of Wikimedia Canada, gave an interview about the world’s largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments. This is our first appearance in the Canadian media. Listen to the 66th minute of this audio file: http://cod

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

Hi Maarten, I noticed the PT template was "0"... does this help? https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3AMonuments_database%2FCategorization%2FStatistics&diff=77917932&oldid=77916318 Best, -NT Em 11-09-2012 22:09, Maarten Dammers escreveu: Hi everyone, Some time ago I share

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

Hi Yaroslav, thanks for asking the questions, and for your amazing work done for Wiki Loves Monuments (in Russia) so far, it's greatly appreciated! >From what I know--and I daresay I know a little bit more about that than Maarten due to my interest in Central and Eastern European countries--there

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] multiple refnums on US historic districts disables button

ehh, erfgoed-database? Not sure :) This is simply what I'm recalling from conversations last year, but things may have changed since. Lodewijk 2012/9/11 Platonides > On 11/09/12 08:55, Lodewijk wrote: > > As far as I know, the only way to make this happen nicely is by > > uploading it with one

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please put the mobile app banner on your country sites

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > > I can answer my own question, I have just installed the last update of > the app and everything is working perfectly. > Shiny! > Yay! :D While I encourage everyone to update the WLM app (consider enabling automatic updates), you shoul

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please put the mobile app banner on your country sites

El 11/09/12 23:06, Cristian Consonni escribió: > Just a couple of questions for two minor bugs: > * while browsing monuments list in italian it always says "Scegli la > regione" instead of "Scegli la regione" then "Scegli la provincia" and > finally "Scegli il comune" in other word it always using

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] multiple refnums on US historic districts disables button

On 11/09/12 08:55, Lodewijk wrote: > As far as I know, the only way to make this happen nicely is by > uploading it with one ID, and then copypasting the template with > different id's. > > The problem is that apparently the database only can 'remember' the > first ID it sees. So best make sure t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

Hi Yaroslav, Op 11-9-2012 23:19, Yaroslav M. Blanter schreef: What is currently the situation with Russia? From what I know there are no lists, and I am just categorizing images by hands [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_201

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] multiple refnums on US historic districts disables button

On 11/09/12 08:03, Strainu wrote: > At some point this year I've seen a bug about adding a second custom field to > the UW and I'm pretty sure there was a commit to go with it. I can't find it > right now, but it might be worth asking about it on irc. > > Strainu It can use a second field. A fe

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] multiple refnums on US historic districts disables button

El 11/09/12 04:17, Racso escribió: > I have a question for another special case: How should we handle photos > that capture multiple monuments? > > There are two cases when this may apply in Colombia: > 1. Some complete city zones are monuments as a whole. At the same time, > some buildings inside

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:09:56 +0200, Maarten Dammers wrote: All the images should be categorized at Commons. With about 10.000 images coming in each day that's not really possible for humans to keep up with. I improved the categorization bots we used the last two years and it now works on (almost)

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

Hi everyone, Some time ago I shared https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Unused_images . These are pages which contain images that could probably added to your lists on Wikipedia. I see that some countries are very active. Good job! For the other countries: Please hel

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please put the mobile app banner on your country sites

2012/9/11 Cristian Consonni : > We hope that the data now are correct. > > Just one question, Maarten, here: >> http://wlm.wikimedia.org/api/api.php?action=adminlevels&format=json&admtree=it|it-34|it-vr > > Municipalities are wikilinks.. I hope those are not displayed as > wikilinks in the mobile a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please put the mobile app banner on your country sites

2012/9/11 Maarten Dammers : > Hi Jon, > > Op 11-9-2012 21:26, Jon Robson schreef: > >> Cristian what specific problems are you having with Italian monuments? > > See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39891 Yep, the Italian list was changed yesterday. That bug should be fixed. We inser

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please put the mobile app banner on your country sites

Hi Jon, Op 11-9-2012 21:26, Jon Robson schreef: Cristian what specific problems are you having with Italian monuments? See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39891 Looks like the fixes came through: * http://wlm.wikimedia.org/api/api.php?action=adminlevels&format=json&admtree=it *

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Conference opportunities for WLM

In 2 weeks is Interventioncon in Rockville, MD. Registration is still open. http://interventioncon.com/ ~Jason On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: > Not conferences, but related: > > http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/ is a cultural-heritage-hackathon in the > beginning of Oct

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Please put the mobile app banner on your country sites

Cristian what specific problems are you having with Italian monuments? The monuments displayed are just as they are in the database so it should be a case of working out what is wrong with that data and simply fixing that data. Looking it now I can see that the monument regions do not appear to be

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Conference opportunities for WLM

Not conferences, but related: http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/ is a cultural-heritage-hackathon in the beginning of October. http://www.formidlingsnet.dk/sharing-is-caring-2012-program is a seminar in December. Both in Copenhagen. Regards, Ole On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrot

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Conference opportunities for WLM

In Wikimedia Spain, last year we wrote a journal article about the WLM experience http://digithum.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/digithum/article/view/n14-rodriguez-gonzalez-sierra-navarro-saorin We encourage you to do the same if a special issue about wikis appears in journals. 2012/9/11 Tomasz W. Kozłow

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Conference opportunities for WLM

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: > Hi all, > I spent some time today looking at opportunities for us to promote > Wiki Loves Monuments on cultural heritage-related conferences (both > academic and those less professional, too). For now, it looks like > we've missed some

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Conference opportunities for WLM

Hi all, I spent some time today looking at opportunities for us to promote Wiki Loves Monuments on cultural heritage-related conferences (both academic and those less professional, too). For now, it looks like we've missed some great opportunities, because conferences generally have early calls for

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How are the adm1 "translated" names obtained?

2012/9/11 Arthur Richards : > Hi Strainu, > > There is some documentation about this here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Data_issues > > Briefly, we've taken a datadump of ISO-3166-2 data from commondatahub.org, > which we use to provide the mapping from I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How are the adm1 "translated" names obtained?

On 11/09/12 09:21, Arthur Richards wrote: > Hi Strainu, > > There is some documentation about this here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Data_issues > > Briefly, we've taken a datadump of ISO-3166-2 data from > commondatahub.org ,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How are the adm1 "translated" names obtained?

Hi Strainu, There is some documentation about this here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Data_issues Briefly, we've taken a datadump of ISO-3166-2 data from commondatahub.org, which we use to provide the mapping from ISO-3166-2 region codes to their English