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

2012-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Tomasz and Maarten, thanks for your reactions. Let me provide another piece of the puzzle from my perspective. Until March, there was some on-wiki discussion concerning WLM-Russia, which I initiated. I was involved in the creation of the lists and there were a couple of other users working on

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] blocked IP of our participants, please help!

2012-09-12 Thread Анатолій Гончаров
Дякуйте не мені, а Булці. Його діапазон IP заблокований у кількох Вікіпедіях. 2012/9/10 Андрій Бондаренко bondarean...@gmail.com 2012/9/10 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com Андрій Бондаренко, 10/09/2012 08:25: Below is a list of our participant who couldn't upload photos because

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

2012-09-12 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/11 Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl: 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

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Андрій Бондаренко, 12/09/2012 10:48: Please help me to unblock our participant. It's the same global block as before (expires on the 18th). It doesn't prevent account registration, what's the problem? Nemo ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
The problem is that a new account registration is not permitted. And it is impossible to participate without an account! Please fix it. Andrij 2012/9/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com Андрій Бондаренко, 12/09/2012 10:48: Please help me to unblock our participant. It's the same

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

2012-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:14:56 +0200, Cristian Consonni wrote: Hi Maarten, I'm asking people to create Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Italy as you explained me a couple of days ago, but I didn't understand what I have to do to create links from the lists to categories in

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Goodies and Prizes

2012-09-12 Thread Teele Vaalma
Hi! The notebooks arrived in Estonia already some time ago, but as I read the list quite rarely and I wasn't there in person when the package arrived, I put the pieces together just now. Nonetheless, they are here and we are thankful :) 2012/9/4 Santiago Navarro Sanz wikimill...@hotmail.com

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
Recently administrator Ahonc wrote me hi is not able to do it, because blocking is global. Please do something. 2012/9/12 Андрій Бондаренко bondarean...@gmail.com The problem is that a new account registration is not permitted. And it is impossible to participate without an account! Please

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Goodies and Prizes

2012-09-12 Thread Barbara Fischer
hi all, thanks for telling!! Please let me know who has received them. I still lack information from: Mexico India South Africa Philippines Russia Norway Canada Switzerland Poland Ukraine USA Washington DC Belgium Israel Ghana It is important to know that the shipping routes work, to be able to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Jane Darnell
Awesome idea, Philip, thanks for this! I will test it as soon as I can Jane 2012/9/11 Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org Greetings WLM Members, Version 1.2.3 of the WLM Android App is on Google Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlmand here

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hi Phil, Thanks for the feature, it is really neat. One request : could the text « upload more photos of this monument » be internationalised ? I quickly drafted https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload-more-photos-of-this-monument to that end, if you want. Thanks ! 2012/9/11

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fw: [cultural-partners] This Month in GLAM - August 2012

2012-09-12 Thread Romaine Wiki
This Month in GLAM also about Wiki Loves Monuments. Romaine --- On Wed, 9/12/12, The 'This Month in GLAM' team thismonthing...@gmail.com wrote: From: The 'This Month in GLAM' team thismonthing...@gmail.com Subject: [cultural-partners] This Month in GLAM - August 2012 To:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
Hej, What the matter??? Why do you block our participants Please do something to unblock them/ That's ridiculous to block a range of Ukrainians!!! Is it a kind of democracy Please stop this offensive practice. Do block vandals, but not WLM participants!!! And I'm very sorry to spend my

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Minor API improvement

2012-09-12 Thread André Costa
At the very least could the name parameter be changed to CONCAT(namn, ' (', `raä-nr`, ')' ) AS name, It reflects the name both as given in our lists, in the source database and in the se-bbr database. This is less useful than having the type in there as well but it's better than the current

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
This time details are following У вас нема дозволу на створення цього облікового запису з такої причини: Вашу IP-адресу заблоковано на всіх проектах Фонду. Блокування накладено Vituzzu (meta.wikimedia.org). Причина: Cross-wiki spam. Початок: 14:46, 12 вересня 2012 Спливає: 14:46, 19 вересня 2012

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Андрій Бондаренко, 12/09/2012 19:34: And I'm very sorry to spend my time for writing this post third time today! The answer I gave you is everything I know about it. This is not the place where to ask unblock, go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRG to contact stewards directly, please.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Andrij, the way you write your emails, while so many people are trying to help you every time again is not encouraging. You come across as unfriendly, impatient and even rude. Please remember that all the people who have helped you a lot in the past weeks and whose help you seek once again are

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hi Andrij, I can sense a bit of misunderstanding here. Noone is blocking WLM participants; it happens so that the e-mail address used by the person that contacted you was globally as part of a wider range block. The block was performed by Vituzzu on September 4, and also extended until 14:46 (UC)

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ok, I've verified it's a bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40190 I think stewards are already working on it to decide what's best, but you can ask at the page I linked; or local sysops can whitelist the IPs if they willing to (they were locally blocked as well, so I've no idea

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Андрій Бондаренко
Hi Lodewijk I do understand that you are a volunteer the same way as I am. But you have to understand that if you decide to organize a respectable project - you are responsible for this project, even if you are working as a volunteer. Otherwise simply do not be a volunteer :) But let's stop

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] one more blocking

2012-09-12 Thread Lodewijk
Lodewijk wrote: Like Nemo said in another email, you should probably contact User:Vituzzu or another steward. Federico Leva wrote: This is not the place where to ask unblock, go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/SRG https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRG to contact stewards directly, please.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Chang
Jean-Frederic, the change has been made to the app and will be pushed shortly. Thank you so much for your help. I will announce this on the list after the update is live, and ask the WLM community to add their languages to the template. Phil On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jean-Frédéric

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Matej Grochal
Dear colleagues, The Slovak Wikimedia would like to start the Slovak version of WLM. We don't have sponsors, but we thought that we should start somehow. We know that it is a bit late in the game, but we thought: better late than never. Any thoughts? Thanks, Matej Grochal (Jetam2)

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Karl Gruber
A little bit explanation for the statusquo: All the monuments (appr. 15.000) are listed in the Wiki-sk. Datasource is the national monument board. Each community, where monuments can be found have an own list. Corresponding for each slovak list a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Karl Gruber
A little bit explanation for the statusquo: All the monuments (appr. 15.000) are listed in the Wiki-sk. Datasource is the national monument board. Each community, where monuments can be found have an own list. Corresponding for each slovak list a list is existing in the german wikipedia, so

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Matej, I'm very glad to hear there's so much interest in organizing Wiki Loves Monuments! While I don't consider it realistic to join in 2012 still, it should definitely be possible to either organize something specifically in Slovakia (using a similar competition model under a different name?

[Wiki Loves Monuments] jury process - round 2

2012-09-12 Thread Itzik Edri
Hi, Correct me if I missed something, but I didn't really saw yet a tool which the chapters can use for the jury process. I saw a link to WMPT tool on the last thread that I found, but didn't understand at the end of him, if he available to uses by others, how hard is to install him and etc...

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/09/12 22:21, Matej Grochal wrote: Dear colleagues, The Slovak Wikimedia would like to start the Slovak version of WLM. We don't have sponsors, but we thought that we should start somehow. We know that it is a bit late in the game, but we thought: better late than never. Any thoughts?

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/09/12 23:03, Lodewijk wrote: Hi Matej, I'm very glad to hear there's so much interest in organizing Wiki Loves Monuments! While I don't consider it realistic to join in 2012 still, it should definitely be possible to either organize something specifically in Slovakia (using a similar

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Karl Gruber
Hi platonides It was an hard work for some people, to get the statusquo and so the put so - come next year - is very hard and not motivating for the other user around. :-( regards Karl ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/09/12 21:28, Philip Chang wrote: Jean-Frederic, the change has been made to the app and will be pushed shortly. Thank you so much for your help. I will announce this on the list after the update is live, and ask the WLM community to add their languages to the template. Phil I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread emijrp
I don't think it is late, there are almost 3 weeks until end of september, and you may expand the contest further if needed. Perhaps you can ask for a grant, and get some money for little awards. I just did the map for Slovakia http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/slovakia/ GO GO GO GO 2012/9/12

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Mobile to desktop uploads - please localize the link

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Chang
Dear WLM Members, We just updated the Android app with a change to the Upload more photos of this monument link - it is now a template on Commons that can be localized. Thanks, Jean-Frederic, for this suggestion, and for creating the template:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/09/12 23:35, Platonides wrote: On 12/09/12 21:28, Philip Chang wrote: Jean-Frederic, the change has been made to the app and will be pushed shortly. Thank you so much for your help. I will announce this on the list after the update is live, and ask the WLM community to add their

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Matej Grochal
Dear colleagues, First of all, thank you for the feedback. Joining in with Israel in terms of the timeline seems like a do-able option if we pushed the starting date further a bit. - What would be the hard limits on that? The infrastructre is getting built as we speak (thank you for the help!)

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/09/12 23:33, Karl Gruber wrote: Hi platonides It was an hard work for some people, to get the statusquo and so the put so - come next year - is very hard and not motivating for the other user around. :-( regards Karl I knew it wasn't what you wanted to hear, but I still felt it was

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Lodewijk
Hi, if you're able to have everything in order before that moment I could possibly live with it. However, you should have all business in order before then (this is not to be underestimated at such short notice), including prizes (no prizes is an option too, although highly unfortunate) and jury.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Chang
Just a note that we noticed the translations on Translatewiki, in terms of the upload more string in the app, were taking a while. In fact, only Dutch was done today when we switched to the template. Since it may be easier for the WLM community to update the template, and the Translatewiki folks

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Platonides
On 13/09/12 00:42, Philip Chang wrote: Just a note that we noticed the translations on Translatewiki, in terms of the upload more string in the app, were taking a while. In fact, only Dutch was done today when we switched to the template. Since it may be easier for the WLM community to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Camera users - the Android app is for you!

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Chang
Ok, thanks. Let's see what happens. I believe most of the data issues in various countries have been fixed, so the app should be fairly universal at this point. Phil On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/09/12 00:42, Philip Chang wrote: Just a note

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
I want to congratulate the Slovak people and encourage them to work for WLM 2012. Yes, it is late, but with a lot of work you can do something cool. The thoughest part is the monument list and you have it already. Maybe you can have a small contest in 15 days, without prices or advertisment and a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Roel Balingit
I think Israel won't begin with the upload period until the September 14 and end October 15, may be they can time their upload period with that too. Roel WLM Philippines On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Osmar Valdebenito os...@wikimediachile.cl wrote: I want to congratulate the Slovak people