Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikimedia Israel is in the game!

2012-09-14 Thread Barbara Fischer
welcome to the competition! Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des

[Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, I am evaluating software for running a wlmpc, anyone can tell me where to find what they are using? any good photo uploaders for drupal? thanks mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Strainu
2012/9/14 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: On 14/09/12 09:02, Mike Dupont wrote: Hi there, I am evaluating software for running a wlmpc, anyone can tell me where to find what they are using? any good photo uploaders for drupal? thanks mike What's a wlmpc? I have no idea what you're

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Strainu
2012/9/14 Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Wiki Loves Monuments Photo Competition perhaps? yes WLMPC, the competition. I am looking for a nice photo voting software with the ability to upload photos to commons.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
Ok, well my plan is to make it simpler for people, basically for them to upload to our sight and grant the rights to our organisation and we take care of the rest. we have huge problems with people refusing to do any more than facebook type operations. we need to lower the bar for our users to get

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
sight - site. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: sight -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
Well i want to make a simple solution. Of course we will collect under cc-by-sa 3.0/gfdl and not give them any other option. Also I will give people one extra vote if they upload directly to the commons. I am working on something code right now, not ready. Basic idea is to implement the various

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/14/2012 12:13 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: Well i want to make a simple solution. Of course we will collect under cc-by-sa 3.0/gfdl and not give them any other option. Also I will give people one extra vote if they upload directly to the commons. I am working on something code right now, not

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/14/2012 12:37 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: I tried to get people to upload to commons at our bootcamp http://kosovoinnovations.org/yap/digital-bootcamp and it failed, we had IP blocking of new users, we had the uploader failing, it was horrible and a waste of time. I need a solution that works

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread WereSpielChequers
Doesn't that make it a non-commercial license, i.e. CC-BY-SA NC Commons doesn't allow images which are only licensed for non-commercial use. WSC On 13 September 2012 15:01, .mau. (maurizio codogno) wiki@gmail.comwrote: To be more precise, it's up to third parties to CONTACT

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Maarten Dammers
This is getting a bit off topic. We're already getting too emails on this list. Topics should focus on things that are of interest of WLM now. I would suggest you continue this conversation on commons-l Maarten Op 14 sep 2012 om 12:29 heeft Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com het

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] open source software for running the competition

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
we can end this dicussion until i have code to show. thanks mike On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: This is getting a bit off topic. We're already getting too emails on this list. Topics should focus on things that are of interest of WLM now. I would

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread Maarten Dammers
Afaik this is a non-copyright restriction to protect uploaders. Commons will accept it anyway. Maarten Op 14 sep 2012 om 13:18 heeft WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:\ Doesn't that make it a non-commercial license, i.e. CC-BY-SA NC Commons doesn't

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/14 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: This will likely appear several times at COM:DR, having to be explained. It would be worse if someone tried to do the same with their own photos (I place them under CC-BY-SA but I require a fee) but I don't think they could since they would only have

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Israel's opening events

2012-09-14 Thread Deror Avi
The Wiki Loves Monuments competition has begun this Friday, 14th September. We chose this date as it is the beginning of a month-long holiday period and especially as it is the beginning of the extended weekend of the Jewish new year.   We marked the opening of the competition with three tours

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Israel's opening events

2012-09-14 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hi Deror, I just want to add that I have just published a short summary of your visit to the conference prepared by Ynhockey (Yan) in a blog post on the international website at: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/outreach-in-israel/. You have put a lot of effort into the preparations for Wiki

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] photos evaulation

2012-09-14 Thread Ivan Martínez
I think all the participating countries have the same question. Yesterday we talk with our friends of tech part of Wikimedia Mexico and they are ready for work in a tool for the evaluation and juries. What can we do? 2012/9/14 akt...@centrum.cz Dear organizers of the Wiki Loves Monuments

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] photos evaulation

2012-09-14 Thread Matthew Roth Wikimedia
Kaldari built a reviewer tool that we're using in the US contest to make an initial pass to remove photos that don't meet the main criteria of judging. It's very useful and fast, but he hasn't had the time to make it universal for other countries. I'm sure he could use some help ;) Matthew

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] photos evaulation

2012-09-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
akt...@centrum.cz, 14/09/2012 19:25: I would like to know what is your idea of chosing good or valuable pictures out of several thousand, especailly in a situation when there are only 3 people in the organizing team of WLM (CZ). After a long discussion we've come to this one. However, it

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] photos evaulation

2012-09-14 Thread Jon Robson
Hey If someone could create a system for collecting votes I could add a like button to this page [1] that when clicked increments the votes. I think this would give you what you want..? Jon [1] http://jonrobson.me.uk/wlm/#Czech%20Republic On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM, akt...@centrum.cz

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread .mau. (maurizio codogno)
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't that make it a non-commercial license, i.e. CC-BY-SA NC Commons doesn't allow images which are only licensed for non-commercial use. yes, it is a non-commercial license (or to say it better, a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread rupert THURNER
Would you be able to give a real world example what you cannot do with such a photo compared to a standard commons photo? Rupert. Am 14.09.2012 17:41 schrieb Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: 2012/9/14 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: This will likely appear several times at COM:DR,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Thumbnails not appearing when uploading

2012-09-14 Thread Racso
Any news about this? I think this bug difficults a lot the uploading of multiple images at once. Some participants have uploaded multiple images with invalid IDs, using a same, dummy ID for all of them; now I think they do that because they can't asign the correct ID to each image. 2012/9/11

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Central notice banner

2012-09-14 Thread Karthik Nadar
Hi all, on the half way of the contest, the central notice banners still speaks as: *Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!* * * I'm sure many must feel it boring with the same same banner, and some new interactive banners might add some spice to the contest. The

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread rupert THURNER
While i really appreciate the step done i am wondering if it would be beneficial to have photos with such a usage restriction on commons. Am 14.09.2012 21:19 schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: rupert THURNER, 14/09/2012 20:54: Would you be able to give a real world example what

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/9/14 rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com: While i really appreciate the step done i am wondering if it would be beneficial to have photos with such a usage restriction on commons. I have difficulties on seeing any difference between this case and all the pictures with the template

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Central notice banner

2012-09-14 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hi Karthik, thanks for the message. Indeed I was collecting some ideas for banners in August, but it didn't work out in the end. However, we have been using some different banners for a few countries: #1: United States -- they are using a totally different phrase from the rest of the world due to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
rupert THURNER, 14/09/2012 22:43: While i really appreciate the step done i am wondering if it would be beneficial to have photos with such a usage restriction on commons. International users might not care; but, for Italian users living in this regime of (non-copyright) oppression, these

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] MIBAC agreement for Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
El 14/09/12 17:40, Cristian Consonni escribió: 2012/9/14 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: This will likely appear several times at COM:DR, having to be explained. It would be worse if someone tried to do the same with their own photos (I place them under CC-BY-SA but I require a fee) but I

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-14 Thread Matej Grochal
Dear colleagues, From our side, the Slovak WLM will be running from 2012-09-01 00:00 CEST to 2012-09-30 23:59 CEST, ie. 2012-08-31 22:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-30 21:59:59 UTC. The category has also been created:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 14/09/12 20:00, Philip Chang wrote: To all of you who considered putting the banner on your Wikipedia main page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would appear twice on the main page, so

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Thumbnails not appearing when uploading

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 14/09/12 21:04, Racso wrote: Any news about this? I think this bug difficults a lot the uploading of multiple images at once. Some participants have uploaded multiple images with invalid IDs, using a same, dummy ID for all of them; now I think they do that because they can't asign the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] photos evaulation

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 14/09/12 20:00, Jon Robson wrote: Hey If someone could create a system for collecting votes I could add a like button to this page [1] that when clicked increments the votes. I think this would give you what you want..? Jon [1] http://jonrobson.me.uk/wlm/#Czech%20Republic It's

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-14 Thread emijrp
Yay! \o/ 2012/9/14 Matej Grochal ggros...@gmail.com Dear colleagues, From our side, the Slovak WLM will be running from 2012-09-01 00:00 CEST to 2012-09-30 23:59 CEST, ie. 2012-08-31 22:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-30 21:59:59 UTC. The category has also been created:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Thumbnails not appearing when uploading

2012-09-14 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Racso ra...@colombia.com wrote: Any news about this? I think this bug difficults a lot the uploading of multiple images at once. Did you look at the linked bug? (39975) I saw news there almost 2 days ago. -Jeremy ___

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 14/09/12 23:51, Matej Grochal wrote: Dear colleagues, From our side, the Slovak WLM will be running from 2012-09-01 00:00 CEST to 2012-09-30 23:59 CEST, ie. 2012-08-31 22:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-30 21:59:59 UTC. The category has also been created:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] jury tools

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 13/09/12 05:05, Peter Ekman wrote: Kaldari came up with a tool for WLM-US which works quite well IMHO as a part of the jury process, but is not the whole answer.(...) The logic is that you can include a photo for further consideration by clicking Nominate, or you can eliminate it from

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Plotonides Jury tools

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Ekman
I'll suggest that we won't effect much of anything this year with this conversation, so let's leave it for after the contest is over. I'll ask everybody to keep a journal on their jury procedures this year so we can improve them next year. A couple of issues with Plotonides comments first:

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

2012-09-14 Thread Jane Darnell
Hi Phil, Thanks for the compliment - writing feedback for developers is one result that comes from years of testing new ICT products. I added my initial feedback to the mobile app here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedback It may be appropriate to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Israel's opening events

2012-09-14 Thread Cristian Consonni
Il giorno 14/set/2012 18:08, Tomasz W. Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com ha scritto: You have put a lot of effort into the preparations for Wiki Loves Monuments in Israel, and I am sure that it will pay off in the end. The number of outreach events you're going to organise is absolutely amazing,