[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Fwd: Submission of local WLM 2021 winning photos to the international jury

2021-11-02 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Let me also mention that the official webpage puts December 5 as the submission deadline: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Organise best, Alexander On 11/2/2021 11:50 AM, Анатолій Гончаров wrote: 31st November??? I have no such day in my calendar. вт, 2

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: banner diet

2021-08-12 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, In order to answer your question, it would be useful to have information on which diet was eventually implemented during WLM-2019 and 2020. Do you have any such data? An information on the banner diet during WLE-2021 would be even more useful because all countries with a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] status of Montage pull requests

2020-09-18 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
paign" at the top. Unarchiving is included, free of charge. :) Thanks for your patience, and to all coordinators, keep up the good work! Mahmoud & Stephen On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:30 AM Alexander Tsirlin <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Mahmoud, Thank you f

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] status of Montage pull requests

2020-09-03 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
on responses from Alexey Baturin on those PRs. Is he on this list? On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:22 PM Alexander Tsirlin <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Lodewijk, As for the status of Montage requests: I suggest that you start a separate thread on that, and would like

[Wiki Loves Monuments] status of Montage pull requests

2020-09-02 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
process may happen before/after this tool is used. Lodewijk On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:17 PM Alexander Tsirlin <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Lodewijk, We also intend to publish by default the settings of the montage jury tool, and the number of photos in e

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-09-02 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, We also intend to publish by default the settings of the montage jury tool, and the number of photos in each round that the national competitions have used. We're debating whether there should be an opt-out for this year. This is unrealistic, because jury process may involve

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020: Office Hours - 6 & 7 June

2020-06-06 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
It does not seem like people are allowed to join this meeting On 6/6/2020 7:03 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga wrote: The first session is happening now, join at https://meet.google.com/vpq-rvzt-jpc Etherpad link at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WLM_2020_Office_Hours On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Fwd: Wiki Loves Monuments 2020: Office Hours - 6 & 7 June

2020-05-24 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, Could you confirm what the main point of this discussion will be: - whether to organize WLM-2020 under the current conditions? (as Krishna's e-mail implies) - or how to organize/improve WLM "next year" (regardless of the current epidemic situation)? If it is about the second

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for UploadWizard?

2019-04-08 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Sandra, Thank you for the explanations. However, I should mention that all WLM organizers already have their small Structured Data, namely, lists of monuments that contain all necessary information: region and city names, coordinates, construction years, etc. One could think of feeding

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikivoyage banner competition in WLM-2018

2018-08-31 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear All, We are happy to announce the Wikivoyage banner competition as part of WLM-2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/banners Same as last year, we invite the participants to convert their photos into banner images used at Wikivoyage. These banner

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How can we put together a more rigorous screening

2017-01-30 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
est created. The recent file I noticed was 봄이_온_수원_화성.jpg Best, Lodewijk 2017-01-30 17:06 GMT+01:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsir...@gmail.com <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>>: The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] How can we put together a more rigorous screening

2017-01-30 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
The WLM upload wizard adds the cc-by-sa-4.0 license automatically. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that a WLM photo had no license. It rather means that someone removed the license, and then someone else deleted the file. Was it the case here? Sincerely, Alexander On 30.01.2017 11:51,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
dewijk 2016-09-17 8:58 GMT+02:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsir...@gmail.com <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>>: Rather than complaining to the process could you please for once think that this is your project too and everyone in this together? It is not my project. Like many

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
/strain on the reviewers too. Best, Lodewijk 2016-09-17 8:58 GMT+02:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsir...@gmail.com <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>>: Rather than complaining to the process could you please for once think that this is your project too and everyone

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
--- *From:* WikiLovesMonuments <wikilovesmonuments-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Alexander Tsirlin <altsir...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Saturday, September 17, 2016 11:09 AM *To:* Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition *Subject:* Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are delet

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-16 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Now it is not only about Freedom of Panorama and non-free images. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_VekaSpb Here, one Commons user nominates a bunch of excellent photos for deletion after he sees that the user name does not match the name in EXIF,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-15 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
r solutions. Remember that at the end of the day, the Commons community is also operating based on the same basic principles and motivations as the rest of the Wikimedia community. We are in this together, and to move forward efficiently we should work together. On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Alexa

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-14 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Leila, I can also repeat my point on list. Russian WLM organizers need the time until October 31 in order to identify and properly transfer no-FOP files. The Russian organizers really need this time. They are unable and they will not work in a different time frame. If Commons community

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-14 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
By the way, such images would not qualify for WLM anyway, since they are copyvios. Such files are not copyvios. They are distributed under free license, and the only exception is that they should not be used commercially. These photos are actively used outside Commons, as you can see from the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-08 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
:00 Alexander Tsirlin <altsir...@gmail.com <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>>: Dear Nahid, I'm sure you've put numerous effort and hard works on the WLM but calling other community members "freaks and assholes" just because they disagree with you is not a goo

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-08 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
a_Bangladesh> Twitter: @nahidunlimited <https://twitter.com/nahidunlimited> http://blog.nahidsultan.xyz/ *From:* WikiLovesMonuments <wikilovesmonuments-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Alexander T

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-08 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear All, We have a severe problem with some of the photos uploaded during Russian WLM. As some of you may know, Russia has Freedom of Panorama (FOP) for architecture, but not for sculptures. Therefore, photos of recent (post-WWII) sculptures are not eligible for Commons, although they are

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] acute problems with the WLX jury tool during WLE-2016

2016-08-03 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
fully functional jury tool before WLM kicks off on Sep. 1. Otherwise, we will have many sleepless nights and create many more of those for others. It's our high priority to avoid that. :) Best, Leila, on behalf of WLM international team On Sun, Jul 31

[Wiki Loves Monuments] acute problems with the WLX jury tool during WLE-2016

2016-07-31 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
We had very bad experience with using the WLX jury tool this year. I described it at length here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:WLX_Jury_Tool Several possible solutions are also mentioned on that page. I would like to hear your opinion about this situation. Could anyone help

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible 2 page article

2016-04-03 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
about Russia? I think a story about Austria might be nice too? Given that it is one of the most successful countries in terms of coverage? On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Alexander Tsirlin <altsir...@gmail.com <mailto:altsir...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Lodewijk, I can wri

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible 2 page article

2016-04-03 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, I can write something about WLM in Russia, but I have to know the size limit and the time scale. Best, Alexander On 03.04.2016 13:34, Lodewijk wrote: Hey folks, it may be possible to publish a 2 page article in Europa Nostra, but the deadline would be short. Is there

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM map tool

2015-08-26 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Thank you. I can say that the Russian part of the the erfgoed database is not updated at all. We would be grateful for the advice on how to update it (ideally, how to set up regular updates). Sincerely, Alexander On 26.08.2015 10:21, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: Hello; The WLM map is