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

2016-09-14 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > The files have been deleted, meaning we will advise WLM participants not to > use Commons anymore. > By the way, such images would not qualify for WLM anyway, since they are copyvios. Cruccone

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Jury for the national competition

2012-03-08 Thread Marco Chiesa
Dear all, in Italy we are discussing about how to define the jury for the nantional competition. Since we are new to the process, we were wondering if more experienced chapters could share with us their experience, suggestions and maybe working together on tools to facilitate the juror's work. Th

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Questions about lists and db

2012-03-06 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > Op 5-3-2012 23:35, Andrea Zanni schreef: > > I think you have two legal issues to solve: > 1. Copyright of the lists > 2. The whole take photos in Italy of monuments problem > > If you get the first part solved we can start

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments was crap, it's high time to admit it!

2011-12-13 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: > On a constructive tone, I think this is easily solved at the jury level, > just make the Wikipedia usefulness one of the noting criteria, even if > the picture is wonderful done technically and artistically, if there are > other reasonable pi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] L'UPP dénonce le concours Wiki Loves Monuments

2011-10-28 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Strainu wrote: > "Presented as a philanthropic operation, this initiative looks more > like a commercial action. Indeed, the participation is conditioned by > the acceptance of a CC license allowing the commercial reuse of the > pictures. > > Private or public ent

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

2011-09-29 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Bas vb wrote: > There are lots of records like: Largest pumpkin/person. Those records you > can't say on forehand that you're gonne break them, I believe if you can > proof afterwards it's fine as well. > I'm pretty sure that the world record for the biggest encycl

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Making it into Guinness?

2011-09-29 Thread Marco Chiesa
Hi all, I was checking on the Guinness Book of Records and it seems we may have broken a world record. The largest photography competition so far could only attract 126,521 entries [1] and we're now well past 133k Congratulations to everyone! Marco (Cruccone) [1] http://www.guinnessworldrecords

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in Switzerland

2011-07-07 Thread Marco Chiesa
On 7/6/11, Charles Andrès wrote: > > Participation of the swiss pictures and communication are false problems, no > one wil do "european" communication, it will be the sum of national > communication. > > In switzerland we will communicate that the contest is european, and that's > all, honestly