Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

ry I don't > speak SQL, so not sure where I would look for that). > > Cheers, > > Alex > >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:46 AM Michael Maggs wrote: >> If you had time to do a Quarry query pulling out editors for those 53 >> articles that would be great

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

If you had time to do a Quarry query pulling out editors for those 53 articles that would be great to use as an example we could document. People could use that as a basis for all sorts of focussed WP targeting. Michael > On 5 Sep 2019, at 23:59, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

oves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Michael Maggs <mailto:mich...@maggs.name> 3 September 2019 at 8:19 pm I just copied and edited the original template for the UK sit

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentation >> >> >> Best, >> Lodewijk >> >>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 12:19 PM Michael Maggs wrote: >>> I just copied and edited the original template for the UK situation. Here's >>> the UK version:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

ed to change? Neville -- Administrator Wikimedia Community Malta <http://www.wikimalta.org> ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wik

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

This was really useful information. Thanks! I have used a modified version of this to invite 2500 people on Commons who previously contributed to WLM in the UK. Regards Michael attolippip 30 August 2019 at 9:26 pm Thanks, Mohammad! (I am sure everybody knows t

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Can you help us review images for Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019?

diocre one. Training in the online reviewing software is available. The contest website is here:  https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ If you are able to help, or if you'd like more information, please let me know. Regards Michael ____ Michael Maggs WLM-UK

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

I also think that a meeting would be very valuable.  I'm also struggling with the question of what SD could bring to contests that have for some years already been running from monument listings on Wikidata.  Like Lily, I think I'm probably missing something due to my lack of SD knowledge. Reg

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikimania - lets meet!

Bear in mind that the women's shirts are about two sizes smaller than you'd expect! Michael Lodewijk wrote on 19/07/2018 1:18 pm: Also... I'm bringing the remaining Wiki Loves Monuments tshirts to the workshop. First come, first serve! We especially have a few women shirts available. Best,

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Can you help us review images for Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2018?

diocre one. Training in the online reviewing software is available. If you are able to help, or if you'd like more information, please let me know. Regards Michael ____ Michael Maggs WLM-UK lead volunteer ___ Wiki Loves Monumen

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments UK awards announced

: contestants, judges, reviewers and Wikimedians in many roles. Thanks also for the kind support we received from the International team, from our friendly staff at Wikimedia UK, and from our 2017 prize sponsors, Wikimedia UK and Archaeology Scotland. Michael ___ Michael Maggs WML-UK

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Jury criteria, membership, process, and tools

Hi Lily, thanks for the update. The Montage status page hasn't been updated since 2016: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Montage/Status Michael Lily 17 September 2017 at 5:11 am Hi all, If you are a Wiki Loves Monuments organizer, jury coo

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Will you help Wiki Loves Monuments UK with some image reviewing?

Hi all The Wiki Loves Monuments contest has started today, and we are still short of image reviewers in the UK. Will you help? The task is to help with reviewing this year’s entries and identifying a long list of images to be submitted to the three judges who will pick the final winners. Yo

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Update on activities around Flickr collaboration

Thanks John, I'll have a look there. Michael john cummings wrote: There are large communities of photographers for many major cities each of which have a discussion space e.g https://www.flickr.com/groups/-paris-/ This could be a way of encouraging contributions On 21 August 2017 at 17:00,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Commons beginner upload manuals

I created a couple of Learning Patterns for contributors that may be useful. They can be found on on Meta: Photographing your local buildings https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Photographing_your_local_buildings Improving your building photography https://meta.wikimedi

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments UK is looking for volunteers

Hi all. Wiki Loves Monuments UK is looking for some volunteers to help with reviewing this year’s entries and identifying a long list of images that are worthy to be submitted to the three judges who will pick the final winners. You don't need to be a top photographer to volunteer for this, but

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

edy deletion an other problematic > categories and also in category Images from Wiki Loves Monuments xxx in xxx. > It would help WLM local organizers to track those potential problematic files > and users. > > Vicenç > > > De: WikiLovesMonuments de > part de Mic

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

In at least some previous years there have been informal agreements with certain Commons admins to keep an eye on things, and notices have been posted on the Admins Noticeboard reminding all admins to watch out for WLM uploads. There are Commons admins and and editors who are more than willing

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Moving monuments database to Wikidata

> > To be clear, I am just a WLM participant and will not update any other lists > - I just made those edits to illustrate my argument for using the Wikidata > list items (which don't seem to serve any purpose right now). > Jane > >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:05

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Moving monuments database to Wikidata

Hi Jane I've not been following closely what you're doing here, but I assume it is the updating of the existing Wikidata items for UK listed buildings rather than the creation of new ones? As part of WLM last year, we obtained updated copies of the definitive lists from the English, Scottish,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM International Team

Hi All You need to talk to Magnus Manske who did a lot of work last year putting the official listing particulars of 50,000 or so UK monuments onto Wikidata. Last year's entire UK contest was run using Wikidata as the main database. I am copying Magnus in as he may not be subscribed to this

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 'evaluation'

Jane, you are quite right, and this illustrates a clear distinction between what at least the UK organisers considered 'valuable' and what the Foundation is focusing on. One of the main aims of the UK contest was to encourage the collection, development, promotion and distribution of open know

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 'evaluation'

content (monuments, art, etc). Again assumptions. ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Michael Maggs <mailto:m

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 'evaluation'

For some reason the 2014 WLM contest in the UK has not been included in the reported data. Michael Lodewijk 2 May 2015 12:26 Hi all, it seems that the WMF evaluation department has once again put together an evaluation of Wiki Loves Monuments. Out of curi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury

The UK jury, of three, looked through around 500 images (cut down from the original 7000 submissions). That's not too much work for them provided they are all experienced with image evaluation and have the images downloaded so that they can use efficient rating software such as Adobe Lightroom

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 UK winners

atest thanks must go to the photographers who uploaded images under a free licence to Wikimedia Commons where they are available for anyone to use without charge. Congratulations to all, Michael Michael Maggs WLM organiser ___ Wiki

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Warn people without mail address -> bot ?

Thanks for setting this up, Jason. If you could run it for the UK, that would be great. The Commons cat is  Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in the United Kingdom Many thanks, Michael On 13 October 2014 at 23:12:35, Jason Spriggs (ja...@jasonspriggs.com) wrote: All messages ha

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Volunteers needed to help pre-screen Wiki Loves Monuments UK entries

images at full screen size. You don’t need to be based in the UK to help. If you can help, please get in touch now! Either reply directly to this posting, or send an email to Michael {{at}} maggs . name Many thanks Michael ___ Michael Maggs WLM UK organiser

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Deadline to send in 10 winners

Hi Romaine In the UK we will most likely be having our final jury meeting on Saturday 1st November (taking all day).  Will it be OK to send the winning details though to you on Sunday 2nd? Michael On 6 September 2014 at 17:31:30, Romaine Wiki (romaine.w...@gmail.com) wrote: Hello all! The

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 has not started yet...

Uploads from the UK seem to be OK now. Michael On 1 September 2014 at 03:21:34, Romaine Wiki (romaine.w...@gmail.com) wrote: I think this is a known bug of the upload wizard. Is it still say that the contest has not started yet? Romaine 2014-09-01 2:16 GMT+02:00 Saqib Qayyum : Same here Paki

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Competition website ready to go

The WLM UK website should now be ready to go: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ If you spot any errors, or see anything that could be improved please let me know. Michael ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wiki Loves Monuments] UK Photographers - The Wiki Loves Monuments contest starts on Monday!

our entries under a free licence allowing them to be freely used by anyone for any purpose, including Wikipedia. You retain copyright, and can require anyone using your images to attribute them to you as photographer. Help us show off your local history! Michael

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Building photography Learning Patterns

Hi all If anyone setting up a Wiki Loves Monuments competition wants some photography resources to link to, I’ve just added a couple of new Learning Patterns on Meta that may be especially useful for beginners: Photographing your local buildings https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Other photo upload initiatives

HI Lianna The calendars have safely arrived in the UK. Thanks so much for arranging that. Best regards Michael On 31 Jan 2014, at 02:45, LiAnna Davis wrote: > (again, please excuse cross-posting) > > Hi everyone! > > I posted the latest in the string of program evaluation reports on Meta

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikimediauk-l] Grade II buildings (was english heritage)

Yes, we have all the grade II data for England and the corresponding data for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, too. However, getting that information onto Wikipedia in a usable format is not trivial are there are getting on for half a million building records. Automated linkages between W

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] english heritage

Yes, we were aware of this in advance, but unfortunately the dates EH was working to could not be matched to the September run of the WLM competition. I'm going to visit EH soon to talk about ongoing collaborations (and what we may do for next year), and will of course raise the licence issue.

[Wiki Loves Monuments] URGENT - WLM global banner: final weekend update

Hi all Is there anyone on this list with Meta access who can update the global banner text in the UK for me? I emailed Romaine yesterday, but he seems not to be around, and I'd really like this to be done today so that entrants can take full advantage of the final weekend. Michael __

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wlm2013-l] drop off in submissions, banner

during two events: next Monday > (Antwerp) and next Friday (upload marathon Gent).Any more events planned? > > Groeten, Maarten > > > > > 2013/9/20 Andrea Zanni > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Michael Maggs wrote: > It's not rude: it has a double mea

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wlm2013-l] drop off in submissions, banner

September 2013 17:16, Matthew Roth Wikimedia > wrote: > > I read it as being pushy, if not rude. Maybe a British humor thing we don't > > all get? > > > > Matthew > > > > Sent from a mobile communication device. > > > > On Sep 19, 2013, a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wlm2013-l] drop off in submissions, banner

. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over > Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. > > > On 19 September 2013 16:34,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] drop off in submissions, banner

> (like in NL, a conference banner with call for > speakers). > > > > Another way than the wording, is the > design. > I would suggest we continue this 'what is the > best banner' discussion on a talkpage somewhere, to keep > it consistent. Romaine,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Maps-l] Monuments on the map

s way, and would hugely reduce the amount of manual categorisation we need to do. Any chance of that? Michael On 12 Sep 2013, at 11:09, Bastien wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Maggs writes: > >> * The country list would be improved with more descriptive text (the >> co

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wiki Loves Monuments UK] New User Registration

Thanks. Not a top priority! Michael On 12 Sep 2013, at 21:19, WordPress wrote: > Michael Maggs writes: > >> Yes, it would be fine to merge all the GB- entries into a single >> "United Kingdom" entry. > > Well, I didn't find the time to do this,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] drop off in submissions, banner

Both "Snap a snapshot for Wikipedia" and "It's a snap, Wiki Loves Monuments" are the best I have heard so far, and they would work in the UK as well as the US. Maybe have them both running at 50% ? Michael On 11 Sep 2013, at 17:41, Peter Ekman wrote: > I too have noticed a drop off in phot

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Changing the Central Notice banner message

On Commons I always seem to see the message "Let your voice be heard! Give your input on the draft of our new privacy policy". Can that notice be changed so that Commons users are also directed to the WLM sites? Michael > Hi all, > > should we change the Central Notice message now?? Its be

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Changing the Central Notice banner message

Yes, good idea. Uploads were significantly down yesterday for some reason. Michael On 11 Sep 2013, at 07:17, Karthik Nadar wrote: > Hi all, > > should we change the Central Notice message now?? Its been 10 days, and I > think change in the message might gain some more eye balls! We can now sa

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Streaming tool

Hi Michael, > > Op 8-9-2013 0:44, Michael Maggs schreef: >> Is this tool still operational? https://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/stream/ >> >> It produces a message "Please wait while we load some photos", but then >> does nothing. > Was an issue with a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Streaming tool

Thanks Maartin. That works for some countries now. But the UK (and the US) gives the message "No images found". Michael On 8 Sep 2013, at 01:58, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Op 8-9-2013 0:44, Michael Maggs schreef: >> Is this tool still operational

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Streaming tool

and follow instructions, please. > > > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Michael Maggs wrote: > Is this tool still operational? https://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/stream/ > > It produces a message "Please wait while we load some photos", but then does > nothing. >

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Streaming tool

Is this tool still operational? https://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/stream/ It produces a message "Please wait while we load some photos", but then does nothing. Michael ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https:/

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UploadWizard bug?

The UK campaign is getting quite a few uploads with no id, or with a fake id. Probably that is because the international upload page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_upload goes straight to the local upload wizards without going though the required local upload r

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Maps-l] Monuments on the map - Country codes

Yes, it would be fine to merge all the GB- entries into a single "United Kingdom" entry. (Name=United Kingdom, ISO country code =GB) Michael On 5 Sep 2013, at 19:26, Bastien wrote: > Maarten Dammers writes: > >> You probably want to use >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/heritage/api/api.php?actio

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Maps-l] Monuments on the map

This looks very nice. A couple of point from my testing: * The country list would be improved with more descriptive text (the code for England will not be obvious to most people) * Loading the whole country is very slow - at least 5 minutes for all of the England buildings to be shown! Can the s

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Jury Tool] Countries Interested

Would love to have it today ;) Michael On 3 Sep 2013, at 13:42, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi David, > > when is a practical deadline for countries to ask for using the jury tool? > I'd like to make an announcement around this. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > > 2013/9/3 David Narvaez > Hi, > > In order

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Tools and dates

That tool seems to be looking at the 2012 data, still. Michael On 2 Sep 2013, at 00:01, Lodewijk wrote: > Already exists on https://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm2012/users.php :) > > Lodewijk > > > 2013/9/1 Ynhockey > Is it possible to copy this tool for 2012 as well? > https://toolserver.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] CentralNotice not working

n anonymous mode (control+shift+P in FF), and see if the problem persists? > > Lodewijk (who won't be able to solve it himself, but hopes to narrow down the > problem at least) > > > 2013/9/1 Michael Maggs > I am using Firefox 23.0.1. The problem is repeatable and has been

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] CentralNotice not working

ted? > > Lodewijk > > > 2013/9/1 Richard Nevell > This has happened to myself and at least one other person, so isn't a one-off > glitch. It would be nice to get this working ASAP. > > Richard > > > On 1 September 2013 09:03, Michael Maggs wrote: > The Central

[Wiki Loves Monuments] CentralNotice not working

The CentralNotice on en.W does not work for me. As I'm in the UK it should redirect to http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/, but clicking on it does nothing (stays on the same WP page). Michael ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Adding upload icon to the UK lists this evening

space is coming > from - there's a in the last table box, but nothing in the code > to generate it. Baffling. > > A. > > > > On 31 August 2013 17:13, Michael Maggs wrote: > Thanks Andrew. It looks good to me - my only query is whether it's possible &g

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Adding upload icon to the UK lists this evening

Thanks Andrew. It looks good to me - my only query is whether it's possible to remove some of the white space under the logo, given that a number of editors on the English Wikipedia seem to get very steamed up about that. If that's not possible/easy I'd leave it as you have it. I had an email

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Jury tool - practical considerations

Yes, indeed. Thanks David! Although we will in the UK be screening on a daily basis, I would like to avoid having to ask the WMUK IT consultants to update the tool too often, so it would be great if you could post a note here with the latest install/update instructions once you have things in a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Fwd: Fwd: [Wlm-global-org] Agendas from Lettera27

And the UK. Thank you. Michael On 30 Aug 2013, at 16:20, Santiago Navarro wrote: > The same for Spain. Thank you very much > > Santi > > El 30/08/2013 14:54, "Jan Ainali" escribió: > Hello! > > We received them in Sweden just now! > > > Med vänliga hälsningar, > Jan Ainali > > Verksamhets

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Testing the Jury Tool

I was trying the category Photographs by Michael Maggs, but maybe there is something specific with that, as the tool will load other categories such as South Light lighthouse, Lundy. What I then see is an image with mouseover forward, back and play buttons. I can step through the images but do

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Testing the Jury Tool

es > - add new accounts for jury members > - change the password of my own account. > > If someone knows how to do this, please help ;) > > Sylvain > > > 2013/8/28 Michael Maggs > We have loaded the Jury Tool on the WMUK server, and I am now testing it. > O

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Testing the Jury Tool

We have loaded the Jury Tool on the WMUK server, and I am now testing it. On attempting to load a category of images from Commons the program throws an exception: Notice: Undefined index: categorymembers in /var/www/jury.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/src/WLM/JuryToolBundle/Controller/DefaultContro

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Using upload wizard to add images to daily categories on Commons

quers > wrote: > Is this to identify images that need further categorisation, or to identify > images that need assessment as part of the competition? > > > On 27 August 2013 16:49, Michael Maggs wrote: > Sounds good. Could you or someone provide some help with doing that? I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Using upload wizard to add images to daily categories on Commons

t; Lodewijk > > > 2013/8/28 Romaine Wiki > Hello Michael, > > The easiest way is to create a template that is substed on the file page that > automatically inserts the category you want. > > Romaine > > > ---- > On Tue,

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Improving the quality of entries

There was some discussion in 2011 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011#Quality) about how best to improve the quality of entries to the competition. In an effort to help beginners in photography I have made a page (http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/?pag

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] National juries

I could probably help with some jury duty if need be - but only in October, once the competition is over. Michael Link to some of my photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MichaelMaggs/Gallery On 28 Aug 2013, at 12:12, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > in some countries it is harder t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Using upload wizard to add images to daily categories on Commons

of the competition? > > > On 27 August 2013 16:49, Michael Maggs wrote: > Sounds good. Could you or someone provide some help with doing that? It’s > beyond my capabilities. > > Michael > > > On 27 Aug 2013, at 16:46, Yuvi Panda wrote: > > > Actually, that

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Using upload wizard to add images to daily categories on Commons

Sounds good. Could you or someone provide some help with doing that? It’s beyond my capabilities. Michael On 27 Aug 2013, at 16:46, Yuvi Panda wrote: > Actually, that is not necessary. Since there are going to be templates > added to each upload, a little bit of lua/template magic should be >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Using upload wizard to add images to daily categories on Commons

Thanks Ilya, I would be interested to get hold of that. Michael On 27 Aug 2013, at 16:45, Ilya Korniyko wrote: > Run a bot (this is not manually though). I can provide such bot. > > Ilya > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Michael Maggs wrote: > It seems likely t

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Using upload wizard to add images to daily categories on Commons

It seems likely that in the UK we will need to do pre-filtering of the entries as the competition goes on. Is there any way to get the upload wizard to add each image to a custom daily category on Commons, such as [[Category:WLM-UK 2013 09-01]], and so on, throughout the contest? If not, what

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The WW1 special award

My understanding is that no separate template is available. In the UK, we will be asking contestants who want to enter for this prize to include the text “WW1:” at the start of their image description. It’s clunky, but I don’t know of any better way. Michael On 27 Aug 2013, at 12:51, Santia

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Filtering the submissions for the jury: how to do it

I'd be interested to hear from countries that have experience from previous years how you pre-filtered the submissions for the jury. As this is the first year for the UK, we have no idea how many entries we will get, but it may well be too many for out three-person jury to handle. I know that

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Piwik

Yes, definite interest, but I am afraid I’m not able to help on the technical side. Would it be possible to give the UK an ID? Michael On 24 Aug 2013, at 12:41, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > last year a system was set up to do some website stats for the participating > countries centrally

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man

Just to confirm that they are not part of the UK competition. Michael On 23 Aug 2013, at 18:27, Romaine Wiki wrote: > Hello all, > > Do the islands Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man have any listed monuments? > > > Greetings, > Romaine > > ___ > Wi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wlm2013-l] Do we have the resources to complete the lists in time?

. > > On 2013-08-23 10:28, Lodewijk wrote: >> I agree, once the lists are set up properly, there are also some >> tools that could help you identify images (if they are tagged with the >> identifier in Commons), and add them to the lists. >> >> Best, >>

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Jury Tool] Workflow Video

I agree that visibility of the description is of vital importance. As it may be a complex process to ensure that the description field gets updated when it is changed online, I think it would for this year be perfectly OK simply to show the description as originally uploaded as a static text fi

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [Wlm2013-l] Do we have the resources to complete the lists in time?

to provide some final assistance for us. Michael > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Michael Maggs wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Only 9 working days till the start of the competition and I’m concerned that >> we may not have enough resources to comple

[Wiki Loves Monuments] The WW1 special award

Please can we not use the word 'monuments' at all in in relation to the special prize? In the UK, the expression 'war memorial' means something specific, and there will be virtually no UK entries of war memorials in that sense, since very few of them are listed buildings (which is what we are c

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Europeana Loves Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 edition

There was an earlier thread on this point. In the UK, the photos will typically be of old buildings and not obvious war memorials Some explanation of the wartime relevance may need to be added manually during upload, but a box for the uploader to tick would also be extremely helpful. Otherw

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WordPress WLMImageCounter plugin

Hi The UK website at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ uses the WikiLovesMonuments WordPress theme, version 0.5. According to text that comes with the theme "It needs the Cimy image rotator plugin, suggested plugin: WLMImageCounter". However, the WLMImageCounter plugin does not appear to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help needed please to set up UploadCampaigns in the UK

not add the proper monument link. So as you > complete the lists, these need to be added in. Do you have a list of > lists that are done? > > 2013/8/8, Michael Maggs : >> Yes, indeed. My reply was to indicate that that part is in hand by several >> volunteers. The lists on WP

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help needed please to set up UploadCampaigns in the UK

.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Kent > > 2013/8/8, Michael Maggs : >> Hi Romaine >> >> The updating of the UK lists on en.W is in hand and all (perhaps except a >> few that are already featured lists) will use the WLM template. You can >> check detailed d

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help needed please to set up UploadCampaigns in the UK

am > available on most of the coming days. I think it is urgent to speak with each > other. > > > Romaine > > > ---- > On Wed, 8/7/13, Michael Maggs wrote: > > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help needed pleas

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Help needed please to set up UploadCampaigns in the UK

Hi all I wonder if there is anyone with experience in UploadCampaigns who could help us set up something for the UK, please? I had been fully intending to do this myself, but I fear that I am now rapidly running out of time, especially as I have no knowledge of this whatsoever and would have t

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM-UK external website is now live

Hi all WLM in the UK now has a live external website: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ More content will be added over the next two weeks, and suggestions are welcome. Michael ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Europeana Loves Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 edition

How will the international jury know which entries are connected in some way with WW1, as that will often not be obvious from the photo itself. In the UK, the photos will typically be of old buildings and not obvious war memorials Presumably an explanation of the wartime relevance would need

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upgrade to UploadCampaigns

Hi Some more basic question from the newbies in the UK! I've looked at the UploadCampaigns coding on testwiki, and would like to try it out. Do I need sysop rights to do so? Also, is there a basic page of instructions somewhere about the UploadCampaigns technology for 2013? The most recent I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Europeana Loves Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 edition

It’s the same in the UK. Although we have many WW1 memorials, very few of them are on the official registers as ‘listed buildings’, so are not eligible subjects for the competition. Michael On 23 Jul 2013, at 15:59, Bas vb wrote: > Hi all, > > Indeed France and Belgium both have many of th

[Wiki Loves Monuments] How will competitors access the upload wizard from the English Wikipedia?

Oh dear! See the thread below from the WLM International list. It seems to me that we really must have a direct image upload link built in to the WLM template on en.W which works even where we have an image of a building already. Part of the purpose of the competition is to encourage new edit

[Wiki Loves Monuments] UK competition rules and awards

Hi all As this is the first time that the UK has participated in the competition, we’re having to draft our national rules and list of awards from scratch. Our current thoughts are set out at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom/Competition

[Wiki Loves Monuments] How will competitors access the upload wizard from the English Wikipedia?

Hi all Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I need an answer in order to write some competitor instructions! In the UK, we will be asking competitors to upload via one of the local Listed Buildings pages on the English Wikipedia which are accessible eg via the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Special GLAM prize

re will be a special prize sponsored by Europeana again. I will get in > touch with them. > > Best, > > Lodewijk > > > 2013/6/5 Michael Maggs > I am working on some draft Competition rules for the UK > (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_20

[Wiki Loves Monuments] UK latest status update

details will be posted to the WLM-UK mailing list, which you can subscribe to at http://lists.wikimedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wlm2013-l Michael Maggs ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Special GLAM prize

I am working on some draft Competition rules for the UK (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom/Competition_rules), and note from the main international website that there will be a special GLAM award this year. How will entries for that be sub

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikimediauk-l] WLMuk planning meeting 2 Friday 31st at 2pm BST

Thanks for arranging the WLM-UK telephone conference Katie. This is going to be a crucial telephone conference for the future of the UK project, and I'd invite everyone who can to participate. We now have a detailed list of tasks, and we will be looking for volunteers to do specific things. W

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in the UK

Thanks for your help Maarten, and I've noted your preference for discussions to go via the list. Michael On 20 May 2013, at 16:06, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Op 20-5-2013 16:02, Michael Maggs schreef: >> Hi Maarten >> Many thanks, that is a fantastic st

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom is ready to go!

Hi all For the very first time, the UK will be competing in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition in September. For the UK, this will be a community-led effort, with support from WMUK. A number of volunteers have already expressed interest in helping to organize the contest, but there

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