Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Rating the photos

2012-10-05 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > I assume with remove, you only mean that you don't consider them for a > prize? (that is a fair reasoning I guess, under the 'usefulness' > principle). yeah, I second that, I am all for keeping lowres shots of things we dont have pics of otherwis

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Advice about what to do with a troll? participant

2012-09-15 Thread Mike Dupont
mike On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: > Besides, the columns seem to have names(?) on them, so there might be a > meaning somewhere.. > > Ole > > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Mike Dupont > wrote: >> >> well sounds like a jo

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Advice about what to do with a troll? participant

2012-09-15 Thread Mike Dupont
well sounds like a job for openstreetmap, the germans map every single lightpost, so i would say if they have geotags, keep them and put them on osm. mike On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Racso wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble with a really weird (troll?) participant. He has > uploaded some v

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Platonides wrote: > > Have you taken a look at the Upload Campaigns we are using for WLM? > Eg. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=wlm-es > > You will find a much nicer flow. OK, that sounds great. Will have the check that. > > You ca

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
would suggest you continue this conversation on commons-l > > Maarten > > Op 14 sep 2012 om 12:29 heeft Mike Dupont > het volgende geschreven:\ > > >> Ok, did you try running a workshop with 20 people in kosovo over a >> slow internet connection? >> for single p

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
012 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

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2012/9/14 Mike Dupont : >> Well, For me the goal is to collect media about the area under a >> commons license. I am not interested in teaching people to read, >> because most of them dont. there is just too muc

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
very involved in Wikimedia anyway. I would prefer us to > focus on making the upload form at Wikimedia Commons easier. > > In any case, I think that discussing this in October makes more sense - we > shouldn't change much any more for this year's competition. > > Bes

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
Buculei wrote: > 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 t

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
tell you more about that. > > Strainu > > 2012/9/14 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

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 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, the CC-BY-SA map of the

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
anything out of them. mike On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Strainu wrote: > 2012/9/14 Mike Dupont : >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Strainu wrote: >>> >>> Wiki Loves Monuments Photo Competition perhaps? >> yes WLMPC, the competition. I am looking for a n

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

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Strainu 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. mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kos

[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 htt

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyvio checking

2012-09-03 Thread Mike Dupont
http://www.tineye.com/ and others http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/whostolemypictures-find-duplicate-pictures-online/ On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Racso wrote: > Hello. > > I have detected that a participant just uploaded photographs he found on > internet, so I must proceed to mark them for dele

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikitech-l] Desktop upload tool

2012-05-28 Thread Mike Dupont
How will it be different than the commonist? geotagging would be one big feature and the ability to group photos with common tags would be useful! mike On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > I would name it Snuggle, so that it's in harmony with Huggle :) > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal: Native application uploader

2012-04-08 Thread Mike Dupont
my 2 cts, I really like the new google picture uploader, cant we have something like for mediawiki? it is really simple and easy to use. mike ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creation of a simplified Commonist

2012-03-06 Thread Mike Dupont
I agree. We should make a java applet out of it... I just did something like that for a customer, it is not that hard. jupload.sourceforge.net take a look at this. mike 2012/3/6 Tomasz W. Kozłowski > Firstly, Commonist is /not/ an easy tool for newbies; there's too many > flabbergasting options

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

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Dupont
Well this is why we should have prize money. I would be willing to even donate a small amount for prizes for kosovo if it was tax deductable (in germany where I live). mike On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Strainu wrote: > 2011/12/12 Jan Ainali : >> 2011/12/12 Maarten Dammers >>> >>> > 2011/12/12

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Unused photos

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Dupont
well my two cents : Picking photos is best done on some social media platform. Putting the photos on flickr, on facebook etc is a good way to get lots of people to help. mike On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Strainu wrote: > 2011/12/12 Maarten Dammers : >> Hi Strainu, > > Hey, >> >> So you want

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

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Dupont
I have had the same issue with the Best Photo of Kosovo contest, but we had some small winners. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContest mike 2011/12/12 Tomasz Kozłowski : > In chronological order: > #1: >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] A task management tool needed

2011-12-11 Thread Mike Dupont
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Platonides wrote: >> http://www.wunderlist.com/ > The options seems too limited for collaborative tasks. Note that the > published source code is the one of the desktop install. I reviewed the source, there was also server code there, in javascript. https://githu

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] A task management tool needed

2011-12-10 Thread Mike Dupont
tter stay with several docs. > _ > Béria Lima > Wikimedia Portugal > (351) 963 953 042 > > Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre > acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir > esse sonho. > > >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] A task management tool needed

2011-12-10 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, what about not depending on non free software and some cloud service that could go away tomorrow. http://www.wunderlist.com/home Wunderlist source code is licensed under the terms of the Apache Public License https://github.com/6wunderkinder/wunderlist also what about otrs? mike 2011/

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload form

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Dupont
ike, > > Op 15-6-2011 21:56, Mike Dupont schreef: > > Hi, > > I have done experiments with this, > > an upload form outside of the wikipedia can be implemented in drupal > > very easily. > > you can create a document type submission with a picture contained. > >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload form

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi, I have done experiments with this, an upload form outside of the wikipedia can be implemented in drupal very easily. you can create a document type submission with a picture contained. I have also created bots to do uploaded of pictures, this can been combined. We should in theory be able to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Dupont
work, so if we have a photo that is good,it can be slightly enhanced (brightened) and that would be uploaded in September, no? or is that breaking the spirit of the rules. thanks, mike On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: > Well we have our ongoing contest for the best photo

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Dupont
get things going. thanks, mike On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Op 5-6-2011 21:01, Mike Dupont schreef: >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers  wrote: >>> Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef: >>>> there are ma

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Dupont
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef: >> there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in >> kosovo, for example. > Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials. Here is our newes

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Dupont
ok, great. Well the previous version was ok, I wrote to the guy who broke it. I will ask people to start gearing up for the sept competition. thanks for your support, all the best, mike On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Op 5-6-2011 18:45, Mike Dupon