[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: WLM international 2024 preparations

2024-06-02 Thread Philip Kopetzky
e WLM telegram group requests for a code in an attempt to join but I > can't seem to find any code provided. How can I join the group? > > On Wed, May 22, 2024, 1:30 PM Philip Kopetzky > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> just to correct the statement on the rapid grants,

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: WLM international 2024 preparations

2024-05-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi, just to correct the statement on the rapid grants, if you're a community in the CEE region or Central Asia, there is no rapid grant cycle because there is no money left. One alternative for CEE communities would be to apply for a microgrant: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Hub/Mi

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Regarding the participation of Russia in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

2022-12-14 Thread Philip Kopetzky
ise if a monument is "claimed" by > different groups I can imagine. On the other hand there might be situations > with difficulties that are beyond our influence. Anyway we have to be > careful (neutral and unpolitical) when trying to find regulations. > > Best, > Manfred

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Regarding the participation of Russia in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

2022-12-13 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Ruben, thank for giving your reasoning - I would urge you and the team though to establish some rules (since you mention the lack of rules around this issue) for future competitions, since the war in Ukraine is not the only conflict happening right now and will unfortunately not be the last one

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Questions for next years competition

2022-12-02 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi! It probably depends on what you want your competition to be for. There are easier and less expensive ways of encouraging quality images and the international competition hasn't changed it's taste of pictures in many years. These considerations should not play as an important role for local org

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Wikimedia Sverige can import your Wiki Loves Monuments datasets into Wikidata

2022-02-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi John, has any thought been put into how to maintain the data and correct systematic errors in the data uploads once the data is on Wikidata? The Austrian heritage data was uploaded in 2017 with many errors that have been slowly rectified by volunteers mostly by hand, but issues still persist, f

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

2021-11-02 Thread Philip Kopetzky
The 5th of December is what's been on Commons for a very long time now and we've planned accordingly. Best, Philip On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 12:20, Alexander Tsirlin wrote: > Let me also mention that the official webpage puts December 5 as the > submission deadline: > > https://commons.wikimedia.or

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: WLM 2021 in Malta - hidden category

2021-09-08 Thread Philip Kopetzky
create your own template in order to still be in control of your campaign (one example of that would be https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiDaheim_is_running ). Best, Philip On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 14:54, Philip Kopetzky wrote: > Hi Toni, > > mt was missing i

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: WLM 2021 in Malta - hidden category

2021-09-07 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Toni, mt was missing in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-is-running/dates - I added it, please try again. The template should be added now during the upload, you'll have to manually add the template to the already uploaded images unfortunately. BR, Philip On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Issue with country codes for WLM 2021 template

2021-08-13 Thread Philip Kopetzky
t; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Participating_countries >>>> >>>> The template ( >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021) >>>> is not also updated according the list mentioned ab

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Issue with country codes for WLM 2021 template

2021-08-12 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Josephine, this depends on the values defined in the template itself: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021&action=edit - Australia doesn't exist (yet), but IE does. I must say though that this kind of upload circumvents the categorisation work and

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Question re: templates and testing for WLM uploads

2021-07-06 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi! There is a matching table on Commons created by Romaine, here's the one from last year: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Wiki_Loves_Monuments/2020/table . You can use https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wlm-at since this campaign is already active, for example with the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Commons app WLM integration - help needed

2021-04-29 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Josephine! Would it not be possible to set up a customizing table that enables users to set the property used in a specific country for monuments? The WLM ID is only used by countries that don't have their own monument ID and is not commonplace. Even if you started copying monument IDs to the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] fyi: new chat channel

2020-09-02 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Lily is right, maybe it just needs a channel with a low barrier of entry for the most important news? Best, Philip On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 06:18, Lily wrote: > Thanks for doing this. I personally use IRC and am fine with it, > however, I've seen people, even technically savvy people having to > s

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM integration in Commons app

2020-07-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
erently from country to country. We > may want to dig a bit deeper in general into how to improve this process. > But that is beyond what we can expect from the app :) > > Best, > Lodewijk > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM Philip Kopetzky > wrote: > >> Hi Krishna

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM integration in Commons app

2020-07-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
ility of > various sources for their country. > > Best regards, > Josephine > > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 07:39, Philip Kopetzky > wrote: > >> Hi Krishna, >> >> which data is this based on and how will the campaign data be filled from >> the android ap

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
You can then also build a list with the ListeriaBot, one example with an embedded upload link with a campaign would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Braveheart/List_of_provincial_parks_of_British_Columbia BR, Philip On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 10:30, Mārtiņš Bruņenieks wrote: > Hi! > > Take a l

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM integration in Commons app

2020-07-21 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Krishna, which data is this based on and how will the campaign data be filled from the android app? As far as I'm aware, there's no automatism to prefill said data and it would be quite an additional burden on volunteers to have to sift through pictures uploaded via the app that are missing cat

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 ?

2020-04-11 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Given that photographers (at least in Austria) usually do not roam around in herds, we plan on doing the usual contests this year too, starting in July. Of course the situation differs from country to country. It might make sense to emphasise uploading old/historic pictures of monuments or as Lode

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners

2019-09-01 Thread Philip Kopetzky
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/wlm2019_version2 >>case 'AT': >> url = 'https://www.wikidaheim.at/?pk_campaign=Centralnotice'; >> break; >> >> Best, >> Samat >> >> >> &g

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners

2019-09-01 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi, whoever thought it was a good idea to link from Austria to WLM in Denmark, could you please just deactivate the banner for Austria? Thank you :-) Best, Philip On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 at 11:28, effe iets anders wrote: > Hi everyone, > > With the help of Seddon at the WMF we have been working ov

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikidata Slovakia

2019-08-12 Thread Philip Kopetzky
That's a good start, if you can then add that property to the items related to the Wikipedia articles of those buildings that would help a lot :-) On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 19:31, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > Le dim. 11 août 2019 à 18:38, Philip Kopetzky > a écrit : > >> If i

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikidata Slovakia

2019-08-11 Thread Philip Kopetzky
If it's the Montrel team, please make sure you don't start creating duplicates again. Not fun for those who have to clean up after you ;-) On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 11:51, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > Hi, > > This is moving slowly but still moving ;) > > Matej filled the mapping table. > > I just aske

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 3 dimensional documentation

2018-02-21 Thread Philip Kopetzky
There are definitely people out there making 3D models of monuments, one example being http://www.noe-3d.at/ , a website for monuments in Lower Austria.The time time and effort needed to create a model out of several hundred pictures (depending on the size of the monument) are quite high though. Ne

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] When WikiLovesMonuments is not enough

2017-09-01 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi Emilio! Yeah, we've been facing that dilemma in Austria for a few years now, with 97% photo coverage of all monuments in Austria. This year we started "WikiDaheim" (translates to "Wiki in your home area"), which not only takes into account the monuments, but other aspects of everyday life in Au

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] WLM 2016 results are announced

2016-12-16 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi all! I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the international WLM team on a job well done and thank them for the work and energy they have put into organising the international contest this year! :-) Best, Philip On 15 December 2016 at 20:06, Lily wrote: > Hi all, > > It's bee

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Present and Future of Wiki Loves Monuments

2016-07-18 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi there! At Wikimania Jean-Fred and I held a presentation about Wiki Loves Monuments, which you can now find on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Present_and_Future_of_Wiki_Loves_Monuments.pdf The etherpad for that session can be found at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wlm-futur