Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Tool for images based on Monument ID

2016-09-29 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 29.09.2016 08:56, Naveen Francis wrote: Hi llya, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Indexed_images For India, it is showing zero. Is there anything wrong ? -- naveenpf Thanks, Naveen Francis [1] The category was a redirect (which obviously contains zero images

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] how to label photos that won't be part of the competition

2016-09-26 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 26.09.2016 17:28, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On 26.09.2016 17:16, Lily wrote: Hi all, I'm writing this email in my capacity as a WLM-IR organizer. In Iran's organizing team, bunch of us would like to upload monuments photos as part of WLM and during the competition, but we don&

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] how to label photos that won't be part of the competition

2016-09-26 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 26.09.2016 17:16, Lily wrote: Hi all, I'm writing this email in my capacity as a WLM-IR organizer. In Iran's organizing team, bunch of us would like to upload monuments photos as part of WLM and during the competition, but we don't want the photos to be included in the competition (they shou

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

2016-09-17 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 17.09.2016 21:52, olatunde olalekan isaac wrote: Hey Alexander TL:DR. Please, bare in mind that Common community have policies regarding copyright which they will never ignore for a contest like this. Thus, you need not lose your cool and make personal remarks in accusing reviewers of intimi

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

2016-09-14 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 14.09.2016 20:50, Marco Chiesa wrote: 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

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

2016-09-14 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 08.09.2016 16:39, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: 2016-09-08 16:06 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : On 08.09.2016 15:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Nicolas VIGNERON, 08/09/2016 15:22: for WLM France, except for WMfr staff, nearly all members of the team are Commons users or Commons sysop; is this

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

2016-09-08 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 08.09.2016 15:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Nicolas VIGNERON, 08/09/2016 15:22: for WLM France, except for WMfr staff, nearly all members of the team are Commons users or Commons sysop; is this unusual? Yes, it's probably unusual. With 43 countries participating, I'd expect a majority of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload pages

2016-08-30 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 30.08.2016 22:43, Juliana Monteiro wrote: Hi all, I am Juliana Monteiro, from Brazil. I am working with Rodrigo Padula in order to organize the 2016 edition of WLM here. The link to the contest is here: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016/Brasil/Lista, but t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload pages

2016-08-30 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 30.08.2016 22:29, Lily wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On 30.08.2016 19:07, Lodewijk wrote: Hey Romaine, I'm not sure we're talking all about the same thing. Yaroslav says he /will/ update the page as good as he can. Which I'm thankf

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload pages

2016-08-30 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 30.08.2016 19:07, Lodewijk wrote: Hey Romaine, I'm not sure we're talking all about the same thing. Yaroslav says he /will/ update the page as good as he can. Which I'm thankful for. If more data is added later, that would be great. Best, Lodewijk For the time being, I am done updating th

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Upload pages

2016-08-30 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Lily писал 2016-08-30 18:30: Romaine, I see your point, but having a page with incomplete/incorrect information is also a problem. The page Lodewijk has linked to is about 2015 (per the right-hand-side column) and the list of countries in it is not complete. It can be confusing for people if they

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] monuments without official list

2016-08-17 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Johnattan Rupire писал 2016-08-17 06:15: HI all, What we can do with the monuments that aren't in the authorities list for low coverage from government? There are a decision about this from International team? some advices? I think here we have many monuments in many government list. How you do

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible 2 page article

2016-04-11 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-04-11 00:14, Lodewijk wrote: Hi all, below a first draft - the piece about Italy is still missing. I think we have a nice diversity this way! It's cramming a bit more, so lets see how this works out. Best, Lodewijk Hi Lodewijk, hope it is not too late. The text looks good, but

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC)

2016-04-08 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-04-08 17:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Forwarding on request. Nemo-BEIC This is absolutely great, thanks for sharing. Cheers Yaroslav Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [cultural-partners] Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC) Data: Fri, 8 Apr 2016

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible 2 page article

2016-04-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-04-03 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 anything you'd like to share in such an article? I imagine a few scenarios: - 1. Make a piece about WLM in the past years - 2. Make a piece

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Turkey

2015-09-11 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2015-09-11 09:54, attolippip wrote: I think they still can manage if they really want. Bulgaria was able to prepare everything for WLE in 4 days (I think) and they still can have enough time to rate the photos on time if they[Turkey] start on September 15, 2015 Is there an email to write to?

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2015-05-20 14:28, Pierre-Selim wrote: 2015-05-20 14:22 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: Hi all; In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was increased

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: Hi all; In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was increased, with many examples of destroyed sculptures.[1] I have heard in the news that many more monum

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Building photography Learning Patterns

2014-07-08 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 04.07.2014 13:26, Michael Maggs wrote: 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:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikilovesearth] WLM maps

2014-06-26 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 25.06.2014 13:59, Richard Nevell wrote: Is there anything to prevent the lists on Wikivoyage being copied over to the Russian Wikipedia? Nobody would maintain them there. On Wikivoyage, we have a community willing to maintain them. Cheers Yaroslav ___

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikilovesearth] WLM maps

2014-06-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 23.06.2014 10:07, André Costa wrote: @Yaroslav Unless the lists are completely duplicated to Russian Wikivoyage the solution would be to update the Russian Wikipedia lists with the coordinates from Wikivoyage. This would allow the monuments database to harvest these coordinates. /André Th

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikilovesearth] WLM maps

2014-06-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 19.06.2014 11:46, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: 2014-06-19 11:22 GMT+02:00 Michal Reiter : I am suprised :-(, that there are very few Czech monuments on the map . What can we do to improve it? > Limojoe Could we please switch from the Russian Wikipedia, where the coordinates of the monuments

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Minor prizes for combination of writing and photography?

2014-06-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 13.06.2014 03:48, Asaf Bartov wrote: Hi. In a grant discussing for funding this year's WLM competition in Pakistan, a member of the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC) brought up an idea I thought worth thinking about: offering one or two prizes, alongside the major top photo prizes, to those subm

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 2014 contest

2014-01-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 12.01.2014 14:53, Santiago Navarro Sanz wrote: It would be great! Thank you Ilya. I think that we should do WLM 2014 because there were many new countries last year, and it was a pitty that their effort last year has not impact this one. There are still many countries that have not participat

[Wiki Loves Monuments] acknowledgements?

2013-11-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Dear all, I was participating in WLM for the third time now, both as an uploader (for multiple countries) and as someone helping with the uploaded files, categorizing them on Commons, placing them into lists, and on one occasion helping the jury with the preselection of photos. I was never in

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM via Wikidata

2013-10-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 13.10.2013 22:04, Lodewijk wrote: Hi Yaroslav, there are many things not ready yet :) So yes, there are multiple issues. The issue I'm most worried about, assuming all data could be inserted into wikidata already (big assumption as far as I understand, but OK), that the data could still not b

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM via Wikidata

2013-10-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 13.10.2013 19:06, Lodewijk wrote: I don't think it would be very helpful to transfer them already if there is no possibility yet to display them on Wikipedia directly from Wikidata. Because that would basically mean that if you want to make an improvement, you would have to do so on two places

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM via Wikidata

2013-10-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 13.10.2013 14:40, Michal Matúšov wrote: Hi. In WM Conference in Milan we have speak about moving WLM lists to Wikidata. For this we need a Wikidata list functionality, which is not there yet. I haven't followed this topic, have someone up-to-date information? It would be great to present this

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Russia? (and other countries)

2013-09-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 21.09.2013 15:11, Maarten Dammers wrote: If I read correctly, Philippines, Russia, and Italy are the only three countries with a number of uncategorized images over a thousand. We used to have a problem with Ukraine which got stuck at the first level of administrative divisions, but I bel

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Russia?

2013-09-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
ne way or another, we'll get this to work even better! Best, Lodewijk 2013/9/20 Yaroslav M. Blanter On 20.09.2013 20:38, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi, Can someone please tell me what is going on in Russia? Any plans to fix it? Please reply because this is affecting other countries and ot

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Russia?

2013-09-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 20.09.2013 21:21, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Maarten Dammers, 20/09/2013 20:38: Ps Russia is not the only country with problems, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization/Statistics Anybody knows the situation with the Philippines? If they need some

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Russia?

2013-09-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 20.09.2013 20:38, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi, Can someone please tell me what is going on in Russia? Any plans to fix it? Please reply because this is affecting other countries and otherwise I'm forced to drop Russia. Maarten Ps Russia is not the only country with problems, see https://commo

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] First 2013 photowalk in Mexico

2013-09-10 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 10.09.2013 20:27, Ivan Martínez wrote: Dear all: Just sharing the images of our first Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 photowalk in Mexico City the past saturday 7th. We have an attendance of 72 people perhaps the light rain who surprised us in the Downtown of Mexico City! We're preparing a post in

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Autofill during upload

2013-09-05 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
There is no coordinates in the french official database. It was all geolocate manually on Wikipedia (but we have some tools to help ; plus it's probably easier in French since the municipalities are small). We decided not to put « approximate » coordinates because it's not possible to distinguish

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Autofill during upload

2013-09-05 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 05.09.2013 08:46, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: In France, it's always the center of the « monument » (could be a building or something else, definition of « monument » could be strange in strange ; in the cases we didn't find the precise location, there is no coordinates). +1 : {{object location d

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Autofill during upload

2013-09-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 04.09.2013 17:54, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi Lars, Op 4-9-2013 11:08, Lars Jynge Alvik schreef: Hi! I was wondering if there are any plans to implement autotagging of location/coordinates when uploading using the upload wizard. That's already happening. If list templates contain lat/lon an

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in Japan

2013-08-29 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 25.08.2013 17:59, Maarten Dammers wrote: Japan in English. * Header at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NHS_Japan_header [5] * Row at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NHS_Japan_row [6] * Template at Commons to track the images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:NHS_

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Russia

2013-08-29 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 29.08.2013 13:04, Lodewijk wrote: Sure, they are published in the project namespace (maybe some day they'll move elsewhere, but that is a local community thing), listed on  https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%8

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Russia

2013-08-29 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi Lodewijk, On 29.08.2013 12:09, Lodewijk wrote: I saw that there were a lot of efforts done to get the lists on Wikiepdia (with plenty of work ahead of course), Could you please indicate where these efforts have been applied? Despite being involved at some point in the past, I am not aware

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] FW: [WLM-US] Question Regarding Wikipedia Takes America

2013-08-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 27.08.2013 02:27, Jeremy Baron wrote: You may also find that some NRHP sites have signs up explicitly prohibiting photography (including from the road or sidewalk). I don't remember details re content or placement of these signs but I'm pretty sure e.g. the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] has them posted.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help needed with converting lists for China

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Ps. Just found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Historic_Sites_of_Japan for Japan, also needs converting. Is there a sample for Japan? I have not got much time in the end of August, but I could do something if a template is available. For China, if there are leftovers from the bot, j

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in Greece

2013-08-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 20.08.2013 20:56, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: Thank you for very informative note, Cristian   I should start from  Oh my God! ...and we blame our (Ukrainian) rules and institutions! No, we have no issues as tough as you described with governmental institutions  (both national and local) and some of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation request into Azerbaijani, Nepali, Thai and Urdu, help wanted!

2013-08-06 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 06.08.2013 17:37, Romaine Wiki wrote: For the upload campaigns we still the need the translation into four languages: Azerbaijani, Nepali, Thai and Urdu. Who can help and translate into these languages? Who knows someone who can? Who can help accomplish this? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wik

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Antarctica!

2013-07-22 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 22.07.2013 09:12, Karthik Nadar wrote: There are lists up in English Wikipedia. Find them below: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Sites_and_Monuments_in_Antarctica [4] * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area [5] * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Antarctica!

2013-07-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 22.07.2013 06:19, Osmar Valdebenito wrote: Hi all! I'm glad to announce you that, this year, we will have a Wiki Loves Monuments edition in... Antarctica! We believe that, to actually make this a global contest, we need to reach all continents. Antarctica, despite having no permanent populat

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in the UK

2013-05-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 24.05.2013 06:41, Jane Darnell wrote: Maarten's notes were meant to be used on Wikipedia, but I believe some groups have their lists on Commons - isn't that right? I believe all groups have their lists on Wikipedia. The only exception is Russia, which last time did not use lists at all, an

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [URGENT] Help write & design an advertisement for WLM 2013

2013-04-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 27.04.2013 01:53, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: Hi Lodewijk, thank you for the feedback, it's appreciated! For comparison, I uploaded the new file under http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~odder/wlm/ad/ as "Ad_v2vL.pdf". Now let me address your points one by one so that we have a structured and easy-to-fo

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Italian lists

2013-04-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Dear All, I need some help and I think this list would be the easiest way to get it. I will spend the whole month of May in Italy. I will be based in Pisa and probably will have time to travel around as well. I will take my camera and, in principle, I could easily take photos of some cultural

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 7 Most Endangered monuments in Europe

2013-04-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 20.04.2013 15:17, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On 20.04.2013 14:44, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi everyone, Europa Nostra published a list of 14 most endangered monuments in Europe. From these they will select the 7 most endangered ones. You can find it at http://www.europanostra.org/7-most

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 7 Most Endangered monuments in Europe

2013-04-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 20.04.2013 14:44, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi everyone, Europa Nostra published a list of 14 most endangered monuments in Europe. From these they will select the 7 most endangered ones. You can find it at http://www.europanostra.org/7-most-endangered/ . Maybe fun to write some articles about th

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Participants' Survey 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 16.04.2013 10:40, Estermann Beat wrote: Done: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_Participants%27_Survey Chers, Beat Great, thanks. I will try to make sure it gets reviewed on time. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wiki Loves Monume

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Participants' Survey 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 16.04.2013 09:18, Estermann Beat wrote: Dear all, In 2013, a group of students in the Masters Programme of Business Administration at Bern University of Applies Sciences will take care of the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey. Dear Beat, would you please mind discussing the projec

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] A thank you

2013-02-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:05:09 +0100, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi everyone, About three years ago we started this little photo competition to get more photos of monuments. In three years Wiki Loves Monuments grew to be the largest photo competition gathering over half a million photos. I was one o

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] wiki loves monuments exhibition

2013-01-09 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:36:48 +0100, Barbara Fischer wrote: Hello,  yes the opening of WLM on world tour in Gouda, Netherlands, was yesterday: http://wmnederland.nl/ [5].  There are some further stations planed. Please get informed here [6]. After Netherlands it is scheduled to go to St Petersburg

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Polish Railways Open exhibition

2013-01-09 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:12:26 +0100, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: Hi, Today we started an open exhibition of WLM pictures on Central Railways Station in Warsaw. Polish Railways have several spots in Poland where the art can be shown for free for public. We managed to put WLM pictures there for 2 weeks. Th

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Definitions of participating photos

2012-12-14 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi Lodewijk, one thing to have in mind is that there were many images uploaded which will eventually be deleted from Commons because of the freedom of panorama issues. My impression is that these are mostly limited to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (with a big share of Ukrainian submissions bei

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 1,500 Quality images!

2012-11-29 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi Tomasz, this is great indeed. Who are the most significant contributors? Cheers Yaroslav On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:17:07 +0100, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Hi there, this is just to let you know that today we have reached yet another milestone in terms of Quality images; there are now exactly 1

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long term - Philippines

2012-11-05 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 12:05:27 -0500, Peter Ekman wrote: I've finished putting in everything I want to say about an adjustment to our long-term goals and direction at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Feedback#Proposal_for_next_year.2Fpermanent_organization and wil

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long Term - a bit different

2012-11-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:38:29 -0500, Peter Ekman wrote: I'm pretty encouraged by the several responses to my "different" proposal, in particular Basvb and Lodewijk (below) My proposal in brief - move toward a platform/permanent organization that supports multiple contests on multiple topics at diff

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Feedback for the evaluation of WLM 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:18:29 +0100, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Hi there, a month after the end of the competition, I think it's about time we start slowly evaluating what was wrong and what was good with the organisation of the contest. ... Thanks in advance, Hi Tomasz and everyone, I was goi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] red link lists

2012-10-31 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
HOn Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:40:17 -0400, Peter Ekman wrote: I second WSC (below) The specific context for WP:NRHP in the US is that we have county lists with links (often red links) to an article on each of the sites and a photo (sometimes blank) in the next column. From the info on the US page li

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] determining how many photos used in articles

2012-10-31 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:30:46 +0100, Bas vb wrote: The links from the list are not always the right links. For many houses in the netherlands some difficult words in their description are linked (e.g. house with [[stepped gable]]) Mvg, Bas This is right, and also I realized that many other in

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] determining how many photos used in articles

2012-10-31 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:06:57 +, WereSpielChequers wrote: Also is it possible to create lists of wikipedia articles without images that are about monuments that now have images on Commons? In a few weeks Im running another workshop for donors who are willing to give some time to Wikipedia, an

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Translation of the thank-you and survey invitation message

2012-10-28 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:47:59 +0300, Paul Selitskas wrote: I can see that not every participant from Belarus received the thank-you message and invitation for the survey. By now it seems that the invitation was sent only to users with usernames written in Latin script. What's wrong with cyrillic u

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help make contact with user

2012-10-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:36:11 +0200, Itzik Edri wrote: So, One of the winning pictures in WLM-IL is this picture:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2_%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%92%D7%93_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%90_%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%AA_%D7%9B%D7%91

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Quality images (Was: 300.000!!)

2012-10-05 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:55:55 +0800, Roel Balingit wrote: Sorry for my stupid question, how do we nominate entries to be rated as such? Roel WLM Philippines On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Update: the number of Quality images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 has surpas

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Vandalism by Sreejithk2000

2012-10-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:54:50 +0200, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: 2012/10/4 Андрій Бондаренко : I need to look at these photos to be sure it is true. Well - regarding the pictures which were assumed to be copyvio due to no freedom of panorama in Ukraine and showing buildings made by Polish architects

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Checklist for the end of submissions? Misc

2012-09-28 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:01:13 +0200, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Hi Peter, thanks for the questions; this is a reply to your original e-mail, so I might have missed some of the things brought up by other people. 1. As far as I see, the "buttons", as you call them -- I guess that you mean those "Up

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] File names and descriptions

2012-09-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:25:42 +0200, Lodewijk wrote: Hi Yaroslav, I think the description field is quite sparingly used - because people already add the identifier. Theoretically it should be possible to add the information that one would normally put in the description in the page from the in

[Wiki Loves Monuments] File names and descriptions

2012-09-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Dear all, I noticed while categorizing images which were submitted for WLM 2012 Russia that almost all users (with the exception of the experienced Commons uploaders) do not use the description field nor the name field appropriately. There are three common patterns: 1) (Minimalistic) The de

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 1000 monuments for Spain

2012-09-15 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:42:39 +, Vicenç Riullop wrote: > Quite a story to tell! Like Coppi and Bartali at Tour de France in > 1952 =)[*] > > Cristian > Sounds like a good idea for a blog post. Yaroslav Done: http://vriullop.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/the-great-scavanger-hunt-of-pere-and

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 100 000 ?

2012-09-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:16:56 +0200, emijrp wrote: lol, why me? : ) I prefer other write the blogspot. 2012/9/13 Barbara Fischer  well it would be great, if you emijrp would care for writing a blogpost on the fact that the 10 images was taken in Ucraine. what insprires You and your colleag

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 100 000 ?

2012-09-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:45:27 +0200, Barbara Fischer wrote: hi, is it pure random that all of them are from one country? The first one was from Poland (Wroclaw), the second one was from Ukraine (Kiev). Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wiki Loves Monuments maili

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 100 000 ?

2012-09-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:49:55 +0200, Lodewijk wrote: Indeed wonderful! As far as I know, we dont have a way to track down what was the 100,000th image unless someone happens to see the upload happening.  Can we just order the category by the time of uploading and bot-count #1? Barbara is c

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Slovak WLM

2012-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:51:58 +0100, Nuno Tavares wrote: I just learned about Israeli exception, so I really don't see the issue why shouldn't SK do the same... wasn't Russia 2011 raised with similar delay, last year? -NT Last year Russia started on Sep 15 indeed but they were only running

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

2012-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:14:56 +0200, Cristian Consonni wrote: Hi Maarten, I'm asking people to create "Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Italy" as you explained me a couple of days ago, but I didn't understand what I have to do to "create links from the lists to categories in Category:Cultu

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

2012-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Tomasz and Maarten, thanks for your reactions. Let me provide another piece of the puzzle from my perspective. Until March, there was some on-wiki discussion concerning WLM-Russia, which I initiated. I was involved in the creation of the lists and there were a couple of other users working on

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Sorting out the images: Please help!

2012-09-11 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:09:56 +0200, Maarten Dammers wrote: All the images should be categorized at Commons. With about 10.000 images coming in each day that's not really possible for humans to keep up with. I improved the categorization bots we used the last two years and it now works on (almost)

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 1000 monuments for Spain

2012-09-10 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:29:34 +0200, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2012/9/10 Vicenç Riullop : I counted only about 3,000 photos they both have colleted in the last year, but it seems they are runnig out there again. What amuses me is that Pere helped Enfo to use Commonist for uploading faster. This i

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] ErfgoedBot/MultichillBot latest actions

2012-09-07 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:40:54 +0200, Maarten Dammers wrote: As for the adding of coordinates. That is next on my list after the categorization. Maarten Great, thanks. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.w

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] ErfgoedBot/MultichillBot latest actions

2012-09-07 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:43:57 +0300, Strainu wrote: Hi Maarten, Can you please explain the latest actions of your bots? I'm talking about the ones labeled: * "Adding template Monument istorice based on usage in list" - I think I know what this is, but the run seems to be incomplete so I would li

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Deleted entries

2012-09-05 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 04:47:36 +0300, Paul Selitskas wrote: It's wrong! Damn it's wrong! Commons administrators can't delete the files based on these criteria, at least files for WLM. I contacted one of participants with a request to prove that she was the author of the photo, because I had foun

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reuploading

2012-09-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Sometimes, unknowingly, watermarks like time stamps are default in Camera, and the uploader may choose to upload the cropped version. This issue is situational and all should not be ignored.  I personally always post-process all of my photos before uploading, including cropping, perspective co

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Incorrect ID's in competition photos - what to do?

2012-09-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:38:27 +0300, Андрій Бондаренко wrote: Hi, everyone, Recently I noticed that some participants do not place ID of a monument correctly.  For example in this photo [1] ID is  marked as "Ship_sunk_sev [2]", but it is not correct. Correct number of this monument (if I dont mist

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] discussion on blog about WLM and free licensing

2012-09-02 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 12:17:28 -0700, Matthew Roth wrote: Interesting thread here, if anyone wants to read or contribute. I saw on Piwik that nearly 200 folks come over to the US site from the review and stumbled upon this. http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/08/30/wikipedia-launches-historic-monumen

[Wiki Loves Monuments] 1000 monuments for Spain

2012-09-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
If I count correctly, Spain just became the first country to pass 1000 files submitted for WLM2012. As I recollect, on the first day of 2011 no country submitted more than 1000 files. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMon

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Obviously wrong country?

2012-09-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:12:00 +0200, Lodewijk wrote: Hi, if you dont know what country it is, please remove the country parameter, which should make it end up in unknown country.  Might also make sense to poke the uploader about it.  Best, Lodewijk In this case, that was Peru. I removed the tag

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Obviously wrong country?

2012-09-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:10:16 +0200, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote: One of the images in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_Denmark [1] is obviously wrong - it contains mountains :-) What do we do about it? Change the country parameter? Regards, Ol

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] First photo?

2012-09-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Unfortunately, this is a copyright violation and will be now nominated for deletion. Cheers Yaroslav Clarification: I will not nominate it right now since the user is a newbie, but this photo just can not belong to the contest, will be eventually deleted, and it the user probably needs to ge

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] First photo?

2012-09-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:04:49 +0300, Андрій Бондаренко wrote: Hi, everyone, Could you look at this photo [1] - it seems to be uploaded before 0:00 of the 1st of September but it used UploadWizard. The question is - do this photo participate in Competition or not? As for me it might... -- regar

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Hungary in WLM 2012

2012-08-31 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:36:30 +0200, emijrp wrote: What is the problem? Money, list of monuments? If I remember correctly this is list of monuments which is not public. This is a pity Hungary can not take part. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wiki Loves Monume

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Monuments lost since September 2011

2012-08-26 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:36:30 +0200, Bas vb wrote: Hello, The best example for that is probably one of the winning pictures in Russia last year. The burning church. That was a monument which was captured in its final moments. [1] The Russian church has been restored long ago. The picture is no

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] September per time zones

2012-08-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:12:54 +0200, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Yaroslav, It would be a great loss if we disabled the campaign on, say, October 1 00:00 Eastern Daylight Time (this is the timezone for the US states of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Canadian provinces of On

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] September per time zones

2012-08-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi Tomasz, if every country chooses one time zone, for Russia it would be indeed logical to have Moscow time (which is the same as Saint Petersburg time), and they are one hour ahead of Ukraine and Belarus. (Kaliningrad time would be the same as Ukraine). I do not know how it would work with

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] September per time zones

2012-08-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:38:27 +0200, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Hi Vicenç, I plan to turn on the UploadCampaigns and CentralNotice banners sequentially, country by country, on September 1 00:00 local time -- and turn them off exactly after a month's time. The first country to start the contest wi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Question about Swiss lists

2012-08-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:27:13 +0200, Ilario Valdelli wrote:-- Ok no problem, please consider that I am working in the Italian one with a "clone" of the English one (the it.wikipedia had no list) I added only a default image in case of missed picture and I would do the same in the French one (at t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Question about Swiss lists

2012-08-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:38:01 +0200, Ilario Valdelli wrote: I mean the list in Wikipedia. The database is populated from this list. So any error in this list is also present in the database. Anyway any translation is an "unofficial" denomination of the monument. I agree to have two columns, one w

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Question about Swiss lists

2012-08-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Hi Ilario, are you talking about lists in the database, or about lists in Wikipedias? In the first case, please disregard my response. I know nothing about the database. Maarten must know it. If we are talking about Wikipedias, I was not the creator of the English lists, but I seem to be t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] country list on wlm.org

2012-08-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:41:04 +0200, Lodewijk wrote: Yes, I indeed didnt add Denmark because the proper website doesnt seem to be up yet - just waiting for that and confirmation they will be able to participate (there was some uncertainty). The same goes for most other countries that are not on t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Easy way to copy paste lists to Wiki

2012-08-08 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
This is also the way the Indian monument lists are built up:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Kerala [6]  .  Anybody knows why are these lists in the WikiProject space and not in the article space? Cheers Yaroslav __

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