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

2015-02-13 Thread Jean-Frédéric
> > > >> Anyhow, my tool is on GitHub too[2], although it's incomplete. The >> category mode is working fine, but it was originally started (long ago) as >> a downloader for preparing images for offline Wikipedia editions, based on >> an article list, and supporting multiple parallel downloaders,

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

2015-02-13 Thread Jean-Frédéric
2015-01-15 21:46 GMT+00:00 Asaf Bartov : > Thanks, Jean-Frédéric! I did not know about your tool. I did spend some > time looking for a tool on Commons, most specifically here[1], but didn't > find anything appropriate. It did not occur to me to just grep GitHub, > though. :) > Sure. For conve

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

2015-01-18 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Oscar: Thanks for your interest. I think that should seal the number of members of the jury, as with you included, we have 3 persons now. The selection process, I'll email you about it by tomorrow. The images aren't many, so I think handpicking the best images wouldn't be much of a difficulty. O

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

2015-01-18 Thread Racso
Rexford: Given the relatively small amount of pictures, I can be part of the jury, if that's OK with you. About the tool: for 100 pictures, I don't think it's worth to adapt or create tools; even by hand, I think 100 pictures can be processed in one or two hours. I think it's more important to st

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

2015-01-18 Thread Nkansah Rexford
As it stands now, we've not had Antone show interest in being a part of the jury. Until the jury is formed, I think you can hold on a bit. We'll get back to you when the jury is ready. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford On Jan 18, 2015 9:49 AM, "Ynhockey" wrote: > Sorry for being late into th

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

2015-01-18 Thread Ynhockey
Sorry for being late into this conversaion, but I assume you're referring to the 2012 tool that I wrote, it still exists on Labs and I can set it up for you if it's still relevant. Keep me posted. —Yan (Ynhockey). On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Oh, and I told myself SOFI

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

2015-01-15 Thread Asaf Bartov
Oh, and I told myself SOFIXIT, so I did. :) A. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Thanks, Jean-Frédéric! I did not know about your tool. I did spend some > time looking for a tool on Commons, most specifically here[1], but didn't > find anything appropriate. It did not

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

2015-01-15 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thanks, Jean-Frédéric! I did not know about your tool. I did spend some time looking for a tool on Commons, most specifically here[1], but didn't find anything appropriate. It did not occur to me to just grep GitHub, though. :) Anyhow, my tool is on GitHub too[2], although it's incomplete. The

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

2015-01-15 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hi Asaf, Based on this need, I'm building a downloader tool (as a volunteer; this > isn't done in my WMF role) to help create such collections of > reduced-resolution (any size you want) images for a given Commons > category. It's not quite ready for use, but in the meantime I've created > the c

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

2015-01-15 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Hello Asaf, Thanks for getting the zip file of all the files for me. It was really smaller than I expected. I have gone through the 800+ images and I have selected just a little over 100 images as candidate images to present to the jury.[1] I wish to hereby add a *disclaimer *(I've cc'ed wikimed

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

2015-01-14 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hi, Rexford. Based on this need, I'm building a downloader tool (as a volunteer; this isn't done in my WMF role) to help create such collections of reduced-resolution (any size you want) images for a given Commons category. It's not quite ready for use, but in the meantime I've created the collec

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

2015-01-13 Thread Nkansah Rexford
I have enough space, just the connection to transfer onto my space is the issue. But I think 3 Gig shouldn't be an issue to work with. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford On Jan 14, 2015 1:13 AM, "Asaf Bartov" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Platonides wrote: > >> On 14/01/15 00:50,

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

2015-01-13 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Platonides wrote: > On 14/01/15 00:50, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > >> Thanks. We'll really love it if you help get it up and running for us. >> >> The category is: >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_ >> Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014_in_Ghana >> >> As

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

2015-01-13 Thread Platonides
On 14/01/15 00:50, Nkansah Rexford wrote: Thanks. We'll really love it if you help get it up and running for us. The category is: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014_in_Ghana As regards resolution, a 1080x720 will be great. Upon picking the ones intere

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

2015-01-13 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Thanks. We'll really love it if you help get it up and running for us. The category is: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014_in_Ghana As regards resolution, a 1080x720 will be great. Upon picking the ones interested, we can hunt for their full res later.

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

2015-01-13 Thread Platonides
On 08/01/15 11:25, Nkansah Rexford wrote: In 2012, there was a tool used to sort and select images out of a category. I hope a tool of that sort still exists. It was in the toolserver, which disappeared ~6 months ago. I can prepare a small dump for you, though. Which category are you intereste

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

2015-01-08 Thread Nkansah Rexford
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford On Jan 8, 2015 12:59 AM, "Racso" wrote: > > Rexford, > > Can we have more information about the judging process (deadlines, selection process, how many people will you have in your jury, any tools you already have ready for the juries to use)? Deadline? Yes if

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

2015-01-08 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Thanks for all the suggestions. Will work on cutting down the number of images before handing over to a jury. Lots of the images are kinda 'garbage', (i.e images with low resolution, some even mere 50kb etc.) In 2012, there was a tool used to sort and select images out of a category. I hope a too

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

2015-01-07 Thread Racso
Rexford, Can we have more information about the judging process (deadlines, selection process, how many people will you have in your jury, any tools you already have ready for the juries to use)? About shortlisting: It all depends on your tools. If juries have an effective rating tool, they can

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

2015-01-07 Thread Ynhockey
>From my experience as both a judge and a shortlister in WLM for the last 3 years, the ideal number to give to the jury is between 200 and 300. It should be very easy to get down to that number from 800, if you remove the images with technical problems (resolution too low, watermark, bad focus, ext

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

2015-01-07 Thread Platonides
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Michael Maggs wrote: > 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 the

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

2015-01-07 Thread Michael Maggs
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

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

2015-01-07 Thread Nkansah Rexford
-- > Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:22:09 + > From: nkansahrexf...@gmail.com > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury > > Shortlist? As we we select some of the pictures, like say 30 before the > jury g

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

2015-01-07 Thread Alhen ałħen
- >> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:01:20 + >> From: nkansahrexf...@gmail.com >> To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury >> >> Hi, I'm rexford, from ghana. >> >>

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

2015-01-07 Thread Saqib Qayyum
@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury Hi, I'm rexford, from ghana. Late last year, WLA[1] was organized. ghana uploaded some 800 images[2]. We're looking for a jury to select the best 5 images. Myself can't be a part of jury, same as others on our team,

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

2015-01-07 Thread Nkansah Rexford
@gmail.com > > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury > > Hi, I'm rexford, from ghana. > > Late last year, WLA[1] was organized. ghana uploaded some 800 images[2]. > We're looking for a jury

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

2015-01-07 Thread Saqib Qayyum
First get the photos shortlisted.. Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:01:20 + From: nkansahrexf...@gmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury Hi, I'm rexford, from ghana. Late last year, WLA[1] was organized. ghana uploaded

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Help with members for a Jury

2015-01-07 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Hi, I'm rexford, from ghana. Late last year, WLA[1] was organized. ghana uploaded some 800 images[2]. We're looking for a jury to select the best 5 images. Myself can't be a part of jury, same as others on our team, because we took part in the event. We'll really appreciate if we could get volun