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

2013-07-21 Thread Michael Maggs
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

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

2013-07-19 Thread Michael Maggs
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

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

2013-07-19 Thread Jane Darnell
Michael, This is a good question and the answer is that there is no function to replace the empty picture upload link. The listing code is the unique identifier, and looking this up is called the discovery side of the upload process. Discovery of the identifier can be done a number of ways: 1)

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

2013-07-19 Thread Jean-Frédéric
Hi Michael and all, You raise a good point If there is no existing image of a buidling, clicking on the last column goes to the upload wizard, but if there is already an image it seems the competitor will need to do some manual work to find the listing code and upload separately. That is