Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

On 16 April 2012 10:30, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 16/04/12 10:26, Gordon Joly wrote: > > On 14/04/12 14:16, Roger Bamkin wrote: > > I am aware of the commons botload problem ... I did my share as well. > > I am aware than Commons is not fit for purpose. > > Gordo > > __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

On 16/04/12 10:26, Gordon Joly wrote: On 14/04/12 14:16, Roger Bamkin wrote: I am aware of the commons botload problem ... I did my share as well. I am aware than Commons is not fit for purpose. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wiki

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

On 14/04/12 14:16, Roger Bamkin wrote: I am aware of the commons botload problem ... I did my share as well. I am aware than Commons is not fit for purpose. Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Re Johnbod's comment about Catalot and uncategorised templates, there have been big improvements to both Hotcat and Catalot this year and the situation is somewhat improved. The problem now are the images that have been bot categorised. But Catalot now removes the uncategorised template if you use

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

A simple solution would be to create new categories, such as Geograph:West Sussex and Geograph:Barnes. Bots could then upload images to those, which could be subcategories of the respective parent categories, without clogging the latter, and images could be switched manually, as they're checked (s

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Yes, many of us are aware of the issues with Geograph, above all WSC. I agree the categorization side of it has been the real Achilles heel, and in my experience the problem is often worse than WSC suggests. When I filled up the Commons category for Wimbledon Common, http://commons.wikimedia.

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I am aware of the commons botload problem ... I did my share as well. However we know that Wikipedia has made some very big mistakes. Its still the best encyclopedia in the world and a marvellous example of man's good will triumphing over apathy and cynicism. Lets not make the mistake of blaming T

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

On 13 April 2012 22:52, WereSpielChequers wrote: > > I don't anticipate that this suggestion to offer a manual commons upload > for the Geograph users and the high def images they now load would be as > contentious as it would be to resume the bot based import. > > The kind of debate that has be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Hi Richard, I'm aware of the categorisation issue and have done a few thousand myself. Yes there were problems with the earlier Geograph loads, the bot based categorisation is inadequate and the process has been on hold for a year or two. I'm not sure that the proportion with incorrect Geocodes w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Are folks aware of the difficulties there have been with the uploading of Geograph photos to the commons? I would encourage serious study of the history of this effort, and the strong objections there have been, before going ahead with this. I've not been involved in the discussions, but my perso

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Well I think this links in with wiki loves monuments so i'll send a copy to Fae as I know he took an interest during the recent meeting although we are still looking around for a UK flag carrier for the WLM project. Oh and here is an idea - the Wikipedian of the Yea

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Thanks Roger. Would it be appropriae for the Board to get our CEO to make contact? Currently the Geograph images are geotagged in Commons, but Commons doesn't have ideal lookup tables to link them to appropriate towns and villages, I believe a bot was doing much of it based on proximity to the ce

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Oh I so agree, this would make "Wiki Loves Monuments" really work for us. Geograph is a brilliant project and WMUK should support them as easily as we would wikimedia commons. (I have a suspicion that photos from Geograph will be less tricky to categorise if they arrive with geotagging built into

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

On 9 April 2012 14:52, WereSpielChequers wrote: > It turns out that they aren't aware that the migration has stalled, as their > site still claims that all their images get migrated to Commons > http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq3.php?q=wikipedia > I think there is a big opportunity for the chapter h

[Wikimediauk-l] Geograph

Hi, for those who don't know, the Geograph is a photography contest and site that operates across the UK and Ireland and has a compatible license to ours. So close to 1.8 million of their images have been imported into Commons and are a major part of the reason why Commons has such good coverage of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geograph images

As a result of this, one of the Geograph articles has become Wikimedia Commons' 6 millionth file. Please help writing the blog post about this: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog_posts/Geograph_images :-) Mike On 30 Jan 2010, at 19:38, Andrew Turvey wrote: > Could anyone help us draft a blog

[Wikimediauk-l] Geograph images

Could anyone help us draft a blog post about this? I've started a page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Geograph_images - Forwarded Message - From: "Michael Peel" To: "bo...@wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board" Sent: Saturday, 30 January, 2010 11:58:22 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain