Hi Josephine, that's ok - I think it is helpful for many countries where this infrastructure doesn't exist yet :-) Is there a way to opt out of this upload link being used for participating countries in WLM?
BR, Philip On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 09:37, Josephine Lim <josephineli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks so much for the help! So from what I can gather, the most > up-to-date list of participating countries is > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Participating_countries > (and eventually someone will edit the WLM 2021 template to reflect that > list), however it is not machine readable. If there are so few countries, > it is actually not a problem for us to just create our own machine-readable > list based on that. Is there a deadline for countries adding themselves to > that list? > > @Lodewijk: Adding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:WL_data might > be possible, however that seems extremely out of date? There are more than > triple the number of countries in it, compared to the > Participating_countries list. > > @Philip: I understand and I apologize. Unfortunately we are simply not > capable of implementing country-specific templates this year with our > resource constraints, as we are very close to the start of WLM now and > honestly we have already gone far past the number of hours budgeted for > this. It is only now that I understand how truly country-specific almost > every aspect of the implementation is, and if I could do it over, I would > have requested at least double the resources for this specifically. This > will all be documented and noted for future iterations of the app, but for > this year I'm afraid it is not possible. > > Best regards, > Josephine > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 05:55, Željko Blaće <zbl...@mi2.hr> wrote: > >> Is it still impossble for organizers to approve regional / non-national >> competitions? >> >> Best Z >> >> On Thursday, August 12, 2021, effe iets anders <effeietsand...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> As background: Josephine is working on the commons app. >>> >>> Josephine, what you're looking for is something machine readable. The >>> template could work, but an easier way for you may be to somehow get to the >>> content of this page: >>> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:WL_data >>> >>> That is also more sustainable for future campaigns. It may be >>> occasionally a bit out of date, but generally is correct. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Lodewijk >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:28 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal < >>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Josephine, >>>> >>>> The list of participating countries can be found here - >>>> 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 above. Looks like, it is >>>> just a copy of previous year's competition and needs update. Australia is >>>> still not willing to participate in the competition this year, so maybe it >>>> will not end up in this template. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Bodhisattwa >>>> >>>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 20:28, Philip Kopetzky < >>>> philip.kopet...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 assigning the correct heritage ID that is >>>>> currently >>>>> done in quite a few countries. Wikidata-Items with a linked commons >>>>> category are easy, but the majority of objects will not have its own >>>>> category and just dumping them in a WLM category puts the workload on >>>>> other >>>>> people. There are countries where the template accepts the Wikidata-ID, >>>>> but >>>>> ideally the upload link would use the country's wlm capaign and assign the >>>>> heritage ID as a parameter. >>>>> >>>>> BR, >>>>> Philip >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 16:32, Josephine Lim <josephineli...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> Just a quick question about the WLM 2021 template that we are trying >>>>>> to add to WLM uploads made via the Commons app. We currently retrieve the >>>>>> country that a monument is in, then convert it to the two-letter country >>>>>> code and insert it into the template. >>>>>> >>>>>> However we are still getting errors; as shown at >>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newstead_Gasworks_4.jpg , I >>>>>> have uploaded a test image with the template {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 >>>>>> |1= au}} but the page says "English: No or incorrect country code >>>>>> indicated >>>>>> in the {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2021}} template". I have experimented with >>>>>> various other country codes listed at >>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_country_logos >>>>>> ; interestingly some like "al" or "ad" do not work, but "ie" does. >>>>>> >>>>>> TLDR: Does the template only accept some countries and not others, >>>>>> perhaps only countries participating in WLM 2021? Is it possible for us >>>>>> to >>>>>> get a machine-readable list of these countries? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> Josephine >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>>>>> wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>>>> wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>>> wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to > wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
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