I just discovered wikishootme via this thread, thank you. Looking forward to using it.
Jonathan: I've never done that sort of outreach, just photo contests. But sending such a list to a photo archive or local photographer, & asking for representative photos, is a nice idea. You might ask Geograph.org if they did similar outreach. Magnus: > Wikidata has more items with images than any single Wikipedia (save en) As it shoot be. On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected] > wrote: > Just load the area on your desktop/laptop first, then click through to > WDFIST and add the ones already on Wikipedia. Wikidata has more items with > images than any single Wikipedia (save en). > > The root problem, ob course, lies with Wikipedia being free text. There is > no way to say "wait, Wikipedia has an image already!", unless you want to > include every navbox logo etc. and generate a huge false negative list. > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:44 PM Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It would be nice to have a fairly complete solution on my phone, since >> that's what I have with me when I'm traveling or out and about. If I relied >> only on wikishootme when I went for my long bike ride Tuesday, I would have >> spent a lot of time going to places that actually already had photos >> despite what wikishootme said, which makes it a not-very-useful tool. >> >> Luis >> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:32 AM Magnus Manske < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It is, unless you insist on matching existing images to Wikidata items >>> on your phone instead of your desktop/laptop :) >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:53 PM Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> wdfist loads, but no results ever show. Totally fine that it doesn't >>>> support mobile - obviously a different kind of tool. Just saying it's not >>>> the solution for wikishootme :) >>>> >>>> Luis >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:51 AM Magnus Manske < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What doesn't load - wikishootme or wdfist? The latter is really not >>>>> intended for mobile, with hover buttons and all. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:38 PM Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> FWIW, this doesn't work for me on mobile (at least on Firefox for >>>>>> Android) - beyond the clunky UI, results never load. So it'll need some >>>>>> work to become an integrated solution for would-be photographers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Luis >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Federico Leva (Nemo), 16/02/2016 18:59: >>>>>>> > The "standard" way would be to make wikishootme output a pagepile >>>>>>> to be >>>>>>> > fed into wdfist: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Correction: there *is* already such a warning which links wdfist, >>>>>>> with a >>>>>>> query using around[]: "You can also check if Wikipedia already has >>>>>>> suitable images for these items, here" e.g. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=around%5b625,45.000000,9.000000,1%5d%20and%20noclaim%5b18%5d&depth=3&language=en&project=wikipedia&no_images_only=1&prefilled=1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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