[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Wiki Loves Monuments community conversation: Sunday 21 Jan on handling international competitions during armed conflict

2024-01-21 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Richard, This is not really an unusual way: in fact, most of our campaigns are locally-based because of language and culture barriers. While Commons is multilingual, most discussions (including this one) happen in English, a language most people in the world actually don't speak. The

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Decision of WLM in Ukraine organizers not to submit photos for the international round

2022-12-15 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
that despite all DEI efforts the impact of a genocidal war was not really acknowledged, but I do hope that this can and will be changed.  In any case the Ukrainian community will remain involved in Wiki Loves Monuments, with hopes that next year we will face less obstacles. Best regards, Mykola

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Questions for next years competition

2022-12-01 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, You can actually do this both ways. Firstly, indeed you can create participation restriction whatever way you want (e.g. residents of Suriname only). The only restriction is your national legal constraints. In some countries they allow only local residents to win prizes because of legal

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: VRTS (former OTRS) email queues closed - notification

2022-08-24 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Ciell, This is very surprising to us as organisers of Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine. We rely on lists obtained from different government institutions (because we don't have one single national list). The VRTS queue wlm-ua@ was the place where we aggregated them. We think that VRTS queue

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Welcome Manfred & the WLM 2022 timeline

2022-07-23 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, On WLM Ukraine side we would really like to organise the contest in October this year. While we have little hope the war will end by October, we will definitely have more chances to attract participants in the month of October. Most organisations and institutions are currently planning to

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Announcing WLM Office Hours

2022-01-19 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Ciell, I think it would be interesting to have a feedback on the DEI analysis - of course if there is any, if none it can wait some later office hours. Otherwise I think we should have an update on where we stand on international results, and a reflection on what went well and what can be

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: banner diet

2021-08-27 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, >From my perspective as Ukrainian WLM organiser, we would prefer having no diet >or, in the worst case, not very restrictive diet. I understand the arguments of banner blindness. In the Ukrainian community we make sure that there is no other major campaign during Wiki Loves Monuments, due

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] important: countries missing from official submissions

2021-03-09 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
s page yet. Could you look into that?  Thanks, Lodewijk On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:29 AM Mykola Kozlenko wrote: Hi Lodewijk and team, Do you have any update on how the jury process is going? Our winners in Ukraine are somewhat impatient as the contest in Ukraine was in September, half

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] important: countries missing from official submissions

2021-03-09 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Lodewijk and team, Do you have any update on how the jury process is going? Our winners in Ukraine are somewhat impatient as the contest in Ukraine was in September, half a year ago... Thanks a lot Mykola (NickK) WLM Ukraine 1 лютого 2021, 19:06:38, від "effe iets anders" : Hi everyone,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-10-03 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Lodewijk, As we intend to use WLX Jury Tool and not Montage in Ukraine, what is expected from us? We always publish the list of our jury members here: http://wlm.org.ua/juri/ , you can see all our jury members between 2012 and 2019. The 2020 list is still being finalised as we are still

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Uploading using wrong link.

2019-09-20 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Jernej, We also have a complicated situation in Ukraine, so what we are doing is: * fixing description (removing monument ID, adding correct name and address and appropriate categories) * keeping the Wiki Loves Monuments template (this was still uploaded during WLM, and we still want to see

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners

2019-09-01 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Alternatively, closing the browser and restarting your laptop usually helps as well. Geolocation is based on the country where you first connected to the website in the current session. If you started your current session in Denmark (say, travelling after Wikimania) and did not restart your

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible 2 page article

2016-04-05 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
A story as a backup for this? It sounds more complicated to explain in 100 words than the NL story, and I like the geographic diversity Best, Lodewijk On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Mykola Kozlenko < mycol...@ukr.net > wrote: Hi Lodewijk, We in Ukraine would be interested to participate, especially beca

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible 2 page article

2016-04-05 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Lodewijk, We in Ukraine would be interested to participate, especially because we have just released a journal about Wiki Loves Monuments for exactly the same audience - monuments professionals and volunteers - and thus we already have some materials ready (in Ukrainian). Probably the most

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Non-monuments winning?

2015-10-31 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
this photo should not take part in WLM * if it is not a monument and you think it should be a monument, try to ask your government to add it to the lists, sometimes it works * in any case, this photo should not be in top-10. Best regards, Mykola Kozlenko (NickK) WLM Ukraine --- Оригінальне

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Turkey

2015-09-11 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Perhaps we can find some Turkish people on the CEE Mailing list. I also recall meeting a guy from Turkey at Wikimania who said their community was potentially interested in Wiki Loves stuff, but I don't recall his name, sorry... Mykola (NickK) --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, In Ukraine, we have two problems Wikidata is not able to deal so far: 1) Our monument IDs are the ones we invent ourselves. We have 4 types of monuments times 27 regions (+1 nationwide list), some of these lists have identifiers, some not. Identifiers are not unique even within the same

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
with a wiki-based table, it is also rather easy to do with a good database, but we have a bad database, so what can we do with it? Thanks, Mykola --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk Дата: 26 липня 2015, 18:23:59 On 26 July 2015 at 12:39, Mykola Kozlenko

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Meeting in Mexico City

2015-07-01 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, There is already a Wiki Loves Meetup in the programme,  https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Meetup . This should be the best occasion for discussing this. Best regards, Mykola (NickK) WMUA --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: bepp...@gmx.at Дата: 1 липня 2015,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 'evaluation'

2015-05-02 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
I think they should have used data from grant reports... I don't see any data for WLM Ukraine, which is perhaps because our grant report is due only in July. Or perhaps we were excluded as we had an extreme value of uploads (46 000, more than anyone else), I don't know I do remember being

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Warn people without mail address - bot ?

2014-10-16 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Jason, Could you please launch the bot for Ukraine? The template is  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wlmua2014_missing_email The category is  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014_in_Ukraine Thanks! Mykola Kozlenko WLM Ukraine

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves meetup at Wikimani

2014-08-09 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi all, Just to remind that the Wiki Loves meetup (Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments and probably other ideas) is today starting 7pm. Place: Barbican, Lakeside Terrace (terrace with fountains at the ground floor, this one 

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fw: [Wikilovesearth] Re [2]: Wiki Loves meetup at Wikimania

2014-08-06 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Sorry for crosposting, forgot to add WLM :) This is just to confirm the time: Saturday 19:00, and we'll see what rooms are available. --- Повідомлення, що пересилається --- Від кого: Mykola Kozlenko mycol...@ukr.net Дата: 6 серпня 2014, 10:49:53 I've suggested Saturday at 19:00 (7:00pm

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikilovesearth] Wiki Loves meetup at Wikimania

2014-08-05 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Valdelli ilario.valde...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Really appreciated but I uggest to define a location and a date as soon as possible because the starting day is getting closer. Regards On 01/Ago/2014 14.12.03, Mykola Kozlenko wrote: Hi all, I have found out that this year

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves meetup at Wikimania

2014-08-01 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi all, I have found out that this year there will be no sessions dedicated to Wiki Loves Monuments or Wiki Loves Earth photo contests in the Wikimania conference programme. Ed Saperia (the conference director) suggested organising a meetup rather then a conference session, so I created 

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 2014 contest

2014-01-11 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, From Wikimedia Ukraine I can confirm that we are still interested in organising the international edition of Wiki Loves Earth, and we already have an international mailing list for it:  wikilovesea...@lists.wikimedia.org   . This mailing list is, however, currently lacking activity - thus

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM diplomas

2013-11-05 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, I would like to know if there is any template for WLM diplomas. In Ukrainian team we are going to print diplomas for our winners soon, and I wonder if there is a kind of international template or if we should start designing from scratch. Thanks! Mykola aka NickK WLM Ukraine

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Russia? (and other countries)

2013-09-21 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi Yaroslav and Maarten, I've had a look at  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cultural_heritage_monuments_in_Ukraine , and I have found three different types of images blocking your bot: * images with definitely wrong IDs, e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AbDSC_1833.jpg