Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] fyi: new chat channel

2020-09-02 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Lily is right, maybe it just needs a channel with a low barrier of entry for the most important news? Best, Philip On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 06:18, Lily wrote: > Thanks for doing this. I personally use IRC and am fine with it, > however, I've seen people, even technically savvy people having to > s

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

2020-09-02 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, over the past years, we have had various requests to encourage national organizers to be transparent in their judging processes and who sits on their jury. Most of the national organizers are currently transparent about this already. In the past weeks/month, more conversation around this h

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

2020-09-02 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, We also intend to publish by default the settings of the montage jury tool, and the number of photos in each round that the national competitions have used. We're debating whether there should be an opt-out for this year. This is unrealistic, because jury process may involve se

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

2020-09-02 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Alexander, As for the status of Montage requests: I suggest that you start a separate thread on that, and would like to leave this to the maintainers to respond to. As for publishing the settings: I was imagining some kind of log-style publication, not a near write-up. This won't be pretty, bu

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

2020-09-02 Thread Rebecca O'Neill
Hi Lodewijk, As a slight aside to this, and perhaps something that might help ease some of the worries around judging processes in other countries, would it be an idea to have a pool of international WLM Wikimedia jurors that could help judge other countries? Here in Ireland we have done this with

[Wiki Loves Monuments] status of Montage pull requests

2020-09-02 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, As for the status of Montage requests: I suggest that you start a separate thread on that, and would like to leave this to the maintainers to respond to. I am asking because we fail to get any response at github since more than a month, and I would like to reach also those memb

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] status of Montage pull requests

2020-09-02 Thread Mahmoud Hashemi
Yeah, I think we're waiting on responses from Alexey Baturin on those PRs. Is he on this list? On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:22 PM Alexander Tsirlin wrote: > Dear Lodewijk, > > As for the status of Montage requests: I suggest that you start a separate > thread on that, and would like to leave this to