Hi Maarten, Am 30.05.12 22:46, schrieb maarten deneckere: > South Africa is ready to participate! We found a team here that will help, > an organisation that will help us (Wikiafrica: Isla), the governmental > agencies are willing to help us, the biggest news agency is waiting for our > press releases, ....
This is wonderful news! > 1. an old and difficult monument database, lots of errors, only > partially tagged with GPS or even the address. Difficult identifier > (something like 302-392-239392-32, impossible to use) You have the chance to improve that with the contest ;-) – don't worry. Some ideas: * prefilling fields with Upload Wizard is already possible. Which means, you can configure your lists in a way that people click on a button to upload images for a certain monument. They don't need to fill in the monument ID manually (if they use UpWiz). * I think "no GPS" is almost standard, unfortunately, in some countries. However, how do you identify a monument without address (or let's say, location description?) – sounds like a real scavenger hunt. > 2. no processing of the lists yet * In which format do they exist, and how many monuments are there? * How can we support you? > 3. mobile upload. South Africans live with their cellphone, would open > up opportunities having a "WLM-app" We have a two-way-approach to this: WLM is quite on a good way to develop a native app (Android first), that allows upload directly and especially for WLM. I'll give a general update on this in the next days on th ML. A private sponsor/partner is planning to develop something similar especially for WLM on the base of an existing POI app with address-GPS-coding – this might lack language localization first (German), but will include all data from the monuments database and might open a different, a bit more touristic target group as participants for us. So I'm quite optimistic with that! > 4. the current monuments are targetted on the "Afrikaans" culture. We > want to open the monument to the "previouly disadvantaged people", so we > will allow for uploads of things that have not been declared as a monument > yet. The uploader will have the opportunity to add some reasons why we > should consider this important. This information will be shared with > government I'm sure you find a good approach for that, I like the idea. > But we're working on it! Thank you! Regards, Elke _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
