Maarten, I am willing to help, but I don't have a toolserver account. I did get a labs account at the Amsterdam Hackathon though, so I can help with the migration and/or documentation in English. Jane
2013/8/13, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > As you might know I organized Wiki Loves Monuments, but I'm not part of > the international team this year. > > A couple of years ago I started the monuments database > (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Monuments_database). > Over time this grew to a collection of tools supporting Wiki Loves > Monuments and other cultural heritage projects. At the end of last year > I transfered the day to day work of these tools to the new WLM team, but > I'm afraid that didn't really work out the way I hoped it would. Nothing > really happened in the last couple of months :-( > > Quite of few people approached me about this at Wikimania and we > discussed options. We have some work that needs to be done so that > everything is ready for this years Wiki Loves Monuments. I would like to > propose a code sprint with a group of willing and able volunteers to > tackle the open points. > > What needs to be done? > * New sources (new countries) need to be added and some existing > countries (like Switzerland) need to be updated > * Some countries need technical assistance with setting up and improving > their lists > * The api and toolbox side of the tool need to be checked and cleaned up > (several bugs) > * We need a simple tool that works for all the countries to display > monuments to take photographs of on a map > * We should probably complete the setup of a second instance of the > monuments database on labs (already did most of the work, blocking for > months on slow database issues) > * We should revive the WLM Android app as a community project so we have > an app for Android users (most popular phone OS now, app won't be > supported by the WMF) > > On the none tech side: Some reports like the unused images and images > that need to be categorized grew a lot. Would probably be very nice to > get rid of the backlog before September so you can keep up with it. > Otherwise it will be though for some countries. > > Probably some more things, but this should keep us busy for now. For all > the technical things we have bugs or we'll file bugs in bugzilla so we > can assign tasks and keep an eye on progress. > > What do you think? Good approach? > > I will contact some people who helped out the previous years and/or > expressed their interest to help out. I'm currently without internet so > I didn't include a lot of links. I will probably reply to this a bit > later with some links and updates. > > If you have technical problems related to lists and/or monuments > database. Please send an email to this list so we can start connecting > people! > > Maarten > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
