On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Ynhockey <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't really want to make people hate me here, and mean absolutely no > offense to you personally, but for now I don't see the need for this grant > at all. Here are the reasons: > > 1) The tool works, but even if it didn't, we have the older tool which I > developed (aside from bugs, most of which have been fixed, I received no > complaints about it, and it was used successfully by national teams as well > as the international team). At the same time, Ilya just said he was > developing his own tool. > 2) Even if we needed three tools, the other two are being developed for free > by volunteers. Our movement has a thing against paying someone for something > that others are willingly doing for free/ > 3) You seem to be a great developer, and we have a bunch of tools that do > need to be written / maintained! If you could delve into those, I would > definitely support your grant. For instance, a simple statistical tool for > how much each monument was photographed, etc. Platonides, Emilio and others > developed such tools, but they are not always maintained, and these > developers are not currently part of the international team (if you guys are > reading this, we want you back :) ).
Heads up: I moved the page to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Modernize_the_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_PA_Jury_Tool to reflect the fact that this is just one of many tools. David E. Narvaez _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
