Is it still impossble for organizers to approve regional / non-national
competitions?

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On Thursday, August 12, 2021, effe iets anders <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As background: Josephine is working on the commons app.
>
> Josephine, what you're looking for is something machine readable. The
> template could work, but an easier way for you may be to somehow get to the
> content of this page:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:WL_data
>
> That is also more sustainable for future campaigns. It may be occasionally
> a bit out of date, but generally is correct.
>
> Best,
>
> Lodewijk
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:28 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Josephine,
>>
>> The list of participating countries can be found here -
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_
>> Monuments_2021/Participating_countries
>>
>> The template (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_
>> Monuments_2021) is not also updated according the list mentioned above.
>> Looks like, it is just a copy of previous year's competition and needs
>> update. Australia is still not willing to participate in the competition
>> this year, so maybe it will not end up in this template.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bodhisattwa
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 20:28, Philip Kopetzky <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Josephine,
>>>
>>> this depends on the values defined in the template itself:
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:
>>> Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021&action=edit - Australia doesn't exist (yet),
>>> but IE does.
>>>
>>> I must say though that this kind of upload circumvents the
>>> categorisation work and assigning the correct heritage ID that is currently
>>> done in quite a few countries. Wikidata-Items with a linked commons
>>> category are easy, but the majority of objects will not have its own
>>> category and just dumping them in a WLM category puts the workload on other
>>> people. There are countries where the template accepts the Wikidata-ID, but
>>> ideally the upload link would use the country's wlm capaign and assign the
>>> heritage ID as a parameter.
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Philip
>>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 16:32, Josephine Lim <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Just a quick question about the WLM 2021 template that we are trying to
>>>> add to WLM uploads made via the Commons app. We currently retrieve the
>>>> country that a monument is in, then convert it to the two-letter country
>>>> code and insert it into the template.
>>>>
>>>> However we are still getting errors; as shown at
>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newstead_Gasworks_4.jpg , I
>>>> have uploaded a test image with the template {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2021
>>>> |1= au}} but the page says "English: No or incorrect country code indicated
>>>> in the {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2021}} template". I have experimented with
>>>> various other country codes listed at https://commons.wikimedia.org/
>>>> wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_country_logos ; interestingly some
>>>> like "al" or "ad" do not work, but "ie" does.
>>>>
>>>> TLDR: Does the template only accept some countries and not others,
>>>> perhaps only countries participating in WLM 2021? Is it possible for us to
>>>> get a machine-readable list of these countries?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Josephine
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