Hi Philip,

I don't think that this version of the app will be set as the official
upload link anywhere. It will just be a matter of national organizers
suggesting it as a mobile alternative to their community (or otherwise not).

Best regards,
Josephine


On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 18:17, Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopet...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Josephine,
>
> that's ok - I think it is helpful for many countries where this
> infrastructure doesn't exist yet :-)
> Is there a way to opt out of this upload link being used for participating
> countries in WLM?
>
> BR,
> Philip
>
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 09:37, Josephine Lim <josephineli...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks so much for the help! So from what I can gather, the most
>> up-to-date list of participating countries is
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Participating_countries
>> (and eventually someone will edit the WLM 2021 template to reflect that
>> list), however it is not machine readable. If there are so few countries,
>> it is actually not a problem for us to just create our own machine-readable
>> list based on that. Is there a deadline for countries adding themselves to
>> that list?
>>
>> @Lodewijk: Adding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:WL_data
>> might be possible, however that seems extremely out of date? There are more
>> than triple the number of countries in it, compared to the
>> Participating_countries list.
>>
>> @Philip: I understand and I apologize. Unfortunately we are simply not
>> capable of implementing country-specific templates this year with our
>> resource constraints, as we are very close to the start of WLM now and
>> honestly we have already gone far past the number of hours budgeted for
>> this. It is only now that I understand how truly country-specific almost
>> every aspect of the implementation is, and if I could do it over, I would
>> have requested at least double the resources for this specifically. This
>> will all be documented and noted for future iterations of the app, but for
>> this year I'm afraid it is not possible.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Josephine
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 05:55, Željko Blaće <zbl...@mi2.hr> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it still impossble for organizers to approve regional / non-national
>>> competitions?
>>>
>>> Best Z
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 12, 2021, effe iets anders <effeietsand...@gmail.com>
>>> 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 <
>>>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> 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 <
>>>>> philip.kopet...@gmail.com> 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 <josephineli...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> 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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