Hello Josephine,

> 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 possible, however that seems extremely out of date?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.
>>
>>
Maybe you can store every country code from this module and when
competition comes, you can just activate only those countries, which are
participating and let others remain in the background. At least then you
don't have to change country codes each year.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 14:42, Josephine Lim <josephineli...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 might be possible, however that seems extremely out of date?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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