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Today's Topics:
1. Finding articles without photographs near your current
location. (WereSpielChequers)
2. Re: Finding articles without photographs near your current
location. (Gordon Joly)
3. Re: Finding articles without photographs near your current
location. (Andrew West)
4. Re: Finding articles without photographs near your current
location. (Lucy Crompton-Reid)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:26:01 +0000
From: WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>,
commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Finding articles without photographs near
your current location.
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I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it
is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Has anyone tried using this in outreach to photographers?
WereSpielchequers
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:38:31 +0000
From: Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Finding articles without photographs near
your current location.
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On 16/02/16 09:26, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> I've just been introduced to
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near
> your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious
> whether it has an image or not.
>
> Has anyone tried using this in outreach to photographers?
>
> WereSpielchequers
Best tried from a mobile device, rather than at home with an broadband
connection? Last time I looked I was on the Isle of Grain!! Which I
wasn't....
Gordo
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:44:17 +0000
From: Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Finding articles without photographs near
your current location.
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On 16 February 2016 at 09:38, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Best tried from a mobile device, rather than at home with an broadband
> connection? Last time I looked I was on the Isle of Grain!! Which I
> wasn't....
Not necessarily. I just checked using my BT home broadband, and the
top item on the list is the local school, which it gives as 620m away
... which is about correct! Very useful feature, which highlighted a
couple of local articles I was not aware of.
Andrew
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:36:28 +0000
From: Lucy Crompton-Reid <lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Finding articles without photographs near
your current location.
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This worked for me too (from home, once I allowed wikipedia to know my
location). Quite a cool feature - I'm sure we can share it with keen
photographers :)
On 16 February 2016 at 09:44, Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 February 2016 at 09:38, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Best tried from a mobile device, rather than at home with an broadband
> > connection? Last time I looked I was on the Isle of Grain!! Which I
> > wasn't....
>
> Not necessarily. I just checked using my BT home broadband, and the
> top item on the list is the local school, which it gives as 620m away
> ... which is about correct! Very useful feature, which highlighted a
> couple of local articles I was not aware of.
>
> Andrew
> [[User:BabelStone]]
>
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