The part of the Geograph that we've imported so far is indeed
overwhelmingly low res - they lifted their file size a little before the
large batch imports were done, but some high res images were in those
batches and subsequent smaller scale imports from the Geograph have
included some very high res images. I suspect that a large proportion of
the million plus Geograph images that we've yet to import will be fairly
high resolution.
The categorisation needed backlog of Geograph images is now down to circa
700,000 and will have dipped quite a bit further by September when the next
WLM runs. However apart from churches, piers, war memorials, hill forts and
some castles the bulk of the geograph categorisation has been to village or
town level - so we are probably in much the same state that we were in last
year. Any photogenic listed building that can be photographed from the road
and is within a congenial drive of a decent real ale pub will have been
photographed by geographers. Especially if it is thatched or has Llamas in
the next field (
that according to frequency on Commons both species are
clearly of UK origin).
As for the idea that Geographers are hardy folk who only take exterior
shots and never enter buildings; Well a search on Commons for stained glass
Norfolk gets 1,124 hits whilst a search for stained glass gets only 40,114,
so one English county accounts for 3% of our global coverage of stained
glass.....
In our recent photo-adding session
we got
some newbies and not so newbies to add images to articles on Wikipedia and
we found that most articles which lack an image but have a UK geocode can
already be illustrated from Commons. The main exception being nature
reserves - (my theory being they don't allow cars or serve real ale). Of
course there may be lots of notable buildings that are sufficiently
unfashionable not to have either articles or images despite having a Listed
status.
So I'm not convinced that WLM would give us images for articles that
already exist but lack images, though it could give us new photographers,
show that we are taking part in a global wiki event, and help kickstart
articles on important but uncommercial buildings. All that in my view makes
it worthwhile to do, but with the precaution that I proposed last year - we
need to advise people that we may already have images, possibly
uncategorised ones of the monument in question, and if they want to be the
first to load an image of a particular building they first need to check
whether we already have it.
WSC
On 16 January 2013 16:55, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote:
Huge dents have been made in the Geograph backlog
since last year, thanks
mainly to changes in HotCat and Cat-a-lot on Commons and the dedication of
WereSpielChequers and others. Geograph is fantastic, but it has surprising
gaps and the images are all low-res, so there's definitely room for
Geogrpah and WLM to peacefully co-exist.
Harry Mitchell
http://enwp.org/User:HJ
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*From:* Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
*To:* HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com>om>; UK Wikimedia mailing list <
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*Sent:* Wednesday, 16 January 2013, 16:49
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers
As I recall, the objections were in part that we have most of this
material already on Commons (via Geograph), but badly organised. I
don't know if that's changed, or if we've got a better idea of what's
out there...
- Andrew.
On 16 January 2013 16:45, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell(a)ymail.com> wrote:
Well we have a list of Grade I listed buildings
in every county. I'm
sure it
would be easy enough to have a bot do the same
for Grade II* and
Scheduled
Ancient Monuments, and that gives us a ready-made
target list. How much
more
organisation is needed, beyond creating the
necessary project pages on
the
relevant wikis and getting the word out?
Harry Mitchell
http://enwp.org/User:HJ
Phone: 024 7698 0977
Skype: harry_j_mitchell
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From: Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2013, 16:31
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers
Excellent suggestions, thanks, I will look into it.
A WLM speaker would be great... last year it was mentioned, but only as a
plea for someone to step forward and organise the UK effort.
I looked into what it would take but it seems a larger job than I'd have
time for given my other committements - is there noone from the GLAM
side of
things who can take it on??
Tom
On 15 January 2013 21:11, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
If the UK would be participating in Wiki Loves Monuments this year, would
that be an angle to search a keynote? (national or European) I doubt
someone
from the international team would qualify as a
''keynote'' (maybe regular
though?) but someone from Heritage England or even one of the European
umbrella organizations (Europa Nostra, Europeana) could do something?
Just a thought,
Lodewijk
2013/1/15 Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
AGM 8th of June with more activities on the 9th.
On 15 January 2013 11:21, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com> wrote:
date?
On Jan 15, 2013 11:19 AM, "Thomas Morton" <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
Morning Everyone,
As you might know, the 2013 conference will be in Lincoln, organised by
the
Conference Committee with support from the
office.
With the venue chosen, we now need to figure out an exciting programme. A
lot of this is in the planning stage and we will be releasing more
information later, however one of the first thing we need to do is figure
out some keynote speakers.
Later in the year we will be calling for papers and speakers from within
the
community, right now we are focusing on finding
one or two "big names"
who
have something relevant to say.
As this is your concert we need to know who you want to hear from!
It could be anyone; from celerities, to politicians, to activists. We're
looking for intriguing suggestions, people with a unique perspective.
Some initial suggestions have been made, please please do suggest further
ideas here on the mailing list, by emailing myself or posting on this
page:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013/Speakers
Regards,
Tom
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