Well I think this links in with wiki loves monuments so i'll send a copy to Fae as I know he took an interest during the recent meeting although we are still looking around for a UK flag carrier for the WLM project.
Oh and here is an idea - the Wikipedian of the Yea<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2012>r has a special award - we could give it to Geograph - there must thousands of UK articles that are much more informative due to this project. On 9 April 2012 15:35, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Roger. Would it be appropriae for the Board to get our CEO to make > contact? > > > Currently the Geograph images are geotagged in Commons, but Commons > doesn't have ideal lookup tables to link them to appropriate towns and > villages, I believe a bot was doing much of it based on proximity to the > centre of somewhere, but boundaries are tricky things especially in the UK > and the end result was that some geograph images got miscategorised. In > some cases to the wrong side of the Solent. > > There are tables that exist which include boundaries of towns and > villages, and with those tables one can use geocodes to correctly > categorise images, at least to a geographic location. However I doubt if > those tables would be available open source, and though I'm sure they are > commercially available I'm not so sure whether it would be appropriate for > us to license them - it probably isn't viable as any such license is likely > to prohibit reverse engineering which would make it incompatible with > Commons anyway. But it might be worth asking the office to at least make > enquiries. > > WSC > > > On 9 April 2012 15:17, Roger Bamkin <victuall...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh I so agree, this would make "Wiki Loves Monuments" really work for us. >> Geograph is a brilliant project and WMUK should support them as easily as >> we would wikimedia commons. >> >> (I have a suspicion that photos from Geograph will be less tricky to >> categorise if they arrive with geotagging built into the picture.) >> >> so yes +1 >> >> >> On 9 April 2012 14:55, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 9 April 2012 14:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > It turns out that they aren't aware that the migration has stalled, as >>> their >>> > site still claims that all their images get migrated to Commons >>> > http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq3.php?q=wikipedia >>> > I think there is a big opportunity for the chapter here, perhaps we >>> could >>> > approach them and suggest changing their upload software to dual use? >>> So >>> > Geograph users have the option of posting their images directly on >>> Commons >>> > provided they add categories. >>> > I suspect there would be some software implications, but if so it >>> might be a >>> > useful use of a UK grant. >>> >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> Would it be worth approaching the Geograph community and asking them >>> to work on the categorisation backlog themselves directly? >>> >>> >>> - d. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Roger Bamkin >> 01332 702993 >> 0758 2020815 >> Google+:Victuallers >> Skype:Victuallers1 >> Flickr:Victuallers2 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Roger Bamkin 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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