Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Tools

For Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 tools are being developed for various tasks.

General guidelines

All tools should follow these general guidelines

• The tool should be open source.
• The source should be published.
• Keep internationalization in mind.
• Preferably the tools should be developed at the toollabs

Current tools

Tools related to the current project.

Monuments lookup

Since monuments tend to be numbered in groups based on location, this quick lookup method is handy for finding out if specific or nearby monuments are already uploaded to Commons with a proper monument number (this lookup has been particularly useful for discovering not-yet-categorized pictures on commons for use in articles about monuments). Sample monument lookup:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Rijksmonumenten_with_known_IDs&from=+00019237

Monuments-map/Dutch monuments in OpenStreetMap

Based on the rijksmonumenten tool a proof of concept was made to display all the monuments currently in the database on a map.

On this map the icons for monuments that have a photo are small, the icons where a photo is missing are large. As background map is OpenStreetMap on client side runs OpenLayers, so it runs in each browser and can also include as iframe in other websites.

It's hacky and needs an i18n. It should be replaced with the search and export tool.

WMCH

http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ch

Database browsing

URL: http://wlm.wikimedia.pt/tools/plist/

• Allows coordinate insertions and corrections to be made;
• Statistics: the aim is to monitor evolution of coordinate, image, and article coverage before, during, and after the contest. It's built on a schema extensions (and data collected throught ETL to gather a lot of information), so it might not work immediately for other chapters. Mail me directly if you'd like to see it on yours.
• Boxed Google maps rendering ([1])

Csv to template

With csv2template you can easily make structured lists. Multichill (talk) 14:57, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Display nearby monuments

• Find closest monuments to given address or coordinates (uses Layar server as backend)

Augmented reality app for mobile phones

• wikilovesmonuments layer for Layar
  • source: /layar, /prox_search, clsBasicGeosearch.php, clsARLayarServer.php

Bots

• semi-automatically add coordinates from monument list to Wikipedia articles
  • code: add_coord_to_articles.py
• Make a gallery of unused photos so people can add them to monument lists
  • code: unused_monument_images.py
• Bot to move images from commonsCategoryBase to subcategories based on the monument template and Commonscat links at the Wikipedia
  • code: categorize_images.py

Austrian tools

• Denkmalliste by AleXXw, multible functions for general maintenance of lists and pictures, most could easily extended internationally:
  • Listview, mapview and both of them at once: top left pull down to choose municipality, Buttons: "Liste" = list, "Karte" = map, "beides" = both list and map. "Liste ohne Bilder" = list without images for slow connections.
  • Own Page for every ID with all aviable pictures, listentry and all pictures are shown on map (iE ID 28985)
  • Listviews and Single-ID-Page have links for wiki-article, wiki-list, commonscat, picture-upload,...
  • Errorlists, 5 Buttons on right:
    • "Koordinatenfehler" = Coordinate-Error, shows entrys where list-items are not located in Austria (ie changed lon-lat)
    • "Grundstücksfehler" = Wrong format of plot of land-number, Austria-specific
    • "Verlinkungsfehler" = In some fields Wikilinks and Weblinks are not allowed.
    • "Bilder vorhanden aber keine Einbindung" = There are pictures with ID-Tag, but in the lists a picture is missing, similar Multichill's list
    • "Falsche ID" = Pictures with not-existing or wrong formated ID.
• WLM-specifc tool
  • "Gesamtliste" = All austrian WLM-pictures, very slow...
  • "User-Bildliste" = WLM-Pictures sorted by User, slow
  • "User-Statistik" = Number of WLM-Pictures by User
    • Single-User-View, list of all WLM-pictures per user.

If anyone could use one of these features just contact me :) --AleXXw 23:40, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Duplicate IDs in wikilists

• Find duplicate IDs in wikilists

Spain

Different lists at http://toolserver.org/~platonides/wlm/ (by status, user, province, id...). Used its own categorization bot.

Wanted tools

Search and export tool

The monuments database is expanding rapidly, but we don't have a good and convenient way to get information from this database. The tool should consist of two parts: Searching and output format.

Api / Code: https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/erfgoed/api

Searching: It should be easy to make a selection of the monuments

• Search by location
  • bounding box
  • distance (for example monuments in 10 km radius, find nearest monument)

• Search for monuments without an image
• (add more requirements here)

• Search by text fields
  • select by country, municipality
  • search by whole name, match a string in name

• Text search & location search combined

Output formats: The tool should be able to output the results in different formats

• Static or dynamic KML for Google Earth and Google Maps
• Gpx for you GPS
• TomTom POI format
• Layar format
• HTML lists to print
• Structured formats like JSON or XML so it can be used like the MediaWiki api (list of formats)

The tool should be available in multiple languages. The input side of the monuments database was written in python, this tool should probably be written in php. For the structured lists, some MediaWiki api code could be reused.

Overview of how the flow should be

Ideas on parameters

• Common parameters (applicable to all orders)
  • props = [country|id|name|address|municipality|lat|lon|image|source|changed]: the properties which should be returned. By default all of them.
  • output = [kml|gpx|poi|html|layar|json|xml]
• Specific orders action =
  • search: searches monuments containing the specified text OR "*" to show all monuments within the following paramaters:

• • • srcountry = countrycode_(lang) OR "*"
    • srmunicipality = municipality
    • sraddress = address
    • srcoortinates = [yes|no|both]
    • srimage = [yes|no|both]
    • srinrange = lat, lon, range

• • statistics: gives statistical data, of a given country
    • stcountry = countrycode_(lang) OR "*"
    • stprops = [withimage|withcoordinates|noimage|nocoordinates|add more]
    • stformat = [percent|number|both]

Please note: Just ideas. Feel free to improve, delete or whatever you want.

(Requirements in Dutch)

Possible classes, code snippets to use

• http://www.lightrod.org/ PHP class for speeding up POI proximity search
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en
  • http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/geoworld/marks-source.php script that generates KML from geolocated Wikipedia articles
  • http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/geoworld/marks-styles-source.php
• kml-ee.php: script to generate dynamic KML from monuments_ee_(et) table

Helpful texts

• Using PHP and MySQL to create KML, Mano Marks, Google Geo Team, June 2007

Android app

WLM Android app

See also a augmented reality app for iPhone & Android, from NL 2010: http://rijksmonumenten.info/

Matching images from Commons to monuments

A tool that displays in Google maps or in Google Earth

• 1) monuments
• 2) all geolocated images in Commons in 1 km radius of those monuments which are not yet tagged with a monumentID template in Commons
• + this tool lets bind those images with monuments -- drag and drop image onto monument location icon would be nice

... as a result image on Commons get's monumentID template added to it

Flickr import bot

Below is a list of all the known Flickr repositories and the information needed to customize the bot

Language	Group	Monument ID	Templates	Categories	Status
ro	http://www.flickr.com/groups/wlm2011ro/	We're using a tag the contains the LMI code preceded or not by lmi= (some users put it, some don't). Regular expression: ((lmi=)?)([A-Z]{1,2})-(I|II|III|IV)-([a-z])-([A-Z])-([0-9]{5}(\.[0-9]{2})?)	{{Wiki Loves Monuments 2011|ro}}{{Monument istoric|CT-I-m-A-02567.}}	Category:Historical monuments in Romania	Strainu is uploading
nl	http://www.flickr.com/groups/wlm2011nl/	We're using a tag the contains the RM code preceded or not by rm= (some users put it, some don't). Regular expression:??	{{Wiki Loves Monuments 2011|nl}}{{rijksmonument|12345}}	Category:Rijksmonumenten	Multichill is uploading
es	http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilmes/	We're using a tag the contains the BIC code preceded by BIC=	{{Wiki Loves Monuments 2011|es}}{{BIC|RI-51-1234567}}{{BIC|RI-51-1234567-12345}}	Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Spain	Uploaded by Wiki-Bot. Code at svn.
ca	http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilovesmonumentscat	We're using a tag the contains the BIC code preceded by BIC=, even if it's not BIC	{{BIC}}{{Béns Andorra}}{{Mérimée}}	Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Catalan Countries	Joancreus is uploading

Simplified Commonist

See also Commons:Tools/Commonist

Mass upload for Wiki Loves Monuments has so far been a tough thing to do, especially for the new and inexperienced participants of the contest.

Wikimedia Foundation developers have done a great job on preparing & fixing UploadWizard and enabling UploadCampaigns that we used in September. Unfortunately, UploadWizard has a small but important flaw, which is, of course, its limitation to only 10 files that can be uploaded simultaneously, and the lack of an at least semi-automated upload method (preparing descriptions is a true pain).

I would like to ask someone to create a simplified version of Commonist or another easy-to-use, preferably Java-based (or at least Windows-friendly) mass upload tool for use by the participants of the national contests. Here are some proposed requirements and ideas for such a programme (hint: I am not a programmer, so feel free to suggest your own ideas!):

• Would need to be as similar to the UploadCampaign as possible:
  • No need to choose the wiki (Wikimedia Commons set by default);
  • No need to choose the licence/permission (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 by default);
  • No need to insert the source (should be set as Own work by default);
  • No need to choose categories (will be dealt with by templates);
  • No need to insert coordinates (could be taken from EXIF data);

Instead:

• The programme should allow to insert the ID of the monument;
• It should have the WLM logo somewhere;
• It should be as much localisable as possible;
• More?

Possible features:

• It should have some hard-coded (but localisable) information on the rules of contest or the licence;
• An "info" tab (with a basic FAQ or some links) would be a plus.
• Sexiness (i.e. easy-to-use and shiny) would be a plus.
• More?

IRC channel

• irc://irc.freenode.net/wikilovesmonuments

If you don't have an irc client you can use http://webchat.freenode.net