[This email contains important information on how you can submit the 10
nominees of your country to the international finale and the deadlines.
Please forward this to your coordinators if need be.]
Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
Thank you for an amazing job in the past weeks and months in organizing
what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in 46 countries!
It's great to see all the beautiful images that have been submitted.
As you know, the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition is based on
a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country, with a
national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The
national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted
to the international finale.
These ten images should be submitted via email to the international jury
coordinator before the deadline: rodelarwiki(a)gmail.com. This deadline is *5
December*, 23:59 UTC. But if you like me, please send them at least a few
days before that time. Submissions after this deadline are not guaranteed
to be included in the finale. When submitting your finalists, please take
these instructions into account:
* Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to
submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high
quality.
* Submit the images to: rodelarwiki(a)gmail.com, and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself.
* If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later
publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we
will announce the international winners in January/February, and will not
wait for national announcements.
* Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author
username
* Check basic information about the images. It is NOT possible to replace
finalists after the deadline!
** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons.
If we cannot email the user there, they may automatically forfeit any
prize. You can help them by posting a message on their talk page, or
tracking them down through social media.
** that the monument on the image is identified (preferably also described
in English)
** that the image is freely licensed
If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also on
the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this.
Thanks a lot for your cooperation. After all nominees have been received,
this will result in a pool of some 350-430 images for the international
jury to consider. The jury will first rate all images with 1-5 stars, from
which a top-40/60 will be considered. Then, the jurors will have the
opportunity to remove images from the selection, which they consider unfit.
Finally, they are asked to rank their top-25 images, and share their
reasoning. We will create a jury report based on this information. We
expect to announce the results in January/February.
We're looking forward to the judging process!
With warm regards,
Rubén Ojeda
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2023
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Hello Wikipedia team,
I have uploaded some images today for Malaysia momuments for 2023 contest.
However most of those photos were taken earlier (as mentioned in the upload
files also) but uploading in wikipedia for the first time. Hope those
photos are qualified for the context. Kindly clarify. Thank you.
My account : ToofanwikiCommon
Thanks,
Toofan
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Hello everyone!
It is 31 August, the last day before the contest in most countries! In
about 10 hours from now the first country arrives in September and there
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 will start!
Before it can start, you may need to do something. I can only activate a
banner in your area if there is a landing page I can link to. If there is
no landing page, the contest can't start. Many landing pages are still
missing on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Landin…
Please check the page if yours is there!
If your page is not in English, please also have somewhere a page (in
short) where foreign participants can read how to upload/rules/etc. This
can for example be a page at .../English. Link this page from your landing
page + link it in the table on the page of all the Landing pages.
For some languages I miss a translation "Learn more". If this text is not
logic in your language, use then instead a translation of "More
information". This text is missing for the languages:
Afrikaans (af), Azerbaijani (az), Central Bikol (bcl), Crimean Tatar (crh),
Irish (ga), Scottish Gaelic (gd), Croatian (hr), Maithili (mai), Malagasy
(mg), Mirandese (mwl), Min Nan Chinese (nan), Nepali (ne), Northern Sotho
(nso), Punjabi (pa), Northern Sami (se), Albanian (sq), Swahili (sw), Tamil
(ta), Tswana (tn), Tatar (tt), Urdu (ur), Yiddish (yi), Yoruba (yo)
Let me know what the translation would be if you speak any of these
languages.
If you notice any issue with the banner or upload wizard, please let me
know as soon as possible!
Have fun everyone with Wiki Loves Monuments! :-)
Greetings,
Romaine
Hi all,
As many of you know, there are several tools overseen by the WLM
international team for Wiki Loves -like contests. While I myself stepped
down from the team, I wanted to send a (belated) quick reminder of some
tools that are available.
Note that these are not all the tools available around WLM, only the ones
that I (co-)maintain(ed) :)
== Statistics tools ==
See <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2023>. Data is refreshed
every 15 minutes.
If you want to know more about the tool, please see <
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Wikiloves>
The tool, beyond the “country race”, provides each competition with:
* A day-to-day table of image uploads and joiners (uploader who uploaded
their first image on that day). <
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2023/Ireland>
* A sorted table of all uploaders, their upload count (as part of the
competition) and file usage, and their registration date <
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2023/Ireland/users>
These two views may be helpful to gauge the health of your competition
If you notice any issue with the tool (bug, data missing, etc.), please
file a task on Phabricator: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=tool…>.
== ErfgoedBot and Monuments database ==
Some might have noticed it − ErfgoedBot had been broken since April
(following a Toolforge database upgrade). We managed to get back and
running a week ago.
For more information on the services provided by ErfgoedBot
(categorization, maintenance reports, etc.), please see the documentation
on Commons:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database>
One of the most relevant task is the categorization (described at <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization>)
− as far as I can see based on the bot edits, it seems to be working fine.
Unfortunately, the bot’s work is slowed down by going over and over
thousands of images it can't figure out how to categorize.
→ I might add more countries to the skiplist to not penalize the other
countries
→ it would be great if humans could have a look at the images left in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorizatio…
== Notification to uploaders without email enabled ==
Every three minutes, ErfgoedBot retrieves the list of users who uploaded,
in the last few minutes, pictures marked as participating to WLM. If an
uploader has not enabled e-mail, the bot leaves a message on their talk
page explaining that it is necessary to win a prize (unless it has already
notified that user).
You can help translating the message in more languages at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/i18nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/heading/i18n
We hope that this will help to avoid situations of winning pictures with no
email enabled, only detected much later when the uploader is not around
anymore.
Hope this all helps,
--
Jean-Frédéric
Hi all,
After a last minute rescue last year, it looks like we're facing Monumental
<https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/> being unsupported going into WLM
2023.
Ireland has exclusively used Monumental since 2017, when Pawel migrated our
lists into Wikidata using the WLM numbers to draw out the eligible sites in
Ireland. At this point, we need a simple alternative - maybe Wikidata
generated lists on Commons? If anyone can give me some instruction or ideas
on how to go about this I would be hugely grateful (I've never created
lists from Listeria etc), as otherwise it leaves Ireland without anything
for users to find monuments or upload them into the relevant categories.
Thanks!
Rebecca
--
Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie/>:
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
PhD in Digital Media
Secretary of the National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science
and Technology
<http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/…>
Co-host of *The World According to Wikipedia
<https://headstuffpodcasts.com/show/the-world-according-to-wikipedia>*
podcast
She/Her
Dear esteemed WLM organizers and participants,
We're happy to announce that the WLM 2023 landing page is ready:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Organi…
We anticipate the amazing impressions captured with your camera and
invite you to visit the WLM 2023 pages at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023 for
further information on how to participate in and/or organize the WLM
Campaign in your region.
Looking forward to your submissions from 1st September - 31st October
2023 to expand the collection of more than 3,000,000 pictures
documenting monuments and heritage from all over the world in the last
twelve iterations of Wiki Loves Monuments.
Kind regards,
Manfred / the team of Wiki Loves Monuments international
Dear Organizers,
For people participating in the photography contest the team of WLM
international has prepared giveaways - there are buttons and stickers
with the logo of Wiki Loves Monuments available now. If you want to hand
them out to photographers in your community let us know. We will either
send them to you or maybe you are at Wikimania in Singapore where we
could give them to you personally.
Please take a look at this table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17WSsJIL4VR7GRIL9owwpZtez_Bt-brHnshN…
There you can enter your user name and how many of the buttons and
stickers you would be interested in. Please also let us know if you are
at Wikimania.
Kind reagrds,
Manfred
Hi everyone,
Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2023. It is a complicated and delicate process to come to a
balanced jury, and I would like to outline the criteria here, and to ask
for your input. I´ll take the lead on this process - but would definitely
welcome your input, and help.
As in the past years, It is important to aim once again for a jury that as
a whole is neutral and balanced in many ways. This means ideally:
* A mix of photography experts, heritage experts and Wikimedia experts
(aiming at a total size of 8-10 people)
* Geographically balanced so that no two jury members come from the same
country.
* Balance in many other ways imaginable (while at the same time, one can
never assure a balance in all aspects)
At the same time, there are some practical considerations:
* Jury members must be able to write and read English.
* They must have the time to commit to judge 200-500 photos in three rounds
over a period of three weeks in December.
* While jury members can participate in a local competition, their photos
cannot participate in the international finale
* Jury members should not participate in any national jury for 2023
(previous years is OK)
* It would be helpful if the juror would be willing to share their real
name for the jury report.
* Jury work is in a volunteer capacity.
If you know someone who would make a good juror, please contact me
privately with the suggestion. At least let me know who the juror is, how I
could contact him/her and why they would make a good jury member (and
whether you have reason to believe they would accept the nomination, if
asked).
I will do my best to put together once again a qualified and diverse jury,
with your help!
Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Rubén
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2023
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Hi organizers,
it looks like the deadline for WMF rapid grants this edition is July 1.
This is the program that is most relevant to most of you, and the deadline
is a little more than a week from now!
In case you were thinking to use the September 1 deadline: this deadline
will be too late to organize (it comes with an earliest project start of
October 28).
If you are interested and need help with applying, please contact the WMF
liaison listed here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Contact_us> for your
region. They are generally helpful. The WLM international team is usually
happy to provide some feedback on your proposal, and you can also send it
to the international mailing list if you're looking for help from peer
organizers in other countries.
Best,
Lodewijk