Hi everyone,
The Wiki Loves Monuments international team has been asked if photographs
from Russia should be allowed or excluded from participating in this year's
international contest. We have been in contact with the organising teams of
Wiki Loves Monuments from Ukraine and from Russia to discuss this and to
find a solution.
We greatly appreciate that the team from Ukraine has organized the local
edition of the competition while there is war in their country! We
understand that there are reservations against seeing images from Ukraine
and Russia presented side by side in the galleries of nominated or winning
pictures.
The volunteer team organising Wiki Loves Monuments Russia emphasizes to
have no ties to the Russian government or the Russian Wikimedia affiliate.
They are submitting the 10 finalist images to the international final round
of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, but the occupied areas, including Crimea and
Sevastopol, have been excluded from the Wiki Loves monuments campaign.
Also, in Russia there is no freedom of panorama for works of art. This
excludes, in fact, any images of monuments and statues erected since World
War II, and which for example glorify the war, from being legally uploaded
to Wikimedia Commons.
If images from Russia are excluded because of the war in Ukraine, this
could, without being based on a rule for the competition, set a precedent
for other territories where there is war around the world. Rules would have
to found, before deciding case by case, if a country should not be allowed
to send its nominations to Wiki Loves Monuments international.
With these considerations in mind, the WLM organising team does not see a
reason to exclude the submission of Russian finalists images to the
international final round.
On behalf of the WLM 2022 organising team,
Rubén Ojeda
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
Hi everyone,
I am a Brazilian monument conservator, who lives in Germany. Recently I
joined Wikimedia and as a member of the Project Let's go digital, Beuron Art
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:F%C3%B6rderung/Let%27s_go_digital,_…>,
I am photographing German murals outside Germany and writing new articles
about Churches with this style of mural painting.
I identified that in Rio de Janeiro there is a chapel with extremely rare
frescoes in this style, which is abandoned and in need of restoration. It
so happens that the *US Embassy in Brazil* has a call for funding
<https://br.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/grants-corner/call-for-proposal…>
for restoration projects. At the request of the chapel owner, I wrote a pro
bono project to submit for this funding. :)
However, a *non-profit* *international institution* or *organization* is
required to be the *legal candidate* for this project at the *US embassy *in
Brazil*.* *No financial assistance is required,* but support from a
non-profit institution. Can anyone with experience in this area suggest any
institutions? Could Wikimedia Deutschland e.V through WikiLovesMonuments
support us?
Best Regards,
Carolina Bayer
*_______________________*
*CAROLINA BAYER*
Historian | Heritage Conservation
Wilhelmsruher Damm 100 | 13439 Berlin
carolinna.bayer(a)gmail.com
Tel.: +49 175 4465034
Dear everyone,
The WLM Suriname team will soon be evaluating this years competition, and
we have two questions we would like to ask your advice on:
1. The winner of this year's competition was not from Suriname, but from
the Netherlands. This has caused some criticism from the local community.
Is it possible to only accept contributions by natives of Suriname?
2. This year's top ten has 7 pictures from the same uploader. How would we
go about avoiding this next year?
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts!
Best regards,
Michelle van Lanschot
Projectleider
(ma, di, wo, do)
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mob. (+31) (0)6 42154479
www.wikimedia.nl
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<https://twitter.com/wmnl> en Linkedin
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*Overtuigd van het belang van vrije kennis? *
*Steun Wikimedia Nederland! <https://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/steun-ons>*
*Wikimedia Nederland organiseert regelmatig bijeenkomsten, u bent daarbij
van harte welkom. Kijk voor meer informatie in onze agenda
<https://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/agenda>.*
Hi everyone!
So far, we have received correct submissions for 15 countries.
That means the following countries are still missing: Armenia, Austria,
Bangladesh, Egypt, Finland, Ghana, Ireland, Latvia, Malaysia, Nigeria,
Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda,
South Sudan, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, UAE and United Kingdom.
For most of these countries, we have not heard back yet at all. Please make
sure that your jury coordinator is at least in active contact with either
myself or Krishna!
The deadline is 5 December 2022. After this date, we may not be able to
still accept the nominees. If you have any doubts that your country may
meet the deadline, let us know as soon as possible.
Looking forward to many thrilling nominees,
Rubén Ojeda
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
Dear all,
a doubt:
is Instagram compatible with Creative Commons?
Can I upload *my* Instagram pics on Commons (so could it be used for WLM)?
Please consider that I'm not suggesting Instagram pics are good for WLM
(they are filtered and all, probably not very suitable for illustrating
monuments on Wikipedia)
but is a legal matter.
Aubrey
Hi everyone,
Our researcher for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Wiki Loves Monuments
has completed her report, which is now available on Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/DEI_researc…>
and besides in English also available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia,
Brazilian-Portuguese, Chinese Mandarin, French, Hausa, Hindi, Spanish,
Urdu, and isiZulu.
A blogpost on the topic has been published on our own website
wikilovesmonuments.org
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/inclusive-storytelling-through-photograp…>
and also on the WMF blog site Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/11/10/inclusive-storytelling-through-photog…>.
The research is now finished. The international team will use these
outcomes to improve DEI in our photo competition in general, and as one of
the tools to develop a multi-year strategy for WLM in the upcoming year.
A big thank you for the ones who were willing to take the time to talk to
Mesha, to proofread the reports, and to provide overall input for the
research.
Best,
Ciell
[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
almost 40 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. Unless
you have agreed a different deadline with Krishna Chaitanya (in cc),
this deadline is 30 November, 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. Please also
include Krishna Chaitanya in the cc.
* 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, 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 - more information about this soon.
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.
We're looking forward to the judging process!
With warm regards,
Rubén Ojeda
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
Hi all,
Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2022. 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 have agreed to 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)
* 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 3 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 2022
(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 Ojeda
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
Hi everyone!
I am very happy to have created the first Montage campaigns for the
national juries last weekend. You can read more about this tool for juries
on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Montage, and request a
campaign for your national jury on the talkpage.
Considerations for how to form your national jury is briefly described in
the WLM FAQ
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/FAQ#How_sho…>
- and if you are in need of more jury members for your jury, this email
list is actually full of subscribers who know what the competition is
about, and who love the combination of heritage, photographs and the
Wikimedia projects!
So please don't be shy to ask for jury members here, many national teams
were helped that way in previous years.
Also, please remember to add the names of your jury members to the page for
national juries on Commons, for transparency reasons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Juries
Best,
Ciell
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