Hi everyone,
A quick update for the rules and process this year.
Deadlines: As usual, Wiki Loves Monuments will take place in the month of
September. If your country would like to request exception to the usual
competition days (1-30 September), please get in touch with the
international team through wlm-global-org(a)lists.wmnederland.nl . The
deadline for submitting nominees to the international jury is, as usual, 31
October.
We have updated our international rules
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/>. In the past years, we have
encountered a few instances of high scoring images that did not have email
address confirmed. This creates an enormous amount of extra work, and
uncertainty. We request that all national teams check that their nominees
have a confirmed email address for the author at the time of submission. If
the photographer does not have their email address confirmed, we will
likely disqualify the image at some point in the process. Please emphasize
this in the competition pages. The international team will not commit to
chasing/reminding winners or organizers of this. (if someone is willing &
able to run a bot to check this during the competition, and alert the owner
and the organizer, that would be great).
This year, we have a Special Award for European Heritage because of the
European Year of Cultural Heritage. This Special Award is kindly sponsored
by the German National Committee for Heritage Protection. More information
about this, will appear o <https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/awards/>n our
website.
We had some discussion earlier about what the best approach to the
competition is from the point of view what defines a 'country' on the
international jury level. While this is inherently a messy definition
(we're putting the United States and Andorra at the same level, after all),
the international team decided to opt for the following interim working
definition:
- UN memberstate (UNESCO definition) is the basis from which we work
- we can optionally derive from that on a case by case basis 1) if it is de
facto a separate country, including international diplomacy and heritage
policy, and could be UN-memberstate if not for international conflicts etc
(examples: Taiwan, Kosovo, etc) 2) if there is a significant 'distance'
with a component of the country that makes it for traveling purposes a
different country. Examples: overseas territories, Hong Kong etc.
- if there is minor overlap between two participating countries, the photo
can participate in any country where it is registered as such (border
conflicts etc)
- a country will never be considered with separate submissions to the
finale if there is (near) full overlap with another participating national
competition, if it fits exception 2). This to avoid double participation of
images. In the case of exception 1), it will be considered on a case by
case basis.
- The international jury coordinator (as representative for the
international team and the jury) makes this decision.
To be clear: it is always OK to 'combine' a few countries into a single
national competition for practical reasons.
Sorry for the longish email - this is all for now!
Best,
Lodewijk
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