WLE 2021 in Australia is underway and so far has just 306 photos (with 77
being judged as outside the competition)
There are two major tasks, I am hoping you all will be willing to
participate in
1. Annotating the photos, by
1.1 adding "depicts" statements as structured data. This should include
1.1.1 species name if relevant
1.1.2 protected area (name of national park, IPA, nature reserve etc
1.2 adding appropriate categories, i.e.,
1.2.1 species name (if relevant)
1.2.2 category for the national park etc
1.3 Adding wikidata for national parks, marine reserves etc which do not
yet have a wikidata item. This item should should show that the area is
protected and you may be able find and add statements for:
1.3.1 P809 (WDPA ID) See. e.g.Q106099285s
1.3.2 P814 IUCN protected areas category (available from the WDPA ID) See,
e.g.Q106099285
1.4 Classifying photographs which fail to comply with the competition rules
as being outside the competition, i.e., categorise them using:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_20…
(These are a subcategory of the uploaded images and should not show them as
belonging directly to
Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021_in_Australia
The second task is to grade the uploaded images using the prejury tool. The
essentials are shown here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021_in_Austral…
and you join by clicking on prejury tool. (Images uploaded by you are
excluded from your grading)
The prejury tool will only work well if many of us use it. (This is the
statistician speaking). So please use it. It will allow the judges to
winnow out photographs which will not win.
Thanks for your help on this.
Regards,
Margaret
Hi,
COVID-19 has hit hard in India again making it the leading epicentre of the
disease caused by the new mutated strains. The infection and death tolls
have reached record high and the health system in different parts of the
country is on the verge of collapse.
Like other common people, many Wikimedians might have lost their jobs last
year. Like last year, this year too, many volunteers have been infected and
hospitalised. Some of them have lost their family members, relatives,
friends and other dear ones.
Volunteer online community is the heart of our movement and every
dedicated, experienced and long-term volunteers are our most valuable
asset. It is not at all exaggerating to say that many language Wikimedia
projects or WikiProjects are dependent completely on one (or two or
three...) person's persistence to build it as a tall building from scratch
and if we lose some of those people, those projects might totally stop
forever. There are so many fantastic people in the movement who have been
doing incredible work in their volunteer capacity for such a long time
(sometimes more than a decade) to make what Wikimedia is today.
I would like to urge people with power and money in the movement to find a
way to protect these assets. We not only cannot afford to lose them, but
also need to proactively protect them. Maybe a small step to provide
personal or family COVID-19 insurance might help a lot. Maybe sending money
to buy COVID-19 vaccines might save some of them. Who knows?
If we can spend millions of dollars for conferences or a couple of hundred
thousand dollars to celebrate 20 years of Wikipedia during Wikimania, can
we not spend a few thousand dollars to protect at least some of the people
around the globe to some extent who made it possible to turn Wikipedia into
its 20th birthday?
Disclaimer: I had tried to convince the grants team from my personal
capacity last year when COVID-19 was spreading rapidly in India but was
denied due to their legal concerns regarding insurance registration as well
as settlement and liability issues. Few others tried to convince them too
but failed. I am reaching out to the community to start a conversation this
time and find a way together.
I am sorry for my long mail. I could not help it.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Dear Wikimedia Community Members,
We’re so excited to share some updates with you around Wikimania 2021!
We’ve been hard at work, getting things running and putting things in place
and realized we have so much we’d like to share with you. Thank you for
your flexibility and understanding, as we navigate through this rapidly
moving ship.
1.
Wikimania 2021 will be happening! We’ve already announced the dates
(August 13-17) but wanted to remind you - in case you had any doubts - that
the first-ever virtual Wikimania will be happening - and we want you there!
[1]
1.
We noticed that all though we’ve been going full speed on the back end
at organizing Wikimania 2021, we haven’t updated you as frequently as we
would like… So, we will be sending out a weekly update email to all of you
on Mondays - until the event goes live. Which in case you were wondering,
is in 3 months and 2 days! (Yes, that soon!)
1.
We will be having a Scholarship Program this year as well! We’d like to
remove most barriers of participation for those who would otherwise not be
able to join. More information will be coming soon around Scholarships - so
stay tuned!
1.
This year's theme is: Celebrate 20 years of Wikipedia and the humans who
make it happen. We will also be opening up submission proposals for
sessions - you can apply as an individual, a collective or a Community
Organization.
We are excited about all the work and progress happening so far to make
this event happen. We're looking forward to hearing about your amazing
session proposals to help bring Wikimania 2021 to life. We can't wait to
convene to celebrate two decades of free knowledge.
Best Wishes,
Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Kabintie>), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
[1]
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Save_the_date_and_the_Core_Organi…
Hello everyone
We are inviting the Wikimedia Community User Groups and chapters to
participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest
scheduled to run from July 1st through August 31, 2021:
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, and
then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the
Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests
(Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over
the years.
In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries
joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training
organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.
The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and
videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for
recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content
to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign
can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops
and edit-a-thons.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP
participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level
(geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We'd be glad for
you to reply to this email, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating
Communities.
You can access the WPWP 2021 main page via
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021
Thank you,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya (User: Ceslause / ceslause.o(a)gmail.com)
Regional Ambassador, Francophone Communities
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign
Hello everyone
We are inviting the Wikimedia Community User Group to participate in
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run
from July first through August 31, 2021:
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images,
then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the
Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests
(Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over
the years.
In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries
joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training
organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.
The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and
videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for
recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content
to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign
can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops
and edit-a-thons.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP
participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level
(geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We'd be glad for
you to reply to this email, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating
Communities.
Thank you,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya (User: Ceslause / ceslause.o(a)gmail.com)
Regional Ambassador, Francophone Communities
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign
Hi everyone!
By the end of May, we at Wikimedia Ukraine invite everyone to join CEE
Spring (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2021) to help
discover Ukraine to the world.
The contest is devoted to improving Wikipedia content about Central and
Eastern Europe across multiple languages; the Central & Eastern European
community of Wikimedians has organized it every year since 2015.
Of course, you can write about many different CEE countries and regions
within the contest, but we at Wikimedia Ukraine are planning to send
special souvenirs for most active contributors to articles about Ukraine
specifically ;)
For the first time, we prepared the top-10 most important articles about
Ukraine that are missing (red links) for each CEE Wikipedia (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=11313069) and the top-10 important
articles that are too short for each CEE Wikipedia (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=11313068).
And we also have the general top-100 list with important topics missing in
many Wikipedias: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10583331
You can read the full announcement (and share it to help us spread the
world) here:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/06/join-cee-spring-on-wikipedia-to-help-…
Best Regards
Anton Protsiuk
Program Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine