Dear Philip,

Thank you so much for your work on organizing Wiki Loves Earth photo contest this year! 

Despite the pandemic, we have got more than 106k photos of nature monuments from 34 countries all over the world. These photos raise awareness on protected areas and help to illustrate Wikipedia (23% of these pictures are used in wiki projects), we are grateful to everyone for making this impact happen. The international winners will be announced soon, stay tuned!

To improve future WLE editions, we will appreciate your feedback on organizing the contest. Also, we would like to send you some WLE-branded souvenirs as a present for your work. Please write your thoughts and suggestions on organizing WLE, as well as your postal address in this form — https://forms.gle/C1RDvkhZMuBzknCC7.

Stay safe!

Best regards,

Anastasiia Petrova

Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:21 PM Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Dear Philip,

Great, thanks for your confirmation!

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020  

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:42 PM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Anastasiia,

yes, we have the contacts of the nominated photographers and checked the relevancy - with national parks it's always a bit murky as to what is relevant and what isn't.

Unfortunately no interesting stories come to mind, since this was rather a low-key contest judging by the submissions.

Best,

Philip

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 11:06, Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Dear Philip,

Thank you so much for your work on organizing Wiki Loves Earth photo contest in Austria and submitting the winners!

Could you please confirm that you have contacts of all authors of winning pictures and that you checked the photos for relevancy (i.e. whether they really illustrate a nature protected area) and copyright?

If you have an idea of some interesting WLE story you would like to share on our blog or social media pages (for example, some peculiarities of the contest in your country, a story behind the winning photo or an interview with a winner/a jury member), please let me know, we would be glad to publish it.

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Thanks in advance for your answer!

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 6:27 PM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Anastasiia,

I've just submitted the nominated pictures on Commons. They all should have English descriptions now :-)

BR,

Philip

On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 17:45, Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Dear Philip,

Just a kind reminder that the deadline for submitting your winners is September 1st. You can either publish the winning photos on the winners page on Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2020/Winners or send them to the international team privately. Detailed instructions can be found here — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2020/Organize#How_to_submit_local_winners.

Please, submit local winners on time to avoid disqualification of your country from the process of selecting international winners. If you need an extension, please contact us in advance.

Looking forward to your winning photos!

Best regards,

Anastasiia Petrova

Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:42 PM Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Dear Philip,

Wiki Loves Earth in Austria has finished. Thank you so much for your hard work in organizing the contest, we are excited about your results! 

Please, follow this checklist of the next steps:

1. Finding jury and picking local winners

As always, the international team expects that local teams will submit up to 10 photos from their country for the international round. The deadline this year is September 1st. To pick them, you need to assemble a team of jury, which will grade the photos and select winners.

If you don't have your jury members yet, it's time you start looking for them, so there is enough time to grade the photos and submit the winners by the end of August. Please, find more information about this process in the article. If you need help in your jury search, please contact me. We have created a network of people willing to help local teams and can recommend you potential jury members for your contest.

Once the jury has selected winners, please make sure:

— You have double-checked that: 1) winning images are indeed picturing a nature protected area; 2) these pictures do not violate copyright (pay attention to the size and use TinEye, Google Images tools etc. for checking). 

Of course, it wouldn't harm to check every contest image for relevancy and copyright before they get to the jury, but checking winners is a priority.

— You are in contact with all winners: they have activated their emails, or you have another way of reaching them (Facebook, some other messenger app etc.), so you will be able to provide their direct contacts if necessary. 

To make sure your participants have activated their emails on Commons, we can help you by sending out messages to all users that haven't done it yet. Please, let us know if you would like us to do. If so, please provide a translation to your language(s) for the message below:

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Earth photo contest! The jury will soon start evaluating photos to select winners. Please, activate your email in your account on Wikimedia Commons, so we can contact you in case your photo is selected as a winning one. To do it, go to [[Special:Preferences|your personal settings]] and activate the option "Allow other users to email me" on the bottom of the page. Thank you!

2. Submitting local winners to the international jury

You can find all the detailed instructions here. The deadline for submitting local winners is September 1st. Please, submit local winners on time to avoid disqualification of your country from the process of selecting international winners.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua.

We are excited about WLE in Austria and looking forward to your winning photos!

Best regards,

Anastasiia Petrova

Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:32 PM Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Sounds great! Thanks a lot for your answer!

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020  

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:31 PM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Anastasiia,

thanks for the information, but we've been running our own jury tool for more than 8 years now, so we won't need access to the WLX jury tool! :-)

Best,

Philip

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 17:26, Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Dear Philip,

Each year we pick winners of Wiki Loves Earth photo contest on both local and international levels. WLX Jury Tool helps to make the process of grading photos and selecting winners easier and more convenient! 

But how to use it? The international WLE team will make an overview of this tool and answer your questions during our online training!  

When: July 11 at 1 pm (UTC)

Duration: up to 1 hour 

Register using this form and we will send you a link to join the training — https://forms.gle/fL43PUspFNYRHLut5. Please also register, if you are interested in this training, but you can't make it this time. We'll send you a recording afterwards! 

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:58 PM Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

You are welcome! 

Also, we have a suggestion: to spread the word about your contest we can invite participants from previous editions of your WLE and other Wikimedia photo contests. It can be done by posting the invitation on their talk pages on Wikimedia Commons. If you like this idea, the international WLE team can do it for you, all we need is a translation of the following message to your local language(s):

=== Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Austria is open! ===

[[File:WLE Austria Logo (transparent).svg|thumb|right|150px|link=Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Austria]]<!-- you can also use a logo of your local contest or a winning picture -->

Hello! We are happy to announce that Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Austria is now open. Your participation will help us to document the nature of Austria and show it to the world through Wikipedia and other projects.

Please go to the page of the contest to read the rules: [[Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Austria]] <!-- or a website <span class="plainlinks">[https://commons.wikimedia.org/ '''website''']</span> -->. There you can also find out how to take part in the contest. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us: <!-- your contact info -->.

Thanks,<br />

the organising committee of Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Austria<br />

''You are receiving this message because you took part in the contest before''

Let us know if you have any questions and what do you think about this idea. Thanks!

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020    

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:45 PM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky@gmail.com> wrote:

Sure, thank you for the offer :-)

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:37, Anastasiia Petrova <anastasiia.petrova@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Dear Philip,

Thank you so much for your answer and details about your local WLE. We are happy that Austria joins this year!

If you have any questions or need any support from the international WLE team, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua.

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020  

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:07 AM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Anastasia!

Thank you for your email and sorry for the rather short notice! :-) 

WLE will be part of WikiDaheim in Austria (which starts today), although we will cut short the results for WLE in order to submit 10 pictures by the end of August. The landing page therefore is a bit different than normal, although the old landing page also exists for 2020: 

The banner/site notice will also be part of Wikidaheim, organised via this campaign: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Request/WikiDaheim_2020

Hope this is ok for you :-)

Best,

Philip

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 22:49, Wikipedia <wiki@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi!

I've seen today you added Austria to the WLE participating countries list, great news you are in this year! Before your contest starts, please:

1. Add instructions on how to participate and all detailed info about your contest to your website. More info on what to include — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2020/Organise#Landing_page.

2. Add your translations for the banner — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2020/CentralNotice and upload campaigns templates — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2020/Upload_campaigns. It's important to have them ready as soon as possible, so we can activate it on time. Thank you!

If you have any questions or need any support from the international WLE team, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua.

We are excited about the start of WLE in Austria!

Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2020

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