Wikilovesearth April 2017

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page banner competition within WLE
by Alexander Tsirlin 05 May '17

05 May '17

Dear All, As some of you may know, Wikivoyage uses page banners, the 7:1 panoramic images placed at the top of each page. We are always short of such images in general and of good banners with natural objects in particular. This prompted us to organize the competition of page banners as a satellite event during WLE. Last year we were running such a competition for Russian destinations. It was quite successful delivering 88 excellent banners, many of them used nowadays across 17 language editions of Wikivoyage. This year we extend the banner competition worldwide: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/banners The idea is very simple: take your WLE photo, crop it to the 7:1 format, and upload it separately as a page banner specifying the destination where it goes. Our (Wikivoyage-based) jury will grade the uploads and choose the winner who will receive a small prize. We would be grateful if you disseminate information about this competition among the participants. Posting short information with the upload link on the page of your national competition would be great. Having good page banners from your country not only improves its coverage on Wikivoyage, but also draws more readers and editors, who may eventually choose your country for their next trip. We would also be grateful if the international team finds a way to advertise this banner competition on the main WLE page and in the media. Questions and comments are welcome. We look forward to receiving excellent page banners this year! Sincerely, Alexander

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[IMPORTANT] Reminder: add your country/area's info for the banner
by Romaine Wiki 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Hi all, Reminder: please make sure that: * You provided a landing page (Links to:) * You provide translations for the text in the banner (Text:) At: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/CentralNot… Thanks! Romaine PS: If you provided the minimal info, the plan is that a banner above Wikipedia will be up within half an our after the start of the contest.

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1 day left
by Anna Khrobolova 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Hello, If you are an organizer of Wiki Loves Earth this year, please read on! :) For the majority of countries participating <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017> in this year's WLE, the contest will starts on May, 1st. Here are a few tips the international team would like to share with you: * Please make sure your team members register for wlemailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesearth>not to miss important announcements. * Make sure that you go through this todo list <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Organise>, if you already haven't. We recommend that the landing page for each country accessed via the this list <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017> be in English (You can link from there to your local language(s) page) or have at least one section in English that can help the international people participate. * A list of protected areas, and the categories about the protected areas on Commons ar also important things that should be visible * Consider reaching out to your local media and encourage the coverage of the contest's launch *Please drop your news or on the contest workflow, or links to your posts so we could share via WLE Facebook and Twitter. You can message them directly to WLE page <https://www.facebook.com/interwle> *Use #WLE2017 #WikiLovesEarth in your posts so we could find them * Add press mentions to a subpage [3] * Please tell us what kind of assistance you would like to get from the international team! Just email us at wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua Best, Anna, on behalf of the WLE international team Wikimedia Ukraine [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016 [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_ 2016/Organise [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_ Earth_2017/Press_mentions

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Central hub for press mention
by Nahid Sultan 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Hi, I've created a subpage for press mention [1]. Please be bold and add news coverage of your local contest. @Int’l team, please feel free to move the page/work on it if necessary. 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Press_ment… Cheers, Nahid Sultan User:NahidSultan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan> on all Wikimedia Foundation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s public wikis Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh> Twitter: @nahidunlimited<https://twitter.com/nahidunlimited> http://blog.nahidsultan.xyz/

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Central Notice banners?
by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

Hello! Four our Wiki Loves Monuments contests Central Notice banners were a very important way to advertise out contest. When looking for WLE banners coordination page, I found only one for last years edition. Well there be a centralized approach to this or should I work on this myself? Mārtiņš

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Re: [Wikilovesearth] Central Notice banners?
by Vira Motorko 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

Hi, (I'll be bold to answer) There will be a centralized approach to setting a CentralNotice for WLE. There is a request filled[1] in on Meta by Romaine. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Request *--* *Vira Motorko // Віра Моторко* Wikimedia Ukraine <https://ua.wikimedia.org/> nonprofit organisation // ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» mobile: +380667740499 | facebook: vira.motorko <https://www.facebook.com/vira.motorko> | wikipedia: Ата <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ата> If this email is about your daily job and it reaches you outside of the working hours, please, feel free to answer when its appropriate! // Якщо це робочий лист і Ви отримали його не в робочий час, будь ласка, відповідайте, коли вважаєте за потрібне! Якщо маєте електронну скриньку на зразок _(a)_.ru, задумайтесь, будь ласка, над її зміною. Дякую! 2017-04-24 12:44 GMT+03:00 Mārtiņš Bruņenieks <martinsb(a)gmail.com>: > >> Hello! >> >> Four our Wiki Loves Monuments contests Central Notice banners were a very >> important way to advertise out contest. >> >> When looking for WLE banners coordination page, I found only one for last >> years edition. Well there be a centralized approach to this or should I >> work on this myself? >> >> Mārtiņš >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikilovesearth mailing list >> Wikilovesearth(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesearth >> >

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Urgent / WLE Pakistan
by Saqib 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Dear international team I am re-sending this email to international team members of WLE for the third time, I guess. So I appreciate a response. 1. I have admin account on WLE site (www.wikilovesearth.org) but I forget my password. I can't able to retrieve new password so Please hep me get new password. my username is registered with email "saqib.qayyum(a)hotmail.com" 2. We used to have email address "pakistan(a)wikilovesearth.org" which was redirected email to my email address. But the email address is no more working at the moment. Perhaps it has been deleted? Please re-create it for us and setup email forwarding to email address of mine. WLE is approaching fast and therefore I appreciate fast response on this. I hope this won't go unnoticed this time. Thank you Saqib

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