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
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.
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
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
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
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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
>>
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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