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Good day all,
The 2019 Canadian winners of Wiki Loves Earth have been announced. Wiki
Loves Earth is an annual international photo contest around natural
protected areas. You can see the Top 10 at the following link:
https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth/Home#Canadian_winners_of_2019.
Those 10 pictures have been submitted to the Wiki Loves Earth international
jury which results are expected in September 2019.
Wikimedia Canada thanks all the participants that submitted pictures and
all the volunteers who helped in organizing this competition. We have
received a total of 1,228 pictures from Canada by 163 different uploaders.
You can see all the submitted pictures on Wikimedia Commons at the
following link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_20….
Please help us to make good use of those pictures by adding them to
relevant Wikipedia articles.
The Wiki Loves Monuments competition, the biggest photography competition
in the world, about cultural heritage monuments, is upcoming in September.
We are looking for volunteers to be part of the organizing team [1]. Please
contact me if you are interested or reply directly to this message.
Thank you very much.
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Bonjour à toutes et à tous,
Les gagnants canadiens de 2019 de Wiki Loves Earth ont été annoncés. Wiki
Loves Earth est un concours annuel international au sujet des aires
naturelles protégées. Vous pouvez voir le Top 10 au lien suivant :
https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth/Home#Canadian_winners_of_2019.
Ces 10 photographies ont été soumises au jury international de Wiki Loves
Earth dont les résultats sont prévus pour septembre 2019.
Wikimédia Canada remercie toutes les participantes et tous les participants
qui ont soumis des photographies ainsi que tous les bénévoles qui ont aidé
à l'organisation du concours. Nous avons reçu un total de 1 228
photographies du Canada de la part de 163 participantes et participants
différent(e)s. Vous pouvez voir toutes les photographies soumises sur
Wikimedia Commons au lien suivant :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_20….
Merci de nous aider à faire bon usage de ces photographies en les ajoutant
à des articles de Wikipédia pertinents.
Le concours Wiki Loves Monuments, la plus grande compétition photographique
au monde, au sujet des monuments culturels patrimoniaux, s'en vient en
septembre. Nous recherchons des bénévoles pour faire partie de l'équipe
organisatrice [1]. Veuillez me contacter si vous êtes intéressé(e)s ou
répondez directement à ce message.
Merci beaucoup.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Canada#Organizing_Team
Jean-Philippe Béland
Gestionnaire de l'avancement institutionnel
Wikimédia Canada, chapitre national soutenant Wikipédia
535 avenue Viger Est, Montréal (Québec) H2L 2P3
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https://ca.wikimedia.org
Institutional Advancement Manager
Wikimedia Canada, national chapter supporting Wikipedia
535 Viger Avenue East, Montréal (Québec) H2L 2P3
<https://maps.google.com/?q=535+Viger+Avenue+East,+Montr%C3%A9al+(Qu%C3%A9be…>
https://ca.wikimedia.org
Hi!
This year's Wikimania is nearly here, and we are going to be there. On
Sunday, August 18th, there will be a session devoted to Wiki Loves Earth.
Together, we will reflect on how Wiki Loves Earth can be beneficial for
nature, how it can harm the environment, and what can we do to prevent the
damage.
More info about the session here:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Environmental_sustainability/How_…
.
We would like the presentation to be as inclusive and diverse as possible.
That is why:
1) We are inviting those who have experience in organizing Wiki Loves Earth
in their country to *join the session*.
2) If you are not going to attend Wikimania, please *share your experience*
so we can include it in the presentation. How exactly does Wiki Loves Earth
help preserve nature in your country? Have you heard about the ways Wiki
Loves Earth might be harmful to the environment?
Please reach out to wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua if you'd like to join the
session or share your experience.
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine, member of Wiki Loves Earth
international team
Hi!
WLE team is finishing the process of picking jury members who will review
the images submitted to the international round and choose its winners. We
are finalizing the list of jury members and will share it soon.
To make the jury team more diverse, we are looking for women (one or two)
with a background in nature photography, environment, ecology or similar.
They can be members of the Wikimedia community, though having a Wikimedia
background is not mandatory
Importantly, jury members should *not *come from or reside in countries
which participate in this year’s contest or be part of organizing or local
jury teams. You can find the link of participating countries here:
http://wikilovesearth.org/countries/
If you qualify for this description yourself or have ideas whom the
international team can contact, please let us know at
wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua.
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine, member of Wiki Loves Earth
international team
Hello!
The international organizing team of Wiki Loves Earth 2019 is delighted to
note that winners for seven countries have already been published on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Winners.
On this page, you can already explore beautiful photos of Australian,
Colombian, Croatian, Georgian, Nigerian, Filipino, and Swedish nature.
Besides, we would like to remind local organizers that the deadline for
submitting your country's winners is August 1st. You can either publish the
winning photos on the aforementioned page or send them to the international
team privately if you would like to keep them secret before your award
ceremony.
Detailed instructions can be found here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Organize#H…
.
The international team reserves the right to disqualify countries which
have missed the deadline from the international competition. If you need an
extension, please contact us in advance.
If you have any questions or need any advice, please feel free to contact
the international team at wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua
Best Regards,
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine, member of Wiki Loves Earth
international team
June 30th marked the last day of Wiki Loves Earth 2019.
According to the preliminary statistics, this year's contest has seen:
* 37 countries participating in Wiki Loves Earth (the highest number since
the contest was founded);
* more than 85,000 photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons;
* over 8700 participants.
Thanks a lot to each participant, member of the organizing team, partner,
and any person involved for making it happen!
The organizing teams are expected to determine winners for each country's
contest throughout July. The international team will post local winners on
social media (https://www.facebook.com/interwle,
https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth, http://instagram.com/wikilovesearth
<https://www.facebook.com/interwle,%20https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth,%20…>)
as they are announced. International winners will be announced in September.
Best Regards,
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine, member of Wiki Loves Earth
international team
Hello all,
Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select
community mailing lists and all previous recipients of Wikimedia Foundation
Rapid Grants.
As you know the Rapid Grants Program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid> [1] has played an
important role in helping our communities to grow. The number of grants we
have given out grew by 30% between FY16 -17 to this fiscal year, and they
grew by 55% when measured by the total amount disbursed. (See the spending
analysis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis>
[2] for reference.*)
While communities have valued these flexible funding opportunities, on our
part, it hasn’t been easy to measure and track their impact. We therefore
will be implementing a number of changes in Fiscal Year 19/20, starting *August
1 2019*, to sharpen the focus and impact of rapid grants, whilst at the
same time maintaining the quick and flexible funding options for community:
1) In the months specified below, we will prioritize support to *contests
and campaigns* which have been an exciting source of growth in editorship,
innovative participation and content generation by communities. These
months will be solely dedicated to different contests and campaigns
throughout the year:
- *August*: only receiving proposals for *Wiki Loves Monuments*
- *September*: only receiving proposals for *Awareness Grants*
(campaign)
- *December*: only receiving proposals for *Wiki Loves Africa *
- *January*: only receiving proposals for *Art + Feminism* (campaign)
- *March*: only receiving proposals for *Wiki Loves Earth*
2) Outside the months specified above, proposals are welcomed in all other
categories: edit-a-thons, contests, photowalks, general promotion
campaigns, and video campaigns. For added flexibility, we will also
consider proposals outside of these categories, such as software
development. However, we will no longer be providing rapid grants for
travel support, equipment purchase or meetups.
3) We will evaluate each batch of grants once a month and accept the best
proposals in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation’s medium-term goals.
We will share the evaluation for the Rapid Grants Program that led us to
sharpen the focus for the program once the evaluation is completed by
September 30, 2019. In addition to these changes, we’ve also considered
comments around Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants eligibility criteria and
have clarified these criteria. Please take the time to re-familiarize
yourselves with the Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants Guidelines and
Criteria <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn> [4]
page.
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Medium-term
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019>
[3] plan goals are set out here for information.
If you have any questions, please email us at <rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org>.
Best regards,
Woubzena
*Please note that we have not yet put out the final FY 2018-19 numbers and
we’re basing this calculation based on up to date internal numbers of 184
grants and $270,194.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn
Woubzena Jifar (pronouns - she/her/hers)
Program Officer, Rapid Grants
User: WJifar (WMF)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On June 15th, Wiki Loves Earth 2019 ended in three countries: Taiwan,
Ghana, and Russia.
Thanks to Taiwanese, Ghanaian, and Russian organizing teams for making
these contests possible, as well as to the participants from these
countries for their valuable contribution. The international team will be
reaching out to the organizing teams in these countries to offer advice on
counting results and wrapping up this year's WLE edition.
Also, a piece of great news: this year, more African countries participate
in Wiki Loves Earth than ever before. The international team has prepared a
story for our blog on the challenges and opportunities for WLE in Africa.
Check the story out, share it with those who might be interested and,
whenever necessary, republish it under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Link — http://wikilovesearth.org/wle-africa-2019/.
If you want your country' experience to be featured on the blog, the
international team would be happy to receive a story suggestion from you.
Best Regards,
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine, member of Wiki Loves Earth
international team
Yesterday, we reached the halfway mark of Wiki Loves Earth 2019.
The contest has already ended in 13 countries, with some deciding to extend
a local contest by the end of June. Thanks to organizers and participants
of each contest for their work.
According to the statistics at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/, this
year's contest has already brought around 55,000 photos of nature protected
areas from across the world. That's a good result, but we still have a way
to go
14 new countries have started Wiki Loves Earth on June 1st. That's Canada,
Sri Lanka, Benin, Cameroon, Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria, Tanzania, Uganda,
Georgia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, and Chile.
You can learn more about each country's local contest at
http://wikilovesearth.org/countries/ or
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Participat…
Best Regards,
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine, member of Wiki Loves Earth
international team
Hello!
Today some of our participants encountered an upload problem with
seemingly normal JPEG photos. They all see the rather incomprehensible
error message "An error was encountered when opening the file for ZIP
checks", and the upload fails. I created a Phabricator ticket
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223446
but would also like to ask around if anyone has had this problem before.
I am quite sure that last year it was not there.
best,
Alexander
Hi! As Wiki Loves Earth is running smoothly in a couple of dozens countries
across the globe, I am pleased to announce some updates related to the
contest.
1) Today, the contest has started in four countries: Taiwan, Ghana,
Algeria, and Russia. Additionally, a dozen or so countries will start Wiki
Loves Earth in June.
The landing pages for these and other countries can be found at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Participat…
.
So far, Wiki Loves Earth participants from across the world have uploaded
almost 25,000 photos in two weeks.
2) The international Wiki Loves Earth site has a new blog post on how
to make Wiki Loves Earth photos more visible on Wikipedia. Check it out —
http://wikilovesearth.org/illustrating-wikipedia/.
3) The international team has started regularly picking some beautiful
photos specifically for Wiki Loves Earth Instagram account. Subscribe at
https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesearth/.
We would be glad to receive suggestions on which photos should be featured
there. Email me personally or the international team at
wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua
Best Regards
Anton Protsiuk
Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine responsible for coordinating Wiki
Loves Earth