Hi all,
The first milestone has been reached: the first country has started in the
2018 edition of Wiki Loves Earth: Australia!
In the coming 9 hours 17 more countries are planned to start.
Please make sure everything is ready, otherwise your local contest can be
put on hold or cancelled. See:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2018/Organise
The CentralNotice banner for your country
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2018/Participat…>
should start within 30 minutes after the start.
If you have any local issues with CentralNotice banner or special upload
wizard, contact me directly!
Have fun!
Romaine
Hi all,
Please check the following page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Translation
Please make sure your language has a translation on the page.
If your language is not listed, please add it! Preferable now.
Thanks!
If you know someone who speaks a mising language, please ask that user to
add the translated line to the page.
Romaine
Hello all!
Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select
community mailing lists and all previous recipients of a Wikimedia
Foundation Rapid Grant.
We have an announcement regarding the closure of the Rapid Grants [1]
program between May 14 - June 30, 2018. This year we've received a lot of
interest in the program and this quarter we've almost doubled the amount of
grants offered to the community compared to last year's quarter. You can
look at our spending analysis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis>
[2] for
reference. Unfortunately, this means we've expended our funds for this
fiscal year. The last date we will be receiving an application for a rapid
grant before the closure will be *Friday, May 11, 2018*.
We encourage *Wiki Loves Earth* participants to apply for a Rapid Grant by
May 11, 2018 to receive support for their project.
The grant program will be open again to receive grant requests starting *July
1, 2018*. At this point we will be implementing the following changes:
1. There will be a minimum of *$500 USD* for grant requests
2. Applications will only be accepted between the *1st - 15th of each month*.
This is to help with our current workflow and to allow us to be more
responsive to your requests.
If you have any questions, please email us at rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org.
Best regards,
Woubzena
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis
Woubzena Jifar
Program Officer
Rapid Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
User: WJifar (WMF)
Hi all!
Wiki Loves Earth depends highly on the banner above Wikipedia/Commons/etc
in your area so the participants can learn about the photo contest and can
participate. I am this year (again) in charge for creating and maintaining
the Wiki Loves Earth banners for the various countries, but I can only do
that if YOU supply me with the necessary information.
If you are organising a local Wiki Loves Earth contest, please make sure
you supplied me with the minimal information at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2018/CentralNot…
A CentralNotice banner can only be set up for your area, if you also
provided all translations and you made sure all the requirements are
completed as described on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2018/Organise
If you need help or if you have questions, I am currently at the Wikimedia
Conference and I can schedule a meeting with you to help you.
Please make sure you are fully ready at least 24 hours before your contest
starts, but better 3 days before.
Thanks!
Romaine
Hi,
All interested to be involved in contest workflow are strongly encouraged
to add their names on the page announced earlier
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_E
arth_2018/Organizers
On Monday, March 5th, we`d like to have team finalized to start working on
tasks.
Thank you!
*Anna Khrobolova*
*project manager, Wikimedia Ukraine
<https://ua.wikimedia.org/> non-profit organisation*
Hi! :)
Is this the international Wiki Loves Earth team list? :)
I'd like to participate in organizing international WLE again
I've already talked to Nabin, who is also in?
Have a nice day!
-- Olena Zakharian
Welcome back Elena, great to have you here again :)
Cheers,
Nabin
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> Hi! :)
>
> Is this the international Wiki Loves Earth team list? :)
> I'd like to participate in organizing international WLE again
> I've already talked to Nabin, who is also in?
>
> Have a nice day!
> -- Olena Zakharian
>
Hi all,
We are glad to tell you that international winners of Wiki Loves Earth will be announced tomorrow - 11 December!
The announcement is expected to be around 15:00 UTC - this is the best time we could find to fit the geography of the contest from Pacific coast of North America to Australia.
The announcement will be first published in the Wikimedia blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/ , followed by Wiki Loves Earth website http://wikilovesearth.org/
Looking forward to greeting our winners tomorrow,
Mykola (NickK)
Wiki Loves Earth international team
Hi,
First of all, the international team would like to say sorry for the delay with announcing international winners this year. We do understand that you expected us to announce winners earlier and waiting till December probably did not meet your expectations, and we are sorry for that.
There are multiple reasons of this delay, the two major ones are trying to get national winners from all countries even if they were late (it almost worked, but unfortunately we did not manage to get Indian winners and local organisers ultimately asked us to proceed without them) and limited resources of the international team (many members did not have enough time - for example, two of the team members got married this year :) ). We hope to do much better in 2018, and we will publish more information on plans and next steps in January.
The international jury has just finished their work and the list of top-15 photos is already finalised. We are now preparing communications (jury report, blog post, permissions for social media) and we will announce international winners very shortly. We are currently discussing the date and time of the official announcement, we will give it as soon as we decide on it.
Thank you for your patience and sorry again for the delay,
Mykola Kozlenko (NickK)
for Wiki Loves Earth international team
Hi Platonides !
Thanks for the jump in !
It is getting late for me and I am half falling asleep.
Some answers
Le 30/09/2017 à 02:06, Platonides a écrit :
> Hello Florence
>
> I have setup a campaign based on your data. It is available at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=wla
>
> Please note that you need to create Template:Wiki Loves Africa 2017
I guess... I am not sure how to do that.
I copied the one from 2016 changing it in 2017... and yeah... result is
quite *atrocious**
*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017
I really have no idea how to fix that.
In the current
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=wla
We should have
Wiki Loves Africa 2016 Upload Wizard. ---->
Wiki Loves Africa 2017 Upload Wizard.
The link for the "website" should be just removed
The link for the Get Started should go from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participa…
---->
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017
Follow us on twitter should be replaced by
Follow uson Facebook (with url https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/)
> Also, tell me if you want a default category to be added to the images.
Last year, elements added by default to all images were
In the description : {{Wiki Loves Africa 2016 country|XX}}
With XX being the code of the country
So ideally, this year, adding in the description {{Wiki Loves Africa
2017 country|XX}}
Then the following in the file itself
{{Wiki Loves Africa 2016}} (in all cases)
[[Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016 to check]] (in all cases)
[[Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016 without categories]] (when
no other categories was added by the uploader)
[[Category:Uploaded via Campaign:wlafrica]] (in all cases)
So ideally this year...
{{Wiki Loves Africa 2017}}
[[Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2017 to check]]
[[Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2017 without categories]]
[[Category:Uploaded via Campaign:wlafrica]]
Example here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Sandance_OneTime_Film.…
> Should the UploadWizard be asking both the country where the photo was
> taken and the uploader's country?
Last year, it only asked one question : Select the country where you
made this photo.
> What should it do with them?
That was the only question asked. Then there was a thank you step
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_use_Wiki_Loves_…
That's it.
That got all the images in [[category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016]]
Then also available in countries categories such as Images from Wiki
Loves Africa 2016 in Botswana
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2…>
(or in [[Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016 in an unknown country
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2…>]]
if there was no country selected)
+ all of them in [[Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016 to check]]
Resulting :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2…
Then the template was displayed on the image description. I just did a
quick copy of last year for the english :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017_country/…
> Is
> there a template to be used to wrap the answers?
I fear I do not understand what the question is.
> It can be refined later, but hopefully, this should be enough for
> getting uploads for the time being :)
Hmmm. Starting on ... how to fix ?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017
Errrr. Confused... Very.
3 am. I go to sleep. Thanks for the help in the meanwhile !
Best
Florence
> Best regards
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Florence Devouard
> <fdevouard(a)anthere.org> wrote:
>> Hello everyone
>>
>>
>> I need urgent help for the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest.
>>
>>
>> The contest starts in less than 24 hours. Due to family issues, Romaine, who
>> set up our site notice and landing pages last years, appears to be missing
>> in action.
>>
>> As a result, we have no site notice set up (which is something annoying, but
>> at worse... we will do for a few days without a site notice, just some fun
>> on Facebook and Twitter and blogs).
>>
>> But there is also no dedicated upload wizard (which is significantly more
>> annoying as pictures will not get taggued and categorized.
>>
>>
>> So... I am looking for someone who know how to do this and I thought WLE and
>> WLM were places where I could find such person maybe...
>>
>>
>> We do not start from nowhere.
>>
>>
>> == Landing pages ==
>>
>> I know that I do not know how to do it (been there, done that).
>> Last year landing pages and messages are listed there :
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017#Site…
>>
>> And I already put the elements that Romaine usually asks me (the language,
>> image etc.) here :
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017#Site…
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to do a dedicated upload system ? Does anyone know
>> someone who know how to do that ? Who can help us ?
>>
>>
>> == Banners==
>>
>> Banner wise, we used two banners last year, which may be reused probably in
>> a very similar way.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&subactio…
>>
>> If someone knows how to create the campaign and two banners for 2017 out of
>> the 2016 model... that would be awesome.
>>
>> But I think that I can probably do it myself and if needed, I'll do it
>> tomorrow. I am less worried about this one (perhaps I should though ;))
>>
>>
>> Anyway... biggest problem at the moment is really no landing page with
>> upload tool.
>>
>> Your help would be very very very very welcome
>>
>>
>> Florence
>>
>>
>>
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