First of all, the Wiki Loves Earth international team would like to apologise for the delay with WLE international stage.

There are various reasons, from just being busy in real life to spending more time than expected on getting nominees from national organisers and setting up a truly diverse jury. Anyway, we owe you apologies for the delay and we are really sorry for that.

Now everything is sorted out, and we are glad to announce the international jury:

* Ananya Mondal, India (User:Atudu)

* Ayokanmi Oyeyemi, Nigeria (User:Kaizenify)

* Brendan Kenneth Duprey, PhD, United States/Eastern Europe

* Dietmar Bartz, Germany (User:Aalfons)

* Fayçal Rezkallah, Algeria (User:Fayçal Rezkallah)

* Fiona Ayerst, South Africa

* Renato Martins, Brazil (User:Renato Augusto Martins)

You can find their profiles on the contest website: http://wikilovesearth.org/meet-the-2018-international-jury/

Finally, the information you are definitely waiting for: the international jury is currently working on the final stage of judging and we will know the winning photos soon. We plan to announce them around 15 December (+/- few days depending on judging and opportunities for announcement).

Once again, we are sorry for the delay, and once we announce the winners we will have a discussion on how we can avoid this next year.

Best regards,

Mykola Kozlenko (NickK)

Wiki Loves Earth international team