Hello, Rehman!
As a local organizer in Latvia (2 editions of WLE, 4 editions of WLM) I can
share my experience:
1) I would recommend jury of 3-5 members. There are no formal requirements
for qualifications, but we have tried to include a photographer, a
wikimedian (not organizer) and someone from nature conservation field. I
asked and Nataliia offered to find some jury members from international
team, if it was necessary.
2) I would recommend finding something for prizes. It heavily influenced
the number of submissions when we decided to run Wiki Loves Monuments
without prize pool (We got 449 images).
3) International team can get you small souvenirs, but not more. As an user
group, we apply for Rapid grant each time (this is 6th time already).
Consider looking for sponsors but it is easy for some people, but not for
others.
Mārtiņš / User:Papuass
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 8:26 AM Rehman Abubakr <rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com>
wrote:
Hi Nataliia and WLE team,
Thank you for this email. I hope to organise WLE for Sri Lanka for the
first time this year. But I have a few questions for which I couldn't find
a clear answer at the Commons pages.
Q1. What is the acceptable number of Jury members, and their recommended
Wikimedia experience threshold, as well as their photographic industry
skills?
Q2. Are local awards recommended? If so, do you recommend anything more
than a certificate?
Q3. How are local awards usually funded for affiliates that don't often
request for grants?
Thank you so much for your support! :-)
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>*
OTRS agent, Admin (English Wikipedia, Commons), Contributor (Wikidata,
Meta)
User:Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman> *|* Talkpage
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rehman> *|*
rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com *|* UG-LK
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*Sent:* 02 April 2019 23:47
*To:* Wiki Loves Earth Photograph Competition
*Subject:* [Wikilovesearth] Please help Wiki Loves Earth 2019!
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce Wiki Loves Earth 2019 — the 6th edition of Wiki
Loves Earth international photo contest, which will take place in May and
June this year. The previous five contests have attracted more than 500,000
photos on Commons (see
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/earth), and we
hope that Wiki Loves Earth 2019 will show even better results.
And we need your help to make it happen! You can:
== Organise a local contest ==
If you are interested in organising Wiki Loves Earth 2019 photo contest in
your country — please do it! We would gladly help you with the first steps.
To declare your participation, please add your country to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Participat…
. If you don't have much experience in organizing WLE, you can learn more
on how to organize a contest in your country (it’s not that difficult!)
here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Organise
. You can write to wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua and the international team
will help you.
== Join the International team ==
If you do not plan to participate in organising a local contest and want
to help other countries/affiliates/groups to organise it — please consider
joining the international team. Write a letter to
wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua describing your experience with organising
projects (especially photo contests!). And please mention what languages
you speak. Note that if you want to organise a contest locally — you should
not be a part of the international team.
The tasks are listed here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Organizers
Please sign up on the talk page if you are interested in performing
specific tasks.
== Suggest a jury member ==
If you know good nature photographers (whether they are from Wikiprojects
or not!), please tell us! We will contact them and see if they can become
jury members of local or international contests.
== Spread information ==
Please share info about the contest, translate the main page of the
contest into your languages, post on social media etc. If you have an
interesting story to share, please contact us at wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua
or on social media.
Please subscribe to our blog and follow accounts on social media:
* Blog:
http://wikilovesearth.org
* Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/interwle
* Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesearth
* Twitter:
https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity as a
member of the organising committee for Wiki Loves Earth 2018, not as a
Board member of Wikimedia Foundation
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