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/wikilovesearthnot 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@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