Hi all,
If you have updates for the Top-10 from your country, can you update this
page?
I will be doing some outreach to journalists around the various winning
photos from the countries and would love to be able to link them to a
single page with as many photos on it as possible.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners
thanks!
Matthew
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Hi all,
the deadline for the nominations for the international finale is
approaching rapidly. 2 more days (deadline is 31 October at 23:59 UTC). I
would like to repeat this is a hard deadline. Missing it might result in
having no nominations at all for your country!
The following countries still did not nominate any pictures for the
international finale according to my administration:
1. Belarus
2. Belgium & Luxembourg; public announcement: 30 November
3. Chile
4. Ghana
5. Kenya
6. Luxembourg: see Belgium
7. Mexico
8. Norway
9. Russia
10. Slovakia
11. South Africa
Please contact me if you think you did submit something but you're still on
the list.
You can submit your maximum 10 pictures per country to the international
finale by submitting a list of url's to effeietsanders(a)gmail.com . I kindly
request you to also send (but perhaps in a later email) a 1 sentence
summary of the judging process and a list of your jury members.
Thanks!
Dear all,
I wish to update regarding WLM in Israel.
The competition took place during the month of Tishrei (mid September to mid October) , during which 6,097 images were uploaded to the commons.
The most photographed monuments were, as expected, the Bahai Gardens in Haifa, the Tower of David in Jerusalem, and Jaffa Port.
During the month of the competition we also held 20 events including two photography workshops (sponsored by the Galitz school of photography), 18 guided tours (sponsored by the Council for Heritage Sites in Israel), and two tours at the Israel Museum (the museum allowed free entrance to the participants). about 400 people participated in the events. Our volunteers chaperoned the tours ready to answer all questions about the competition.
500 people visited our both at a photography fare, 800 people wrote to us requesting information about the tours, 600 joined our mailing lists.
We also had 20 newspaper articles (some of which internet newspapers and some printed), participated in 6 radio shows and 2 television programs, talking about the competition.
Following the competition a Portal was created in Hebrew Wikipedia to host the lists of sites, and the best images taken.
As to the judging - our volunteers shifted through the 6,000 uploads choosing 250 photographs for the 9 judges (three professional photographers, two of which from the Galitz School, two professional site conservation experts from the National council, and four Wikipedians). The judges rated the photographs choosing 30, and then from
those chose the top 10. The three images that got the highest points will receive monetary prices (NIS 5,000 (about $1,250), NIS 3,000 and NIS 2,000). The Israeli Internet Association conducted its own judging allowing the general public to vote on its most favorite image, which will receive NIS 2,000.
The results will be published at our awards ceremony which will take place on 7th November and will include a tour of old Jaffa, a cocktail and an exhibition of the 10 winning photographs and the people's choice.
Following the awards ceremony, the exhibition will be hung at the gallery of the Diezengoff Centre shopping mall in Tel Aviv until 1st December.
We wish to thank our volunteers who helped with the tours, and with creating the lists of monuments (as you may recall we had to create the lists for the competition - none exited before it). We especially want to thank Yan who has created the judging system used by us and other countries.
We further wish to thank the international competition team for their support and assistance, and their patience with our many questions.
Regards,
Deror
Hello,
we have all worked hard throughout Wiki loves monuments 2012. Now is the
time to gather together and celebrate our project. Apparently
Leipzig<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Denkmal_Le…>wil
be one of the hot spots to do so: November 22nd benefiting the German
award ceremony organizers and activists from Austria, Southern Tirol,
Slovakia and Germany are heading for Leipzig.
If You like to join the meeting please list yourself
here<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Denkmal_Le…>
.
best regards
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello,
last week Wikimedia Germany held together with four more partners a GLAM
Conference at the Jewish Museum in Berlin:
ShapingAccess! <http://www.zugang-gestalten.de/english/>
More responsibility for cultural heritage
Wikipedia and Wiki loves monuments were well used examples for best
practice: sharing information and gaining mutual benefits. More than 200
executives of GLAM institutions attended the two days conference. Essential
was Pavel Richter's (CEO WMDE) claim:
"Nicht der Zugang zu kulturellem Erbe unterliegt einer Begründungspflicht,
sondern dessen Verknappung."
#*ke12*<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ke12&src=hash>
translated to "It is not the access to cultural heritage that is obliged to
to argue for itself but its scarity."
Please follow German press echo
here<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Presse> and
read the Wikimedia
Blog<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/10/24/zugang-gestalten-heisst-miteinander-red…>
.
The conference will be followed up by a national screening of access
policies and cooperation projects in GLAM institutions.
best regards
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi WLManiacs,
as I already advanced before, I'll have an evaluation/feedback meeting
with the developers of the 123POI App, aka "WLM iPhone App". I collected
already some feedback that was provided during the contest, but I'd like
to give you another opportunity to tell me your thoughts.
The meeting is next monday, I'll prepare for it next weekend, so please
if you have any helpful thoughts, criticism or feedback, it would be
highly appreciated. If you got such feedback from your communities
(general or specific), please tell me, too, I know there are multiple
communication channels...
If possible, please use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Tools/…
or the discussion page over there, but of course I'll check this list
thread, too.
Thank you very much for your help!
Regards,
elke
Dear all,
you can have a look in the top 50 for Swiss contest.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_Swit…
The 10 winners will be annunced the 24th November in the final ceremony.
In the page there is also a short description of the selection process.
Regards
--
Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH
Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
Switzerland - 8008 Zürich
Tel: <http://www.wikimedia.ch/>+41764821371
http://www.wikimedia.ch
Hi all,
the deadline for the nominations for the international finale is
approaching rapidly. 2 more days (deadline is 31 October at 23:59 UTC). I
would like to repeat this is a hard deadline. Missing it might result in
having no nominations at all for your country!
The following countries still did not nominate any pictures for the
international finale according to my administration:
1. Andorra
2. Argentina
3. Austria
4. Belarus
5. Belgium & Luxembourg; public announcement: 30 November
6. Chile
7. Colombia
8. France
9. Ghana
10. Israel
11. Kenya
12. Luxembourg: see Belgium
13. Mexico
14. Norway
15. Panama
16. Russia
17. Slovakia
18. South Africa
Please contact me if you think you did submit something but you're still on
the list.
You can submit your maximum 10 pictures per country to the international
finale by submitting a list of url's to effeietsanders(a)gmail.com . I kindly
request you to also send (but perhaps in a later email) a 1 sentence
summary of the judging process and a list of your jury members.
Thanks!
Lodewijk