Dear all,
a doubt:
is Instagram compatible with Creative Commons?
Can I upload *my* Instagram pics on Commons (so could it be used for WLM)?
Please consider that I'm not suggesting Instagram pics are good for WLM
(they are filtered and all, probably not very suitable for illustrating
monuments on Wikipedia)
but is a legal matter.
Aubrey
Hi all,
If you're one of the WLM organizers from Bangladesh, France, Iran, Italy,
Latvia, or United States, you can stop reading here. Thank you for already
signing up for a jury tool.
For everyone else, if you're organizing a WLM contest that will end in the
coming day/week and you have not finalized a jury tool you will use, now is
the time for you to do this. Note that the deadline for submitting the top
10 photos to the international team is on October 25: you'd want to start
your jury process as soon as your contest ends.
You can find the list of all jury tools available to you here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Jury_tools>. If you are
planning to use Montage, please sign up here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Sign_up_to_use_Mont…>.
If you are planning to use WLX, please sign up here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:WLX_Jury_Tool>.
If you have questions, please reach out to me using my email or to the tool
developers using their tools' talk pages.
Best,
Leila, on behalf of the WLM international team
p.s.1. If you are interested to learn about the judging criteria, how to
choose a jury, how to set up your jury process and some more information
about the jury tools available to you, please read this email
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2016-September/008…>
.
p.s.2. If you are a local organizer and you're not in wlm-announce
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce>, please
subscribe asap. :)
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Hi all,
If you're one of the WLM organizers from Bangladesh, France, Iran, Italy,
Latvia, or United States, you can stop reading here. Thank you for already
signing up for a jury tool.
For everyone else, if you're organizing a WLM contest that will end in the
coming day/week and you have not finalized a jury tool you will use, now is
the time for you to do this. Note that the deadline for submitting the top
10 photos to the international team is on October 25: you'd want to start
your jury process as soon as your contest ends.
You can find the list of all jury tools available to you here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Jury_tools>. If you are
planning to use Montage, please sign up here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Sign_up_to_use_Mont…>.
If you are planning to use WLX, please sign up here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:WLX_Jury_Tool>.
If you have questions, please reach out to me using my email or to the tool
developers using their tools' talk pages.
Best,
Leila, on behalf of the WLM international team
p.s. If you are interested to learn about the judging criteria, how to
choose a jury, how to set up your jury process and some more information
about the jury tools available to you, please read this email
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2016-September/008…>
.
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Hi all,
Is there any tool to know image count based on Monument ID ?
Plus, a tool to know user who has covered maximum no of monuments ?
Thanks,
Naveen Francis
<http://wikibooks.in>
Hi all,
I'm writing this email in my capacity as a WLM-IR organizer.
In Iran's organizing team, bunch of us would like to upload monuments
photos as part of WLM and during the competition, but we don't want the
photos to be included in the competition (they should not go through the
jury process as they're not eligible for being in the top 10 and/or winning
awards).
My question is: If you've had experience with this situation in the past,
how have you handled it from the technical point of view and during the
jury process? Have you used a specific category and then excluded the
photos in that category from the jury process, for example? Any hint is
appreciated. :)
Thanks,
Leila, on behalf of WLM-IR organizing team
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User: LilyOfTheWest
Hi all,
If you are a WLM organizer, jury coordinator in the national level, or a
jury member, this email can contain crucial information for you. Everyone
else, you can safely stop here. :)
This email contains some best practices on how to run your local jury
process with regards to criteria, jury membership and process. Finally, it
includes some instructions on how to choose your jury tool.
Timeline
You should plan to start the jury process as soon as the competition ends
in your country, this is October 1 for many of you. :) The international
team expects to receive the top 10 photos of your country no later than
October 25.
Judging criteria
While every national competition can choose the judging criteria based on
the specific needs of the country, the international team recommends the
following three judging criteria to be considered in the country-level jury
processes: technical quality, originality, and usefulness of the photo for
Wikipedia. If you are interested to learn more about these criteria, please
read more about the judging criteria
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/judging-criteria/> that the
international jury will be using as explained in this blogpost by Lodewijk.
Local jury set-up
National competitions typically have a jury with at least 3 members (the
more photos, the more jury members). The local jury set-up is usually
defined based on the judging criteria you will choose to go with. The
international team recommends that, depending on the number of photos you
expect to have by the end of the contest, you have 1-3 Wikimedians (maybe
those with quality/featured images on Commons), 1-3 people who are familiar
or are experts in the heritage of your country (especially the monuments),
and 1-3 people who are professional or (quality) amateur photographers. Of
course, all jury members should be excluded from winning prizes awarded by
the jury. The national jury can then nominate maximum 10 photos per
country for the international finale.
Jury process
The jury process on the national level is defined by each country. The
international team recommends the following process:
Round 1: Yes/No or rating
The goal of this round is to lower the number of competing photos to
400-700. If your total number of pictures is less than 500, you can skip
this round.
Jury members are asked to vote yes/no for each photo they are shown and are
requested to stick to a maximum number of ‘yes’ votes (for example, 500).
Based on these votes, a set of 400-700 photos is selected for the next
round. If you have many photos, you may have to do this round in two steps.
Round 2: Rating
The goal of this round is to come to a selection of the top-50 images. Jury
members are asked to rate/score each image with 1-5 stars. Based on the
average from their votes, the top-50 is selected for the next round. If
there are many pictures with similar scores, the coordinator can choose to
select a top-40, top-60, etc.
Round 3: Live meeting or ranking
The goal of this round is to arrive at a final ranking and winning
pictures. If geographically feasible, the jury can meet in person. The jury
tool supports an alternative method: ranking. Each jury member is asked to
rank their favorite 20 photos in order. Based on this ranking, points are
awarded to each photo (20 for the number 1, 19 for number 2, etc). The
total number of points determines the final result. Jury members are also
asked to give a reason for selecting their top images. You can use this
latter information to explain explain why the winner was selected, an
information that can be useful for your jury report and press releases.
Jury tool
Unless you have a very small number of submissions (less than 100), it's
usually efficient for your jury to use one of the available tools
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Jury_tools> for judging the
photos. The international team would like to bring your attention to two
tools: ‘Montage’ and ‘WLX’. Below you can find more information about these
two tools. We suggest that you look into these tools now, and make your
choice soon.
Montage
Montage is the new tool that has been developed this year by volunteers and
per the request by the WLM international team. There are two features of
the tool that are worth pointing out: The tool is designed and developed in
a way that can accommodate the recommended jury process explained above
(yes/no, rating, ranking features are supported). The developer team will
also guarantee to provide timely support (within 24 hours) starting October
1.
If you're a national jury coordinator or a jury member and want to test the
current version of the tool, please leave a note on the tool’s discussion
page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage>. If you want
to have a 1:1 conversation with one of the developers, please leave a
message using the same link. You should feel free to leave
questions/comments about the tool in the same page. If you are familiar
with GitHub, you can also create issues on GitHub
<https://github.com/hatnote/montage/issues>. Please note that the
developers will continue adding features and smoothing the workflow until
October 1, what you will test now will give you a sense of the basics you
should expect. :)
What is essential for you to be able to start the jury process on October 1
using Montage is the Wikimedia usernames of your jury members (if they
don't have an account, please ask them to open one). If you decide to go
with Montage, please gather this information sooner rather than later.
WLX
You can learn more about the tool here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WLX_Jury_Tool>. The tool has
been used by many countries as part of WLM and WLE contests in the past
years. If you're interested to use WLX, please contact Ilya (WLX's tool
developer) in the tool's talk page
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:WLX_Jury_Tool>.
If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to ask them
here or off-list.
Best,
Leila
--
User: LilyOfTheWest
Hi all,
If you are a WLM organizer, jury coordinator in the national level, or a
jury member, this email can contain crucial information for you. Everyone
else, you can safely stop here. :)
This email contains some best practices on how to run your local jury
process with regards to criteria, jury membership and process. Finally, it
includes some instructions on how to choose your jury tool.
Timeline
You should plan to start the jury process as soon as the competition ends
in your country, this is October 1 for many of you. :) The international
team expects to receive the top 10 photos of your country no later than
October 25.
Judging criteria
While every national competition can choose the judging criteria based on
the specific needs of the country, the international team recommends the
following three judging criteria to be considered in the country-level jury
processes: technical quality, originality, and usefulness of the photo for
Wikipedia. If you are interested to learn more about these criteria, please
read more about the judging criteria
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/judging-criteria/> that the
international jury will be using as explained in this blogpost by Lodewijk.
Local jury set-up
National competitions typically have a jury with at least 3 members (the
more photos, the more jury members). The local jury set-up is usually
defined based on the judging criteria you will choose to go with. The
international team recommends that, depending on the number of photos you
expect to have by the end of the contest, you have 1-3 Wikimedians (maybe
those with quality/featured images on Commons), 1-3 people who are familiar
or are experts in the heritage of your country (especially the monuments),
and 1-3 people who are professional or (quality) amateur photographers. Of
course, all jury members should be excluded from winning prizes awarded by
the jury. The national jury can then nominate maximum 10 photos per
country for the international finale.
Jury process
The jury process on the national level is defined by each country. The
international team recommends the following process:
Round 1: Yes/No or rating
The goal of this round is to lower the number of competing photos to
400-700. If your total number of pictures is less than 500, you can skip
this round.
Jury members are asked to vote yes/no for each photo they are shown and are
requested to stick to a maximum number of ‘yes’ votes (for example, 500).
Based on these votes, a set of 400-700 photos is selected for the next
round. If you have many photos, you may have to do this round in two steps.
Round 2: Rating
The goal of this round is to come to a selection of the top-50 images. Jury
members are asked to rate/score each image with 1-5 stars. Based on the
average from their votes, the top-50 is selected for the next round. If
there are many pictures with similar scores, the coordinator can choose to
select a top-40, top-60, etc.
Round 3: Live meeting or ranking
The goal of this round is to arrive at a final ranking and winning
pictures. If geographically feasible, the jury can meet in person. The jury
tool supports an alternative method: ranking. Each jury member is asked to
rank their favorite 20 photos in order. Based on this ranking, points are
awarded to each photo (20 for the number 1, 19 for number 2, etc). The
total number of points determines the final result. Jury members are also
asked to give a reason for selecting their top images. You can use this
latter information to explain explain why the winner was selected, an
information that can be useful for your jury report and press releases.
Jury tool
Unless you have a very small number of submissions (less than 100), it's
usually efficient for your jury to use one of the available tools
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Jury_tools> for judging the
photos. The international team would like to bring your attention to two
tools: ‘Montage’ and ‘WLX’. Below you can find more information about these
two tools. We suggest that you look into these tools now, and make your
choice soon.
Montage
Montage is the new tool that has been developed this year by volunteers and
per the request by the WLM international team. There are two features of
the tool that are worth pointing out: The tool is designed and developed in
a way that can accommodate the recommended jury process explained above
(yes/no, rating, ranking features are supported). The developer team will
also guarantee to provide timely support (within 24 hours) starting October
1.
If you're a national jury coordinator or a jury member and want to test the
current version of the tool, please leave a note on the tool’s discussion
page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage>. If you want
to have a 1:1 conversation with one of the developers, please leave a
message using the same link. You should feel free to leave
questions/comments about the tool in the same page. If you are familiar
with GitHub, you can also create issues on GitHub
<https://github.com/hatnote/montage/issues>. Please note that the
developers will continue adding features and smoothing the workflow until
October 1, what you will test now will give you a sense of the basics you
should expect. :)
What is essential for you to be able to start the jury process on October 1
using Montage is the Wikimedia usernames of your jury members (if they
don't have an account, please ask them to open one). If you decide to go
with Montage, please gather this information sooner rather than later.
WLX
You can learn more about the tool here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WLX_Jury_Tool>. The tool has
been used by many countries as part of WLM and WLE contests in the past
years. If you're interested to use WLX, please contact Ilya (WLX's tool
developer) in the tool's talk page
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:WLX_Jury_Tool>.
If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to ask them
here or off-list.
Best,
Leila
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Hi all,
I'd like to quickly point to the good practice of thanking contributors for
their photos, and using that opportunity to give them some more information
on how else they can contribute to Wikipedia. This might increase the
number of people that stick around for longer than just the competition.
After submitting a (rather poor) few photos to the US competition myself, I
received this message: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:
Effeietsanders#Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_the_United_States_-_Thank_You.21
This kind of message can probably be sent automatically. The text I pasted
below for your convenience.
Best,
Lodewijk
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Hi there! Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the
United States. We're excited to see people uploading thousands of photos
from all over the country! You and others have collectively uploaded 4,929
photos so far, all of which are viewable at Category:Wiki Loves Monuments
2016 in the United States (sorted by state).
We encourage you to continue contributing through the rest of the month.
Uploading your photos of monuments isn't the only way to contribute,
however. If you're interested, we have compiled a list of auxiliary ways to
contribute - which include improving Wikipedia's coverage of historic and
cultural sites, as well as finding existing free photos that can be shared
on the Commons. While these contributions don't count towards the contest,
we are still keeping track of them and they are great ways to contribute to
the spirit of the project.
If you are interesting in contributing to Wikipedia, WikiProject National
Register of Historic Places is also great place to start. The WikiProject
showcases the work that has been done so far in covering NRHP sites, and
can also help you find articles that need improving.
If you're on Twitter, give us a follow Twitter Logo Mini.svg
@WLMUnitedStates for updates, news, and more.
If you have any questions between now or the end of the month, feel free to
leave a message on my talk page. Thank you! ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 09:28, 21
September 2016 (UTC)
Hi all,
Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2016. It is a complicated and delicate process to come to a
balanced jury, and I would like to outline the criteria here, and to ask
for your input. I have agreed to take the lead on this process - but would
definitely welcome your input, and help.
As in the past years, I think it is important to aim once again for a jury that
as a whole is neutral and balanced in many ways. This means ideally:
* A mix of photography experts, heritage experts and Wikimedia experts
(aiming at a total size of 7-9)
* Geographically balanced so that no two jury members come from the same
country.
* Balance in many other ways imaginable (while at the same time, one can
never assure a balance in all aspects)
* The international jury members do not serve on a national jury for WLM
At the same time, there are some practical considerations:
* Jury members must be able to write and read English
* They must have the time to commit to judge 200-500 photos in three rounds
over a period of 3 weeks in November
* While jury members can participate in a local competition, their photos
cannot participate in the international finale
* Jury members should not participate in any national jury for 2016
(previous years is OK)
* It would be helpful if the juror would be willing to share their real
name for the jury report.
* Jury work is in a volunteer capacity.
Do you know someone who would make a good juror, please contact me
privately with the suggestion. At least let me know who the juror is, how I
could contact him/her and why they would make a good jurymember (and
whether you have reason to believe they would accept the nomination, if
asked).
I will do my best to put together once again a qualified and diverse jury,
with your help!
Thank you in advance!
Best,
Lodewijk
(international jury coordinator, WLM 2016)