WikiLovesMonuments September 2016

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22 Sep '16

Hi you all, With less than 2 weeks to the end of the contest for the majority of the participating countries, we in the international team want to make sure that you are set or actively working on finalizing your local jury. In order for us to get a sense of where you are in this process and figure out where we can lend a hand, we have prepared a survey that we ask all participating countries to fill out. Before clicking on the survey link: please note that the survey is created in Google Forms. If you have concerns about using this third party service, please email me off-list and I'll send you the survey questions in pdf. Otherwise, please participate in the survey here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9WpKbI78Eakq97liWJkNTlhiPicDcxE3…> . Please respond to this survey by 2016-09-23 . Thank you! :) Best, Leila, on behalf of the WLM international team -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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Files uploaded elsewhere, and then on WLM?
by Yongmin Hong 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

(Originally sent to WLE(a)lists.wm.o, how silly... If you're subscribed to both lists, I'm sorry for double spam.) Hello, While checking WLM submissions from KR, EA Gu (CC'ed) has found some submissions were first uploaded to external sites (ie. Flickr) and then submitted to WLM. Since this is the first WLM in KR, we don't have a case to use as a precedent, so any advice or opinion is welcome here. -- Yongmin Sent from my iPhone Please note that this address is list-only address and any non-mailing list mails will be treated as spam. Please use https://encrypt.to/0x947f156f16250de39788c3c35b625da5beff197a.

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WLM photos are deleted on Commons
by Alexander Tsirlin 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Dear All, We have a severe problem with some of the photos uploaded during Russian WLM. As some of you may know, Russia has Freedom of Panorama (FOP) for architecture, but not for sculptures. Therefore, photos of recent (post-WWII) sculptures are not eligible for Commons, although they are OK for Russian Wikipedia and Wikivoyage where they are stored under fair use. From technical point of view, it is difficult to separate no-FOP monuments from the rest of the monuments, because Commons follows a very strict policy about no-FOP images. For example, they consider a small sculpture on a building (which is part of an architectural monument) as a separate object that is not covered by FOP. This has been a matter of debate and contention for long time, because the majority of Russian-speaking users tend to go for a softer interpretation and treat such things as architecture (i.e., eligible for Commons), while the minority of Russian-speaking users sitting on Commons is generally hostile to other Russian-speaking projects and tries to create us as many problems as possible. Last year we found a reasonable procedure that was agreed upon by several Commons admins. Out of 23700 photos uploaded in Russian WLM 2015, about 1900 photos were identified as "no-FOP". We reviewed these images, linked many of them in other projects, and eventually transferred 1280 images to other Russian-speaking projects under fair use. Subsequently, nobody bothered to delete these photos from Commons, one year passed, and of course no legal problems appeared, but from our side we did everything we could do and we spent an enormous amount of time on doing this. The only request from our side was that no WLM photos are deleted before October 31, 2015, because image transfer is a slow process and it should be done carefully. Last year several Commons admins supported this strategy and closed the most outrageous deletion request: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Categ… which was submitted by a guy previously expelled from Russian Wikipedia. He wanted to delete about 200 photos all at the same time, and he tried to covertly delete some photos of 18th-century monuments as being "not covered by FOP in Russia"... So this year a similar story happens again: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_of_User:… Another user - now the one who published defamatory articles about Russian WLM organizers last year - accuses us in severe copyright violations and writes nonsense that we have not done anything about no-FOP photos from 2015. You can check my response to him in the same thread, where I write explicitly how images were sorted and transferred. Once again, we spent days and hours of our time on doing this. What we need now is the general support of the community against such freaks and assholes who spoil our life and try to undermine the WLM process. The strategy of the Russian team is that all cultural heritage monuments are important for the project. We do not encourage people to upload "no-FOP" photos, but of course people upload them, and our goal is to use these images in the best possible way. Last year we did a lot of work to achieve this goal, and we are ready to do the same this year unless all relevant photos are deleted from Commons immediately, as some of the Commons users suggest. If this happens, I am afraid that WLM will not make any sense for us, at least not on Commons. Sorry for the long e-mail, and I am looking forward to your support. Sincerely, Alexander

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Country wise stats for WLM
by Nahid Sultan 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hi, I just wonder if the country wise statistics in http://stats.wikilovesmonuments.cl/ still works. I've tried http://stats.wikilovesmonuments.cl/Bangladesh but it gives me error. My understanding is that it will work when the contest start and the function found files to show. Best, Nahid Sultan User:NahidSultan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan> on all Wikimedia Foundation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s public wikis Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh> Twitter: @nahidunlimited<https://twitter.com/nahidunlimited> http://blog.nahidsultan.xyz/

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO is promoting Wiki Loves Monuments in 2016!
by john cummings 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Dear all As mentioned UNESCO is going to be promoting WLM throughout September with a new post each day featuring a different country, we will be sharing them in 5 of the 6 UN languages (all except Chinese). I hope that this can help WLM reach a wider audience with more people taking part. We would really appreciate your help by resharing the posts in the most suitable language for your country each day, you can get a full list of all the UNESCO social media accounts here. en.unesco.org/social We will be producing posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (English only). We are promoting Wiki Loves Monuments as part of our Unite4Heritage campaign http://www.unite4heritage.org We don't have a full list of countries we will feature yet as we are waiting for some image permissions but we will try and cover as many regions as possible. Please let me know if you have any questions Many thanks John On 6 September 2016 at 12:47, ido ivri <idoivri(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > UNESCO is promoting the Wiki Loves Monuments this year with one post per > day across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in English, French and Spanish. > The promotion will help drive traffic (and hopefully participants). > > As part of the promotion, they will be featuring photos from previous WLM > competitions, from countries which are taking part this year. > This first photograph is from The Islamic Republic of Iran: > https://www.facebook.com/unesco/photos/a.10150253911838390.341477. > 51626468389/10154502271758390/?type=3&theater > > The promotion is under their #Unite4Heritage initiative to raise awareness > to the preservation of cultural heritage across the globe. > > A big thanks to John Cummings for making this great thing possible! > > Ido on behalf of the International WLM Team >

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Photo eligibility
by Neville Borg 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hi all, I have a question regarding eligibility of photos - we are receiving many photos (mostly from one user) for monuments that are on our list, but are not uploaded through the WLM wizard. I suspect that this user is uploading them to participate in WLM but is used to uploading pictures in a certain manner and is unwilling to deviate from this. Are these photos still eligible, or are they to be ignored for the purpose of the contest? Thanks for your help! Neville

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Central Notice
by Rodrigo Padula 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Hello fellows! I updated the Central Notice banner for Brazilian portuguese, including info regarding the prizes. Someone can help us, updating the current banner to the new version added to the commons central notice page? Regads! Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558

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Jury tool options
by Lily 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Hi all, We’d like to share some more information about the jury tool options available to you during this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments contest. The national competitions typically set up their own jury process. If the number of pictures submitted to a local contest is small (less than 500) you could probably go through your jury process manually, but especially if you have more pictures, some jury tool would be helpful. While all existing tools have proven useful for several countries over several years, the international team would like to particularly draw your attention on two tools, that will be given a certain level of support from the international team: Montage (currently being developed) and the WLX tool (commonly used in the past WLM contest as well as WLE). Normally, this jury process starts only after the end of the contest in each country (September 30th in the majority of participating countries) to give every photo an equal opportunity. However, we understand that some countries with a particularly large number of submissions prefer to start the jury process already in September - while the contest is taking place in their country. If you are the jury coordinator for one of these countries, we recommend that you use the WLX tool (contact Ilya cc-ed to request an instance to be set up for your country), or reach out to one of the developers for the other jury tools listed here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Jury_tools> to ask for help with early launch of your jury process. For all other countries: We recommend that you wait until September 24 to make a decision about which jury tool to use. This timeline will allow the tool developers for at least two tools that are actively being developed/improved, Montage and WLX, to bring the tools to their latest stage (resolving as many bugs as possible, improving the UI, etc.). It will also allow you to review demos of these tools and make a decision about which tool you want to proceed with. If you have any questions about the jury tools, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Best, Leila, on behalf of the WLM international team PS: If you didn’t start with putting together your jury, now is a good time! Please reach out to me if you have any question about this. -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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Wikiloves tool issue
by Nahid Sultan 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

To whom it may concern, The Wikiloves tool gives error when clicking on the 'number of uploader' & 'year' link from a specific country (ex. http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/country/Bangladesh). Current path: tools.wmflabs.org/monuments/2016/Bangladesh<http://tools.wmflabs.org/monuments/2016/Bangladesh> (gives error) Correct path: tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2016/Bangladesh<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2016/Bangladesh> Current path: tools.wmflabs.org/monuments/2016<http://tools.wmflabs.org/monuments/2016> (gives error) Correct path: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2016 Best, Nahid Sultan User:NahidSultan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan> on all Wikimedia Foundation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s public wikis Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh> Twitter: @nahidunlimited<https://twitter.com/nahidunlimited> http://blog.nahidsultan.xyz/

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monitoring your local contest
by Lily 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

Hi all, To the majority of our local organizers: Congratulations for launching the WLM campaign in your country! You have now officially made it to the second day of the contest. :) So far, we have received more than 5500 uploads from 415 uploaders, and almost half of the uploaders have registered for an account after the competition has started. This is very nice! Although not all of these newly registered uploaders are necessarily newcomers, quite a few of them may well be! :) Since few people have asked this in the past 24 hours: There are many tools, services, and tricks you can use/do to monitor your campaign. Here are two of them: * If you are interested to watch the stream of recent changes in your campaign, you can check it by going to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked /Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Country where Country is the name of the country you're interested in. (For example, for Georgia, you can go to https://commons.wikimedia .org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked /Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Georgia * If you are interested in some overall and country-specific statistics, you can use https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments or https://tools. wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2016 . * And while you're monitoring your contest and uploaded photos, if you see there are pictures that have missing categories or don't have all the right categories, please add those. Adding the right categories can help with the discovery of these images later on. If you have any questions, please use this guide <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016/Who%27…> to learn where to ask your question. If your question is urgent, please reach out to Romaine or myself on Google Chat/Hangout or freenode IRC channel #wikilovesmonuments. Good luck! :) Leila, on behalf of the WLM international team -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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