WikiLovesMonuments December 2017

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Instagram and Creative Commons
by Andrea Zanni 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

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

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Maps & stats are ready
by Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi all; Statistics: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlm-stats/ Maps: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlm-maps/ Report any error here or in GitHub. Regards

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Please help us gather press mentions
by Lily 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Hi all, If you've had press coverage of the announcement of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 results in your country, please help us document this information at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017/Press_… Thanks, Lily -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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Announcement plan
by Lily 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Hi all, Here is some information about the announcement of the results. ==Date== The announcement will be done on December 14. The exact time of it is to be determined in the next hours, but it's most likely going to be in early afternoon UTC. ==Social media== Our Twitter and Instagram accounts will start a countdown some time early morning in UTC (this can be middle of the night in Europe). As soon as the first one goes out, we will notify you here. Follow us in social media if that's your thing: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesmonuments/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wikimonuments ==Partners== We are working with partners to make sure that the impact of the blog post and social media coverage gets amplified through their help. Please make sure you engage your local partners, no matter what we do in the international team, we can't have the impact that 50+ local organizers can have through their connections. :) ==Blog post== There will be a blog post on wikilovesmonuments.org and blog.wikimedia.org. This will go live as soon as the winner is announced in Twitter and Instagram. ==Banner== There is a tentative plan to have a banner on Wikimedia projects, similar to the one we had last year, that would indicate the results are announced and would send the users to one of the blog posts. ==Team mode== It's fair to say that we're all quite excited and we all wish we had 1 more month ahead of us. ;) Things are very tight on our end but we are doing all we can (with the help of partners, WMF, etc.) to prepare for a good announcement day. Comments and questions are welcome, though I will be a bit slow to respond (but others may jump in). Best, Lily -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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We will talk about Wiki Loves Monuments
by Lily 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Hi all, We owe you a proper email with some more info, but until then: Lodewijk, Mohammad, and I are in Wikimedia Foundation's office and we will be presenting Wiki Loves Monuments from the perspective of the international team in today's Monthly Metrics [1]. It was suggested that we focus on the "why" of Wiki Loves Monuments, so we're going to mostly focus on that message. :) You can watch the streaming at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFA53YlM9Q4&feature=em-subs_digest You can engage with us and the rest of the attendees (virtual or in-person) at: IRC channel #wikimedia-office on freenode. Best, Lily [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities… -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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The upcoming couple of weeks
by Lily 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

Hi all, Here in the international team we've been quite busy in the past month with the international jury process, getting all the stats for the 2017 contest, and also the preparation for the announcement of the international results and all the work that needs to be done before and after the announcement. Here is an update and what to expect in the coming couple of weeks. ==Announcing the international results== Things are moving according to plans at the international jury level. We expect the jury to finish their work in the next couple of days and we will spend the rest of our time between then and the announcement to do final checks and balances on the photos, prepare the jury report, ... We are aiming to announce the international results in the week of December 11, and most probably towards the end of that week. We will let you know once the date is finalized. ==Media coverage== Announcing the international results means that we should work a bit harder to see if we can get some media attention to Wiki Loves Monuments, this is especially a nice opportunity to bring attention to the work of the local organizers and the photographers involved. We will be finalizing our media and social media plans in the coming week. This means preparing blog post(s) and also working with WMF to see if they can help us with pitching the blog post for more media coverage. Local organizers may hear from us, too, as has been the tradition. :) ==Social media activity== Our Twitter account will be active as usual during the announcement time. We have not finalized the plan for announcing the results on Twitter, but we may try to do the count down there, similar to the past couple of years. On the social media front, we also were convinced by User:M.hekmat, cc-ed, that we really need an Instagram account. ;) So here we are: https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesmonuments/ Mohammad is in fact in charge of our Instagram activities. The plan is to build the account and create a strong follower base for the account in the coming months and have the account ready for more major activities in 2018. M.hekmat will share some of his plans for the account with all of you once the excitement of the next few weeks is behind us. In the mean time, if you have an Instagram account and you're up for following the international account, please do it. :) Questions and comments are welcome. Best, Lily -- User: LilyOfTheWest

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Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments in the Dutch Caribbean
by Ciell Wikipedia 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

Hi all! This year, we had Wiki Loves Monuments in the Dutch Caribbean for the first time. In 2013 and 2014 Aruba already competed, but this time we invited people visiting or living in Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba to take pictures and win a prize! The jurors of the Dutch competition choose the prize winners and they are: First prize: Fish Market Bonaire <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish--market.jpg>, Author: Leslie.Ket <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Leslie.Ket&action=edit…> Second prize: Willems Tower & light house watchers home Bonaire <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willems_Tower_%26_light_house_watch…>, Autor: Leslie.Ket <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Leslie.Ket&action=edit…> Third prize: Penha House Curacao <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penhacuracao.jpg>, Author: Hannievanbaarle <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hannievanbaarle&action…> Special prize: the Punda Love Hart in front of the Punha House <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_City_-_Willemstad_02.jpg>, Author: Bryanandjenn <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bryanandjenn&action=ed…> Congrats to all winners! Ciell

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Community wishlist: organizer dashboard
by Jean-Frédéric 09 Dec '17

09 Dec '17

Hello, I wanted to let you know that on behalf on the WLM international team, I submitted to the community wishlist [1] the project: “An organizer dashboard for multimedia contribution drives”. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Surv ey/Programs_and_events/An_organizer_dashboard_for_multimedia _contribution_drives This idea started at the team offsite meeting of last year. I hope you find it interesting too. :) Feel free to comment, whether to support it or to raise potential problems with the idea as currently framed. There was something I would like to clarify to you, local organizers. In this project proposal, I outline issues that we identified as being common in WLM (and similar competitions) − but that does not mean they happen all the time, everywhere :) So for example, when I write that « monitoring the large volumes of contributions may often fall back on the shoulders of Wikimedia Commons editors » − I know for a fact that many many local organizer teams do an amazing job checking every single upload − but I mean that there is nothing that makes it really easy for them to do it. Same, when I write that « it may take months before participants hear back from the organizers » − I know that some organisers make a point to follow up with every uploader − but that then again, there is no easy way of doing it. The dashboard idea is to provide an easy, obvious and scalable way of performing actions that many local organizer teams have solved at the local level. Thanks, -- Jean-Frédéric [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey

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Winners of the Dutch Wiki Loves Monuments
by Ciell Wikipedia 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Hello everyone! On the 4th of November the winners of the Dutch Wiki Loves Monuments Contest were announced. The first prize went to a picture of de Drommedaris in Enkhuizen <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drommedaris,_Enkhuizen.jpg> by Kateryna Baiduzha. De judges praised this picture for its composition of the seemingly moving air in connection with the subject of the picture: de Drommedaris. The second prize went to Dmytro Balkhovitin for his picture of Overwaard Mill No 4 Sunrise <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overwaard_Mill_No.4,_sunrise.jpg>. The third prize went to a picture of het Rijksmuseum <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rijksmuseum_stoa_7213.jpg> made by C messier. Also our special category of this year, ‘Monuments still without a picture on Wikimedia Commons’, was won by an interesting picture of the Gorrecht Flat in Groningen <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groningen_-_Gorechtflat.jpg>. Especially the bike in the front of the picture was an surprising detail, according to the judges. To see an overview of all the winners of our Dutch competition, please look at het juryrapport <https://www.wikimedia.nl/files/juryrapportwlm-2017.compressed.pdf> in Dutch. Kind Regards, Ciell

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