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
Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
This is to remind you about the upcoming dead line to submit nominees for
the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition . So far i have
received nominations from the following countries;
1.Morocco
2. UK
3. Croatia
4. India
5. Romania
6. Austria
We're looking forward to your timely submissions
With warm regards,
Erina Mukuta
International Jury coordinator
Hi all,
As we prepare for announcing national winners, the international team needs
your help in translation of the permission form for posting the photos on
social media. In order to post photos on social media, we need explicit
permission from photographers because some of the terms extend beyond the
license under which they submit their photos.
We have prepared the text in English but it would help a lot if we could
get it in more languages. Please go to the following page and add your own
local language to the translations:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Photo_…
We will then incorporate all languages in the form that will be sent to
winners.
Thanks,
Mohammad
Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
Thank you for an amazing job in the past weeks and months in organizing
what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in more than 56
countries! It's great to see all the beautiful images that have been
submitted.
As you know, the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition is based on
a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country, with a
national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The
national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted
to the international finale.
These ten images should be submitted via email to the international jury
coordinator before the deadline: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com. Unless you have
agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this deadline is 31 October,
23:59 UTC. But if you like me, please send them at least a few days before
that time. Submissions after this deadline are not guaranteed to be
included in the finale. When submitting your finalists, please take these
instructions into account:
* Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to
submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high
quality.
* Submit the images to: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com , and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
lilyofthewest.wikimedia(a)gmail.com in the cc.
* If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later
publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we
will announce the international winners in December, and will not wait for
national announcements.
* Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author
username
* Check basic information about the images. It is NOT possible to replace
finalists after the deadline!
** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons.
If we cannot email the user there, they may automatically forfeit any
prize. You can help them by posting a message on their talk page, or
tracking them down through social media.
** that the monument on the image is identified (preferably also described
in English)
** that the image is freely licensed
*If you want to use the jury tool, please sign up for it(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo…
)
If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also on
the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this -
more information about this soon.
Thanks a lot for your cooperation. After all nominees have been received,
this will result in a pool of some 350-430 images for the international
jury to consider. The international jury is described on this page. The
jury will first rate all images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/60 will
be considered. Then, the jurors will have the opportunity to remove images
from the selection, which they consider unfit. Finally, they are asked to
rank their top-25 images, and share their reasoning. We will create a jury
report based on this information. We expect to announce the results in the
first two weeks of December (depending on the swiftness of jury report
creation and media opportunities).
We're looking forward to the judging process!
With warm regards,
Erina Mukuta
International Jury coordinator
with my WLM-IR hat on:
Does the international team have a Commons template that the local teams
can use (and translate) to label the photos that win their local contests?
I know some campaigns create their own (the German one at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM_de_Gewinnerbild for
example), but I would love to see something standard that can be used for
those who don't want to start from scratch. I can tell that in WLM-IR we
will be a customer for this. ;)
with my WLM international team hat on:
I would love to hear people's thoughts on what message could/would/should
;) go in that template. Is it just that the image is a winner
(informational), that the image is a winner and tell the person what WLM is
in more depth and with some links (more informational), or do we want to
have a call to action in the template (learn about what Wiki Loves
Monuments is and join us!)
Thanks,
Lily
--
User: LilyOfTheWest
Hi all,
If you're interested to help WLM-IR with the first round of processing
the photos submitted to prepare a smaller set of photos for the main
jury to start working on, please send me your username. Here is what
you will sign up for if you do it:
* Between Sunday-Wednesday (starting and ending at night UTC), you
will be asked to read a short instruction and vote yes/no on somewhere
between 1000-2000 photos.
* You will use Montage for doing the voting.
* Your votes need to be completed withing 72 hours from the time the
instruction email lands your inbox. Please only sign up if you can
commit to it. :)
* Write a couple of sentences about why you think you are a good
candidate for reviewing the photos. You don't need to be a
professional photographer to help, of course, but we do want people
who join this step to be able to reliably differentiate between a good
photo that should make it to the main jury process, and one that can
be skipped. Past experience with other jury processes is of course a
great plus, and we also ask that you confirm you're not part of any
other country's jury effort if you participate in this one. :)
If you're interested, ping me in the next 24 hours please. ;)
Thanks,
Lily
--
User: LilyOfTheWest
Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
Thank you for an amazing job in the past weeks and months in organizing
what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in more than 56
countries! It's great to see all the beautiful images that have been
submitted.
As you know, the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition is based on
a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country, with a
national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The
national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted
to the international finale.
These ten images should be submitted via email to the international jury
coordinator before the deadline: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com. Unless you have
agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this deadline is 31 October,
23:59 UTC. But if you like me, please send them at least a few days before
that time. Submissions after this deadline are not guaranteed to be
included in the finale. When submitting your finalists, please take these
instructions into account:
* Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to
submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high
quality.
* Submit the images to: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com , and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
<insert international team member> in the cc.
* If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later
publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we
will announce the international winners in December, and will not wait for
national announcements.
* Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author
username
* Check basic information about the images. It is NOT possible to replace
finalists after the deadline!
** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons.
If we cannot email the user there, they may automatically forfeit any
prize. You can help them by posting a message on their talk page, or
tracking them down through social media.
** that the monument on the image is identified (preferably also described
in English)
** that the image is freely licensed
*If you want to use the jury tool, please sign up for it(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo…
)
If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also on
the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this -
more information about this soon.
Thanks a lot for your cooperation. After all nominees have been received,
this will result in a pool of some 350-430 images for the international
jury to consider. The international jury is described on this page. The
jury will first rate all images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/60 will
be considered. Then, the jurors will have the opportunity to remove images
from the selection, which they consider unfit. Finally, they are asked to
rank their top-25 images, and share their reasoning. We will create a jury
report based on this information. We expect to announce the results in the
first two weeks of December (depending on the swiftness of jury report
creation and media opportunities).
We're looking forward to the judging process!
With warm regards,
Erina Mukuta
International Jury coordinator
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