WikiLovesMonuments June 2018

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7 discussions

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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[WLM announce] Reflecting on Wiki Loves Monuments - we need your input!
by Lodewijk 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hi all, In 2019, Wiki Loves Monuments will be organized for the 10th time. As we will be celebrating this achievement, we would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the years behind us and learn how we can improve Wiki Loves Monuments. We have created a short survey to ask you to help us learn about the areas that we can do better within our mission: to freely document and raise awareness about the monuments, increase contributions to Wikimedia projects, and bolster local Wikimedia communities. I would like to invite you all to help us think about this by filling out this 4 minute survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG0Dx9CBo613D5XdQ-nCzCe7P_F2k0niS… We still want to do all of this through an annual, federated, global, low-barrier photo competition, please keep that in mind as the frame we'd like to operate under. While your thoughts and recommendations about any aspect of Wiki Loves Monuments are welcome, we will be paying extra attention to recommendations that can help the contest become more global: to help us empower more people from more diverse demographics to join the project, as organizers, jurors, participants, and beyond. Thank you for your time in advance. On behalf of the international team, Lodewijk _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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Some help needed: design a good default landing page
by Lodewijk 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Hi all, One of the hard things that national teams run into year after year, is setting up a good landing page. In the past we have offered wordpress templates to help teams with a good default option. However, we want to slowly move towards having an excellent default option on Wikimedia Commons. Who would be willing to help design that and set it up in an easy to edit way? I'd love to brainstorm a little more with one or two others about this, but I was thinking some basic requirements should be: - setting up the landing page has to be possible without extensive knowledge of wiki markup or templates - it has to work in both RTL and LTR (or we create two versions, fine with me too) - it has to support multiple languages - it needs to have a super clear workflow for participants: point out the basics of the competitions, where to find the monuments and how to upload. - be low maintenance and easy to set up, with possibility to expand as a country has a more complex setup/requirements. Who would be willing and able to help out? Please join the conversation here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198028 Thanks! Lodewijk

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[WLM announce] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 - basic info and sign up!
by Lodewijk 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Hi everyone, It's that exciting time of the year again, Wiki Loves Monuments is getting started! I know several of you have already started, but if you haven't: this is a great time to do so! The idea behind Wiki Loves Monuments is to invite the general audience in your country to photograph built heritage and share it with the world through Wikimedia Commons. We do that through a federated competition, which means that the national teams are key to our success: they organize the national competitions. At the end of the process, the national juries can nominate up to 10 photos to the international jury. The international jury will then consider those photos once again, and select the international winners. We will announce the prizes for the international winners later. If you are a group of Wikimedians, a chapter or user group that is interested in participating (again) this year, then please sign up! You can find a list of countries that has already done so here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017/Partic… If you want to know how to organize, please reach out to one of the members of the international team <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Organi…>. You can also leave a message on the help desk <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Help_desk> or send an email to the public mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments>. We do have a fair amount of documentation <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati…> available, but some of it may be outdated (we appreciate any help in improving it!). Like last year, we've also added a tab called 'Organizers' in Wiki Loves Monuments landing page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017/Organi… We'd like to encourage you to add your name and those of your team members with a short description to the list. This information is helpful for those from outside of the Movement or the project who end up on that page and want to learn more about your national competition, it also provides an opportunity for us to get to know each other via this one page. :) Every year, there are more than 150 national organizers that make Wiki Loves Monuments happen and it would be great to know more about all of these amazing people. :) We will also have a presence at Wikimania this year, and organize a meetup. Please keep an eye out! If you like to stay informed, make sure you're a member of our discussion mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> ( wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org ). The most important announcements are also sent to our announcement mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce>: if you don't have much capacity for emails, please at least make sure multiple people in your team are subscribed to that! If you have any questions, please reach out! We're here to help each other. Lets have a great competition again :) Best, Lodewijk on behalf of the international team _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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SVG map - some help needed
by Lodewijk 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hi all, as usual, I'd like to keep a visualization of our participating countries. See here for 2017 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participating_Countries_WLM_2017.svg>. Unfortunately, that map is a bit outdated (in particular South Sudan is not separate yet). Could anyone help me set up a new version of this map with an updated world map? Ideally with the same style (white countries with grey borders & oceans, including antarctica). Thanks in advance! Lodewijk

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Making WLM thrive in Africa - at Wikimania? Need some input.
by Lodewijk 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hey all, As some of you probably know, one of my goals is this year to find better approaches to how we can make Wiki Loves Monuments a success in African countries (especially sub-Saharan). I proposed a roundtable discussion to get a conversation with the key stakeholders going as a continuation of the conversation we started at Wiki Indaba. Unfortunately, my proposal to have a round table discussion on making Wiki Loves Monuments thrive in Africa was rejected for Wikimania this year (forced to 'merge' with a presentation/workshop with different audience). I'd like to see if there is another way we can have this important conversation. If we can't have this when Wikimania is in Africa, when can we?! So if it can't be in the program, what other methods do you see to make this happen? I have some ideas, but would love to hear more thoughts! Please leave your ideas here: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effeietsanders/Make_Wiki_Love… Thanks! Best, Lodewijk

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