Hi all,
Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2018. 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 2018
(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 regards,
Erina Mukuta
international jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
Hi everyone,
A good landing page is important to keep your participants involved, and
make sure they actually submit their images.
Last year and in the past few months, I had several discussions with some
of you about what a landing page for a country could look like. This is why
I took some effort to put together what I think is a combination of some
good examples. I created both an explanation
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati…>
and an example
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati…>.
I tried to keep it as simple as possible for Wikimedians with little
experience (as little as possible templates etc).
Martin has kindly offered to help make this design responsive, but depends
here on the WMF implementing some software changes, which are scheduled for
the next weeks. In the mean time, I invite you to look at the page, give
feedback or make improvements. I hope this will be a helpful addition to
our documentation shelf
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati…>.
The example can definitely be much improved!
You can also already start adapting the text of the page to your country's
situation. You will be able to copy and paste that text into the new
design. The content should roughly be the same.
If you have any questions, please do reach out. We're a bit understaffed
this year, but we should be able to help out where we can :)
Best,
Lodewijk
Hi all!
I have been puzzled by the description texts that WLM images are displayed
with in Media Viewer.
In this case for a Finnish entry, the text has no meaningful content, and
it all comes from the snippet generated by the upload campaign template:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monument…
Other national contests seem to run into the same trouble, like here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1-2_Laurence_Pountney_Hill,_London_…
So has this been solved somewhere and what should we fix in the upload
process?
Cheers and thanks!
Susanna Ånäs, WLM coord for the Finnish contest
Hi all,
Thanks to Johnattan the poster is now available in SVG format:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.svg
I uploaded the PNG format as well:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster_in_PNG_format.png
I also created another version of the poster with a square aspect ratio,
which will be more suitable for sharing on social media. It is available in
PDF and PNG formats and in blue and red colors:
pdf blue:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster_square_blue.pdf
png blue:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster_square_blue.png
pdf red:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster_square_red.pdf
png red:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster_square_red.png
Please feel free to use whichever format that suits you best. If you share
it on social media please tag Wiki Loves Monuments:
Twitter: @wikimonuments
Instagram and Facebook: @wikilovesmonuments
Also if you are planning to use social media, please let me know so we can
tag you in our promotions as well.
Thanks,
Mohammad
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:24:21 -0700
> From: Mohammad Hekmat <m.hekmat(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
> <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WikiLovesMonuments Digest, Vol 90,
> Issue 5
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> Thank you all for your interest in the poster. The design is in Pages which
> does not export to SVG. I will need to look into ways to create the SVG
> version but that may take a few days. If someone has experience with that
> I'd really appreciate if they reach out to me.
>
> In the meantime, I can offer to make the localized version for those who
> want the use the poster in their local language. Please send me a massage
> to wikilovesmonuments.insta(a)gmail.com with what you'd like to be changed
> in
> the poster and how you want to replace the text and I will modify the
> poster for you.
>
> Thanks,
> -M
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:00 AM, <
> wikilovesmonuments-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> > 1. Re: WLM 2018 Poster (Johnattan Rupire)
> > 2. Re: WLM 2018 Poster (Paulo Santos Perneta)
> > 3. Re: WLM 2018 Poster (Olushola Olaniyan)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:28:59 -0500
> > From: Johnattan Rupire <jarjacha(a)riseup.net>
> > To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM 2018 Poster
> > Message-ID: <391afd32-3e25-bd9e-22f4-310491efa2c0(a)riseup.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > does you see usefull to have a svg copy of this poster to adapt it and
> > localized in each country or territory? I think this would be great to
> > have a unit grafical identity with the diversity of differents
> > localizations. Of course, all of this, without limited the possibilities
> > of anothers grafical works or initiatives.
> >
> > Regards from Perú.
> >
> > :)
> >
> >
> > El 29/07/18 a las 10:12, Mohammad Hekmat escribió:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We've put together a poster for 2018 competition:
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
> > >
> > > The list of national competitions participating in this year's
> > > competition is included at the bottom of the poster. The list is based
> > > on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
> > >
> > > As of now, 43 national competitions have signed up for this year's
> > > WLM. The poster will be updated weekly to add new national
> > > competitions that join after today (if any). If you are planning to
> > > sign up and haven't yet please do so as soon as possible so we can
> > > include your competition in our promotional activities.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mohammad
> > > WLM International Team
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list
> > > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments
> > > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
> >
> >
Thank you all for your interest in the poster. The design is in Pages which
does not export to SVG. I will need to look into ways to create the SVG
version but that may take a few days. If someone has experience with that
I'd really appreciate if they reach out to me.
In the meantime, I can offer to make the localized version for those who
want the use the poster in their local language. Please send me a massage
to wikilovesmonuments.insta(a)gmail.com with what you'd like to be changed in
the poster and how you want to replace the text and I will modify the
poster for you.
Thanks,
-M
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:28:59 -0500
> From: Johnattan Rupire <jarjacha(a)riseup.net>
> To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM 2018 Poster
> Message-ID: <391afd32-3e25-bd9e-22f4-310491efa2c0(a)riseup.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>
> Hi all,
>
> does you see usefull to have a svg copy of this poster to adapt it and
> localized in each country or territory? I think this would be great to
> have a unit grafical identity with the diversity of differents
> localizations. Of course, all of this, without limited the possibilities
> of anothers grafical works or initiatives.
>
> Regards from Perú.
>
> :)
>
>
> El 29/07/18 a las 10:12, Mohammad Hekmat escribió:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've put together a poster for 2018 competition:
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
> >
> > The list of national competitions participating in this year's
> > competition is included at the bottom of the poster. The list is based
> > on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
> >
> > As of now, 43 national competitions have signed up for this year's
> > WLM. The poster will be updated weekly to add new national
> > competitions that join after today (if any). If you are planning to
> > sign up and haven't yet please do so as soon as possible so we can
> > include your competition in our promotional activities.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mohammad
> > WLM International Team
> >
> >
> >
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>
Hi all,
We've put together a poster for 2018 competition:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
The list of national competitions participating in this year's competition
is included at the bottom of the poster. The list is based on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
As of now, 43 national competitions have signed up for this year's WLM. The
poster will be updated weekly to add new national competitions that join
after today (if any). If you are planning to sign up and haven't yet please
do so as soon as possible so we can include your competition in our
promotional activities.
Thanks,
Mohammad
WLM International Team
Hello,
Yes, it would be great if it was possible for us to translate it to
Portuguese, for instance.
Paulo
Em 13/08/2018 05:29, "Johnattan Rupire" <jarjacha(a)riseup.net> escreveu:
Hi all,
does you see usefull to have a svg copy of this poster to adapt it and
localized in each country or territory? I think this would be great to have
a unit grafical identity with the diversity of differents localizations. Of
course, all of this, without limited the possibilities of anothers grafical
works or initiatives.
Regards from Perú.
:)
El 29/07/18 a las 10:12, Mohammad Hekmat escribió:
Hi all,
We've put together a poster for 2018 competition:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
The list of national competitions participating in this year's competition
is included at the bottom of the poster. The list is based on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
As of now, 43 national competitions have signed up for this year's WLM. The
poster will be updated weekly to add new national competitions that join
after today (if any). If you are planning to sign up and haven't yet please
do so as soon as possible so we can include your competition in our
promotional activities.
Thanks,
Mohammad
WLM International Team
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Hi everyone,
A quick update for the rules and process this year.
Deadlines: As usual, Wiki Loves Monuments will take place in the month of
September. If your country would like to request exception to the usual
competition days (1-30 September), please get in touch with the
international team through wlm-global-org(a)lists.wmnederland.nl . The
deadline for submitting nominees to the international jury is, as usual, 31
October.
We have updated our international rules
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/>. In the past years, we have
encountered a few instances of high scoring images that did not have email
address confirmed. This creates an enormous amount of extra work, and
uncertainty. We request that all national teams check that their nominees
have a confirmed email address for the author at the time of submission. If
the photographer does not have their email address confirmed, we will
likely disqualify the image at some point in the process. Please emphasize
this in the competition pages. The international team will not commit to
chasing/reminding winners or organizers of this. (if someone is willing &
able to run a bot to check this during the competition, and alert the owner
and the organizer, that would be great).
This year, we have a Special Award for European Heritage because of the
European Year of Cultural Heritage. This Special Award is kindly sponsored
by the German National Committee for Heritage Protection. More information
about this, will appear o <https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/awards/>n our
website.
We had some discussion earlier about what the best approach to the
competition is from the point of view what defines a 'country' on the
international jury level. While this is inherently a messy definition
(we're putting the United States and Andorra at the same level, after all),
the international team decided to opt for the following interim working
definition:
- UN memberstate (UNESCO definition) is the basis from which we work
- we can optionally derive from that on a case by case basis 1) if it is de
facto a separate country, including international diplomacy and heritage
policy, and could be UN-memberstate if not for international conflicts etc
(examples: Taiwan, Kosovo, etc) 2) if there is a significant 'distance'
with a component of the country that makes it for traveling purposes a
different country. Examples: overseas territories, Hong Kong etc.
- if there is minor overlap between two participating countries, the photo
can participate in any country where it is registered as such (border
conflicts etc)
- a country will never be considered with separate submissions to the
finale if there is (near) full overlap with another participating national
competition, if it fits exception 2). This to avoid double participation of
images. In the case of exception 1), it will be considered on a case by
case basis.
- The international jury coordinator (as representative for the
international team and the jury) makes this decision.
To be clear: it is always OK to 'combine' a few countries into a single
national competition for practical reasons.
Sorry for the longish email - this is all for now!
Best,
Lodewijk
Hi Cornelius,
Good catch. It's fixed now. I also added Germany as one of this year's
participants.
Thanks,
-M
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:24:58 +0200
> From: Cornelius Kibelka <cornelius.kibelka(a)wikimedia.de>
> To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM 2018 Poster
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> Mohammad, looks great!
>
> Just a quick note: Could it be that there is spelling error? The website is
> wikilovesmonument*s*.org (with an s).
>
> Cheers
> Cornelius
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 10:25, Daniele Pugliesi <
> daniele.pugliesi(a)wikimedia.it> wrote:
>
> > Il 2018-07-29 17:12 Mohammad Hekmat ha scritto:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We've put together a poster for 2018 competition:
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
> > >
> > > The list of national competitions participating in this year's
> > > competition is included at the bottom of the poster. The list is based
> > > on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_2018_Poster.pdf
> > >
> > > As of now, 43 national competitions have signed up for this year's
> > > WLM. The poster will be updated weekly to add new national
> > > competitions that join after today (if any). If you are planning to
> > > sign up and haven't yet please do so as soon as possible so we can
> > > include your competition in our promotional activities.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mohammad
> > > WLM International Team
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list
> > > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments
> > > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
> > Hi Mohammad,
> >
> > Very nice poster!
> > Thank you. :)
> >
> > --
> > Ing. Daniele Pugliesi
> > Project Manager - Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2018
> > cell./WhatsApp: +39 328 1323954
> > email: daniele.pugliesi(a)wikimedia.it
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