WikiLovesMonuments July 2019

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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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Wikidata Slovakia
by Matej Grochal 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

Dear all I would like to ask if anybody is able to move Slovakia's lists to Wikidata. The Phabricator task is here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173007 Our lists can be found in this category, sorted by regions, districts and municipalities: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateg%C3%B3ria:Zoznamy_kult%C3%BArnych_pamiat… and a list example looks like this: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoznam_kult%C3%BArnych_pamiatok_v_obci_Hronsek The lists are located at https://www.pamiatky.sk/sk/page/register-nkp-tabulkove-zoznamy and sorted by the 8 regions. Would anyone be able to help with this migration? Thank you Matej Grochal chair Wikimedians of Slovakia

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Who's at Wikimania?
by effe iets anders 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Hi all, Who's going to Wikimania this year? Leave a note on https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Attendees/Wiki_Loves_Monuments if you are going and are interested in Wiki Loves Monuments, or have experience with it. I'm also looking for some inspiring case studies to share during our session - especially from outside Europe. Shoot me an email if you have one! Lodewijk

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Can you help us review images for Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019?
by Michael Maggs 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

Hi lists Wikimedia UK is supporting the annual Wiki Loves Monuments contest again this year, and I am looking for 25-30volunteers to help review and filter the entries. The contest finishes at the end of September, with reviewing and judging taking place immediately after that. We normally have several rounds of reviewing during October, enabling us to reduce the expected 10,000+ entries down to long list of a few hundred from which the winners are selected by our panel of judges. You'd need to be able to commit to a minimum of 4-5 hours online reviewing, during the first two weeks of October. As reviewing is done online, volunteers can be based anywhere in the world and you don't need to have any UK connections. We’re not looking for expert photographers, but you should have a basic ability to be able to distinguish a good photograph from a poor or mediocre one. Training in the online reviewing software is available. The contest website is here: https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ If you are able to help, or if you'd like more information, please let me know. Regards Michael ____________ Michael Maggs WLM-UK lead volunteer

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Linked open data?
by Maarten Dammers 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi everyone, About ten years ago the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) made available the data about all rijksmonumenten (national heritage sites in the Netherlands). This was used to create lists of Rijksmonumenten on Wikipedia which was the starting point for Wiki Loves Monuments. The RCE now published all this data (and more) as linked open data, see https://linkeddata.cultureelerfgoed.nl/home (unfortunately all in Dutch). That opens up all sorts of exciting new possibilities. That made me wonder: Do any of the other heritage organizations public linked open data or is the RCE the first to do this? Maarten

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[WLM announce] reminder: deadline for grant requests
by effe iets anders 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi all, please note: tomorrow (15 July) is another deadline for rapid grants at the Wikimedia Foundation. After that, you can't submit for two whole weeks. While August will have some extra focus on WLM in rapid grants, please don't wait for that if you can do it now! Processing takes time (rapid is only relative). You can submit rapid grants between 500 and 2000 dollars. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid Best, Lodewijk _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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Denmark has joined WLM 2019
by Karen Mardahl 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

Well, Denmark is all signed up. We still have to clean up some outdated monument lists, but I hope this gets travellers snapping photos now. :) I copied the upload link from some other countries, but is it correct to assume that someone in the organising WLM group has to actually create this and that it will not be active until 1 September 2019? I did not put any link on the DA and EN pages because it shouldn't be active now. Cheers and good luck to everyone! Karen Mardahl

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[WLM announce] Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 - basic info and sign up!
by effe iets anders 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

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_2019/P… 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_2019/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_2019/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 at lists.wikimedia.org <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce> ). 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! Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think may not have received it. If you have any questions, please reach out! We're here to help each other. Lets have a great competition again :) Especially as this will be the 10th edition since we started on this journey back in 2010! 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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Changes to Rapid Grants - Effective August 1, 2019
by Woubzena Jifar 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hello all, Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select community mailing lists and all previous recipients of Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants. As you know the Rapid Grants Program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid> [1] has played an important role in helping our communities to grow. The number of grants we have given out grew by 30% between FY16 -17 to this fiscal year, and they grew by 55% when measured by the total amount disbursed. (See the spending analysis <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis> [2] for reference.*) While communities have valued these flexible funding opportunities, on our part, it hasn’t been easy to measure and track their impact. We therefore will be implementing a number of changes in Fiscal Year 19/20, starting *August 1 2019*, to sharpen the focus and impact of rapid grants, whilst at the same time maintaining the quick and flexible funding options for community: 1) In the months specified below, we will prioritize support to *contests and campaigns* which have been an exciting source of growth in editorship, innovative participation and content generation by communities. These months will be solely dedicated to different contests and campaigns throughout the year: - *August*: only receiving proposals for *Wiki Loves Monuments* - *September*: only receiving proposals for *Awareness Grants* (campaign) - *December*: only receiving proposals for *Wiki Loves Africa * - *January*: only receiving proposals for *Art + Feminism* (campaign) - *March*: only receiving proposals for *Wiki Loves Earth* 2) Outside the months specified above, proposals are welcomed in all other categories: edit-a-thons, contests, photowalks, general promotion campaigns, and video campaigns. For added flexibility, we will also consider proposals outside of these categories, such as software development. However, we will no longer be providing rapid grants for travel support, equipment purchase or meetups. 3) We will evaluate each batch of grants once a month and accept the best proposals in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation’s medium-term goals. We will share the evaluation for the Rapid Grants Program that led us to sharpen the focus for the program once the evaluation is completed by September 30, 2019. In addition to these changes, we’ve also considered comments around Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants eligibility criteria and have clarified these criteria. Please take the time to re-familiarize yourselves with the Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants Guidelines and Criteria <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn> [4] page. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Medium-term <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019> [3] plan goals are set out here for information. If you have any questions, please email us at <rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org>. Best regards, Woubzena *Please note that we have not yet put out the final FY 2018-19 numbers and we’re basing this calculation based on up to date internal numbers of 184 grants and $270,194. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn Woubzena Jifar (pronouns - she/her/hers) Program Officer, Rapid Grants User: WJifar (WMF) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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