WikiLovesMonuments September 2019

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Template loop
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hi, Can any admin please look into and fix this template. Its creating a loop. - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019 Regards Bodhisattwa

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What to say on the radio about WLM?
by Karen Mardahl 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi, I am a bit nervous because a journalist wants to interview me on the national radio in Denmark today about WLM. What do I say?!?! I am not afraid of speaking to groups and such, but I have little preparation and the Wikimedia PR person just retired! Plus I am the one responsible for WLM so it is my duty to be the one to talk. I have no idea how long this will last. 3 minutes at most. Maybe 5 if I am lucky or unlucky! The journalist thought it was a great thing that all citizens can try and it involved open data, CC, and all that. Those might be the themes. What would you say and does anyone have a template (in English preferably - too nervous for my French) for talking about WLM to the press? Thanks so much!! Regards, Karen Mardahl, Vice-chair Wikimedia Denmark & WLM coordinator -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

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[WLM announce] Announcement: special awards for African monuments
by effe iets anders 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to announce on behalf of the international team that this year there will be three special awards for African monuments. All images that are nominated as the top-10 by the national juries are eligible for this prize and a dedicated jury will take a decision on this in November. One restriction is that all three prizes have to go to a different country. More information about all prizes this year: https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/awards/ Warmly, and looking forward to many exciting pictures this year. Lodewijk _______________________________________________ WLM-Announce mailing list WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce

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Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation
by Mohammad Hekmat 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi all, We are only 5 days into WLM 2019 and so far it's been amazing! More than 28000 photos already! Kudos to all local organizers! The international team has been promoting the contest on its social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). We do our best to reach out to as many people as possible,but in many cases, due to language barrier, it's much more effective to do promotion in the local language. We've noticed increased activity on social media by national competitions and we certainly hope this momentum carries over until the end of the contest. Here are some tips to help you promote your campaign on social media: 1. Link all your social media to each other so when you post on one, it automatically shows up on the other ones. Linking Facebook and Instagram accounts is pretty straightforward and you can do it from either platform. Instagram stories can be shared on Facebook stories as well. If you'd like to share your FB and IG posts on Twitter you can use IFTTT <https://ifttt.com/>service. It has some limitations (e.g., for posts with multiple images) but overall it's quite useful. 2. Make use of WLM stats page <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2019>. It's a wonderful tool to keep track of your local contest. You can see the total number of uploads, number of users, and the daily breakdown. It also shows where you stand in comparison to other national campaigns. 3. Stay active throughout the month of September. In addition to making posts make sure to like relevant posts and encourage those who are potential participants by commenting under their posts/photos. 4. Use Facebook and Instagram stories to keep your audience engaged. If you have a large follower base, consider running a live event (e.g., Instagram Live) for your audience to go live and ask questions. 5. It's hard to constantly generate content. There are some easy ways that will help you make a post without too much work. The best way is to share someone else's story or post. One easy trick is again the stats. Everyday the international team shares the stats in a story. For example, today we posted "25882 photos so far and so far and counting, Ukraine 4156, Italy 3244 ..." This is a good way of keeping the excitement alive. 6. Be proactive! If you see a profile on social media with monument photos invite them to share their photos through WLM. This is perhaps one of the most effective ways. Typically, I leave a comment like this: "Great pics of cultural heritage. Please consider sharing your photos on Wikipedia through Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition. It runs through Sep. 30 with the goal of visual documentation of monuments on Wikipedia." This encourages people to join and puts all the keywords (monument, Wikipedia ...) in a short message. 7. It's all about word of mouth so ask your followers/friends to be your ambassadors and encourage others to join. Previous years' participants are typically excellent candidates to help with promotion. 8. If you have access to people with large accounts ask them to tell their followers about WLM. This, if done correctly, can help a lot. When Wikipedia account on Instagram started following us and told about us to their followers we immediately got many new followers. 9. Make sure to update your information on this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki /Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Social_Media <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Social…> so we keep you in mind when promoting WLM on our social media 10. Consider switching to a business profile on Instagram. It allows you to look at stats and performance of each post and the overall audience of your account. It's free and contrary to what the name suggests won't make you look like a business. You can select the category to be: Community Organization 11. If there is a specific monument that you want to have a photo of, you can easily find people who have photos of that monument on social media. Let's say you want photos of Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. If you search #KilwaKisiwani on Instagram you will find 280 photos with this tag. Some of them look good for Wikipedia. You can then just leave a comment or send a message to the photographer and ask them to submit the photo through WLM. This works particularly well with countries that have a short list of monuments or the newcomers to WLM who don't have a large follower base. If we have missed you or you feel you'd want us to mention you more frequently, please send an email to wikilovesmonuments.insta(a)gmail.com. Thanks and good luck, Mohammad

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Tool for WLM local contests stats
by Ferdinando Traversa 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi, in Italy we have some regional contests so, because they can’t be added to WLM global stats, I created a tool to collect stats about WLM regional contests and other special contests. It’s based on Commons categories (so it can be used for almost everything). Jean-Frèderic, the WLM stats tool maintainer, suggested me to share it here. You can find the source code on https://github.com/ferdi2005/concorsi-locali and a living instance about Italy on https://statistiche.puglia.wiki Tell me if you need an instance for your regional and local contest, I’ll be happy to help. Regards, Ferdinando

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Declared and Proposed Mouments
by Olushola Olaniyan 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Dear all Greetings, Courtesy of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria, we have just received official documents with respect to the above subject for Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in Nigeria. I will appreciate your suggestion on how best we can make use of them? The documents are attached for your look. Regards Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng shola(a)wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com +2348167352512

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] WLM landingpage template
by Isaac Olatunde 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Hi Alexandre, It looks like that is going to work. Regards, Isaac On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 5:36 PM João Alexandre Peschanski <joalpe(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hi there. This is how we did it in Brazil: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Bra… > > We changed the button to: > > {{WLXpage/BoxSmall|title=Participate|color=1|text=Find a monument, take a > photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:<br><div class="plainlinks > wlx-button">[ > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campai… > <span class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-progressive">Upload your > photos! »</span>]</div>|icon=Wlm-icon-upload-white.svg}} > > Best, > > João > > Em sex, 30 de ago de 2019 às 12:22, Isaac Olatunde < > reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> escreveu: > >> Hi Lodewijik, >> >> Yes, I have that challenge while I was creating the landing page for >> Nigeria this morning. >> >> My impression was that the campaign (wlm-ng for example) would be fixed >> on the upload tab at the start of the contest. >> >> I am happy you asked this question. Thank you, >> >> Isaac >> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 4:14 PM effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Martin, >>> >>> thanks a lot, this is super helpful, and I see that several countries >>> adopted it. >>> >>> I got one question from one of those countries, which I couldn't >>> immediately find myself, and that is how to plug the correct upload wizard >>> in the upload button. Currently, it goes to the regular Upload wizard, but >>> it should go to something like >>> >>> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campai… >>> >>> Could you make that possible? I think the parameter you'd want people to >>> specify is the campaign=wlm-XX (please don't ask for country code, but >>> campaign code). >>> >>> Best, >>> Lodewijk >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:34 PM Martin Kraft <wikipedia(a)martinkraft.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everybody! >>>> >>>> starting during the Wikimania Hackathon we created responsive >>>> Page-template that can be adapted for the local WLM landingpages (the >>>> pages, the banner is targeted to). You'll find it here: >>>> >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati… >>>> >>>> Feel free to copy the wikitext source to your desired lemma and start >>>> to translate and customize it. >>>> >>>> This landing page is based on a set of templates and stylesheets, that >>>> are not jet documented. But I think you'll get the purpose of each element >>>> while observing it's usage in the landing page. If anyone is interested in >>>> helping me with the documentation, that would be great. >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLXpage >>>> >>>> Currently it is only the landingpage itself. But I am working on >>>> subpages and a Navigation as well. Hopefully that will be usable within the >>>> next few days. I'll give you a note. >>>> >>>> I hope that this page helps you to prepare your countries competion?! >>>> >>>> Best wishes for the pre-WLM sprint // Martin >>>> >>>> DISCLAIMERS: >>>> >>>> 1) The whole thing should work on mobile and has been tested against >>>> the Vector and Minerva Skin. But it still is in early beta stage - so >>>> please don't be too angry if there are any unclean spots or display errors. >>>> I'll try to do some quality assurance before the competition starts, which >>>> will automatically tile in wherever the templates are used. >>>> >>>> 2) The Template-Styles StyleSheet is generated via SASS. So if you have >>>> any suggestions concering enhancements and bugs, don't do it yourself but >>>> contact me. Otherwise your changes maybe overwritten by the next update. >>>> >>>> 3) I didn't invest any work into rtl-Support so far. It may work >>>> though, but please don't blame me if it breaks. >>>> -- >>>> >>>> *Martin Kraft* >>>> *Ehrenamtlicher Autor und Photograph in der Wikipedia* >>>> >>>> Moritzstraße 44 >>>> 65185 Wiesbaden >>>> >>>> *büro* +49 (611) 30 66 60 >>>> *fax* +49 (611) 30 66 26 >>>> *mobil* +49 (178) 40 55 552 >>>> >>>> martin.kraft(a)wikipedia.de >>>> wikipedia.martinKraft.net >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> WLM-Announce mailing list >>>> WLM-Announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>>> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > >

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issue with central notice
by Marta Arosio 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Hi all we just noticed a problem with the landing page of the central notice: it lands here https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/?pk_campaign=Centralnotice and should land here https://wikilovesmonuments.wikimedia.it/ as written in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Landin… Yesterday it worked fine, I don't know what happened, someone knows wht I can do? Thank you -- Marta Arosio Responsabile delle relazioni con le istituzioni culturali Wikimedia Italia - Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera Via Bergognone 34 - 20144 Milano Tel. (+39) 02 97677170 | marta.arosio(a)wikimedia.it | www.wikimedia.it DAI ALLA CONOSCENZA LIBERA UN NUOVO NOME. IL TUO. Devolvi il 5x1000 a Wikimedia Italia: nella tua dichiarazione dei redditi inserisci il Codice Fiscale 94039910156

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01 Sep '19

Hi, I am facing problem in login using Monumental tool. Can anyone please resolve this? Regards, Bodhisattwa

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Banners
by effe iets anders 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

Hi everyone, With the help of Seddon at the WMF we have been working over the past while to redesign the banners to make them more effective over a range of devices, use standing best practices from fundraising on what we think is effective, and make it more feasible to test effectiveness down the line. This means that the banners will be redesigned a bit compared to what you may have been used to. We will use a default design as usual, that you will be able to see here <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki_Loves_Monuments&banner=wlm2…> (adjust language and country code to play with it), with a logo on the left and a standardized and translated text in the middle. By default, we will not show an image on the right (due to visibility concerns). Note that there are some known issues such as wrong url which should disappear once the banner goes 'live'. This does mean that we'll have to be more conservative with requests to tweak the design a little without really good reasons. For example, we will keep the logo on the left and the color scheme of the banner consistent across countries. This will help with branding, but the most important thing is that it will help with scaling (all the different requests make it harder and harder to maintain). If you have a particularly good reason for your country, it is again possible to change the text and the image on the right for your country. You can request this here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Centra…>. I know some countries have requested very particular changes (different background colors, border colors) which will unfortunately not be an option right now. We expect that the new design will overall still be an improvement for everyone. Good luck with the last bits of the preparations! Best, Lodewijk (on behalf of the international team)

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