WikiLovesMonuments December 2022

wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org

32 participants
7 discussions

uploading scanned films?
by attolippip 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

hello there! has anyone tried locally to organise something around outreach to photographers whose pictures were made on photographic films? we have not had such a campaign in Ukraine before, just individual efforts, like when a Wikipedian convinced an old photographer to upload his pictures of lost heritage to Commons, they had to scan his films to do that: https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/photos-of-destroyed-heritage/ as this year (to make sure people are not roaming around taking pictures for their own safety) for the Ukrainian part of the contest we decided to accept only pictures taken before February 24, 2022, we thought of maybe looking for ways to reach this audience -- photographers whose pictures are on films, so most probably old enough... but maybe there are some tips/things to be aware of when dealing with scanned films, and somebody on the list has travelled down this path already, and can share useful information? (sorry for crossposting, i have also asked about this on the telegram channel) З повагою / Best regards, antanana Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation

3 4

Fwd: [Commons-l] Results from sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest
by Ciell Wikipedia 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Hi everyone, The WLM 2020 winner from Iran just won first place in the Commons Picture of the year competition. For the links see below: also, #2 is uploaded through Wiki Loves Earth, and #3 is uploaded through Wiki Loves Africa. 🙂 Best, Ciell ---------- Forwarded message --------- Van: Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)debian.org> Date: vr 16 dec. 2022 om 06:24 Subject: [Commons-l] Results from sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Announce Mailing List <wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikimedians, The sixteenth annual Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the winner:? <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results> Saint John Church of Sohrol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John_Church_of_Sohrol> is a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church> church in Sohrol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrol>, Shabestar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabestar>, Iran <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran>. Attribution: *Farzin Izaddoust dar <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Farzin_Doust&action=ed…> / CC-BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>* In both rounds, people voted for their favorite media files.? - In the first round, there were 1050 candidate images. - In the second round, people voted for the 57 finalists (the round 1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category). In the second round ? the ?three votes? was used ? eligible users could vote for up to 3 finalists ? each of these 3 votes counted equal. There were 2,360 eligible voters in round 1, and 2,971 in round 2. We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content: 1. 374 people voted for the winner, File:Holy SURP Hovhannes Church.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_SURP_Hovhannes_Church.jpg>. 2. In second place, 348 people voted for File:The Bug Peek.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bug_Peek.jpg>. 3. In third place, 332 people voted for File:Firefighter, Ashton Bay, March 2017.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firefighter,_Ashton_Bay,_March_2017…> . View the full results <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_th…> . We also sincerely thank all voters for participating. We invite you to continue to participate in the Wikimedia Commons community by sharing your work <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>. Thanks, the Picture of the Year committee <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_th…> _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list -- commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to commons-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

1 0

Decision of WLM in Ukraine organizers not to submit photos for the international round
by Olga Milianovych 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hi all, On behalf of the organizing team for Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine I’m writing to inform you of our decision not to submit photos for the international round. Traditionally, Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine has been one of the biggest WLM local contests in the world, as well as among the biggest projects supported by Wikimedia Ukraine. This year, Ukraine and subsequently the contest has suffered from Russia’s full-scale invasion. Particularly, for security reasons the organizers had to limit submissions only to photos taken before February 24th, 2022, which is the date when Russia openly invaded Ukraine. Despite the limitations, we managed to organize the contest in 2022 and attract almost 14,000 photos of Ukrainian cultural heritage from almost 300 participants. They illustrate over 5,300 monuments, including 351 monuments depicted for the first time. However, the local organizers will not be submitting Ukrainian photos for the international round because of the international organizers’ decisions to accept photos from Russia on the international stage. To be clear, we do not support this decision and had asked the international team not to accept Russian photos in the international round. While we fully support the spread of free knowledge in various forms, we believe that it is not appropriate to promote on the international level photos from the country that wages a brutal war against Ukraine, kills thousands of Ukrainians – and systematically destroys and steals Ukrainian cultural, architectural and archaeological monuments. Besides, Russia’s war has deprived Ukrainian photos of equal conditions in the competition. While daily life in Russia continues largely as normal, Ukrainian photographers have had to operate in extremely difficult conditions and under many limitations – both the formal ones imposed for security reasons and the overall situation in Ukraine (power blackouts, problems with internet connectivity, personal hardship etc.) Therefore, we cannot accept Ukrainian photos competing alongside Russian ones – we do not think that in current circumstances it is the right thing to announce which Ukrainian photos are better and which are worse than Russian ones. We are grateful to Ukrainian participants and volunteers who have made the contest possible this year against the odds, as well as to international organizers for their hard work in supporting the largest photo contest in the Wikimedia ecosystem. Best regards, Olga Milianovych Member of the organizing committee for Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine (Disclaimer: Antanana is a member of the Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine organizing committee. Due to her currently serving on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees she recused herself from taking part in discussions and making decisions on this topic).

6 5

Regarding the participation of Russia in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
by Rodelar 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hi everyone, The Wiki Loves Monuments international team has been asked if photographs from Russia should be allowed or excluded from participating in this year's international contest. We have been in contact with the organising teams of Wiki Loves Monuments from Ukraine and from Russia to discuss this and to find a solution. We greatly appreciate that the team from Ukraine has organized the local edition of the competition while there is war in their country! We understand that there are reservations against seeing images from Ukraine and Russia presented side by side in the galleries of nominated or winning pictures. The volunteer team organising Wiki Loves Monuments Russia emphasizes to have no ties to the Russian government or the Russian Wikimedia affiliate. They are submitting the 10 finalist images to the international final round of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, but the occupied areas, including Crimea and Sevastopol, have been excluded from the Wiki Loves monuments campaign. Also, in Russia there is no freedom of panorama for works of art. This excludes, in fact, any images of monuments and statues erected since World War II, and which for example glorify the war, from being legally uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If images from Russia are excluded because of the war in Ukraine, this could, without being based on a rule for the competition, set a precedent for other territories where there is war around the world. Rules would have to found, before deciding case by case, if a country should not be allowed to send its nominations to Wiki Loves Monuments international. With these considerations in mind, the WLM organising team does not see a reason to exclude the submission of Russian finalists images to the international final round. On behalf of the WLM 2022 organising team, Rubén Ojeda International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

8 9

Question about forms of institutional support
by Carolina Bayer 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

Hi everyone, I am a Brazilian monument conservator, who lives in Germany. Recently I joined Wikimedia and as a member of the Project Let's go digital, Beuron Art <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:F%C3%B6rderung/Let%27s_go_digital,_…>, I am photographing German murals outside Germany and writing new articles about Churches with this style of mural painting. I identified that in Rio de Janeiro there is a chapel with extremely rare frescoes in this style, which is abandoned and in need of restoration. It so happens that the *US Embassy in Brazil* has a call for funding <https://br.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/grants-corner/call-for-proposal…> for restoration projects. At the request of the chapel owner, I wrote a pro bono project to submit for this funding. :) However, a *non-profit* *international institution* or *organization* is required to be the *legal candidate* for this project at the *US embassy *in Brazil*.* *No financial assistance is required,* but support from a non-profit institution. Can anyone with experience in this area suggest any institutions? Could Wikimedia Deutschland e.V through WikiLovesMonuments support us? Best Regards, Carolina Bayer *_______________________* *CAROLINA BAYER* Historian | Heritage Conservation Wilhelmsruher Damm 100 | 13439 Berlin carolinna.bayer(a)gmail.com Tel.: +49 175 4465034

4 5

Questions for next years competition
by Michelle van Lanschot 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Dear everyone, The WLM Suriname team will soon be evaluating this years competition, and we have two questions we would like to ask your advice on: 1. The winner of this year's competition was not from Suriname, but from the Netherlands. This has caused some criticism from the local community. Is it possible to only accept contributions by natives of Suriname? 2. This year's top ten has 7 pictures from the same uploader. How would we go about avoiding this next year? Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! Best regards, Michelle van Lanschot Projectleider (ma, di, wo, do) *Post- en bezoekadres:* Wikimedia Nederland Mariaplaats 3 3511 LH Utrecht tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 <(+31)%2030%203200238> mob. (+31) (0)6 42154479 www.wikimedia.nl Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaNL>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/wmnl> en Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikimedia-nederland/> *Overtuigd van het belang van vrije kennis? * *Steun Wikimedia Nederland! <https://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/steun-ons>* *Wikimedia Nederland organiseert regelmatig bijeenkomsten, u bent daarbij van harte welkom. Kijk voor meer informatie in onze agenda <https://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/agenda>.*

14 16

Update received nominations
by Rodelar 04 Dec '22

04 Dec '22

Hi everyone! So far, we have received correct submissions for 15 countries. That means the following countries are still missing: Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Finland, Ghana, Ireland, Latvia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, UAE and United Kingdom. For most of these countries, we have not heard back yet at all. Please make sure that your jury coordinator is at least in active contact with either myself or Krishna! The deadline is 5 December 2022. After this date, we may not be able to still accept the nominees. If you have any doubts that your country may meet the deadline, let us know as soon as possible. Looking forward to many thrilling nominees, Rubén Ojeda International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

8 7

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

WikiLovesMonuments December 2022