WikiLovesMonuments November 2023

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uploading scanned films?
by attolippip 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

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

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Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine – call for pre-selection committee volunteers
by attolippip 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Dear all, We would like to organise a pre-selection committee to help select pictures that the Ukrainian national jury will then evaluate, and we need volunteers for that. Please fill in the Google form if you are interested to help during October and first days of November: https://shorturl.at/mqB13 (You can also reach out to me directly at attolippip(a)gmail.com if you would like to help, but do not want to fill in a Google form) == Context on why we need your help == This is our first time implementing such a step in the process – and we do it because: 1) we would like the jury to be able to select better pictures (our usual processes had them looking at ~1500 pictures at a time ''each''), and more suited for illustrating Wikipedia and other wikiprojects; 2) “Winter is coming”, as they say in “Game of Thrones”, for real, and we are bracing up for another complicated period of time, with rockets hitting our infrastructure, and power outages, and we want to lower the risks of Ukrainian jury members not finishing pre-selection and evaluation before the international deadline. Our contest just started, and we have more than 1400 pictures so far. Unfortunately the circumstances are very new, so we do not know what to expect in terms of the number of pictures uploaded, but we are estimating that we at least can get ~14000 pictures this year like in 2022. So far the progress has been higher than last year, but we do have harsh restrictions like pictures need to be taken on or before June 30, 2023, and only in one special category – interiors of the monuments – we allow uploading of the currently taken photos. In case you wonder about these restrictions – we are trying to balance our needs as organisers to document as much as possible (thus already allowing pictures created after the full-scale invasion), but also safety of the participants (people feel really uneasy when somebody unknown goes around their house taking photos with the war going on), and national security (most likely pictures taken on or before June 30, 2023, do not risk revealing any sensitive information). == What exactly is required == Participants submit pictures for the “Quality” category, and we would like help with pre-selecting pictures for the national jury, so the results of their work are better. You would need to look at ~500-1000 photos during October and first days of November, and select the ones that would go to the Ukrainian national jury. We are using WLX Jury Tool for our jury selection process, it is quite easy to use and has an English interface; there are also instructions in English. Please feel in the Google form if you are interested to help during October and first days of November: https://shorturl.at/mqB13 (You can also reach out to me directly if you would like to help, but do not want to fill in a Google form) I would be happy to answer any questions you might have about the Ukrainian contest (we do have a bit of a complicated system developed over the years). You can read the English page of our contest here [1], or a diff post about our 2022 edition here [2]. Thank you all, and please take care! [1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3964870 [2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/20/ukraine-presenting-10-winning-picture… 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

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Submission of local WLM 2023 winning photos to the international jury
by Rodelar 07 Nov '23

07 Nov '23

[This email contains important information on how you can submit the 10 nominees of your country to the international finale and the deadlines. Please forward this to your coordinators if need be.] Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators, Thank you for an amazing job in the past weeks and months in organizing what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in 46 countries! It's great to see all the beautiful images that have been submitted. As you know, the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition is based on a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country, with a national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted to the international finale. These ten images should be submitted via email to the international jury coordinator before the deadline: rodelarwiki(a)gmail.com. This deadline is *5 December*, 23:59 UTC. But if you like me, please send them at least a few days before that time. Submissions after this deadline are not guaranteed to be included in the finale. When submitting your finalists, please take these instructions into account: * Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high quality. * Submit the images to: rodelarwiki(a)gmail.com, and include in the CC at least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. * If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we will announce the international winners in January/February, and will not wait for national announcements. * Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author username * Check basic information about the images. It is NOT possible to replace finalists after the deadline! ** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons. If we cannot email the user there, they may automatically forfeit any prize. You can help them by posting a message on their talk page, or tracking them down through social media. ** that the monument on the image is identified (preferably also described in English) ** that the image is freely licensed If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also on the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this. Thanks a lot for your cooperation. After all nominees have been received, this will result in a pool of some 350-430 images for the international jury to consider. The jury will first rate all images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/60 will be considered. Then, the jurors will have the opportunity to remove images from the selection, which they consider unfit. Finally, they are asked to rank their top-25 images, and share their reasoning. We will create a jury report based on this information. We expect to announce the results in January/February. We're looking forward to the judging process! With warm regards, Rubén Ojeda International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2023

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