Hello everyone!
It is 31 August, the last day before the contest in most countries! In
about 10 hours from now the first country arrives in September and there
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 will start!
Before it can start, you may need to do something. I can only activate a
banner in your area if there is a landing page I can link to. If there is
no landing page, the contest can't start. Many landing pages are still
missing on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Landin…
Please check the page if yours is there!
If your page is not in English, please also have somewhere a page (in
short) where foreign participants can read how to upload/rules/etc. This
can for example be a page at .../English. Link this page from your landing
page + link it in the table on the page of all the Landing pages.
For some languages I miss a translation "Learn more". If this text is not
logic in your language, use then instead a translation of "More
information". This text is missing for the languages:
Afrikaans (af), Azerbaijani (az), Central Bikol (bcl), Crimean Tatar (crh),
Irish (ga), Scottish Gaelic (gd), Croatian (hr), Maithili (mai), Malagasy
(mg), Mirandese (mwl), Min Nan Chinese (nan), Nepali (ne), Northern Sotho
(nso), Punjabi (pa), Northern Sami (se), Albanian (sq), Swahili (sw), Tamil
(ta), Tswana (tn), Tatar (tt), Urdu (ur), Yiddish (yi), Yoruba (yo)
Let me know what the translation would be if you speak any of these
languages.
If you notice any issue with the banner or upload wizard, please let me
know as soon as possible!
Have fun everyone with Wiki Loves Monuments! :-)
Greetings,
Romaine
Hi all,
After a last minute rescue last year, it looks like we're facing Monumental
<https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/> being unsupported going into WLM
2023.
Ireland has exclusively used Monumental since 2017, when Pawel migrated our
lists into Wikidata using the WLM numbers to draw out the eligible sites in
Ireland. At this point, we need a simple alternative - maybe Wikidata
generated lists on Commons? If anyone can give me some instruction or ideas
on how to go about this I would be hugely grateful (I've never created
lists from Listeria etc), as otherwise it leaves Ireland without anything
for users to find monuments or upload them into the relevant categories.
Thanks!
Rebecca
--
Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie/>:
wikimediaireland(a)gmail.com
PhD in Digital Media
Secretary of the National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science
and Technology
<http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/…>
Co-host of *The World According to Wikipedia
<https://headstuffpodcasts.com/show/the-world-according-to-wikipedia>*
podcast
She/Her
Dear esteemed WLM organizers and participants,
We're happy to announce that the WLM 2023 landing page is ready:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Organi…
We anticipate the amazing impressions captured with your camera and
invite you to visit the WLM 2023 pages at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023 for
further information on how to participate in and/or organize the WLM
Campaign in your region.
Looking forward to your submissions from 1st September - 31st October
2023 to expand the collection of more than 3,000,000 pictures
documenting monuments and heritage from all over the world in the last
twelve iterations of Wiki Loves Monuments.
Kind regards,
Manfred / the team of Wiki Loves Monuments international
Dear Organizers,
For people participating in the photography contest the team of WLM
international has prepared giveaways - there are buttons and stickers
with the logo of Wiki Loves Monuments available now. If you want to hand
them out to photographers in your community let us know. We will either
send them to you or maybe you are at Wikimania in Singapore where we
could give them to you personally.
Please take a look at this table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17WSsJIL4VR7GRIL9owwpZtez_Bt-brHnshN…
There you can enter your user name and how many of the buttons and
stickers you would be interested in. Please also let us know if you are
at Wikimania.
Kind reagrds,
Manfred