Hello!
We are happy to announce that there is now a free and publicly accessible
course on the learning platform, WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files
on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons:
the basics*
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/…>
.
OpenRefine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine> is a free
data-wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate, and clean
tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases, including
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
This online course is available at any time, for free. Anyone with a
Wikimedia account can enroll with the click of a button. It can be followed
at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded
at the end to those who complete the course.
The training is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and
partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence). Accomplishing the
course should take an average of 6 to 8 hours.
This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training
and sustainability grant to OpenRefine
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Training_2023-24>.
It is currently available in English and can be easily translated into
other languages (more about the translation process here
<https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course…>).
Translations for this course in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are being
worked on and will be available very soon.
Please, feel free to share this course with people you think might be
interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons, who are
part of your network, in groups, social media, or any other places.
Thank you!
Best,
Giovanna & Sandra
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
It is my pleasure to share with you that we will be announcing the winners
of Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 through our social media platforms on Monday,
March 25th, starting 18.00 UTC.
As it is the WLM tradition, the announcement - in a descending order - will
kickstart with the honorable mentions from 25th-16th place, every 30
minutes.
This will be followed by an 8.5 hours break before the commencement of the
top15 on Tuesday, March 26th, at 7.00 UTC in the same time and interval
order. The overall winner of the WLM 2023 competition will be announced at
14:00 UTC.
You can follow the results on any of our social media channels:
- https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesmonuments/
- https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonuments/
- https://twitter.com/wikimonuments
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikilovesmonuments/
Best,
Rubén Ojeda - on behalf of the WLM International Team
Hello everyone,
It is my pleasure to share with you that we are announcing the winners of
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 through our social media platforms on
*Monday, March 25th, starting 18.00 UTC. *
As it is the WLM tradition, the announcement - in a descending order - will
kickstart with the honorable mentions from 25th-16th place, every 30
minutes.
This will be followed by an 8.5 hours break before the commencement of the
top 15 on *Tuesday, March 26th, at 7.00 UTC* in the same time and interval
order. The overall winner of the WLM 2023 competition will be
announced at *14:00
UTC.*
You can follow the results on any of our social media channels:
- https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesmonuments/
- https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonuments/
- https://twitter.com/wikimonuments
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikilovesmonuments/
Best,
Ciell - on behalf of the WLM International Team
Hi all,
(with apologies for the delay in sending this announcement)
This email discusses a sensitive topic of armed conflict, and may contain
triggers for some of our community members. While we appreciate your input,
please prioritize your own mental wellbeing and don't feel obligated to
respond or participate. I have tried to frame this as sensitively as
possible, but welcome constructive suggestions on how to do this better
off-list.
Summary: On Sunday 21 January (08:00 PST, 16:00 UTC), the international
team of Wiki Loves Monuments will organize an office hour/community
conversation on: How should an international federated photo competition
like WLM handle national teams, international finalists and communication
in the case of geopolitical armed conflict. We will announce the link
later, and you can register here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Office…
Topic: In the past years, our communities have been confronted with the
question how to deal with a number of geopolitical armed conflicts. This
question came up in the past years in a few different ways: whether photos
of heritage from certain countries should be allowed to be represented or
compete in international competitions like Wiki Loves Monuments, whether
and how photos of heritage in disputed areas can participate (especially
when that dispute becomes an armed conflict) and there are probably more
ways ahead that various armed conflicts can make an international
competition and communication about the competition complex. There is no
question whether human and cultural destruction is desirable, and every war
is likely one too many.
Why now: It is particularly hard to discuss these sensitive topics when
they are current: it is a painful conversation for everyone to have,
especially because the people who are living through the real-life
consequences are given an additional burden of engaging in these
discussions, under the pressure of time.
For this reason I believe it would be helpful to discuss this topic without
focusing on a specific conflict - but rather to discuss principles. How
would we, generally speaking, international competitions such as Wiki Loves
Monuments like to be influenced by armed conflict? Are there guidelines
that they could maintain? At this point, we don't know who the winners of
Wiki Loves Monuments are, and we can still have an abstract conversation. I
don't expect this conversation to conclude right away, but hope that we can
continue it in a few months after the dust of the winning images has
settled.
While this is already very soon, we have settled on Sunday 21 January,
16:00 UTC to avoid getting too close to the announcement of international
winners.
Framing: Some questions that come to mind as useful conversation starters
would include:
* Under what conditions could or should a national team be disqualified
from participating in an international federated activity such as WLM?
* If yes, who should make the decision whether to disqualify, and using
what criteria? Who should they consult?
* Under what conditions could or should the national submissions be
disqualified, if a national competition already has taken place?
* Should the international team make efforts to not appear to support an
armed conflict when communicating about the competition, or even previous
events? What are some guidelines that they could follow?
I would invite others to contribute in framing a constructive conversation
(publicly or privately - when in doubt, just email me privately).
Conversation timeline: We want this to be the start of a constructive
community conversation with national organizers, international organizers
and other community members who feel they can constructively contribute. We
welcome contributions from organizers of other similar international
competitions/activities. The conversation will be in English but if there
is sufficient interest, we can see if we can organize translation resources
in future conversations. You can sign up here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Office…
. Please do sign up, in case we have to share the link privately.
As mentioned, I don't expect this conversation to be "one and done". It's a
first step, and I expect to follow up with a next conversation in a few
months, and again around Wikimania - if there is sufficient interest.
I will guide this conversation as a former WLM international team member
and a current advisor.
Warmly,
Lodewijk
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
Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
After my last reminder, several countries have already sent their 10
finalist images for the international round. However, a few countries are
still missing, these are the ones:
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Egypt
Ghana
Greece
Iran
Nigeria
Portugal
Rwanda
Serbia
South Sudan
Thailand
Togo
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
UAE
Zambia
Please note that those ten images *should be submitted via email to me *(
rodelarwiki(a)gmail.com) before the deadline. *This deadline is* *5 December*,
23:59 UTC. Submissions after this deadline are not guaranteed to be
included in the finale.
Best regards,
Rubén Ojeda
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2023
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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,
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
As of today, the following countries *have not sent their 10 finalists via
email*. Please do so *before 5 December*. Submissions after this deadline
are not guaranteed to be included in the finale.
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Bélgica
Bolivia
Brazil
Croatia
Egypt
Germany
Georgia
Ghana
Greece
India
Iran
Ireland
Italy
Malaysia
Moldova
Nigeria
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Rwanda
Serbia
Sint Eustatius
Slovenia
South Sudan
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
Togo
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan
UAE
Zambia
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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[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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Hello Wikipedia team,
I have uploaded some images today for Malaysia momuments for 2023 contest.
However most of those photos were taken earlier (as mentioned in the upload
files also) but uploading in wikipedia for the first time. Hope those
photos are qualified for the context. Kindly clarify. Thank you.
My account : ToofanwikiCommon
Thanks,
Toofan
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