Hi everyone,
As the national winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 are coming in, the
international team is working on putting together a good jury for this
year's international round. We will need 3-5 more members to complete the
set.
As in the past years, it is important to aim once again for a jury that as
a whole is neutral and balanced in many ways. This means ideally:
1. A mix of photography experts, heritage experts, and Wikimedia experts
(aiming at a total size of 7-9)
2. Geographically balanced so that no two jury members come from the
same country.
3. Balance in many other ways imaginable (while at the same time, one
can never assure a balance in all aspects)
4. The international jury members do not serve on a national jury for
WLM 2021
5. At the same time, there are some practical considerations:
- Jury members must be able to understand English.
6. Able to commit to judging 200-500 photos in three rounds over a
period of 3 weeks in November, as a volunteer.
While jury members can participate in a local competition, their photos
cannot participate in the international finale. It would be helpful if the
juror would be willing to share their real name for the jury report.
Do you know someone who would make a good juror? Please contact me or the
jury coordinator Ndahira Derrick (ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com) with the
suggestions. Please reach out along with the potential juror contact
details, and a couple of lines of why they would make a good juror for WLM.
We are specifically looking for jurors from *Latin America, Africa, and
Asia*, as other regions are well covered already.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
*on behalf of the international team*
Forwarding from the announcements list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Ndahiro Derrick Alter <ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 4:04 PM
Subject: Submission of local WLM 2021 winning photos to the international
jury
To: <wlm-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvelaga(a)gmail.com>
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 more than 40
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 via this email (*ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com
<ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com>*) before the deadline (31st November.2021. Unless
you have agreed on a different deadline with Krishna Chaitanya (in cc). But
if you like, 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 fewer images, for example, if you don't find enough images of high
quality.
* Submit the images to:ndahiroderric@gmail.com, and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
Krishna Chaitanya in the cc.
* 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, and will not wait for
national announcements.
* Submit for each image: URL, Filename 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
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 international jury is described on this page
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/>. 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 the first two weeks of
January (depending on the swiftness of jury report creation and media
opportunities).
With warm regards,
*Derrick Ndahiro*, 2021 WLM jury coordinator
Hello,
For those who have not noticed, WikidataCon 2021 has 6 sessions on WLM
today. The sessions have already started. The program schedule is here -
https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/schedule/#2021-10-30
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Dear all,
This year Wikimedia Poland tried something very new and different - Wiki
Loves Monuments... Junior. It is a sub contest for our regular WLM aimed at
students of elementary and secondary schools. The idea behind WLM Junior is
to connect educational projects with WLM. We invited 11 schools to
participate. Each school organized a Wikimedia Commons training and
uploading session, some also organized photo-walks. The schools had a
separate Campaign created (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wlm-pl-junior).
Overall WLM Junior brought 700 pictures (500 are now in the category, but
200 need to be recategorized since some students used the regular uploader)
which is about 10% of all pictures in this year's WLM in Poland.
The pictures will now be judged by a special jury consisting of teenage
photographers, Polish Teacher of the Year, an artist. We will give prizes
in two age categories - younger than 14 years old and 14-18 years.
After the contest we will organize a special mobile photo exhibition which
will visit all the participating schools.
You can read all about the project here:
https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Lubi_Zabytki_Junior
Next year Wikimedia Poland will be organizing the project again and - if
there will be some interest - we will be happy to make it global.
Let me know if you have any questions about WLM Junior :)
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Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is very much enjoying WLM 2021: as some of the national
competitions have ended last week, others are only starting. Together we
have already received over 141.000 images this year
<https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/monuments/2021>.
Thank you all for accomplishing this!
Quite a few national campaigns will be using the Montage tool
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Montage> to help our juries
make their choice for the winning pictures, and the top 10 that will be
sent to the international jury.
Because of an update to the cloud services, some errors were being reported
over the weekend in the SSL connection to the tool. This is not only
affecting Montage, but several tools that are being hosted in the Wikimedia
Cloud, and therefore on Toolforge like Montage. Wikimedia developers are
working on this, and if you would like to follow this process, please
subscribe to this ticket on Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291387>. For Montage status updates
only ('is it just me, or...'), you can check the Montage status page on
Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Montage/Status>.
Our Montage developers have created a temporary fix for the Montage tool
for now, and I will be creating the on Commons requested campaigns today.
Campaigns should be working again now without the SSL errors: please let me
know if you are still having problems.
If you would like to use the tool for judging the photos in your national
WLM, you can request a campaign on the tools' talkpage on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage>.
You will have time until the 30st November 2021 to send in your top 10, and
I'm looking forward to seeing all the beautiful pictures soon!
Vriendelijke groet,
Ciell
(WLM Int team)
Hello everyone,
For those who don't know me, I'm Elena (user: CEllen) and for the moment
I'm behind all the WLM social media activity (sometimes more active,
sometimes not at all :D).
As I'm not "an expert" on social media, I can't find inspiration all the
time. In the same time I can say I'm more graphic design oriented than
copywriter :D so... if you have any ideas or advice for new posts or if you
have WLM national events/facts/etc. that you wish to share via WLM
international accounts (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook), please let me
know.
Thank you and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Elena
Hi -
We're hoping that someone on this list can help us with a very specific issue on WLM 2021 in Malta.
It looks like uploads from Malta on WLM 2021 are not being assigned the hidden category Image from Wiki Loves Monument 2021 in Malta automatically through the upload wizard assigned to campaign=wlm-mt
For this reason, Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in Malta remains empty!
I've just uploaded a test image via the Upload Wizard attached to campaign=wlm-mt to double check this. You can see it here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ugo_Pasquale_Mifsud_statue.jpg
From what I can see, it has not been assigned the hidden category Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in Malta automatically.
I have a feeling that the solution is just a matter of editing a template, but I'm not sure which template needs editing exactly.
We would greatly appreciate any direct help or suggestions to fix this.
Many thanks,
Toni
___________________________
Dr Toni Sant
Wikimedia Community Malta
Email: toni.sant(a)wikimalta.org
Web: http://www.wikimalta.org
Hi all,
As many of you know, there are several tools overseen by the WLM
international team for Wiki Loves -like contests. While I myself stepped
down from the team, I wanted to send a (belated) quick reminder of some
tools that are available.
Note that these are not all the tools available around WLM, only the ones
that I (co-)maintain(ed) :)
== Statistics tools ==
See <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2021>. Data is refreshed
every 15 minutes.
If you want to know more about the tool, please see <
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Wikiloves>
The tool, beyond the “country race”, provides each competition with:
* A day-to-day table of image uploads and joiners (uploader who uploaded
their first image on that day). <
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2021/Ireland>
* A sorted table of all uploaders, their upload count (as part of the
competition) and file usage, and their registration date <
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2021/Ireland/users>
These two views may be helpful to gauge the health of your competition
If you notice any issue with the tool (bug, data missing, etc.), please
file a task on Phabricator: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=tool…>.
== ErfgoedBot and Monuments database ==
While being mostly in maintenance mode, with no new features planned, good
old ErfgoedBot should still be up and running (at least for countries that
are not yet using Wikidata) − big thanks to André Costa for giving it some
love :-)
For more information on the services provided by ErfgoedBot
(categorization, maintenance reports, etc.), please see the documentation
on Commons:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database>
One of the most relevant task is the categorization (described at <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization>)
− as far as I can see based on the bot edits, it seems to be working fine.
== Notification to uploaders without email enabled ==
Every three minutes, ErfgoedBot retrieves the list of users who uploaded,
in the last few minutes, pictures marked as participating to WLM. If an
uploader has not enabled e-mail, the bot leaves a message on their talk
page explaining that it is necessary to win a prize (unless it has already
notified that user).
You can help translating the message in more languages at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/i18nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/heading/i18n
We hope that this will help to avoid situations of winning pictures with no
email enabled, only detected much later when the uploader is not around
anymore.
Hope this all helps,
--
Jean-Frédéric
