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,
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/2023>. 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/2023/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/2023/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 ==
Some might have noticed it − ErfgoedBot had been broken since April
(following a Toolforge database upgrade). We managed to get back and
running a week ago.
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.
Unfortunately, the bot’s work is slowed down by going over and over
thousands of images it can't figure out how to categorize.
→ I might add more countries to the skiplist to not penalize the other
countries
→ it would be great if humans could have a look at the images left in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorizatio…
== 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
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
Hi everyone,
Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2023. It is a complicated and delicate process to come to a
balanced jury, and I would like to outline the criteria here, and to ask
for your input. I´ll take the lead on this process - but would definitely
welcome your input, and help.
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:
* A mix of photography experts, heritage experts and Wikimedia experts
(aiming at a total size of 8-10 people)
* Geographically balanced so that no two jury members come from the same
country.
* Balance in many other ways imaginable (while at the same time, one can
never assure a balance in all aspects)
At the same time, there are some practical considerations:
* Jury members must be able to write and read English.
* They must have the time to commit to judge 200-500 photos in three rounds
over a period of three weeks in December.
* While jury members can participate in a local competition, their photos
cannot participate in the international finale
* Jury members should not participate in any national jury for 2023
(previous years is OK)
* It would be helpful if the juror would be willing to share their real
name for the jury report.
* Jury work is in a volunteer capacity.
If you know someone who would make a good juror, please contact me
privately with the suggestion. At least let me know who the juror is, how I
could contact him/her and why they would make a good jury member (and
whether you have reason to believe they would accept the nomination, if
asked).
I will do my best to put together once again a qualified and diverse jury,
with your help!
Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Rubén
International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2023
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Hi organizers,
it looks like the deadline for WMF rapid grants this edition is July 1.
This is the program that is most relevant to most of you, and the deadline
is a little more than a week from now!
In case you were thinking to use the September 1 deadline: this deadline
will be too late to organize (it comes with an earliest project start of
October 28).
If you are interested and need help with applying, please contact the WMF
liaison listed here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Contact_us> for your
region. They are generally helpful. The WLM international team is usually
happy to provide some feedback on your proposal, and you can also send it
to the international mailing list if you're looking for help from peer
organizers in other countries.
Best,
Lodewijk
Dear all,
Wikimedia Nederland is in contact with the local government of St.
Eustatius who wish to host Wiki Loves Monuments this year to promote their
local monuments and heritage.
Due to the special status the island has within the Kingdom of the
Netherlands and the lack of adequate laws for built heritage, there isn't
an official published list of monuments that participants could use. There
is an unofficial and unpublished list.
Is there a workaround for these kinds of situations?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best wishes,
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>.*
Dear all,
We are starting up preparations to organise Wiki Loves Monuments in
Suriname this year, and the organising team would like to expand the
activities this year, so we were wondering what funding opportunities we
might reach out to to make that happen?
Thanks so much for pointing us in the right direction!
Best wishes,
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>.*
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Hello, fellow Wikimedians,
We are pleased to share this update with you, regarding the Wiki Indaba
2023 conference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2023>
which will take place in Agadir <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadir>,
Morocco from 3th-5th November 2023.
The organizing team would like to inform you that this year’s theme will be
“Tweeza <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeza>: Empowering Africa through
Knowledge-sharing and Collaboration” and the call for proposals is now
open. Please submit your proposals for workshops, discussions and
presentations. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2023. For more
details visit the Submissions Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2023/Submissions>.
In order to have a good preparation, especially considering the visa
applications, we would also like to inform you that the scholarship
application is open as well. Through this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWG4obtXd88Hhvj50XeEaSd0COdXIY_5m…>
(available in Arabic, French, and English), all interested candidates can
apply for a scholarship to join the conference. The international
scholarships will cover airlines, ground travel, accommodation and
catering, and Visa fee for Active African Wikimedians in Africa and
Diaspora and other mission-aligned institutions in the Open knowledge
movement. There will also be scholarships for participants in Morocco, to
enable local Wikimedians to join this conference.
The scholarship application is open until June 30, 2023.
Regards,
The Wiki Indaba 2023 Local Organizing Team
Arabic
الأعزاء الويكيميديون،
يسعدنا مشاركة هذا التحديث معكم، بخصوص مؤتمر ويكي إندابا 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2023>، المزمع عقده
في مدينة أڭادير
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1>
المغربية، في الفترة ما بين 3 إلى 5 نونبر 2023.
يود فريق التنظيم إبلاغكم بأن موضوع هذه السنة هو: "التويزة
<https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A9>:
تمكين إفريقيا من خلال تبادل المعرفة والتعاون" وأن الدعوة لتقديم مقترحات
عروض مفتوحة الآن. يرجى تقديم مقترحاتكم لورش العمل والمناقشات والعروض
التقديمية. الموعد النهائي لتقديم الطلبات هو 30 يونيو 2023. لمزيد من
التفاصيل ، يمكنكم بزيارة صفحة ميتا الخاصة بالتقديم
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2023/Submissions>.
في إطار التحضير الاستباقي للمؤتمر، لا سيما طلبات التأشيرة، نود أيضًا
إخباركم أننا قد فتحنا باب تقديم طلبات المنح. يمكن لجميع المرشحين المهتمين
التقدم بطلب للحصول على منحة للانضمام إلى المؤتمر عبر هذا النموذج
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWG4obtXd88Hhvj50XeEaSd0COdXIY_5m…>
(متوفر باللغات العربية والفرنسية والإنجليزية) . تشمل المنح الدولية تذاكر
الطيران والسفر المحلي والإقامة والمطاعم ورسوم التأشيرة للويكيميديين
الأفارقة الناشطين داخل القارة وخارجها، والمؤسسات الأخرى المتوافقة مع المهام
في حركة المعرفة المفتوحة. سيمنح المؤتمر أيضا منحا للمشاركين المغاربة، وذلك
لتمكين الويكيميديين المحليين من الانضمام إلى هذا المؤتمر.
طلب المنحة مفتوح حتى يوم 30 يونيو 2023.
مع التحيات
فريق تنظيم ويكي إندابا 2023 المحلي
French
Bonjour amis wikimédiens,
Nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous cette mise à jour concernant la
conférence Wiki Indaba 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2023> qui aura lieu
à Agadir <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadir>, au Maroc, du 3 au 5
novembre 2023.
L'équipe organisatrice tient à vous informer que le thème de cette année
sera "Twiza <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeza>: Autonomiser l'Afrique
par le partage des connaissances et la collaboration" et que l'appel à
propositions est maintenant ouvert. Veuillez soumettre vos propositions
d'ateliers, de discussions et de présentations. La date limite de
soumission est le 30 juin 2023. Pour plus de détails, visitez la page de
soumissions sur Méta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2023/Submissions>.
Afin d’assurer une bonne préparation, notamment en ce qui concerne les
demandes de visa, nous tenons également à vous informer que les demandes de
bourse sont également ouvertes. À travers ce formulaire
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWG4obtXd88Hhvj50XeEaSd0COdXIY_5m…>
(disponible en arabe, français et anglais), tous les candidats intéressés
peuvent demander une bourse pour rejoindre la conférence. Les bourses
internationales couvriront les billets d’avion, les déplacements
terrestres, l'hébergement et la restauration, ainsi que les frais de visa
pour les Wikimédiens africains actifs au sein du continent et dans la
diaspora, ou membres d'autres institutions alignées sur la mission du
mouvement du savoir ouvert. Il y aura également des bourses pour les
participants marocains, afin de permettre aux Wikimédiens locaux de se
joindre à cette conférence.
Les demandes de bourse seront ouvertes jusqu'au 30 juin 2023.
Cordialement,
L'équipe d'organisation locale de Wiki Indaba 2023