Hi All,
It is less than two months from September where we will open upload for participants. There are still ambiguities about the fate of the international team and the tasks that the team used to work on. We need to make a decision on this and move on quickly. It is difficult to do a press release or talk to a new partner if we are uncertain about our own internal process.
I believe that having an international team and international prizes can add a lot of value to the competition. The costs/resources may be drawn/collected from the participating national competitions. However, after two weeks with no response to the proposal, I now assume that no one else is interested in pursuing the idea.
Here are five areas that we have to think about...
1. The international website: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org and the sub-domains xx.wikilovesmonuments.org Who is in charge of this? What will we do about it? Last year, we advertised the URL th.wikilovesmonuments.org for participants to access our site. I suspect that we can't do it anymore. On top of that if the information is outdated, it would confuse participants when we launch our campaign. Many people just google WLM and click on the first page that shows up.
Sun Jun 29 22:16:28 UTC 2014 Lodewijk wrote This has the implication that I will alter the website sometime soon to reflect this intention. I will remove the links to the national competitions from the sidebar to avoid outdated information. I will link to the commons page for more information about national competitions that may or may not happen in 2014.
2. Common info page: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014/Interna... Still recruiting for the team? * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014/Partici... The number of participating countries is 22. The map hasn't been updated for a while.
3. General coordination on critical tools: * Central notice * Upload wizard We wish that both of them are working the same way as last year.
Mon Jun 30 05:57:38 UTC 2014 Lodewijk wrote Romaine is mostly making sure everybody has access to the upload forms and centralnotice - which is of critical importance too.
4. Marketing pitch/target group: * We use to lean on the popularity of the world record and the total sum of international prizes. Can we still point out to the fact that WLM has attained the world record in 2012? * Can we still use the WLM logo in certificates, trophies and other materials as usual? * Do we need to produce a bilingual website for a national competition? Do we have to participate in non-core activities like the central survey after the competition? * Assuming we have no international prizes this year but we have it next year, should we include finalists from this year into consideration of the next year prizes?
5. Central contact point: * We seem to have this mailing list as the only channel for all communication. Is this correct?
Best, Taweethaă‚‚
On 30 June 2014 19:44, KaewWiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I understand that Lodewijk has his expectation for the international team. People from the previous years have set the standard to be very high.
Having said that we need to focus on the present. Many countries are organizing WLM. What value can we add to their competition if we have an international team? What will be the cost associated with the activities?
My opinion is that the minimal core tasks are:
- Find an acceptable judging methods (including juries) to rank the
first 10 photos out of [number of countries] x 10. Make sure that participating countries abide by the judging rules.
Procure and distribute awards.
(Not compulsory) Do some PR for WLM at the international level.
Collect statistics. Help countries that may have technical/financial difficulty.
I believe that it is doable by the countries participate in WLM 2014. You may ask for volunteers, you may ask for one representative from each country or you organize an election if too many people want to involve. But this has to be done now and conclude quickly...
What do you guys think?
Taweetham