Hi Isabel,

In general:

If you are one of the organisers of Wiki Loves Monuments in your country, then please make sure your country is listed in the list of countries. This is something you or a team member of your local team needs to do.

If you yourself are not organising, you have to wait until the local team from your country adds your country in the list. Often it is a local chapter or user group who can be contacted to know if anything is going to be organised. You may also look in the list of countries of past editions to see if WLM has been organised in your country and if yes who did so, you then may contact them. If there is nobody organising or if nobody has organised anything in the previous years, you may consider organising it yourself. The international team takes care of the basic technical infrastructure, the local team needs to create a landing page (use an example or copy what other countries have done), provide translations (if not already provided), provide prizes for winners, organise a jury, and have fun! More info about organising and the requirements can be found on this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2026/Organis...

Greetings, Romaine

Op ma 3 aug 2026 om 14:24 schreef MI misgm1@sapo.pt:

Hi Romaine,

Many thanks for your message.

I just verified that Portugal is not in the list of countries.

What could/should be done, please?

Best wishes

Isabel

Mensagem de Romaine Wiki via WLM-Announce < wlm-announce@lists.wikimedia.org> Data: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 08:40:05 +0200 De: Romaine Wiki via WLM-Announce wlm-announce@lists.wikimedia.org Assunto: [WLM announce] Organisers: your action is needed (now)! Para: Wiki Loves Monuments wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org, Wiki Loves Monuments Announce list wlm-announce@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com

Dear organisers!

Wiki Loves Monuments 2026 is approaching! In less than a month the first group of countries is going to start.

If you are organising WLM this year, please make sure *now* that your country is in the list of countries to avoid problems and delays: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2026/Partici... (This has been forgotten before, please avoid that mistake! )

(A few tips: don't wait to check/add until you notice there is no banner/uploading, don't wait until it is 10 minutes before midnight that you want to start, or at the last day before, don't think it will start in October so you have time, don't think that your colleague organiser has added your country, just check/add it now on the page, it avoids a lot of issues! Having your country added in the list of countries is the 1st requirement the international team has set. If you are late with adding, please contact me!)

When you have added your country/checked for it: thank you!

Spoiler: The 2nd requirement is that you have a landing page. Countries starting in September: your landing page needs to be ready at the latest on 28 August! Countries starting in October: your landing page needs to be ready at the latest on 27 September! When not ready on these days, the contest may get delayed or cancelled. PS: You don't have to wait until the last day to have your landing page ready, you may already have it (close to) ready this week!

There is a Telegram group called Wikilovesmonuments where you as organisers are welcome to come!

• For asking questions, reporting issues and getting help.
• For getting inspiration what you can do.
• For helping others with questions.
• For seeing last minute notifications.
• For just for hanging out to see how it is going.
• For seeing how the event starts/end at the beginning and end of the

months.

If you have an urgent issue regarding the special upload wizard or with the banner, contact me personally on Telegram for the fastest response. A bit more slow: write something on my Commons talk page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Romaine or write somewhere else and ping me. The slowest will be sending an e-mail. If you are unsure if something is in order or even urgent, don't hesitate and just contact me!

Don't forget: have fun! 😀

Romaine

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