Dear everybody,
During the last weeks there have been ongoing discussions within our chapter about Wiki Loves Public Art and our chapter's active involvement. We have been extremely happy and proud over what was achieved last year but still we have had to reconsider. Yesterday the team working on the international contest sadly took the decision that we will postpone the contest and review the possibility again next year. We have reached this conclusion as as there are a number of issues that have to be solved for the contest to make sense, and each of them are a potential show stopper:
The once again ongoing discussions on Wikimedia Commons about PD images and URAA[1] and also images under Freedom of Panorama in the source country but not in the US[2] – we feel that it would be irresponsible to use movement resources in this way if the images might end up being deleted. If the Community isn’t convinced all photos might end up being deleted even if it is not necessary. We believe that these discussions need to be closer to a solution before we run this contest again;We lack strong international partners/sponsors this year which means that the value of these efforts decreases and the cost would increase. Europeana the other day informed us about their new focus areas for the year – where WLPA is not prioritized;The technical issues with Maarten Damers’ tools. As you might know Maarten recently informed the WLM team that he will not work on moving the tools to Labs, and therefor they might all stop working shortly when the Toolserver is killed. The Ukrainian Wiki Loves Earth team has said that they can take over the work with them, but this is still not solved as far as we know – and they might not have time to help with WLPA either. In our team we sadly don’t have the capacity to do this work.
Additionally, there are a few new legal developments in Sweden that we are currently dealing with. The chapter is currently involved in legal actions regarding publications of photos of works of art from Sweden, as there are some legal ambiguities in Swedish legislation. This severely limits what we could have done in Sweden during the contest, as we do not want to risk contest participants being dragged into the process. Thus meaning that there will be no national contest in Sweden.
Obviously you can still do a national contest if you so please, but as it seem now, Wikimedia Sverige will not take on the international coordination this year. I am really sorry for this as we all have spent time working on this and we have had great fun working with you all. We sincerely hope that we will be able to pick up the contest again in the future!
Any data already collected could still be used to generate lists on Wikipedia and we could help with that if needed. If you do plan to carry on, obviously we are still available for questions and consultation if needed.
On Commons and other places there have been many discussions on what we could do with photo contests in the future. This might be worth thinking a bit more about.[3]
Please let us know your thoughts.
Best,
John Andersson, on behalf of the international team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Use_of_Foreign_Works_Restored_und… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Non-US_Free… [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Future
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to recommend you this page about the future of Wiki loves ...
projects:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Future
and there is a section about the Wiki Loves Public Art contest:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Future…
In Hungary, we plan to organize this contest in the following year, and I
would be very happy if other countries joined to the contest (specially if
countries around Hungary would participate in it next year), and it could
be an international contest (again).
For countries, who participated in WLPA this year (Austria, Finland,
Israel, Sweden, Spain) it is not a big deal to repeat the contest based on
the existing lists, but there is a huge potential to cover new areas and to
add new targets to the list in every countries.
I am waiting forward to our fruitful cooperation.
Best regards,
Samat
Thanks
again for all of your great work with Wiki Loves Public Art 2013!
We at
Wikimedia Sverige are considering to organize the contest again in 2014
and I am wondering if there is interest from the teams that took part
this year to organize the contest again
in your countries? You can either simply use existing lists or expand to
more cities.
I believe that we have proven the concept as we had thousands of
artworks successfully digitized and hence digitally preserved them for the future and shared them with the world, a good
amount of new and old volunteers participated and we also had a good
deal of media attention. With all this said, I really
hope that we can do it again!
Please let me know your plans and ideas!
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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Dear everybody,
The jury has today finalized its decision and announced the winners for Wiki Loves Public Art! A blog post is up on wikilovespublicart.org that you can link to: http://wikilovespublicart.org/2013/07/the-international-winners-of-wiki-lov…
Please spread the news in your networks!
Also, there is a text up on Meta (so that it can be published on Wikimedia Foundation's blog). Please help out by providing translations: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/WLPA
I would like to thank all of you for your hard work and dedication and I hope to see you at Wikimania, and of course to do this again next year!
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Would you like to support free knowledge? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sweden!
Dear everybody,
I would like to thank you all for making Wiki Loves Public Art a fantastic contest! I really hope that you enjoyed this as much as I did and that you feel rightfully proud of your achievements! I am very happy with the result and hope that together we can include even more cities and countries next year.
There are of course some minor things still to handle (such as selecting winners and such :) but I hope that you already now, when you still have a clear memory of things, can write down some lessons learned. I.e. what you thought went well, and what could be improved next year as well as any ideas you might have. I have created a page on Commons for this reason: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Public_Art_2013/Lesson…
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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Hi everybody!
We have created a Participants' Survey for Wiki Loves Public Art, based on the one for WLM.
Please have a look at the Survey and give any comments you might have on the discussion page. Please look at it before Friday as we would like to put it up on translatewiki asap. We will then need your help to have the survey translated to Catalan, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Spanish and Swedish. The translations should be done by the 6th, and the survey is planned to be sent out on Sunday the 9th.
Platonides is kind enough to help us with the delivery of the survey to the participants.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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Hi everybody,
James Alexander just wrote to me: "The wiki loves israel website has been compromised and is serving up js scripts files from multiple websites known to distribute malware. I would ask that you also get the other teams to remove that link from all other WLPA sites. I'll send this as an email to you as well."
So please remove the links asap.
Kind regards,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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Dear everybody,
I have now added a new press release about the contest that you can translate and/or use as a base for your national press release, if you would like.
You can find it here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Public_Art_2013/Transl…
Please let me know when you have sent it out to the media.
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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[pardon the cross-post and English-only post at this time]
Hello everyone,
*This is a reminder that there are 2 days left to apply to attend the first
Program Evaluation & Design Workshop, which will take place in Budapest,
June 22-23. Applications close at 12 AM PST May 17.*
Please review this recent blog announcing the event:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/09/program-evaluation-workshop-budapest/
*Wikimedia community members, chapter staff/volunteers, solitary volunteers
- anyone who is a program leader is encouraged to apply. Please note, we
have only 20 slots available and limited funding to support attendees. If
you do apply, you must email me at sarah(a)wikimedia.org if you are
requesting funding before/after you apply. *
We will be filming our workshop, so don't fret if you cannot attend this
first one, or aren't accepted to attend this time.
*You can get a better taste for the event through our evolving Meta Event
page: *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/June_2013_Work…
Thank you Wikimedia Magyarország for your support and assistance.
-Sarah
--
*Sarah Stierch**
Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation & Design Community Coordinator
*Donate<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&utm_…>
today
and keep it free!
Visit me on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch>!
Hi!
I have just created this page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_loves_public_art_2013/Centra…. Please add the text that you would like the admins to change the CentralNotice text into for the last two weeks. I will ask them to do it asap (hopefully they can do it already tomorrow).
I am also preparing an answer to put on Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, in which I am explaining why we want the CentralNotice banner on for the full month (the text will be based on the answers I received from you all). I will email the text to you all shortly so that you can give me some inputs.
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Leader Europeana Awareness
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana
Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our
project!
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