Ok, am tempted to enter my own photos in the contest but I promise to control the urge. Look forward to helping out.
Dan
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 8:14 pm, Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com wrote:
Hi Dan,
Great to have you on board!
I will keep in touch with you on the next steps.
Cheers.
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
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*From:* Wikimedia-LK wikimedia-lk-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Daniel Arndt dancarndt@gmail.com *Sent:* 26 June 2019 04:07 *To:* Mailing list for the Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka (UG-LK) *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-LK] Call for Volunteers - WLE Jury!
Roy
Sorry to take so long to respond. As an amateur photographer I am prepared to actively participate in the judging panel. I’ll also try and help out in any other way I can.
D
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 10:24 pm, Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com wrote:
Dear all,
Gentle reminders that we still have slots open for jury members, for Wiki Loves Earth Sri Lanka.
For anyone concerned, this is not a full time commitment, but simply to judge the uploaded photos for the given period and volume. There are also cool Wikimedia merchandise for all volunteers!
Thanks to User:Azeez, User:Sivakosaran, User:Sandaru, for signing up so far!
Page to sign-up: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka/Eve...
Thank you!
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
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*From:* Wikimedia-LK wikimedia-lk-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com *Sent:* 13 June 2019 10:36 *To:* Mailing list for the Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka (UG-LK) *Subject:* [Wikimedia-LK] Call for Volunteers - WLE Jury!
Hello volunteers!
As we're reaching the half-way mark for WLE, it is time to prepare the jury for judging the finalists.
Category:Images from Wiki Loves Earth 2019 in Sri Lanka https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019_in_Sri_Lanka has 1,942 files at the moment, hence assuming the same pace continues, we would probably have a maximum of 4,000 submissions at the end of the contest period.
Jury members will have to judge the best photos based on relevance, quality, creativity, uniqueness, and other factors such as effort, lighting, and so on.Judging will be done in more than one round, by at least 5 jury members.
The first round would be to eliminate all out of scope submissions, and photos that stand no chance of passing - tilted, blurred, etc. We expect about half of the submissions to be eliminated in the first round. This round would probably be done by User:Rehman, User:Azeez, and anyone else interested.
Further rounds, probably another 1 or 2, depending on volume, would be in-depth scrutiny. And this is where we need more volunteers. We have some non-Wikimedians who have expressed interest in volunteering, but of course, preference is always to experienced Wikimedians. If you wish to volunteer, please list your name at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka/Eve.... For those of you who helped translate, please also add your name for records :)
Photos will be judged using an online tool (Montage or WLX, to be announced), thus it would be fairly easy - unlike sorting photos manually offline. Jury members does not have to be Sri Lankans, does not have to be in Sri Lanka, and does not have to be members of UG-LK. Although, they would have to privately share their address, if they wish to received some merchandise. Preference will be given to experienced users. You are also allowed to judge with the help of your friends or family, so long as you make the final comments/votes.
Jury members will get a WLE certificate, official Wikipedia tshirts, Wikipedia pens, Wikipedia water bottles, Wikipedia pins, Wikipedia notebooks, and more.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
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*From:* Wikimedia-LK wikimedia-lk-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com *Sent:* 31 May 2019 04:56 *To:* Mailing list for the Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka (UG-LK) *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-LK] Sinhala and Tamil translators wanted (urgent)
Thank you User:Dan_arndt for translating the templates, User:Sivakosaran for translating the banner, and User:NandanaM for translating the whole WLE landing page! Great work!
If anyone else likes to lend a hand, or verifying the translations, please do 🙂
We still have the UG-LK pages for translation as well: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka
WLE will be launched for Sri Lanka on June 1st!
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
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*From:* Wikimedia-LK wikimedia-lk-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com *Sent:* 23 May 2019 17:45 *To:* Mailing list for the Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka (UG-LK) *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-LK] Sinhala and Tamil translators wanted (urgent)
Thank you, Dan!
I will list areas requiring attention here in case anyone else would like to help. In order of importance:
*1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/CentralNoti...) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/CentralNotice#Sri_Lanka_(LK)* To translate a sentence.
*2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Upload_camp... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019/Upload_campaigns#What_should_be_translated?* To translate phrases in templates mentioned in points 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. Clicking on the template opens a page to easily add translations.
*3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019_in_Sri_Lank... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2019_in_Sri_Lanka* To translate all text in this page. Edit mode looks a bit confusing, but don't worry. Simply look for the LangSwitch template ({{LangSwitch|en= |si= |ta= }}) and fill in the Sinhala (si) or Tamil (ta) parameters. Don't worry about messing anything; I'm watching the page and will help in anything necessary :)
*4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka* Same as 3. This is the general usergroup landing page.
Sinhala translations are 0% at the moment in all four venues above, and there are a few outdated Tamil translations in #4.
To anyone reading this, please feel free to join in. Don't worry about messing/breaking anything. You translate, I'll fix. :)
Feel free to respond here, or message on my/usergroup talkpages for any clarification or comments.
Thanks again for any help that comes this way!
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
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*From:* Wikimedia-LK wikimedia-lk-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Daniel Arndt dancarndt@gmail.com *Sent:* 23 May 2019 05:34 *To:* Mailing list for the Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka (UG-LK) *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-LK] Sinhala and Tamil translators wanted (urgent)
Am prepared to assist if needed.
Dan
On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 3:45 pm, Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com wrote:
Hello!
We're urgently looking for English-to-Sinhala and English-to-Tamil translators, for Wiki Loves Earth contest in Sri Lanka.
If you're willing to help, please reply here or on my talkpage.
Thank you! :-)
Yours truly,
*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*
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