congratulations with the awesome result! Personally I feel that especially the number of uploaders is a great victory.

I found it intriguing to go through some of the Indian submissions. Relatively many people of the Indian participants seem to be protective and aware of their copyright, using watermarks (while clearly they have released it - so that is a big win!) and I think that some of the Indian monuments are extremely popular. There were some monuments with over 200 seperate submissions!

Now if you want to help still... that would be very welcome! The submitted images still have to be added to Wikipedia. As you may remember, lists of monuments have been created for each state (and sometimes smaller territories). Maarten Dammers (User:Multichill) has created a bot to identify photos of monuments in those lists that have no picture yet. You can find the list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Unused_ASI_Monuments_images here.

The list contains photos and a link to the list where the photo could be inserted (under the photo). The number under the photo is the identifier which is also used in the tables.

I found it most helpful to open the list in edit view, and process all monuments state by state. Then I would go to preview mode (to be able to compare images and choose the best if multiple are available), and every time I placed an image to a monument, I would remove all photos of that monument from Multichills page. At the same time I would insert it in the list after the image = . Remember: you only have to insert the filename, not the "File:" or any wiki markup. For example:

| image = Bull statue on Chamundesvari Hill in Mysore.jpg

Your help is greatly appreciated. There are about 8000 pictures to go through (hopefully this equals several thousand individual monuments!)

2012/10/1 Harsh Kothari <harshkothari410@gmail.com>

Hi..

Thanks and Congrats to every one who made this event successfully..

Regards
Harsh

On 01-Oct-2012, at 5:50 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

> On 09/30/2012 03:21 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> firstly, I'm happy to inform you all that Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in
>> India had a grand start and had a marvelous end :)
>>
>> Here's some statistics and updates from India:
>>
>> - 16,796 photos uploaded from
>> India<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India>,
>> while India ranked number 7 in number of photos uploaded
>> - 2,230 participants, making India rank number one in number of
>> participants
>> - User:Anupamg <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anupamg>,
>> User:Thamizhpparithi_Maari<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thamizhpparithi_Maari>
>> , User:Sthitaprajna <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sthitaprajna>
>> , User:Darwinacitizen<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Darwinacitizen>
>> and User:Vu2sga <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vu2sga> are
>> among the top 5 contributors from India. Please, so share some WikiLoves to
>> them for participating in WLM
>> - Prize winners will be declared on or before 29th October
>>
>> On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments core members (that's Naveen Francis and
>> me), would like to thank all who have helped us to make the contest a
>> successful venture in India. A detailed report will be put up after prize
>> winners are declared.
>>
>> Thanks all again!
>
> Congrats and thanks to everyone.
>
> I am very glad that India participated in Wiki Loves Monuments. In my
> personal capacity as a volunteer, I used
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State_Protected_Monuments_in_Karnataka
> to find that a photo of an place I'd visited was needed, and got to
> share a holiday snap:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bull_statue_on_Chamundesvari_Hill_in_Mysore.jpg
>
> It was a wonderful feeling to get to contribute something useful to
> Commons; thanks to WLM organizers and participants for setting up and
> maintaining the "here's what we need" lists and help pages!
>
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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