Dear WLM organizers and enthusiasts,
*tl;dr *
We need your help with collecting one story (per country) about the people
who participated in WLM in 2016 or in the previous years (a slight priority
for stories from 2016). While the story of every individual participating
in WLM is unique, there are stories that you know of and remember more
easily, and you bring them as anecdotes to your fellow Wikimedians,
friends, and families. We are eager to hear those stories. Please share
them with me and Jeff (cc-ed). Please do this by Friday, Nov. 11.
*Longer version*
*What?*
The WMF Communications team has offered to write a blog post about WLM (2-3
weeks?) before the announcement of the WLM international results. For
writing such a blog post, they will need stories from participants from
different countries. Currently, they're looking for 6-8 stories to be
shared as snippets in the blog post.
*Why?*
We are trying to create some momentum in the press to pick up the story of
the WLM when the international results are announced. A blog post a few
weeks before the final announcement may help us with that. Of course, we
are interested for press picking up the story for some specific reasons,
for example:
* We think that certain types of press coverage can benefit the winners in
the future and beyond WLM. (They may be recognized internationally, for
example.)
* Certain types of press coverage can bring much more visibility to the
work that all the volunteers and organizers in many parts of the world do,
to make WLM happen every year.
* And, press coverage can help us build a stronger presence/brand for WLM,
which can help WLM organizers with building stronger
partnership/sponsorship relationships the future years.
*When?*
>From the international team's perspective, the blog post can go out any
time between November 14 and 30. We will count on the Comms team's
expertise to choose the optimal time given their other constraints and
timelines.
*What we need from you?*
We need your help with collecting one story (per country) about the people
who participated in WLM in 2016 or in the previous years (a slight priority
for stories from 2016). While the story of every individual participating
in WLM is unique, there are stories that you remember more easily, and you
bring them as anecdotes to your fellow Wikimedians, friends, and families.
We are eager to hear those stories. Please share them with me and Jeff
(cc-ed).
If you have questions or comments, please let us know on or off-list. :)
Thank you!
Lily
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User: LilyOfTheWest
Hello everybody,
I'm glad to announce the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments Italy 2016:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_winners#Italy
Greetings from Italy,
Cristian
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Cristian Cenci
Project manager Wiki Loves Monuments Italia
Coordinatore regionale per il Trentino-Alto Adige | Regionalkoordinator
für Trentino-Südtirol
Wikimedia Italia – Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera
Tel. +39 393 8005889 | cristian.cenci(a)wikimedia.it | www.wikimedia.it
Hello all,
Greetings from Wiki Loves Monuments India team.
We are glad to announce winners for the WLM India (2016) edition. Please
find the details here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India/Winners
Regards,
Kiran Ravikumar
User:Kiranravikumar <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kiranravikumar>
Hello,
The winners of the 2016 UK competition are here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2016/11/wiki-loves-monuments-2016-winners-ann…
These photos will go forward to the international jury.
Thank you to everyone who contributed photos or helped with the screening
process.
Richard Nevell
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Project Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
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movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
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Hi everyone!
So far, we have received correct submissions for: Antarctica, Belgium &
Luxembourg (90%), India, Italy, Nigeria, Panama, Slovakia, Thailand, United
Kingdom.
*That means the following countries are still missing: *
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium & Luxembourg
(10%), Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece,
Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Nepal,
Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Tunisia, Ukraine, United States
For most of these countries, we have not heard back yet at all. Please make
sure that your jury coordinator is at least in active contact with either
myself or Lily!
The *deadline *(unless agreed by Lily or myself otherwise) is *31 October
2016*. After this date, we may not be able to still accept the nominees. If
you have any doubts that your country may meet the deadline, let us know as
soon as possible.
Looking forward to many thrilling nominees,
Lodewijk
(international jury coordinator)
2016-10-24 14:52 GMT+02:00 effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>:
> Hi everyone!
>
> A quick update: so far we have received the nominations from Panama. If
> your country has finalized the jury process already, please do send us the
> nominations as explained below. Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
>
> 2016-10-20 19:42 GMT+02:00 effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>:
>
>> [This email contains important information on how you can submit the 10
>> nominees of your country to the international finale and the deadlines.
>> Please forward this to your coordinators if need be.]
>>
>> Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
>>
>> Thank you for an amazing job in the past weeks and months in organizing
>> what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in more than 40
>> countries! It's great to see all the beautiful images that have been
>> submitted.
>>
>> As you know, the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition is based
>> on a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country,
>> with a national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The
>> national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted
>> to the international finale.
>>
>> These ten images should be *submitted via email* to the international
>> jury coordinator *before the deadline: effeietsanders AT gmail DOT com*.
>> Unless you have agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this
>> deadline is 31 October 2016, 23:59 UTC. But if you like me, please send
>> them at least a few days before that time. Submissions after this deadline
>> are not guaranteed to be included in the finale. When submitting your
>> finalists, please take these instructions into account:
>> * Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is ok to
>> submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high
>> quality.
>> * Submit the images to: effeietsanders AT gmail DOT com, and include in
>> the CC at least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also
>> include Lily in the cc.
>> * If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later
>> publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we
>> will announce the international winners in December, and will not wait for
>> national announcements.
>> * Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author
>> username
>> * Check basic information about the images. It is NOT possible to replace
>> finalists after the deadline!
>> ** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia
>> Commons. If we cannot email the user there, they may automatically forfeit
>> any prize. You can help them by posting a message on their talkpage, or
>> tracking them down through social media.
>> ** that the monument on the image is identified (preferrably also
>> described in English)
>> ** that the image is freely licensed
>>
>> If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also
>> on the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this
>> - more information about this soon.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your cooperation. After all nominees have been received,
>> this will result in a pool of some 350-430 images for the international
>> jury to consider. The international jury is described on this page
>> <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/>. The jury will first rate all
>> images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/50 will be considered. Then, the
>> jurors will have the opportunity to remove images from the selection, which
>> they consider unfit. Finally, they are asked to rank their top-20 images,
>> and share their reasoning. We will create a jury report based on this
>> information. We expect to announce the results in the first two weeks of
>> December (depending on the swiftness of jury report creation and media
>> opportunities).
>>
>> We're looking forward to the judging process!
>>
>> With warm regards,
>>
>> Lily, on behalf of the international team
>> Lodewijk, international jury coordinator
>>
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