Hi all,
We're a few hours away from kicking off in the first countries! Very
exciting of course.
While we're aware that some countries are working hard against the
deadline, we have to work with the information available. We noticed that
some countries don't have a functional landing page yet, and that means
that they are not ready to receive thousands of people on their landing
page. We don't want to send all those people there just to get lost.
For the countries where we identify that issue, we will put their
competition 'on hold'. That means that the upload campaigns will become
active and experienced Wikipedians who know where to go, can start
uploading on September 1. However, we will not activate the banners on top
of the Wikimedia projects yet. The end of the competition will not be
extended because of this and remain the same.
Romaine is in charge of this, and will make the final determination if a
banner is ready - on behalf of the international team. We're keeping an
overview of the countries that are on hold on the talkpage of the list of
participating countries
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017/P…>
.
We try to ping the coordinators, but please do check if your country is
affected in the next hours.
We encourage everyone to fix these problems as soon as possible, so that we
can go live without too much delay. You can find the requirements for the
landing pages here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017/Landin…
Also if you're not affected: if you want to help these countries (if you
speak their language), please feel free to help out! That is much
appreciated.
Best,
Lodewijk
(on behalf of the international team)
Hi all,
Thank you for your patience while we were finalizing the awards for
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017. You can find more details about this year's
awards at :
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/awards/
We will start updating the relevant pages on wiki soon. If you spot
something somewhere that is not updated, be blod! :)
This year, we are especially grateful to an anonymous donor who has
allowed us to create a major award for the winner of the contest at
the international level. As a volunteer movement and community, we
rely on people to join us and donate their time, energy, grants, and
sometimes items to make Wiki Loves Monuments a stronger contest. :) We
are also thankful to our partner Europa Nostra for their continuous
support and the award they have dedicated to the winner of the
contest.
In the coming weeks, we will continue to look for ways to improve the
awards, so changes may happen to that page, but they will be for the
better (or at least, this is what we are aiming for:).
For most of you, we are one week away from the start of the contest.
We are super thrilled to support you in what you are doing to make a
successful Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 happen.
Thank you! :)
Lily, on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments international team
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User: LilyOfTheWest
Hi all,
Wiki Loves Monuments international team is excited to share the
following news with you:
Flickr [1] and Wiki Loves Monuments will work together to encourage
and facilitate the contributions by Flickr photographers to Wiki Loves
Monuments 2017. Here is the rough sketch of how this collaboration
will work (more details will be provided on this list as we learn more
but also as we run into questions that we'd like to answer with you):
* Flickr is going to use their Worldwide Photowalk Group [2] to host
images and invite photographers to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments
2017.
* This week they will publish a blog post on the Flickr Blog/social
and update the group with a call to action for photographers to begin
organizing independent meetup events/walks in their location in
September. They will be closely following the sign-ups for countries
participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 [3]. Please help us by
keeping that page updated.
* Organizers will create Facebook events with specific details and
monuments the attendees will photograph. Flickr will host a master
list broken down by continent/country in a Group Discussion.
* They will open the Group for photo submissions in September to
officially launch the month and in sync with each country's opening
and closing time and date of campaigns.
* Flickr will post each week with their favorite images in the group
(blog + social + galleries) to continue encouraging
participation/submissions.
* When we say "organizer" in above points, we are referring to group
organizers on Flickr end. If country organizers on our end would like
to get more involved with Flickr photographers, we'd support and
encourage that but local organizers on either side shouldn't feel
pressured to do so. :)
For a list of things we should do, please read [4].
In the past, the photowalks have been pretty popular [5] and both
sides are looking forward to welcoming new cities as part of this Wiki
Loves Monuments season.
We are very happy that Flickr is working with us and our communities
through Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 and we hope that the experience of
this year provides more opportunities for the two communities to
collaborate more in the future.
Questions and comments are welcome.
Best,
Lily
[1] https://www.flickr.com/
[2] https://www.flickr.com/groups/flickr10photowalks/
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017/Partic…
[4]
On our end, we will need to do the following:
* Workout how to keep the local organizers updated about the
submissions on Flickr end as the contest is moving forward.
* Create a bot that will call a Flickr API at the end (or at specific
intervals) of the contest to import photos from Flickr to Commons. We
should communicate with Flickr what exact information they should make
sure gets collected and served via the API. (country code, monuments
ID, name/id of the photographers, license, photo, ...)
* Licenses accepted.
* [optional] A mapping tool such as Monumental is something
photographers will appreciate a lot. :)
* and more
[5] Continents/cities that have had participated more than a couple of
times in the past photowalks by Flickr:
Europe: London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, León or Valladolid (and other
cities) in Spain, Moscow, Rome and other Italian cities...
Americas: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, Las Vegas,
Vancouver, Toronto, Sao Paolo, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Asia: Bangalore and other cities in India, Taipei, Karachi,
Oceania: Sydney, Melbourne and other smaller cities in Australia,
occasionally some city in New Zealand (Christchurch) or Japan (Nigata,
Tokyo)
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