Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,
Thank you for the amazing work done in the past weeks and months in
organizing wiki loves Monuments 2019.
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: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com. Unless you have
agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this deadline is 31 October,
23:59 UTC. Your encouraged to 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: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com , and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
lilyofthewest.wikimedia(a)gmail.com 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 talk page, or
tracking them down through social media.
** that the monument on the image is identified (preferably also described
in English)
** that the image is freely licensed
*If you want to use the jury tool, please sign up for it(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Wiki_Loves_Monument…
)
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. The
jury will first rate all images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/60 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-25 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,
Erina Mukuta
International Jury coordinator
Hi all,
A belated e-mail to announce a feature that has been running for a week or
so.
Every three minutes, ErfgoedBot retrieves the list of users who uploaded,
in the last few minutes, pictures marked as participating to WLM. If an
uploader has not enabled e-mail, the bot leaves a message on their talk
page explaining that it is necessary to win a prize (unless it has already
notified that user).
You can help translating the message in more languages at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/i18nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLM-enable-email/heading/i18n
We hope that this will help to avoid situations of winning pictures with no
email enabled, only detected much later when the uploader is not around
anymore.
You can see the original requirements at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195341
Thank you to:
* Lodewijk for the original idea
* André for the code-review
* Michael Maggs for some much needed polishing of the message prose
Hope this helps,
--
Jean-Fred
Hi everyone,
It is my pleasure to announce on behalf of the international team that this
year there will be three special awards for African monuments.
All images that are nominated as the top-10 by the national juries are
eligible for this prize and a dedicated jury will take a decision on this
in November. One restriction is that all three prizes have to go to a
different country.
More information about all prizes this year:
https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/awards/
Warmly, and looking forward to many exciting pictures this year.
Lodewijk