WLM-Announce January 2021

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 Office Hours - February 3
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hello everyone, The Wiki Loves Monuments international team would like to invite you to an office hour on upcoming Wednesday, i.e. February 3 @ 5:00 am UTC. This hour is open to anyone interested in Wiki Loves Monuments, including past and future national organizers. Please join us to discuss the plans for the team's 2021 grant proposal, volunteering with the international team, or any other topics that you would like to bring. We have seen tremendous national results from the 2020 competition, and there are many valuable lessons from this past year that we can take into the years ahead. The first office hours concluded a few minutes ago, and the etherpad notes can accessed at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WLM-2021-1. The upcoming one is the second office hour in line, with the same agenda - we are hosting two to accommodate people from various time zones. The meeting details are as follows: February 3 @ 5:00 am UTC (https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1612328455) On Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/pph-ygti-pvu Agenda/Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WLM-2021-2 We hope that you are able to join us, and we look forward to the discussion. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya *on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments International Team*

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 Office Hours - January 31
by Stephen LaPorte 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hello everyone, The Wiki Loves Monuments international team would like to invite you to an office hour this weekend, on January 31 (Sunday) @ 15:00 UTC. This hour is open to anyone interested in Wiki Loves Monuments, including past and future national organizers. Please join us to discuss the plans for the team's 2021 grant proposal, volunteering with the international team, or any other topics that you would like to bring. We have seen tremendous national results from the 2020 competition, and there are many valuable lessons from this past year that we can take into the years ahead. Details: January 31, @ 15:00 UTC (https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1612105200) On Google Hangouts: https://meet.google.com/ggk-nfbb-oyz Agenda/Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WLM-2021-1 If you are not able to attend Sunday, do not fear: we plan to host a follow-up office hour (with the same agenda) on February 3. More details to come. I hope that you are able to join us, and I look forward to the discussion. Yours truly, Stephen (User:Slaporte) on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments International

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 - Upcoming Project Grant
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Hello all, I am writing this email to let you know that the international team will be applying for a project grant to WMF in the upcoming round, to provide support for 2021's competition. The draft of the grant proposal is at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna… . While most of the plan and the content is similar to that of previous years, there are few changes/additions to the goals in general that we have put up. These include: - Stabilizing the team and getting the competition going: Some long-standing members of the team are going to step back from the core group this year, which will require significant transitions internally. Our goal is to make sure the international team has sufficient human resources to run the competition successfully this year. (We are also looking for volunteers to join the team :)) - Exploring future changes: - Exploring rest of the world competition: The idea is to explore the possibility of organizing a competition for the rest of the world i.e. for countries not having a national competition. This has come up several times in the past, we explored the idea a bit last year, but it didn't materialise. For this year, we would like to explore the possibility and model of such a competition in detail, and hopefully get in running in 2022. - Research on landing page design: Landing pages are a crucial part of engaging participants. A good landing page can help to turn in more visitors to participants. There is always a scope of improvement in this area. We are planning on closely working with relevant WMF teams to research and improve the design of a generic landing page, which can be used by national competitions. This won't necessarily be ready by the start of 2021's competition, but by the end of the grand period i.e. mid-2022. - Developing step-by-step guide for participants: Though there are a lot of pages containing instructions for participants, there is no single guide to which the participants can refer. We are envisioning to have a graphical 1/2-pager document, with enough information for a complete outsider to Wikimedia, to participate. This can be translated and localised by national competitions. - Follow-up with the participants: The idea is to follow-up with participants, especially those who joined Wikimedia through the competition, at regular intervals after the competition is over. This includes a simple message on talk pages of the participants on what they can possibly do after the competition is over. This may improve retention. The deadline to finalise the proposal is 10 Feb. Please share your thoughts/feedback by 7th, so that it will give us enough time to make changes. We will also discuss these points during the upcoming office hours on Sunday. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya, *on behalf of WLM International Team*

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important: countries missing from official submissions
by Erina Mukuta 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hi everyone, Please note, the following countries still seem to be missing from the official submissions but have posted their finalists on commons. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Benin, Canada, Croatia, Finland , Germany, Georgia, Greece, jordon , lebanon, malta, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda. The following countries still seem to be missing from the official submissionsand have also not posted their finalists on commons. Albania, Australia, Bangladesh ,Bolivia ,Denmark ,Ghana ,Guinea, Kosovo, Nigeria We have received: Algeria, Austria, Aruba, Brazil, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Ireland, isreal, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritania, Moroco, Nepal, Norway, Peru, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Suomi, Spain, Sweden, UK, Ukraine, United States. The detailed instructions to follow are here: In order to minimize the possibility for mistakes and improve reliability of this process, I would like to ask you to fill a form with your nominees. This will generate an email to both a jury member, and an organizer. Both will be asked to confirm the correctness of this overview by responding to that email. The link will be sent to the organizers ON REQUEST. Please have the main organizer email Erina (me) for this. If you did submit, but see your country as missing, please contact Erina to confirm (cc). Thank you for bearing with us, and I hope to see many more beautiful pictures soon! Erina (on behalf of the international team)

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