Summary: please note the *final deadline* of 31 October. This is a hard
deadline. If you have problems with your jury, please ask the international
team for help as soon as possible.
Dear all,
let me give a quick recap of what the international process looks like:
* National juries (of at least 3 jurors) start now to work, and use October
to come to a decision on the national winners. (countries might use popular
vote)
* The national juries/popular vote must select maximum 10 pictures for the
international finale. This is usually the top-10 of the national
competition, but there can be exceptions (for example, if there are special
categories). This is up to the national jury to decide.
* If the national jury wants to submit less than 10 pictures, that is
possible. They could theoretically also decide that no picture is good
enough for an international finale - in such a case, please submit that
decision explicitely.
* Please try to submit your 10 nominees as soon as possible, ideally before
25 October. Definitely submit them *BEFORE 31 OCTOBER*, this is a hard,
final deadline.
* You can submit the 10 nominees by letting one of the jury members or the
main organizer send an email with the 10 URL's to lodewijk [at]
wikimedia.nland monica.joana11 [at]
gmail.com - please make sure the main contact person in your team is always
in cc, so that we know the email is genuine.
* It is possible to submit your nominees confidentially. We will not
publicly announce the nominees (except for the international jury report of
course - expected begin of December), we expect the national team to do
that. Please link your official announcement on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Winners .
On this page we will also create a gallery page with the winning pictures.
* If you already know when you will send the nominees, please add the date
on the overview too. Please also add that on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Winners
.
If you have any problems with setting up a jury process, please contact the
international team (me for example) as soon as possible! We have a few
people in backup that have offered their help to assist as jury member in
another country. There is no shame in asking for this kind of help - it
would be a shame though if something goes wrong! Please note that to avoid
conflicts of interest etc. we ask all countries to make sure that the jury
consists of /at least/ three members.
Looking forward to lots of amazing pictures,
Lodewijk Gelauff
member of the international team
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From: David Narvaez <david.narvaez(a)computer.org>
Date: 2013/9/23
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Jury Tool] Registration
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
With most of the usability issues ironed out the last two weeks with
the countries that were testing the tool, I have been preparing for
deployment for the rest of the countries. Unfortunately, due to
persona issues I won't have much time to take care of each
installation and configuration as I planned (at least for a couple of
weeks), so what I did is roll out all of the installations at
http://wlm.wmflabs.org/<country code>
At the moment no tool (except for those that were testing it these
weeks) have users, so the first thing I'll ask every coordinator in
every country listed at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/JuryTo…
ist to register in your own tool using the following URL
http://wlm.wmflabs.org/<country code>/register
I'll take care of promoting the first user registered in every tool as
admin of the tool in around 24 hours, which will let that user
configure the tool. For countries that are going to test this only,
and expect to use the tool on October, feel free to configure it for
testing purposes since the tool can be reset.
One unimplemented feature that came as a suggestion from Michael Maggs
(and was something Lodewijk suggested on our original conversation
too) is not to decide the number of rounds upfront, but rather have a
way to start a round when needed. I didn't find the time to implement
this feature, yet the tool is able to feedback from its own output so
if your country does not know exactly how many rounds you will need,
just configure the tool for one round, and you'll be able to export
all images that meet some criteria, I'll reset the tool, and you can
use that output for another round.
All questions to my e-mail to keep the mailing list clear, please.
David E. Narvaez
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Hi all,
During Wiki Loves Monuments, thousands of monuments have already been
uploaded and that is amazing! It's nice to have a lot of images of
monuments on Wikimedia Commons, but it's even nicer to also have these
images in use on Wikipedia. You can help by adding these unused images to
the lists on Wikipedia.
All uploaded images should contain the 'unique identifier' by which you can
identify a monument in your country. Thanks to this information, Erfgoedbot
recognizes which images belong to monuments that do not have a picture yet
in the monument lists on Wikipedia. Erfgoedbot reports these images on the
'unused images' page dedicated to your country-language combination,
together with a link to the exact monument list this image should be placed
in.
An overview of all 'unused images' reporting pages is maintained on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Unused_images,
which also explains how to use those pages. If you find a mistake,
have a
question or just want to say how much you like this tool, you can use the
talkpage attached to this overview page. The overview also reports which
language-country combinations have the most images that could be inserted
into a monument list. Currently the countries that require most attention
are:
* Russia in Russian - 22,334 unused images (because they recently created
the list, there's a bit of a backlog, so this is understandable)
* Ukraine in Ukrainian - 5,500 unused images
* Flanders (Belgium) in French - 3100 images
* Poland in Polish - 2300 images (lots of uploads!)
* Flanders (Belgium) in Dutch - 2100 images
* Armenia in Armenian - 1900 images
* Israel in Hebrew - 1200 images (and their competition hasn't even started
yet!)
* Switzerland in German - 800 images
Good luck with processing this, and please put a note on the talkpage if
you need help understanding something. It might make sense to ask some more
community members to jump in, if you can't manage by yourself. The lists
are updated daily so you probably want to put "your" list on your watchlist
so you can keep up.
Lodewijk
Hi all,
as you may or may not know, the bot 'erfgoedbot' (run by multichill)
categorizes images to more specific heritage categories, once they have
been uploaded. For this, it goes into the root of the category tree
(usually "category:Cultural Heritage monuments in XYZ") which has been
added at upload, and based on the templates used in your lists it will try
to find more specific categories.
How you can help:
* Add {{Commonscat}} templates to your lists, linking to the right category
in Wikimedia Commons.
* Clean up images left over in the category after the botrun (the bot runs
in the European night)
* Expand and maintain the category tree.
See for more information:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization
Your help here would be very valuable, because I've been told that if the '
leftovers' become too many, it will slow down erfgoedbot (100+ it already
has an impact) and that is of course something nobody wants! Also, the
leftovers are usually either a mistake in the structure (something you'd
like to correct), or a mistake by the uploader, making a typo in the
identifier or just making it up. Keeping those numbers low, should help you
maximizing the number of valid submissions in your country!
Thank you for your help!
Lodewijk
Hi,
as discussed before, we provide an international infrastructure for
measuring some statistics for the national Wiki Loves Monuments websites,
using Piwik. For each country that we know the external website of, we
created a piwik code (if your country already has one from last year, it is
identical), you can find it on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Progre…
.
Again: please only use this if you're confident you're allowed to. If you
feel it would be illegal, don't. (probably stating the obvious)
To use this service, you have to install the piwik code on your website.
See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/FAQ#Ca…
for
instructions.
To follow the stats for your country's website, you need an account to log
in to stats.wikilovesmonuments.org . We provide *one* account per country,
and you will only be allowed to see statistics of your own website(s). You
can request it by emailing me and/or Sylvain (cc'd). If you have technical
questions, Sylvain is your go-to-guy.
To be clear: this is visitor stats to your homepage, NOT upload statistics.
Best,
Lodewijk
Dear WLMers:
We are only 30 minutes away from the beginning of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013.
A number of tools are available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Tools
for following the progress. More tools will likely follow in the next days.
Wiki Loves Monuments will begin at the same time everywhere: Sep 1, 00:00 *
but not at the same instant. It will begin staggered due to the multiple
timezones. This year the contest will be led by Russia. You can view the
at contest times at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Upload…
(I urge the local teams to verify that the start and end times for their
country
contest are right)
* Except for Israel, whose contest will be based on Hebrew calendar instead.
We're almost there, teams!
hi,
We have so far received 15 countries' requests. Please note: these (paper)
Moleskine notebooks might make nice prizes if you have a hard time finding
prizes in your country! I know quite a few countries are struggling with
budgets and prizes, so please consider this. There are zero costs attached
for your local team if you order less than 20.
Do it quickly though, because sending them via mail takes... time.
Lodewijk
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From: Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/8/21
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [Wlm-global-org] Agendas from
Lettera27
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
three quick notes about this:
* the shipment will be done by Wikimedia Italia office (but, as said
above, the cost will be covered by the international team)
* if you can provide the telephone number, please do so
* the courrier (TNT) can not ship to post office boxes.
Thank you.
Cristian
2013/8/19 Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>:
> I forward this question (and the answer) from Ukraine, since it may be
> of interest to everybody.
> ---
>> Is it for free? Can our country (Ukraine) apply for it?
>
> yes, the agendas have been donated to us by Lettera27 Foundation and
> the shipping cost will be covered by the international team. All local
> teams can apply.
> ---
>
> C
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Hi all,
For every country we would like to make sure there is an English summary
page describing the contest in your country. The page for Spain is an
excellent example ( http://www.wikilm.es/en/ ). These English summaries are
very important when you hope to get images from foreigners that visited
your country and have tourist photos anyway of all these famous buildings.
That way you get the pictures easily, and these pictures don't lie around
turning into digital dust!
We listed all (up to date) English summaries on
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/english-pages/ - the list is still quite
short. Please, email me /directly/ in reply to this email (please don't
email on-list) and I can add your country's summary too.
Best,
Lodewijk
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From: David Narvaez <david.narvaez(a)computer.org>
Date: 2013/8/19
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Jury Tool] Workflow Video
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <
wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
I recorded this video of the workflow of configuring and starting to
use the jury tool. Unfortunately, at the time of that recording
several things had not been implemented yet, which I'll detail in the
list below.
http://wlm.wmflabs.org/wlmjurytoolworkflow.ogv
The workflow after installing the tool using the steps mentioned in
the other thread is more or less as follows:
1. Select the number of rounds of your contest. This is, how many
times will the jury go over the pics
2. For each round you will be presented with a screen to configure the
options for that round. Then, for instance, if you configured your
contest to be of 3 rounds in step 1, you will see 3 configuration
screens in this step.
2.1 For each round you can select whether you want that to be an open
round or an invitational round. An open round means anybody can create
an account in your tool, and go over the pics. An invitational round
means only certain accounts in your tool will be able to go over the
pics of this round. Pending in my TODO list is a configuration option
to specify what accounts are invited to that round.
2.2 For each round you can select what type of scores will be used.
Binay score means Yes/No, while Star-based gives the jury a 5-stars
range to pic for each photo.
2.3 [Not in the video] For each round you can select what the scoring
policy will be. You can pick between the following options: All photos
are scored exactly once and All photos are scored by at least x
juries. Obviously, if you have an invitational round of 5 juries, then
configuring this round so that All photos are scored by at least 5
juries means All photos are scored by all juries.
2.4 For each round you can select the input of that round. Input may
be a category in commons, or a selection of the photos from the
previous round, or a plain text file containing the name of the photos
in commons. Whatever you pic here will be used to show a configuration
screen when the round is about to start.
3. Once all the information for each round is set, Round 1 is about to
start, so the tool will show a configuration screen for that. In the
video, since Round 1 was set to have a commons category as input, the
configuration screen asks for a commons category, you type the name,
and the pics from that round are loaded from the category. Had it been
configured as having input from a plain text file, the tool would have
asked for a file instead of a category in the configuration screen.
And that's it for the moment, there are some other pending things but
I think this covers most of the hassle of configuring the tool. Let me
know if you have any feedback.
David E. Narvaez
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