Forwarding this important message from Romaine
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From: Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 1:00 PM
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Message for the local organisers of Wiki
Loves Monuments 2022
To: Wiki Loves Monuments <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
In a week from now Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 is going to start!
To make sure everything works well a few quick reminders for the local
organisers:
1. Please make sure your country/area has been added to the list of
countries at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Partic…
(Yes, this has been forgotten sometimes.)
2. Please make sure your landing page is listed on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Landin…
If your local language is not English, please also add the page where
non-native speakers can learn about how they can upload images in your
country. (If you do not have an English, please create it.)
3. During the photo contest a box is shown above the upload wizard, which
can be found at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_header_wlm-xx
To found yours, replace the xx by your country code.
Please make sure the one in your local language links to the landing page
in your local language and make sure the others link to the page in English.
Have a great contest everyone!
Romaine
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Hello everyone,
It is my pleasure to share with you that we will be announcing the winners
of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 through our social media platforms on
Instagram, Facebook and Twitter on Monday next, April 18th, starting 13.00
UTC.
Same as previous years, we will be counting down from number 25 all the way
to this edition’s number 1, announcing one image per half hour. We will
start with honorable mentions (places 25-16) on April 17 23.00 UTC. The top
15 winners will be shared from Monday April 18, 13.00 UTC onwards, in
reverse order: every 30 min one winner will be revealed.
The jury of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 asked to share with you a statement
on the results of WLM 2021. The jury statement can be found on the WLM
international website
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/statement-by-the-jury-of-wlm-2021/>.
You can follow the results on any of our social media channels:
https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesmonuments/https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonuments/https://twitter.com/wikimonuments
Thanks,
Ciell - on behalf of the International WLM Team
Hi everyone,
This is a quick reminder for the Office Hour about Wiki Loves Monuments and
Wikidata tomorrow, Sunday March 27th 15:00 UTC.
Don't forget to sign up on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Office…>
and bring all your questions about the topic!
Vriendelijke groet,
Ciell
Op za 19 mrt. 2022 om 10:16 schreef Ciell Wikipedia <
ciell.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> In preparation for Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, I would like to invite you
> to our next WLM office hour on Sunday March 27th, where we will focus on
> the possibilities of using Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments.
>
> During this office hour we will have a short presentation by Éder Porto
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ederporto> about the difference
> between having the lists on Wikipedia and the data in Wikidata, what is
> needed for you to import existing or new data about build heritage into the
> database, and examples of tools to work with the information on Wikidata as
> for instance for keeping the data up to date and creating automated lists
> on Wikipedia.
>
> After the presentation we’ll have ample time for questions and answers. If
> you have questions about WLM & Wikidata, experiences you would like to
> share, or are just curious about the topic, please join us for the call.
>
> When: Sun. 27 March, 15.00 UTC
>
> Where: Google meet, link will be shared about 24 hours before.
>
> We would appreciate it if you could indicate your interest for this Office
> Hour on this page on Commons
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Office…>
> .
>
> Best,
>
> Ciell
>
> Wiki Loves Monuments international team
>
Forwarding this message to the announce list.
This may be particularly relevant for countries that don't have a list on
Wikipedia yet, or have a clean structured datasource from the government.
But Please get in touch with John and Alicia with questions!
You can also join and discuss on our discussion mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikilovesmonuments.lists.wikime…
Best,
Lodewijk
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From: John Cummings <john.cummings(a)wikimedia.se>
Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 3:53 AM
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikimedia Sverige can import your Wiki
Loves Monuments datasets into Wikidata
To: <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all
Wikimedia Sverige, through our new partnerships hub
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub> want to help
make documenting built cultural heritage on Wikimedia projects easier. We
want to work with Wikimedia communities to help you write about your
heritage, document it through Wiki Loves Monuments and other activities.
To start we are importing the data from the Wiki Loves Monuments database
into Wikidata, building on the work that the community has done over the
last several years.
Adding information about monuments to Wikidata has several benefits
including:
-
It makes it much easier to run Wiki Loves Monuments and makes it
possible to use other tools to run e.g. Monumental. For example, monuments
lists can be generated automatically based on Wikidata data, instead of
having to maintain them locally on-wiki.
-
It allows Wikipedia contributors to know what heritage is missing, for
example we can create a redlist of the missing sites from Wikipedia.
-
It makes the monuments list easier to keep up to date by empowering more
editors to edit the items, not only those active on the local Wikipedia
version and fluent in its language. We are working on additional Wikidata
documentation to support this.
To do this we we would like to work with communities to better understand
their local data before we upload it:
1.
What is the state of the data? E.g when was it added, is it out of date?
Have you manually added or changed the data from the original source?
2.
Where did the data come from? Is it available publicly? Can we download
it easily?
3.
Are there any additional sources of data you would like to include in
your Wiki Loves Monuments lists?
We are currently updating the page
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Status, which
contains an overview of all the datasets in the Monuments database, in
order to identify the regions with largest gaps and find out what already
has been done by the community. You can add your comments there or on the
talk page.
We have plenty of time until the next Wiki Loves Monuments, so we are
looking forward to improving as much data on Wikidata as possible.
Please get in touch with us by emailing Alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se
Many thanks
John Cummings
Wikimedia Sverige
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Hi everyone,
It’s time to pick up the WLM Office Hours again. During these office hours
you can expect to talk with other WLM organizers about different aspects of
organizing the WLM competition.
We’ll start this year off with a first block (in 2 time slots to allow
optimal geographic coverage) on the research for DEI en are looking forward
to discussing issues of accessibility and disparity of resources, changing
local cultural contexts related to monuments/heritage, government or
bureaucratic restrictions to participation, and other such issues that
hinder inclusivity and diversity in WLM.
Please join us on the weekend of 29 and 30 January for an exchange of
experiences, after a brief introduction/presentation by Mesha (a researcher
that supports the international team). Whether you have experiences to
share, or are just curious about Wiki Loves Monuments and the research,
please join us for the call.
When: Sat. 29 Jan 9:00 am (UTC) and Sun. 30 Jan 18.00 (UTC)
Where: Google Meet
We would appreciate it if you could indicate your interest on this page on
Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Office…>:
12 hours before the start of the office hour we will share the link for the
call on this page.
On a final note: the international team will be planning more office hours
again and we have some ideas about the topics that could be covered, but we
of course would like to hear if you have ideas about this! Wikidata,
organizing your first photowalk, or the jury process: what would you like
to talk about? Let us know.
Best,
Ciell
Hi everyone,
As the national winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 are coming in, the
international team is working on putting together a good jury for this
year's international round. We will need 3-5 more members to complete the
set.
As in the past years, it is important to aim once again for a jury that as
a whole is neutral and balanced in many ways. This means ideally:
1. A mix of photography experts, heritage experts, and Wikimedia experts
(aiming at a total size of 7-9)
2. Geographically balanced so that no two jury members come from the
same country.
3. Balance in many other ways imaginable (while at the same time, one
can never assure a balance in all aspects)
4. The international jury members do not serve on a national jury for
WLM 2021
5. At the same time, there are some practical considerations:
- Jury members must be able to understand English.
6. Able to commit to judging 200-500 photos in three rounds over a
period of 3 weeks in November, as a volunteer.
While jury members can participate in a local competition, their photos
cannot participate in the international finale. It would be helpful if the
juror would be willing to share their real name for the jury report.
Do you know someone who would make a good juror? Please contact me or the
jury coordinator Ndahira Derrick (ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com) with the
suggestions. Please reach out along with the potential juror contact
details, and a couple of lines of why they would make a good juror for WLM.
We are specifically looking for jurors from *Latin America, Africa, and
Asia*, as other regions are well covered already.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
*on behalf of the international team*
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 via this email (*ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com
<ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com>*) before the deadline (31st November.2021. Unless
you have agreed on a different deadline with Krishna Chaitanya (in cc). But
if you like, 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 fewer images, for example, if you don't find enough images of high
quality.
* Submit the images to:ndahiroderric@gmail.com, and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
Krishna Chaitanya 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 January, and will not wait for
national announcements.
* Submit for each image: URL, Filename 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
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
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/>. 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
January (depending on the swiftness of jury report creation and media
opportunities).
With warm regards,
*Derrick Ndahiro*, 2021 WLM jury coordinator
Hi all,
As many of you know, there are several tools overseen by the WLM
international team for Wiki Loves -like contests. While I myself stepped
down from the team, I wanted to send a (belated) quick reminder of some
tools that are available.
Note that these are not all the tools available around WLM, only the ones
that I (co-)maintain(ed) :)
== Statistics tools ==
See <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2021>. Data is refreshed
every 15 minutes.
If you want to know more about the tool, please see <
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Wikiloves>
The tool, beyond the “country race”, provides each competition with:
* A day-to-day table of image uploads and joiners (uploader who uploaded
their first image on that day). <
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2021/Ireland>
* A sorted table of all uploaders, their upload count (as part of the
competition) and file usage, and their registration date <
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2021/Ireland/users>
These two views may be helpful to gauge the health of your competition
If you notice any issue with the tool (bug, data missing, etc.), please
file a task on Phabricator: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=tool…>.
== ErfgoedBot and Monuments database ==
While being mostly in maintenance mode, with no new features planned, good
old ErfgoedBot should still be up and running (at least for countries that
are not yet using Wikidata) − big thanks to André Costa for giving it some
love :-)
For more information on the services provided by ErfgoedBot
(categorization, maintenance reports, etc.), please see the documentation
on Commons:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database>
One of the most relevant task is the categorization (described at <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization>)
− as far as I can see based on the bot edits, it seems to be working fine.
== Notification to uploaders without email enabled ==
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.
Hope this all helps,
--
Jean-Frédéric
Hello all,
As you all may already know, Wiki Loves Monuments is one of the largest
campaigns and outreach efforts organized in the Wikimedia movement. There
are a lot of people who are involved in this across the movement, including
but not limited to, national/regional organizers, affiliates, external
partners, WMF and coordinating all these stakeholders we have the
international team.
The international team works on the broader framework for WLM, among a
range of other tasks. As the competition has started this year, we would
like to send out this call for volunteers for anyone interested to join the
international team. You can learn along as the competition is going on.
Here are the roles available on the team:
- Organizer outreach
- Project management
- Communication
- Banner/template support
- Technical Infrastructure
- Survey and analysis
- Grant & report writing
- Organizing the “rest of the world” competition
- Award coordination
- Wikidata migration
A detailed overview of each of these roles is available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati….
Some roles don't require you to volunteer for the whole year, for example,
award coordination is mainly between January and March. If you are
interested, you can still support other tasks during the rest of the year.
On average, you may spend 3-5 hours a week.
Let me know if you are interested, and please spread the message in your
circles.
Best,
Krishna Chaitanya
*for WLM International Team*
Hi all,
Like every year, We need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2021. It is a complicated and delicate process to come to a
balanced jury, and I would like to outline the criteria here and ask for
your input. I have agreed to take the lead on this process - but would
definitely welcome your input, and help.
- As in the past years, I think it is important to aim once again for a
jury that as a whole is neutral and balanced in many ways. This means
ideally:
- A mix of photography experts, heritage experts, and Wikimedia experts
(aiming at a total size of 7-9)
- Geographically balanced so that no two jury members come from the same
country.
- Balance in many other ways imaginable (while at the same time, one can
never assure a balance in all aspects)
The international jury members do not serve on a national jury for WLM,
At the same time, there are some practical considerations:
- Jury members must be able to write and read English.
- They must have the time to commit to judge 200-500 photos in three
rounds over a period of 3 weeks in November, while jury members can
participate in a local competition, their photos cannot participate in the
international finale.
- Jury members should not participate in any national jury for 2021
(previous years is OK)
- It would be helpful if the juror would be willing to share their real
name for the jury report.
- Jury work is in a volunteer capacity.
Do you know someone who would make a good juror, please contact me
privately with a suggestion? At least let me know who the juror is, how I
could contact him/her and why they would make a good jury member (and
whether you have reason to believe they would accept the nomination if
asked).
I will do my best to put together once again a qualified and diverse jury,
with your help!
Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
*Derrick Ndahiro*
*International jury coordinator*, Wiki Loves Monuments 2021
--
derrick