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Submission of local WLM 2021 winning photos to the international jury
by Ndahiro Derrick Alter 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

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

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Information regarding some of the tooling for WLM 2021
by Jean-Frédéric 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

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/i18n https://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

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Wiki Loves Monuments International Team: Call for Volunteers
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

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*

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Fwd: Call for suggestions jurors
by Ndahiro Derrick Alter 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

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

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Upcoming Office Hour on 23 July: Feedback on newcomer's guide to WLM
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Hello everyone, The Wiki Loves Monuments International Team would like to invite you to an office hour on May 26 @ 3:00 pm UTC. This hour is open to anyone interested in Wiki Loves Monuments, including past and future organizers, and participants. For this month, the primary topic will be to discuss and collect feedback on the newcomer's guide to WLM. With the surveys, the International Team has been receiving feedback that there is not a place for first-time participants (who are also new to Wikimedia) to read about participating in the competition. Last month we got on board a designer to work with us to design a friendly guide for first-time participants. Here is the first draft of the wireframe: https://xd.adobe.com/view/03bd18ac-99e5-420f-976b-ad2fe5b543d9-56ee/. We will use this office hour to collect feedback from community members and national organizers regarding a strategy to implement this for various national competitions. You can also share your specific feedback related to the design directly on the link above. The meeting details are as follows: - July 23 @ 3:00 pm UTC (https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1627052415) - On Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/yaa-keho-nva | click here to add this to your Google Calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mmg3NmpuNDFoMDA3YWt…> - Agenda/Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WLM-2021-May We hope that you are able to join us, and we look forward to the discussion. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya *for the Wiki Loves Monuments International Team*

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Wiki Loves Monuments in 2021: important information for organizers
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Hello everyone, *In a nutshell* - 2021's competition can be organized for any 30/31 days during the months of September and October. - The deadline to submit the top 10 national winners will be December 5, 2021. - National organizers should publish information (username or name) of jurors and rounds organized on this page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Juries> . - We have a budget this year as well to award special prizes - please share if you have any ideas by July 15. - And, if you are interested in organizing, please signup here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Partic…> . *Full announcement (also available at https://w.wiki/3a5s <https://w.wiki/3a5s>)* It's that time of year again when we get started for Wiki Loves Monuments. By 2020, we have completed ten iterations of the international edition. Thanks to all other organizers, participants, sponsors and partners, who collectively achieved this feat. With the onset of a global pandemic, last year has been particularly challenging for many organizers to keep the photo competition running. Nevertheless, we received 200,000+ images. Though it is great to see several countries recovering to normal life after a long period of lockdowns and restrictions, many countries aren't quite there yet. Since February this year, we have been organizing office hours to have inputs from community members regarding various aspects related to the competition, which also includes the timeline. The framework for 2021 is based on all consolidated feedback from these conversations and surveys we did for 2020 (sorry for the delay in publishing those reports!) - *Responsibility for national organizers:* We would like to emphasize that the international team coordinates the national competitions: we are not qualified to tell you exactly how to organize your competition. National teams are best placed to decide whether and how to organize a competition in your country. We will try to help set an international framework, and assist in the exchange of best practices. We expect that national organizers will follow the guidelines and regulations set by their national governments and health authorities. Note that funding and WMF affiliate recognition may come with additional guidance/requirements. - *Transparency of national juries:* The international team has been receiving feedback over the last couple of years for better transparency of national juries, to avoid potential conflict of interest organizers may have with jurors. So from this year on, national organizers should publish their information (username or name) of jurors and rounds organized on this page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Juries> . - *Extended timeline:* Many organizers welcomed the extended timeline last year. Though we will be continuing that this year, but not exactly as we did last year. National organizers have the opportunity to choose a different range of dates for their national competition. You can pick any range of 30 or 31 days within the period of September-October 2021 as your upload dates. That means that one country does not have to use the same upload dates as another. This will allow flexibility according to the situation in various countries. - The last date for all uploads is 31 October 2021, and any uploads beyond that date will be ineligible for consideration. - The jury deadline will be December 5, 2021, for all countries. - *Exchange of knowledge:* National organizers innovate in many ways to make their competitions successful. While some try out new social media campaigns, some organize an interesting photo walk, and others use Wikidata to make the upload process easy. It would be helpful for other organizers to learn from these practices. Here is a page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Knowle…> on Wikimedia Commons where you can share your strategies and let the community know what worked, what didn’t and any suggestions for others interested in the idea. - *Special awards in 2021:* Though the international team tried to organize special awards last year, we couldn’t make it work. We have a budget this year as well to award special prizes. We would like community members to suggest ideas for these special prizes. For example, underrepresented regions, the most numbers of unique monuments covered etc. Please send in your ideas via email or by posting on the Commons talk page by July 15. Lastly, and most importantly, if you are interested in organizing the competition for your country/region, please sign up at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Partic… . If you need any support with organizing, please reach out to one of the international team members <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021/Organi…>, or you can also post to the mailing list, or on the help desk <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021> on Wikimedia Commons. Best, Krishna Chaitanya, for the International Team PS: If you are interested in helping with the international coordination, please check out the roles here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati…> and let us know if anything interests you.

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Opportunity: Information Designer for Wiki Loves Monuments
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 15 May '21

15 May '21

Hello everyone, I am writing to share that Wiki Loves Monuments International Team is looking for an "Information Designer" on a part-time contract basis for three months. In a nutshell, the role of the designer will be to design a short (quick to read) guide for newcomers to take part in Wiki Loves Monuments. A detailed job description and link to the application are available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1At_UbNjqHqoRwqL4b4UZogSLj1i91gL1/view?usp=… . Please share it in your circles, and let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya for the International Team, Wiki Loves Monuments

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Wiki Loves Monuments: Upcoming Office Hour on 16 April
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Hello everyone, The Wiki Loves Monuments International Team would like to invite you to an office hour on 16 April @ 3 pm UTC. This hour is open to anyone interested in Wiki Loves Monuments, including past and future national organizers. We are starting to experiment with hosting an office hour every month, starting this month. The idea is to create a space to have more conversations about the campaign with national organizers and have their inputs. We will have a topic to discuss each month, which will be decided from time to time. We can also talk about other related stuff if we have time left. For this month, we would like to discuss deciding the timeline for 2021's competition. Due to the pandemic, last year, organizers had the option to choose any 30 days between September and November, as opposed just September. Though many organizers welcomed this move and it helped many countries participating for the first time to organize the competition, it has some logistical challenges and disadvantages. As the pandemic hasn't receded yet, we anticipate national organizers will have similar challenges as last year. As deciding the timeline is the one of the first steps to start planning, we would like to have inputs on this. We will start off the conversation based on the inputs we received regarding this from the surveys we conducted last year. The meeting details are as follows: - April 16 @ 3 pm UTC (https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1618585256) - On Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/gmi-njfd-cjv | *click here to add this to your Google Calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWZ0Y3J2b2FxMXY4ZDV…>* - Agenda/Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WLM-2021-April 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 project grant for 2021 coordination
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hello all, Wiki Loves Monuments international team has proposed a project grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support coordination for 2021's campaign. The proposal is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna… . While most of the grant is about the general support and coordination of the project, we have formed a few focus areas for this project period, which are listed under the project goal's section <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna…> . Thank you, Krishna Chaitanya *on behalf of the International Team*

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 Office Hours - February 3
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '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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