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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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Submission Form
by Erina Mukuta 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi everyone! As you may be aware, the deadline to submit national nominees to the international process is by the end of December. In previous years, this all happened via email. 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. Thank you again for this effort! I'm looking forward to a lot of exciting submissions this year. Best regards, -- *Erina Mukuta*International Jury Coordinator

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 - Participant Survey
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hello all, As many of you might have already noticed from your Wikimedia Commons talk pages, the WLM International Team has launched this year's participants survey. The survey has been sent as a mass message to all the uploaders of WLM. Through the survey we would like to learn who you are, your experience with various aspects of Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, what worked well, and what can be improved for the next year. If you have participated in WLM 2020, you can participate in the survey at https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9plOyw6gnzNfOWF and also please do pass it onto your community groups and also any social media channels you have. Apart from that, I would like to point out two things; 1. While sending the mass message, I didn't notice the title said 2019, as I copied last year's template - and it was sent! So your talk page sections might be saying 2019 - but the content is about 2020 only. It is my mistake, sorry for the confusion. I am hoping to fix it with the help of AWB or a bot, though not very sure. 2. Also, since this year, countries have organized their national competitions, between September and November - the survey had only been sent to uploaders till the end of October (approximately). So for the countries that organized the competition in November, the survey will be distributed for their participants separately in early December. So if you are wondering that you haven't received a message, it is because of this reason. In less than a week since the launch, there are about 900 responses! Please share it across to increase the participation. Also, we have got the translations done in a few major languages, but we can also include others, even now and integrate with the form. Anyway, they will be helpful for next year as well. So if you are interested in translating the survey to your language, please let me know. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Best, Krishna Chaitanya *on behalf of the international team* PS: Organizer's survey will be out soon :)

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Call for suggestions jurors
by Erina Mukuta 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi all, Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2020. It is a complicated and delicate process to come to a balanced jury, and I would like to outline the criteria here, and to 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 January * 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 2020(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 the 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, Erina Mukuta international jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2020

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Call for suggestions jurors
by Erina Mukuta 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Hi all, Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2020. It is a complicated and delicate process to come to a balanced jury, and I would like to outline the criteria here, and to 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 2016 (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 the 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, Erina Mukuta international jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2020

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reminder: deadline for jury submissions is later this year
by effe iets anders 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi everyone, As a kind reminder, I would like to point to the timeline this year <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2020/Organi…>: every country can follow the submission schedule of the countries that run in November. That means you can submit until late December (don't get surprised by the holidays though!). After that, we will have to enforce the deadline more strictly this year, but hopefully this offers some respite. I'm just sending this as a kind reminder, as I saw some concerned messages from national organizers. Please ensure that your jury coordinators are aware of this submission timeline. Thank you, Lodewijk

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2020 statistics tooling
by Jean-Frédéric 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

Hi all, The WLM international team maintains a statistics tool for Wiki Loves -like contests. It is ready for WLM 2020. Data is refreshed every 15 minutes. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2020> If you want to know more about the tools, there is documentation at <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Wikiloves> == What does this bring me? == The tool, beyond the “country race”, provides each competition with: * A day-to-day table of image uploads and joiners (suploader who uploaded their first image on that day). < https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/monuments/2020/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/2020/Ireland/users> These two views may be helpful to gauge the health of your competition == There's a problem! == If you notice any issue with the tool (bug, data missing, etc.), please file me a task on Phabricator. < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=tool… > Hope this helps. Happy to answer any question. -- Jean-Frédéric

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey and Organizer Survey reports
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 11 Jul '20

11 Jul '20

Hello everyone, The long pending reports of Wiki Loves Monuments 2019's Participant and Organizer surveys have now been published on Wikimedia Commons. You may access them at the following links; - Participant Survey: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_20… - National/regional organizers can request survey results for their country (if there were at least 10 responses). Additionally, in the survey, we asked if people would like to help in organizing, as lack of human resources is one of the most commonly reported challenges by national organizers. To this, about 60% of the survey respondents said yes; if you need this data, you may also seek that. You can place a request at https://forms.gle/PSKxCS9nV2yFdXXK8. *If you have already placed a request, the same will be fulfilled within the next couple of days.* - Organizer Survey: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_20… - It would be a good resource for organizers who are planning to organize the contest to go through this report, and learn what other organizers had reported as advice, new ideas, and challenges. Sorry for enormous delay caused in conducting these surveys, and then publishing the reports. It was because it is the first time we did such an extensive survey, and response was overwhelming. It will be much better and faster for the upcoming iteration. Stay safe, happy reading! Krishna C V.

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