Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators,

Thank you for the amazing work done in the past weeks and months in organizing wiki loves Monuments 2019.

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 before the deadline: erinamukuta@gmail.com. Unless you have agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this deadline is 31 October, 23:59 UTC. Your encouraged to 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 less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high quality. * Submit the images to: erinamukuta@gmail.com , and include in the CC at least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include lilyofthewest.wikimedia@gmail.com 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 December, and will not wait for national announcements. * Submit for each image: URL, File name 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 *If you want to use the jury tool, please sign up for it( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Wiki_Loves_Monuments... )

If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also on the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this - more information about this soon.

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. 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 December (depending on the swiftness of jury report creation and media opportunities).

We're looking forward to the judging process!

With warm regards,

Erina Mukuta International Jury coordinator