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