New subject: [important] nominees for the international finale

30 Oct 2016

Hi everyone!

So far, we have received correct submissions for: Antarctica, Belgium &
Luxembourg (90%), India, Italy, Nigeria, Panama, Slovakia, Thailand, United
Kingdom.

*That means the following countries are still missing: *
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium & Luxembourg
(10%), Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece,
Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kosovo, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Nepal,
Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
Tunisia, Ukraine, United States

For most of these countries, we have not heard back yet at all. Please make
sure that your jury coordinator is at least in active contact with either
myself or Lily!

The *deadline *(unless agreed by Lily or myself otherwise) is *31 October
2016*. After this date, we may not be able to still accept the nominees. If
you have any doubts that your country may meet the deadline, let us know as
soon as possible.

Looking forward to many thrilling nominees,

Lodewijk
(international jury coordinator)

2016-10-24 14:52 GMT+02:00 effe iets anders &lt;effeietsanders(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:

...
  Hi everyone!

 A quick update: so far we have received the nominations from Panama. If
 your country has finalized the jury process already, please do send us the
 nominations as explained below. Thank you!

 Best,
 Lodewijk

 2016-10-20 19:42 GMT+02:00 effe iets anders &lt;effeietsanders(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:

  [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 *before the deadline: effeietsanders AT gmail DOT com*.
 Unless you have agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this
 deadline is 31 October 2016, 23:59 UTC. But if you like me, 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 less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high
 quality.
 * Submit the images to: effeietsanders AT gmail DOT com, and include in
 the CC at least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also
 include Lily 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 talkpage, or
 tracking them down through social media.
 ** that the monument on the image is identified (preferrably also
 described in English)
 ** that the image is freely licensed

 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
 <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/>. The jury will first rate all
 images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/50 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-20 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,

 Lily, on behalf of the international team
 Lodewijk, international jury coordinator