Hi all,
First of all, thank you to all those who have submitted their photos, we
have received some truly stunning entries so far!
With just under two hours to go until the deadline (23:59 UTC), there are
still a number of countries that have not yet submitted their entries to
the international competition (or have submitted them incorrectly). These
countries are the following:
Algeria; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Brazil; Bulgaria; Canada; Egypt; Finland;
India; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Morocco; Nepal; Pakistan; Poland; Saudi Arabia;
Syria; Taiwan; Tunisia
If you are involved in any of these campaigns, or are in touch with anybody
who is involved with them, kindly ensure that submissions are sent before
the deadline. If you have already agreed an alternative deadline with
myself or with the rest of the international team, kindly ignore this email.
When submitting photos, please follow the guidelines listed in my previous
email (here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2017-October/00872…
).
In short, for each photo kindly send the (i) file name; (ii) author; and
(iii) url. Please also copy a national jury member into the email,
alongside myself and Lily (lilyofthewest.wikimedia [at] gmail.com). *Please
note that simply uploading your nominations to Commons is not enough to
nominate them for the international competition.*
Thank you once again for all your hard work on your national competitions.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Neville
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Neville Borg
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 international jury coordinator
Hi everyone!
I am just sending a quick update on the submissions that we have received
and those that are still pending. If your country is listed incorrectly
below, please let me know and I will look into this.
So far we have received correct submissions for the following countries:
Australia; Bangladesh; Croatia; France; Germany; Georgia; Ghana; Italy;
Malaysia; Slovakia; United Kingdom.
This means that we are still looking forward to receiving submissions from
the following: Algeria; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Brazil; Bulgaria;
Canada; China; Dutch Caribbean; Egypt; Finland; Greece; India; Iran;
Ireland; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Latvia; Malta; Morocco; Nepal; Netherlands;
Norway; Pakistan; Palestine; Peru; Poland; Russia; Saudi Arabia; South
Korea; Spain; Sweden; Syria; Taiwan; Thailand; Tunisia; Uganda; Ukraine;
USA; Venezuela
I have already been in touch with many of you, so I know that you are all
working hard on finalising your evaluations. For those of you who I have
not yet heard from, please note that the deadline for submissions (unless
previously agreed with the international team) is 31 October at 23:59 UTC.
We may be unable to accept any submissions received after this date.
Kindly follow the submission guidelines set out in this email (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2017-October/00872…)
when submitting your country's photos.
If you have any doubts over whether your country will be able to meet this
deadline, please let us know as soon as possible.
Thank you for all your work on WLM and we look forward to receiving many
thrilling submissions!
Best regards,
Neville
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Neville Borg
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 international jury coordinator
[This email contains important information on how you can submit the 10
nominees of your country to the international finale and the respective
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 organising
what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in more than 50
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 federalised model: there is a national competition in each country, with
a national organising team, a national jury, and national winners. The
national jury determines up to a maximum of 10 images that will be
submitted to the international finale.
These 10 images should be submitted via email to myself before the
deadline. Unless you have agreed a different date with Leila (in cc), this
deadline is 31 October 23:59 UTC. Submissions after this deadline are not
guaranteed to be included in the finale.
We expect to receive up to 10 nominations from the following national
competitions:
Algeria, Andorra & Catalan Areas; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan;
Bangladesh; Brazil; Bulgaria; Canada; China; Croatia; Dutch Caribbean;
Egypt; Finland; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; India; Iran; Ireland;
Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Latvia; Malaysia; Morocco; Malta; Nepal;
Netherlands; Norway; Pakistan; Palestine; Peru; Poland; Russia; Saudi
Arabia; Slovakia; South Korea; Spain; Sweden; Syria; Taiwan; Thailand;
Tunisia; Uganda; Ukraine; UK; US; and Venezuela.
When submitting your finalists, please take these instructions into account:
* Submit no more than 10 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: neville.borg[at]wikimalta.org, and include at least
one (additional) local jury member besides yourself in cc. Please also
include Leila (lilyofthewest.wikimedia[at]gmail.com) in 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.
* For each image please submit the following information: 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.
* Ensure 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 by
tracking them down through social media.
* Ensure that the monument on the image is identified (preferably also
described in English).
* Ensure that the image is freely licensed.
* All national competitions are welcome to add their top 10 nominations to
this section (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017_winners#Finali…).
If you have sub-contests within the national competition that you would
like to share the results of publicly, you can use this section (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017_winners#Others)
to do so.
If you want, there are opportunities to also share your national winners on
the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this.
Thank you very much for your cooperation. After all nominees have been
received, this will result in a pool of some 400-500 images for the
international jury to consider. Details about the international jury will
be published shortly. 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 that they consider unfit from the selection.
Finally, they will be asked to rank their top-25 images, and share the
reasoning behind their choices. We will create a jury report based on this
information. We expect to announce the results in the first two weeks of
December (depending upon the swiftness of jury report creation and media
opportunities).
We're looking forward to the judging process!
With warm regards,
Neville
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 international jury coordinator
Dear Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 organizers and jury coordinators,
We are half-way through October and it's a good time to remind
everyone that the deadline for submitting your campaign's nominations
to the international team is 2017-10-31, midnight UTC. In Montage (our
jury tool), we currently have 33 campaigns which means we are missing
another 21. Some of you are using other jury tools which is perfectly
fine, but if you are one of the 21 campaigns that have not started
your jury process yet, you need to start as soon as possible.
We cannot overemphasize the importance of the October 31 deadline.
Please make sure you don't miss it as we cannot guarantee to include
your photos in the international contest after that point. If we miss
your campaign, this will be a sad moment for you and your team as well
as us in the international team. Let's do what we can to make it. :)
In the next week, we will share with you instructions on how to share
your top 10 nominations with us.
Best,
Lily
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User: LilyOfTheWest
Hi all,
Here is more information for those of you who have signed up to use
Montage for your jury process this year. [1]
The developers of Montage (cc-ed) have been working hard in the past
months on the latest release of Montage which will, among other
things, bring some of the features and functionalities you told us
about last year. [2] We are excited to bring these improvements to
you, and here is the timelines for it [2]:
* 2017-09-30 around 21:00 UTC: I will start creating campaigns for
each country that has signed up in [1].
* 2017-10-01 around 21:00 UTC: We will share the link to where the new
montage version will live with you. Your jury coordinator (listed in
[1]) can create round 1 of your jury process then.
* 2017-10-02 around 21:00 UTC: your jury can start the jury process.
Any issue in [3] tagged with "high priority" will be ready by
2017-10-01, 21:00 UTC. These are features that you need in place to
create your round 1. Issues tagged with "normal priority" will be done
starting 2017-10-02. These are features that are either not critical
in the early days of your jury process or we know that are relevant
only when you get to the final ranking round.
While you are waiting the new version of Montage to become available:
please make sure you have your jury ready and also make sure you have
read https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2017-September/008…
Questions and comments are welcome.
Best,
Lily
[1] If you haven't signed up and you want to use Montage, please sign
your country up at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage as soon as
possible.
[2] We may be able to meet the deadlines earlier than the times
specified here, but we can't promise that. If we have things ready
earlier, we will shift deadlines for you to start earlier.
[3] Such features and functionalities (in Github language: issues) are
listed at https://github.com/hatnote/montage/issues
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User: LilyOfTheWest