Hi all,
Like every year, we need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves
Monuments 2019. 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 2019
(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 <year>
For those of you currently at Wikimania: in one hour we'll have the Wiki
Loves Monuments workshop in the Ebadi room (D315 in Sodra Huset).
The workshop will consist of a quick introduction, four case studies
(Germany, Uganda, Italy and Bangladesh) and small group workshop
discussions. It's a great opportunity to learn and to share - no matter how
experienced you are at Wiki Loves Monuments. Several members of the
international team will be present to answer any questions, or help you
find the answer.
I hope to see many of you around. Of course you can also find many of us
around the conference.
Best,
Lodewijk
(on behalf of the international team)
Hello, WLM organizers,
I am writing with two points to share with you today.
1. I have noticed that many of the grants rely on social media advertisement for contest purposes. We will take these on a case by case basis during grant review, but I wanted to give you a heads up that it is unlikely you will receive funds early enough to pay upfront for advertisement, even if your approval happens early, because 1) Wikimania and 2) paperwork, agreement signatures and then coordination with the Financial office take time.
On that note, I also wanted to open the conversation on this point to hear from people who have successfully promoted the contest with or without social media ads. Any words of wisdom/advice?
My personal experience with Wiki organizing outside of the WMF: we never paid for ads; partnerships with different communications channels and organizations helped us spread the word much more effectively than if we had had an ads budget.
2. In about an hour, I will be at this Google Hangout to answer any questions or address any concerns you may have about your proposals:
Friday August 9th -- 3pm UTC (8am SF, 12pm Sao Paulo, 6pm Nairobi, 11pm Manila)
http://meet.google.com/kon-wwtg-jxp
If you want to join the conversation but are unable to meet this Friday, please message me privately with times that would work for you on Monday, August 12. I'll send a follow up message to this list if a second hangout is organized
Good Friday to you all,
Hello, WLM organizers,
I hope this mail finds you well. My name is Mariel, I am a Junior Program
Officer temporarily working on the Rapid Grants Program, and I will be the
primary point of contact in the office for the WLM submissions and
approvals period. Don't hesitate to email me questions or concerns about
your Rapid Grants submissions.
We have the following information to share with all of you intending to
submit a Rapid Grants application for this contest:
- First and foremost, the Rapid Grants program has updated its funding
guidelines. You can find the new ones here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Learn>. Please read
through them before and as you write your application. You'll see that we
are no longer funding certain items like T-shirts, human resources
expenses, or long-distance travel.
- If you are a returning grantee, please ensure you are up to date in your
reporting requirements from previous grants. We will not review WLM
applications of grantees pending completion on past initiatives. If your
group has an APG, you are not eligible for Rapid Grants support for WLM.
- We will take close looks at the incentives offered by each contest. *DO
NOT announce WLM prizes before you receive a grant approval*, as we are
likely to adjust the prizes you suggest originally depending on demand.
- If you need a venue, please try to find a free venue in your community.
This will cut down on cost and will help you long-term in your partnership
building.
- Don't rely on social media advertising for the contest; we encourage you
to think of partnerships with photo clubs and local institutions to reach
relevant potential participants.
- For WLM purposes, please do not rely on the WMF Merchandise Store for
prizes. We had some complications with this for WLE; your Rapid Grant
budget should cover any monetary support you need from WMF for your contest.
- People who have their grant requests approved will be asked to send in
paperwork. You can anticipate this by reading through the relevant sections
for you on this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Processing/Rapid>.
- Bonus: Here is an example of a WLM report that we thought was fantastic,
in case you're in need of some inspiration.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Nirmal_Dulal/Wiki_Love…
*WLM CONVERSATION HOURS*
If you have questions or WLM things you want to discuss over a call, I will
be holding the following WLM Conversation hours on Google Hangout:
Friday August 9th -- 3pm UTC (8am SF, 12pm Sao Paulo, 6pm Nairobi, 11pm
Manila)
http://meet.google.com/kon-wwtg-jxp
If you want to join the conversation but are unable to meet this Friday,
please message me privately with times that would work for you on Monday,
August 12. I'll send a follow up message to this list if a second hangout
is organized.
Wishing you all a successful WLM,
--
Mariel García-Montes
Junior Program Officer, Rapid Grants
Community Resources
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Wikimedia Foundation
User: MMontes (WMF)
Hi all,
please note: tomorrow (15 July) is another deadline for rapid grants at the
Wikimedia Foundation. After that, you can't submit for two whole weeks.
While August will have some extra focus on WLM in rapid grants, please
don't wait for that if you can do it now! Processing takes time (rapid is
only relative).
You can submit rapid grants between 500 and 2000 dollars.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
Best,
Lodewijk
Hi everyone,
It's that exciting time of the year again, Wiki Loves Monuments is
getting started! I know several of you have already started, but if
you haven't: this is a great time to do so!
The idea behind Wiki Loves Monuments is to invite the general audience
in your country to photograph built heritage and share it with the
world through Wikimedia Commons. We do that through a federated
competition, which means that the national teams are key to our
success: they organize the national competitions. At the end of the
process, the national juries can nominate up to 10 photos to the
international jury. The international jury will then consider those
photos once again, and select the international winners. We will
announce the prizes for the international winners later.
If you are a group of Wikimedians, a chapter or user group that is
interested in participating (again) this year, then please sign up!
You can find a list of countries that has already done so
here:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/P…
If you want to know how to organize, please reach out to one of the
members of the international team
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Organi…>.
You can also leave a message on the help desk
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Help_desk>
or send an email to the public mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments>. We
do have a fair amount of documentation
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati…>
available, but some of it may be outdated (we appreciate any help in
improving it!).
Like last year, we've also added a tab called 'Organizers' in Wiki
Loves Monuments landing page on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Organi…
We'd like to encourage you to add your name and those of your team
members with a short description to the list. This information is
helpful for those from outside of the Movement or the project who end
up on that page and want to learn more about your national
competition, it also provides an opportunity for us to get to know
each other via this one page. :) Every year, there are more
than 150 national organizers that make Wiki Loves Monuments happen and
it would be great to know more about all of these amazing people. :)
We will also have a presence at Wikimania this year, and organize a
meetup. Please keep an eye out!
If you like to stay informed, make sure you're a member of our
discussion mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments>
(wikilovesmonuments at lists.wikimedia.org
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce> ). The
most important announcements are also sent to our announcement mailing
list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce>: if you
don't have much capacity for emails, please at least make sure
multiple people in your team are subscribed to that! Feel free to
forward this announcement to anyone you think may not have received
it.
If you have any questions, please reach out! We're here to help each other.
Lets have a great competition again :) Especially as this will be the
10th edition since we started on this journey back in 2010!
Best,
Lodewijk
on behalf of the international team
I have sent this e-mail to the general Wiki Loves Monuments list first, but
this request is relevant for all of you who organize Wiki Loves...
campaigns and who work with UploadWizard in this process!
All feedback welcome!
Sandra
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sandra Fauconnier <sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for
UploadWizard?
To: <WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone! I hope all is well :-)
Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC) will become available this year.
With SDC, Wikimedians can add data from Wikidata directly to files on
Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/About
Benefits include multilinguality of Commons files (users can find and
describe files on Commons in many languages), and machine-readable data
with better APIs, that offer more advanced possibilities to build
applications like Monumental - https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental/
In the not so far future, you will also be able to organize Wiki Loves...
(Monuments, Earth, Africa, Art, Love, ...) campaigns on Wikimedia Commons
with structured data. (This is entirely optional, but maybe some of you are
already keen to do this, especially if you already have monument or other
data in Wikidata!)
In the course of 2019, the SDC development team wants to improve Wikimedia
Commons' UploadWizard to support the campaigns that want to be powered by
Structured Data 'new style'.
Do you have ideas and wishes for this? The team wants to hear which
structured data features you want to see in UploadWizard, and we are now
organizing a consultation about this over the next two weeks.
This page gives more context, and links to where you can leave feedback.
We're collecting this first round of input until April 17.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
Many thanks in advance!
Warmly, Sandra
--
Sandra Fauconnier (she/her)
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia
communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hi all,
The international jury pool is now closed, and contains 438 images from 47
national competitions (if nothing comes up as problematic during import).
It was a great joy to see many of the beautiful nominated pictures. I thank
everyone who has submitted their nominees with care following the outlined
process.
We will be setting up the jury process now, and the international jury will
soon start with its work. Their process and membership is described
here[1]. One final juror may be added still.
We have not checked all nominees for validity. We will soon be importing
the images nominated into the jury tool. For this particular finale, we
will take extra care to import the version as it was 'live' by the end of
the competition in that country - and to ignore all edits made after that
point. If you're aware of exceptional situations where this would be
especially problematic (for example: the image was vandalized and replaced
just before closing, and reverted shortly after), please get in touch with
me privately.
We are planning to go through this process in a steady and thorough pace -
and finish the process by the end of November. We expect to announce the
winners officially in the first two weeks of December - depending on
challenges with regards to the jury report, press and checks & balances for
particular images.
I hope you're looking forward to the winners as much as we are!
With warm regards,
Erina
international jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments
[1] http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/
Forwarding this to the announce-mailing list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Erina Mukuta <erinamukuta(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:11 AM
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Reminder how to nominate
To: <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
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 56
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: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com. Unless you have
agreed a different deadline with Lily (in cc), this deadline is 31 October,
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: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com , and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
<insert international team member> 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#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo…
)
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
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