[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Wiki Loves Monuments community conversation: Sunday 21 Jan on handling international competitions during armed conflict

2024-01-21 Thread effe iets anders
ernments and military do unforgivable and > unforgettable crimes - as we speak, or a year, 10 or 100 years ago. > > That's not how and where we should punish those governments and regimes. > And let's be frank they won't care. We'd just go far away from our mission > and make our lives wo

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Wiki Loves Monuments community conversation: Sunday 21 Jan on handling international competitions during armed conflict

2024-01-20 Thread effe iets anders
rds, > Illia > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 2:23 AM effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> (with apologies for the delay in sending this announcement) >> >> This email discusses a sensitive topic of armed conflict, and may contain >> triggers

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments community conversation: Sunday 21 Jan on handling international competitions during armed conflict

2024-01-16 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, (with apologies for the delay in sending this announcement) This email discusses a sensitive topic of armed conflict, and may contain triggers for some of our community members. While we appreciate your input, please prioritize your own mental wellbeing and don't feel obligated to

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Jury list

2023-10-16 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Jacek, thanks for doing this and having this serve as a reminder to our colleagues: please document your juries on this page! I added a more explicit example at the bottom of the page. You can copy the wikicode and fill in the details. Please reach out if you have any questions left.

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Question about WLM Malaysia

2023-09-05 Thread effe iets anders
Forwarding this email that was sent to the announcement mailing list. -- Forwarded message - -- Forwarded message -- From: Toofan M To: wlm-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 17:29:41 +0800 Subject: Question Hello Wikipedia team, I have

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Participating without officially registered/published monument list?

2023-06-27 Thread effe iets anders
All very valuable thoughts and insights. Thanks everyone for sharing! Some additional thoughts of my own: Official can mean many things. I think the more important word I'd use is "authoritative". Does the fact that something is on that list, mean something? A list of "favorite buildings" by a

[Wiki Loves Monuments] important: deadline for WMF rapid grants is on July 1

2023-06-22 Thread effe iets anders
Hi organizers, it looks like the deadline for WMF rapid grants this edition is July 1. This is the program that is most relevant to most of you, and the deadline is a little more than a week from now! In case you were thinking to use the September 1 deadline: this deadline will be too late to

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Additional funding opportunities for organising WLM?

2023-06-22 Thread effe iets anders
HI Michelle, Excellent question that may be relevant for many potential organizers! There is three categories of funding I would suggest they could consider: 1. relevant local funding: this is usually very advisable to consider. Whenever you can find local funds from governments etc, it will

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Regarding the participation of Russia in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

2022-12-14 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, As you may be aware, I'm no longer part of the International team. But as an advisor i followed the conversations about this closely. First of all i want to express my sincere appreciation for both the teams. Both in Russia and in Ukraine a competition like this is hard to organize,

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Questions for next years competition

2022-12-01 Thread effe iets anders
I can well imagine this. At the same time, I can appreciate the concerns that I read as underpinning this question: how can we create an environment where the people living in country X, feel that they have a fair chance to actually win the competition, rather than all prizes being scooped up by

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Questions for next years competition

2022-12-01 Thread effe iets anders
Procedurally, 'top ten photographers' seems harder to execute than 'top ten photos with only one photo per photographer' (comparing someone's entire set of submissions is just.. hard). But that is more a matter of execution than a value statement. As for restricting who can participate: This is

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Peer feedback workshop for landing pages

2022-09-23 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, (summary: join us for a workshop on Saturday 1 October at 2pm UTC / 10am EDT) After some discussions with various people we thought it might be useful to have a discussion/office hour

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Monumental platform

2022-08-25 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, monumental should now be updated to 2022. Please note that it still only supports a few countries (I believe that is Ireland, United Kingdom, Poland and Sweden) - adding new countries is likely more involved and needs a maintainer than is more familiar with the software. It may be

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: New members for the WLM-i team!

2022-08-23 Thread effe iets anders
Welcome Lucy and Rubén! Glad to see you both join :) Lodewijk On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 11:44 AM Ciell Wikipedia wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It is my pleasure to introduce to you Lucy and Rubén, two members that > recently joined our WLM-international team. > > Lucy Iwuala is from Nigeria and

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in Heritage in Action magazine

2022-05-12 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, We have been proud partners of Europa Nostra for many years, and it's exciting to see that WLM was once again featured in their magazine Heritage in Action, this time with a selection of great images from Southeastern Europe:

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Wikimedia Sverige can import your Wiki Loves Monuments datasets into Wikidata

2022-02-23 Thread effe iets anders
Forwarding this message to the announce list. This may be particularly relevant for countries that don't have a list on Wikipedia yet, or have a clean structured datasource from the government. But Please get in touch with John and Alicia with questions! You can also join and discuss on our

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: WLM sessions in WIkidataCon 2021

2021-10-30 Thread effe iets anders
It may be easier to start these tables with the UNESCO heritage sites? Those are usually pretty well photographed, and then it's more a matter of filling the gaps. For a lot of 'smaller' sites a bunch of these types may not be applicable (which is fine), in which case it may be nice to have some

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Wiki Loves Monuments... Junior!

2021-10-05 Thread effe iets anders
Thanks for sharing Natalia! This sounds exciting, and I'm looking forward to the pictures and follow-up outcomes from this cohort. I would love us to document a bit more what some best practices are here (answering questions like: who are the partners, what is the outreach mechanisms, what are

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Link correction

2021-09-22 Thread effe iets anders
аєте за потрібне! > > > ср, 22 вер. 2021 о 08:26 effe iets anders пише: > >> looks like there are a few more links pointing to 2020.. >> >> Lodewijk >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:35 PM Ferdinando Traversa < >> ferdi.trave...

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Link correction

2021-09-21 Thread effe iets anders
looks like there are a few more links pointing to 2020.. Lodewijk On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:35 PM Ferdinando Traversa < ferdi.trave...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > could someone please correct the link about Italy in > https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/participate/? > > It now points to the old

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Wiki Loves Monuments International Team: Call for Volunteers

2021-09-08 Thread effe iets anders
I want to warmly recommend that people considering joining the international team :) The international team is essential for making sure WLM 'happens' and in the past years the team has mostly decreased in size. It is important to get some new members that are excited and constructive. As you can

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: WLM 2021 in Malta - hidden category

2021-09-08 Thread effe iets anders
Because of how everything interweaves, that template is usually only edited by Romaine. The start and end time for Malta on that template look just fine to me and haven't changed in the past week or so. If you want to change the start/end time, the way to go about it, is to make the change in

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Fwd: Call for suggestions jurors

2021-08-30 Thread effe iets anders
locked by community. For such an important role such as WLM jury, this was >> not expected and some background check was necessary. >> >> https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/ >> >> Regards, >> Bodhisattwa >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 01:01

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Fwd: Call for suggestions jurors

2021-08-30 Thread effe iets anders
> not expected and some background check was necessary. > > https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/jury/ > > Regards, > Bodhisattwa > > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 01:01 effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> it looks like this email may not

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Call for suggestions jurors

2021-08-28 Thread effe iets anders
. Best, Lodewijk -- Forwarded message - From: Ndahiro Derrick Alter Date: Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 12:23 PM Subject: Fwd: Call for suggestions jurors To: Effe Iets Anders Hi all, Like every year, We need to put together a good jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2021. It is a complicated

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: banner diet

2021-08-12 Thread effe iets anders
> significant reduction this year compared to 2020. While COVID-19 could > play some role here, I suspect that it was not the only culprit. > > Sincerely, > Alexander > > > > On 8/12/2021 9:53 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just w

[Wiki Loves Monuments] banner diet

2021-08-12 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, I just wanted to collect some input on the WLM banners. As background: the centralnotice banners are the most important way that we make newcomers aware of our competition, but it is also the main way many other efforts get attention. This is a scarce resource, that we should use

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Issue with country codes for WLM 2021 template

2021-08-12 Thread effe iets anders
As background: Josephine is working on the commons app. Josephine, what you're looking for is something machine readable. The template could work, but an easier way for you may be to somehow get to the content of this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:WL_data That is also more

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [African Wikimedians] Join the Africa WIki Challenge Campaign!

2021-05-03 Thread effe iets anders
This may be of interest to more people. Lodewijk -- Forwarded message - From: Ruby D-Brown Date: Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 4:51 PM Subject: [African Wikimedians] Join the Africa WIki Challenge Campaign! To: Dear Wikimedians, We are happy to announce the maiden edition of the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM International Winners

2021-04-06 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Toni, We have long been debating internally how much visibility to give to runners-up. The official prizes are for place 1-15. In the past, we have decided to include 16-25 as well for the social media and sometimes jury report, because it broadens the set of countries that get a share of the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] important: countries missing from official submissions

2021-03-09 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Jean Philippe, Don't worry about it now. It seems you're responding to an old email. Best, Lodewijk On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 12:03 PM Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > Good day, > > The winners from Canada have been submitted here: >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] important: countries missing from official submissions

2021-03-09 Thread effe iets anders
ners in Ukraine are somewhat impatient as the contest in Ukraine > was in September, half a year ago... > > Thanks a lot > Mykola (NickK) > WLM Ukraine > > *1 лютого 2021, 19:06:38, від "effe iets anders" >:* > > Hi everyone, > > The first round of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 Office Hours - February 3

2021-02-04 Thread effe iets anders
We also had an office hour a few days earlier at a more convenient time for Europe/Africa. In general, I would suggest to speak up if you're interested in joining an office hour (As you're doing - thank you) and if there is enough interest, I'm imagining that the team will organize one. Usually

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] important: countries missing from official submissions

2021-02-01 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, The first round of the jury process is already ongoing. We have tried our best to interpret published results for missing countries. Lodewijk On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:40 AM Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Hello, > > Portugal sees to be on the list where winners were posted, but the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 Office Hours - February 3

2021-01-31 Thread effe iets anders
THere were some suggestions to set up a dedicated office hour to chat about WLM in Wikidata. Maybe it would be helpful to do that too. I know Benoit would be interested in that for sure, and maybe WMSE too? Lodewijk On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 9:55 AM Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Next year: my role

2021-01-28 Thread effe iets anders
mpetition results will be > announced in example with the a month accuracy? > > Br, > -- Kimmo Virtanen, Zache > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:33 AM effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> In the past years, I have with much pleasure worked on maki

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Next year: my role

2021-01-06 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, In the past years, I have with much pleasure worked on making Wiki Loves Monuments a success, by supporting the international community that organizes this great competition as well as possible. As we're wrapping up the ongoing competition but also approaching the time to submit our

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Submission Form

2020-12-24 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, I understand that there may be some delay in email responses. If you're trying to get a form for your national team, you can also email me for that (please keep Erina in cc). Best, Lodewijk On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 9:45 PM effe iets anders wrote: > Hi Reke, > > just to quickl

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Submission Form

2020-11-26 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Reke, just to quickly clarify: we ask the organizer of the competition to fill out the form. This should be self explanatory from the form, but you will be asked to give 10 images in one form. (so you don't have to submit ten forms). We try to keep it lightweight for you. Best, Lodewijk On

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Is Montage tool down?

2020-11-10 Thread effe iets anders
I believe we're back up? On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:50 AM Stephen LaPorte wrote: > Hi all, > > Toolforge is temporarily in read-only mode for planned maintenance. It may > take an hour or longer before Montage is back running. > > I can send an email when we're back up, and please see below for

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WikiLovesMonuments Digest, Vol 114, Issue 1

2020-11-02 Thread effe iets anders
November 2, 2020, 12:01:51 PM GMT, > wikilovesmonuments-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org < > wikilovesmonuments-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > ------ > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 00:07:51 -0700 > From: ef

[Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] reminder: deadline for jury submissions is later this year

2020-11-01 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, As a kind reminder, I would like to point to the timeline this year : every country can follow the submission schedule of the countries that run in November. That means you can submit until

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] 2020 statistics tooling

2020-10-27 Thread effe iets anders
(sorry all - this was already sent on the announce list, but got stuck in moderation for the discussion list. Most of you will have seen it already some time ago - but this is why it got bumped up in your mailbox :) ) On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:06 AM Jean-Frédéric wrote: > Hi all, > > The WLM

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-10-03 Thread effe iets anders
ams using Montage. > > Best regards > Mykola (NickK) > WLM Ukraine team > > --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- > Від кого: "effe iets anders" > Дата: 1 жовтня 2020, 00:49:56 > > Hi all, > > After getting feedback both on- and offlist, we arriv

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-10-03 Thread effe iets anders
rs or not - could be data journalists, ppl from the academia, >>>>> etc. - to experiment. A global bank of jurors would be a precious asset. >>>>> >>>>> After the last round in montage, the organizers do the final >>>>> selection, using the montage resul

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-09-30 Thread effe iets anders
will not publish it on your behalf, that is your responsibility). Warmly, Lodewijk On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:01 PM effe iets anders wrote: > All great suggestions. > > In the past the WLM international team has also maintained a database of > jurors to be backup. We had very little reques

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Montage access

2020-09-27 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Bodhisattwa, As usual (for those reading along), you can request access here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2020 . You may want to add the end time of the competition in your country, as this may differ. Note that your jury instance can (I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] International awards

2020-09-06 Thread effe iets anders
Hi, I updated the page. The prizes are the same, but the special awards are still to be confirmed. Lodewijk On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 8:32 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The international awards are not updated yet on WLM website for this year. > > Regards,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Iran WLM

2020-09-04 Thread effe iets anders
on Sep. 5 or 6, to better align > with the Persian calendar, so we still have a couple of days to > finalize our decision.;) I appreciate the excitement Amir has brought > to this conversation and their eagerness for us to participate. :) > > Lily > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Iran WLM

2020-09-04 Thread effe iets anders
Forwarding this from the moderation queue of the announce-only list to the discussion list. -- Forwarded message -- From: amir hossein pashaei To: wlm-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 00:03:54 +0430 Subject: Iran WLM Hello WLM. I'm Amir Pashaei an

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-09-04 Thread effe iets anders
edians and relevant expert judges from the arts and >>>>> architecture sectors in Ireland. I know I would really appreciate it if we >>>>> could "borrow" a juror from another Wikimedia group (in the past we have >>>>> had some UK hel

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-09-02 Thread effe iets anders
> https://github.com/hatnote/montage/pull/169 > https://github.com/hatnote/montage/pull/175 > These are really, really important fixes. Without them I would have a > problem creating new Montage campaigns in October. > > Sincerely, > Alexander > > > On 9/2/2020 11:49

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Request for feedback: transparency jury & process

2020-09-02 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, over the past years, we have had various requests to encourage national organizers to be transparent in their judging processes and who sits on their jury. Most of the national organizers are currently transparent about this already. In the past weeks/month, more conversation around this

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] wrong central notice

2020-08-31 Thread effe iets anders
Thanks for the report. Romaine just fixed it. Lodewijk On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 6:26 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We are getting wrong central notice for WLM India. It says completion > closes soon. (attached) Can someone replace it with the right one?

[Wiki Loves Monuments] fyi: new chat channel

2020-08-31 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, fyi, I created a new WLM chat channel on the new Mattermost install: https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/wikilovesmonuments The main advantage over iRC is that you can also see messages from before you join, allowing you to log in every now and then, rather than be constantly

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Promotional video from WLMIN

2020-08-31 Thread effe iets anders
Congrats and thanks for sharing! One suggestion, in case you make a second version: i would put the WLM logo and the url of your website at the very end as well. End with an action :) Best, Lodewijk On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 11:57 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < kcvel...@gmail.com> wrote: > This

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Participation dates - please make sure to confirm

2020-08-30 Thread effe iets anders
social > distancing measures imposed by the government. If such measures are not > relaxed substantially 2 weeks prior to 1 October, we may need to cancel the > contest in Hong Kong. > > Michael > Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong > > > > ------

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Participation dates - please make sure to confirm

2020-08-29 Thread effe iets anders
lajnar escribió: > > All the WLM templates still list September as the focal month, even if > some communities have decided on later months (AFAIK, they were just > updated by a bot from last year). Should we change them manually? Who will > take care that they will be displayed on time?

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Participation dates - please make sure to confirm

2020-08-28 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, The following national organizers seem not yet to have confirmed their participation dates for this year: - Algeria - Egypt - Finland - Guinea - Hong Kong - Ireland - Norway - Peru Please make sure to confirm your participation with dates here:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Non-functioning Stat tools

2020-08-18 Thread effe iets anders
Thank you for maintaining the tool for so long! (it must have been 7 years?) Lodewijk On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 1:12 PM Dennis Tobar wrote: > Hi: > > I have set up a 301 redirection from stats.wikilovesmonuments.cl to Wiki > Loves X site. > > Thanks everyone for using the service in the past :)

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [Covid-19] An update on in-person gatherings

2020-08-10 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, for your information: A new activity policy is probably arriving before the WLM kickoff. As a gentle reminder, I believe the current policy is described here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19 (summary: don't organize any in-person activities, anywhere, for any group size). Best,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM integration in Commons app

2020-07-22 Thread effe iets anders
Wikipedia lists and those are kept up to date > (contrary to Wikidata). > > BR, > Philip > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 19:48, effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Hi Philip, >> >> just to improve my understanding: what do you see as fundamentally >> different betw

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM integration in Commons app

2020-07-22 Thread effe iets anders
To add to this: we're super excited that the commons app is building this campaign mode. Some of you may remember that there used to be a WLM dedicated app, and one lesson we learned from this experience is that it makes more sense to integrate it. This is for multiple reasons: - More critical

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM integration in Commons app

2020-07-22 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Philip, just to improve my understanding: what do you see as fundamentally different between using the app, and using any other upload method? The app developers are still working on integrating a campaign mode into the app, so there is some wiggle space in how to make that happen (although I

[Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Important for organizers: Wiki Loves Monuments in 2020, corona-edition

2020-06-27 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, I would like to thank everyone who weighed in on what Wiki Loves Monuments should look like in 2020. It will be a special year - originally we thought it would be special, because it's the 10th international edition. It turns out, that it will also be an especially challenging year

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020: Office Hours - 6 & 7 June

2020-06-06 Thread effe iets anders
if anyone still has trouble joining, please ping me and Krishna On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:14 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga wrote: > Hello all, > > Please try to join now > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:39 PM attolippip wrote: > >> Hey there! It seems that no one is letting in... >> >> On Sat, Jun

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020: Office Hours - 6 & 7 June

2020-06-06 Thread effe iets anders
Are you all using https://meet.google.com/vpq-rvzt-jpc ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:09 AM attolippip wrote: > Hey there! It seems that no one is letting in... > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 20:04 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga > wrote: > >> The first session is happening now, join at >>

[Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Fwd: Wiki Loves Monuments 2020: Office Hours - 6 & 7 June

2020-05-24 Thread effe iets anders
I'm forwarding this announcement by Krishna to this list; it may be relevant to all organizers. The office hours will serve as an opportunity to discuss directions for the next year. Every potential national organizer is invited. I hope to see many of you there. -- Lodewijk -- Forwarded

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Fwd: Wiki Loves Monuments 2020: Office Hours - 6 & 7 June

2020-05-24 Thread effe iets anders
rt > (5 min) presentation with slides to highlight the main points where input > from the international team is expected? > > Thank you in advance, > Alexander > > On 5/24/2020 8:41 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > > I'm forwarding this announcement by Krishna to this list; it

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 ?

2020-04-11 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Nicolas, all, thanks for bringing up the question, which may well be on the minds of many. I have not coordinated this response in the international team, but this is based on my best understanding of our situation. You're entirely correct that there are many uncertainties. It's hard to look

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] grant proposal WLM international team 2020 & strategizing

2020-03-12 Thread effe iets anders
through the survey and looking ahead to the next year in the next month or so. Best, Lodewijk On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:49 PM effe iets anders wrote: > Hi all, > > I have posted a first draft of the international team's grant proposal for > the upcoming year on > https://meta.wik

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Learning pattern from one of our national jury member

2020-03-07 Thread effe iets anders
ontage developers. This year, fron our side, we tried to organize >> online calls among our jury members, but for some reason, that didn't >> materialize. >> >> Regards, >> Bodhisattwa >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, 8 Mar 2020, 09:30 effe iets and

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Learning pattern from one of our national jury member

2020-03-07 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Bodhisattwa, Thanks for sharing. Could you provide a bit more background information? The LP seems to be mostly a list of things to think about when accepting the position. Was this a judge that was particularly disappointed by how the process was ran? What were the primary pain points? Did

[Wiki Loves Monuments] grant proposal WLM international team 2020 & strategizing

2020-02-18 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, I have posted a first draft of the international team's grant proposal for the upcoming year on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_international_team/2020_coordination . The deadline to submit is in 2-3 days, but feedback is welcome either way. You can

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Organiser Survey

2020-02-17 Thread effe iets anders
Kind last personal appeal! I expect we'll be closing the survey soon :) Warmly, Lodewijk (who's really excited to see the response summaries soon!) On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:01 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Earlier in January, Wiki Loves Monuments International Team

[Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] important: countries missing from official submissions

2019-11-08 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, please note, the following countries still seem to be missing from the official submissions - even though the deadline passed a week ago. (Posting them on the public website is NOT sufficient. ) I don't see processed submissions from: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Problem with losed pass of Jury member

2019-10-27 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Johnattan, I'm not in a position to do this myself, but it's probably a good idea to ask the juror to create a new account, and request that account to be added on the Montage talkpage. Lodewijk On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 4:02 PM Johnattan Rupire wrote: > Thank you Yaroslav, > > I tell that

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Photos Fail To Upload During WLM 2019 in Uganda

2019-10-16 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Steven, if the original photo was uploaded in September, and he only uploads a new version for technical reasons, that should be fine. You can still consider the photo as submitted correctly. Lodewijk On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:26 AM Bukulu Steven wrote: > Thanks for the help. If he's to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Possible problem with photo filter in Montage

2019-10-10 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Johnattan, Did you also ask your question here? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage You could try to restart the round, and remove the restrictions one by one when importing. For example, you can 'disqualify jurors', you can filter on dates and you can filter on number of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] certificates for winners

2019-10-09 Thread effe iets anders
(thanks everyone for sharing!) On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:33 AM Johnattan Rupire wrote: > Hi all, > > here the design we used in Perú. > > > Best, > > Johnattan > > > > El 8/10/19 a las 02:15, Nahid Sultan escribió: > > Hey Jernej, > Attached is the design we normally use from Wikimedia

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] a peculiar problem with the "newly uploaded" condition

2019-09-24 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Jernej, Based on what you describe, this is a complex issue indeed, and an unfortunate intersection of circumstances. I don't think there is a perfect solution. I don't see a good reasoning to accept the new image unless somehow you can argue that the newer version is better because of either

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO promoting WLM and translating the participate page

2019-09-24 Thread effe iets anders
; currently happening > > Best > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 15:47, effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> I'm guessing that it's better to get the ball rolling at the UNESCO side >> to see if they want to promote either way. As always, I have included all

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO promoting WLM and translating the participate page

2019-09-24 Thread effe iets anders
ely to promote it > without this translation happening, I'm unsure what else to do other to > remind you that UNESCO has 3.1 million Twitter followers. > > Best > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 23:07, effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Like I said before, if people make the actua

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] permission for contributions

2019-09-12 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Jernej, while you are free to choose any license as far as the rules are concerned (e.g. if you use an alternative upload method and add templates yourself), we chose many years ago already to not offer multiple licenses. Explaining that a license is free, is already hard enough. Given that we

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] What to say on the radio about WLM?

2019-09-12 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Karen, That is exciting! 3-5 minutes is plenty of time. Some numbers that would be helpful to have on hand: - How many monuments are there in your country - How many of those still need a picture? - How many pictures have you collected in the past year(s)? - What can people win nationally?

[Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Announcement: special awards for African monuments

2019-09-07 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to announce on behalf of the international team that this year there will be three special awards for African monuments. All images that are nominated as the top-10 by the national juries are eligible for this prize and a dedicated jury will take a decision on this

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation

2019-09-06 Thread effe iets anders
(it looks like a link didn't work well) On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:24 PM Mohammad Hekmat wrote: > Hi all, > > We are only 5 days into WLM 2019 and so far it's been amazing! More than > 28000 photos already! Kudos to all local organizers! > > The international team has been promoting the contest

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Creating list of previous WLM participants with Quarry

2019-09-03 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Michael, Thanks, this is helpful to document. If you would be willing to update/expand the documentation here, that would be great: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentation/Send_a_mass_message In general, this is the place where we try to collect these

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Login problem in Monumental tool

2019-09-01 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Bodhisawatta, Thanks for reporting. You'll have to be a bit more specific to find out what the issue is. I was able to log in and submit without problems just now. Could you please file a report on Phabricator and subscribe Yarl? Please describe the problem in a way that you can reproduce it,

[Wiki Loves Monuments] known bug: country in banner

2019-09-01 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, just to make you aware: there's a known problem that people sometimes see the banner for a country that they recently visited. This means that many of you will see the banner for Sweden or Denmark. The vast majority of the people in your country should see the regular banner for

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners

2019-09-01 Thread effe iets anders
link from Austria to WLM in Denmark, > could you please just deactivate the banner for Austria? Thank you :-) > > Best, > Philip > > On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 at 11:28, effe iets anders > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> With the help of Seddon at the WMF we h

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Banners

2019-08-31 Thread effe iets anders
Hi everyone, With the help of Seddon at the WMF we have been working over the past while to redesign the banners to make them more effective over a range of devices, use standing best practices from fundraising on what we think is effective, and make it more feasible to test effectiveness down

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] WLM landingpage template

2019-08-30 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Martin, thanks a lot, this is super helpful, and I see that several countries adopted it. I got one question from one of those countries, which I couldn't immediately find myself, and that is how to plug the correct upload wizard in the upload button. Currently, it goes to the regular Upload

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO promoting WLM and translating the participate page

2019-08-25 Thread effe iets anders
(alternatively, the translated versions could be maintained onwiki, and linked from the official page) On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:47 PM effe iets anders wrote: > I'm happy to give someone editor rights to make this happen, if they > commit to maintaining the list in those languages :) This

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO promoting WLM and translating the participate page

2019-08-25 Thread effe iets anders
I'm happy to give someone editor rights to make this happen, if they commit to maintaining the list in those languages :) This means for the next 10 days updating the list each 24h. You can use the English list as basis. Best, Lodewijk On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:47 PM john cummings wrote: >

[Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Important: steps and checks for national organizers

2019-08-25 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, please make sure that each national team takes a look at these steps - they are essential for your participation in Wiki Loves Monuments this year. 0. Please make sure that several members of your team are subscribed to wlm-announce

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM session & workshop in one hour at Wikimania

2019-08-16 Thread effe iets anders
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

[Wiki Loves Monuments] message for national organizers of 2018 top-15 winners

2019-08-14 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, We still have some certificates for the top-15 winners of 2018 to distribute. If you're the national organizer of a country that got a top-15 spot in 2018 , we need your help to get the certificate to the

[Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM at hackathon

2019-08-14 Thread effe iets anders
We have some WLM people around table 20 in the rotunda room. Feel free to join if you want to talk WLM! I'll be around for questions of any kind. Lodewijk ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] WLM Rapid Grants information

2019-08-08 Thread effe iets anders
Definitely like that idea! (and keep them coming :) ) I think the takeaway message is that if you have something that works particularly well in your country as a prize, go for it. But given the limited funding, secondary prizes are this time probably not supported. Lodewijk On Thu, Aug 8, 2019

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