I think 1 May - 1 June will definitely be better due too late organization + more round date. Also I would like to know progress on lists of monuments. Ukraine has them from last year, but other countries?
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Mykola Kozlenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > With this letter we are happy to announce that Wikimedia Ukraine is > officially starting international coordination of Wiki Loves Earth! > > We encourage you, if it is not done yet, to add your country to the list > on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_ > Earth_2014#Participating_countries > > We would like you to draw your attention to the following issues: > 1) Dates you would like Wiki Loves Earth to take place. As far as we can > see, the best timing for most countries will be either 15 April - 15 May or > 1 - 31 May, but we are happy to discuss your suggestion - please comment on > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_ > Loves_Earth_2014#Dates > 2) Funding. If you are willing to organise Wiki Loves Earth in your > country, please by aware that Wikimedia Ukraine will not be able to provide > national prizes for your countries (except souvenirs). You may want to look > for local sponsors or apply for a grant - in this case, we will be able to > support your request, but still you have to write it yourself :) > 3) Criteria. We want to be clear what kind of photos we want to get. > Obviously, this will include wide views of natural sites, but we have to > decide whether we want to include or not representative biotopes [species > most specific to the natural site]. Please comment on this at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_ > Earth_2014#Scope > 4) Prizes. We want to know what prizes you expect to get in the > international part. We expect to have the same budget as for Wiki Loves > Monuments 2013 - around 5000 US$. Last year there was one Wikimania > scolarship (we want to have one this year as well, BUT we have to come with > the result by late June to make it possible) and photography-related > vouchers (should be something available in most, if not all, participating > countries). If you have any ideas, please leave your feedback on > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_ > Earth_2014#Prizes > > On our side, the international team will be happy to help you with the > following: > 1) technical coordination. Most of tools that were used for Wiki Loves > Monuments last year will be adapted for Wiki Loves Earth > 2) support with list conversion. If you have lists of natural monuments in > any machine-readable format, we should be able to help you converting them > into a wiki format. If you have no idea where to find lists of natural > monuments, please contact us, but we do not guarantee we will be able to do > it. > 3) supporting your grant requests - it's up to you to write them, but we > can provide help with them > 4) providing souvenirs - e.g. calendars, postcards with best photos after > the contest > > Please do not hesitate to write to this mailing list if you need any help > or advice. > > Best regards, > Mykola Kozlenko (aka NickK) > for WLE international team > > _______________________________________________ > Wikilovesearth mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesearth > >
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