Hi Yaroslav, you're of course right. 1) the general thankyou message was supposed to be sent out a month ago, together with the survey. We're currently waiting for the last few translations, but after that we can go. 2) bot messages per country I am not sure about - because it can become overwhelming :) But this is up to the national organizers. 3) people who helped: this is very often a national thing - but it is ALWAYS good to thank people who helped out! If you (all of you!) saw someone doing a good job, just thank them. That is often more effective than any bot-run job.
Besides that, we should also design again a nice barnstar for the finalists, and it would be nice if we could set up a barnstar for the mass uploaders again. Lodewijk 2013/11/20 Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> > Dear all, > > I was participating in WLM for the third time now, both as an uploader > (for multiple countries) and as someone helping with the uploaded files, > categorizing them on Commons, placing them into lists, and on one occasion > helping the jury with the preselection of photos. I was never involved with > any organizational team. > > I still remember that in 2011 pretty soon after I started uploading > photos, I got a barnstar from Lodewijk for 50 (or was it 100?) uploaded > photos. I got also appreciacion messages from the organizing teams of two > countries I uploaded photos for, and, if I remember correcly, a general > appreciacion WLM message. > > In 2012, I got an appreciacion message from one country. I am not sure > about the general WLM message, I believe I did not get it. > > I am sure in 2013 I got nothing, even though we are in the middle of > November. Not that I personally need appreciacion messages (I try to > maintain barnstar-free spaces in all projects I am an administrator, > including Commons), but I guess if I uploaded 100+ or 200+ photos and did > not get anything, then almost nobody got anything. > > Since one of the WLM goals was to attract new users, giving appreciacion > messages out is particularly important, especially for them. > > I would then ask the organization committees, international as well as the > national ones, somehow coordinate and do the following: > > 1) At least leave a nice bot message at the talk page of everybody who > uploaded anything for WLM-2013; > 2) Ideally, also bot-messages for specific countries (if every country > does it we do not need the central one); > 3) (This is much more difficult, but would be much more appreciated). > Check who categorized images and did the routine maintenance on Commons, > who placed the images into the lists and did other maintenance on the > projects, and add to their talk pages non-templated messages on how the > organizers appreciate their work. > > If this is done, I would personally go to the Commons pages of the > organizers and thank them there for their work. (I would also appreciate > then having the lists because at this point I have no idea who the > organizers are). > > Though this does not belong to this topic, I would like to take the > opportunity and thank all the organizers, national and international - they > are still finalizing the results, but I think we already can conclude that > they spent considerable time to make the contest happen. Thank you for your > time and efforts, they are really appreciated by the wide Wikimedia > community. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
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