Hi Lily, a quick note on this as you mention the page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_winners and the fact that it should be more enjoyably viewable from mobile, at the moment with all winning pictures, the page is 16 Mo, maybe adding a dedicated page for international winners would be a good idea ?
S. 2016-12-12 0:06 GMT+01:00 Lily <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > We are getting ready for announcing the finale results of Wiki Loves > Monuments 2016 contest. This email gives you an update about what the WLM > international team is busy with these days and how the coming week will > look like, as best as we know it at the moment. > > Our focus at the moment is on communications. This includes working on the > jury report, aligning social media efforts, and reaching out to news > outlets and organizations for covering the story of WLM and announcing > the finale results via their websites, social media, etc. There are a few > reasons for a strong focus on communications for this week: We want to make > sure that your efforts in organizing WLM 2016 in your country and > participating in it gets the attention it deserves. It would also be great > if we can support the photographers of WLM by bringing more eye-balls and > attention to their work. And lastly, more coverage in the media means more > brand recognition for WLM, something that will help all of us us walk on > a stronger path for WLM 2017 and beyond. > > Here are more specifics: > > *Results* > We expect to announce the results on Thursday, December 15 (UTC). There > will be 15 winners in this year's finale. We will start the count down from > photo rank 25 in https://twitter.com/wikimonuments and we move all the > way to rank 1. At the moment, we have not fixed when exactly the count-down > starts. We will announce that on this list once we are ready to fix the > time. And of course, the results will be announced on https://commons. > wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_winners, in http://www. > wikilovesmonuments.org/, and possibly in more places. > > *Coverage in news outlets* > The WMF Communications team has worked tirelessly with us in the past > weeks to build a strategy for increasing the chances of coverage of WLM > story and the announcement of the final results. Thanks to those of you who > have been helping us with this effort. More details: > > * A blog post about WLM 2016 went out on Friday: https://blog.wikimedia > .org/2016/12/09/wiki-loves-monuments-human-heritage/ The goal of this > blog post was to tell the story of WLM by sharing the story of some of > the people who participated in this year's contest and their photos. The > content of that blog post is also used as a press pitch to gauge the > interest of news outlets for covering the announcement of the results in > the coming week. (If you are a local organizer or WLM enthusiast, you > should feel free to take that blog post and pitch it to your local news > agencies for more coverage as well.) > > * Another blog post is being prepared for the announcement of the results > on Thursday. Once that blog post is published (on Thursday), it would be > great if you take that and share it with your local news outlets and > heritage focused organizations to increase the chances of more coverage for > WLM and the winners. The WMF Communications team uses this text to pitch > to their relevant network of news outlets as well. > On this front: if you have a direct contact in a news outlet that you > think should/would cover WLM finale results, please email me offlist. > > *Preparing for traffic* > We expect a lot of traffic to https://commons.wikimedia. > org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_winners starting Thursday, December > 15. Between now and then, you may see us making changes to the page to make > the content more easily/enjoyably viewable/discoverable from more devices > (we expect a lot of traffic from mobile devices, especially when social > media starts announcing the results). > > That's about it for now on our end. If you have questions/comments, please > feel free to reach out to us on this thread (and if they need to stay > private, off-list:). > > Looking forward to this week! :) > > Best, > Lily > > -- > User: LilyOfTheWest > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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