Hi Saqib, We're working indeed with a large number of different countries, and it's hard to find a perfect timing. Either way it's too late to change now - but I suggest you bring it to the evaluation later? That way we can reconsider again next year.
Best, Lodewijk 2016-12-15 14:21 GMT+01:00 Saqib Qayyum <[email protected]>: > I don;t understand why the results are being announced at the end of day > - in most countries. At-least should be started to announce on Twitter UTC > time 14:00 > > > Saqib > ------------------------------ > *From:* WikiLovesMonuments <[email protected]> > on behalf of Lily <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2016 6:34:47 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] The big day is here > > Hi all, > > An update on the international team's end, as much as I have visibility > into: > > *The feel* > These are very exciting hours for us. We all have worked for almost four > months with you, and today is the big day for all of us. We are doing the > best in these final hours to tighten up anything that needs our attention. > > *The facts* > Unless something unexpected happens, here are the facts as we know them > now: > * The results are scheduled to be announced at 19:00 UTC today. > * The results will be announced through different channels, some of which > are: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ and https://twitter.com/wikimon > uments and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_ > winners. > * The WMF will have a blog post about the results at https://blog. > wikimedia.org/ > * There are probably other channels who will tweet about the results or > cover the story of WLM 2016. I won't call them out here since I'm not > sure about those channels. :) We will celebrate if this happens. > * We initially had a plan to do a count-down starting rank 25 all the way > to rank 1. We had to change this plan for the following reason: We had to > agree on an embargo time with some press outlets, meaning that none of the > top 15 photos can be shared on social media (or anywhere public) before > 19:00 UTC. At this moment, we're planning to still do 1 tweet per photo, > but probably starting Friday morning. This way, we can bring back some more > views to the top 25 photos on Friday and over the weekend. This plan is > still not fully settled and we may have to adjust it depending on how > things go in the next 15 hours or so. > > *What can you do?* > * If you are an organization with access to local press, you can take one > or more of the blog posts (once published at 19:00 UTC) and encourage > your local press to cover the story. This will be incredibly helpful to > spread the story of WLM 2016 even further. > * If you are on social media, please consider retweeting or sharing the > announcements, photos, etc. We want to reach as many people as possible, > bring them to the beautiful photos and tell them the story of WLM and the > volunteers and people behind it. > * I'm sure I'm missing so many things you can do. Please be creative. :) > > If you have questions/comments, please share them here. We may not respond > immediately, but we do our best to respond asap. :) > > 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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