Thats a good news. Greetings from Pakistan On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Lily <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Wiki Loves Monuments international team is excited to share the > following news with you: > > Flickr [1] and Wiki Loves Monuments will work together to encourage > and facilitate the contributions by Flickr photographers to Wiki Loves > Monuments 2017. Here is the rough sketch of how this collaboration > will work (more details will be provided on this list as we learn more > but also as we run into questions that we'd like to answer with you): > > * Flickr is going to use their Worldwide Photowalk Group [2] to host > images and invite photographers to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments > 2017. > > * This week they will publish a blog post on the Flickr Blog/social > and update the group with a call to action for photographers to begin > organizing independent meetup events/walks in their location in > September. They will be closely following the sign-ups for countries > participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 [3]. Please help us by > keeping that page updated. > > * Organizers will create Facebook events with specific details and > monuments the attendees will photograph. Flickr will host a master > list broken down by continent/country in a Group Discussion. > > * They will open the Group for photo submissions in September to > officially launch the month and in sync with each country's opening > and closing time and date of campaigns. > > * Flickr will post each week with their favorite images in the group > (blog + social + galleries) to continue encouraging > participation/submissions. > > * When we say "organizer" in above points, we are referring to group > organizers on Flickr end. If country organizers on our end would like > to get more involved with Flickr photographers, we'd support and > encourage that but local organizers on either side shouldn't feel > pressured to do so. :) > > For a list of things we should do, please read [4]. > > In the past, the photowalks have been pretty popular [5] and both > sides are looking forward to welcoming new cities as part of this Wiki > Loves Monuments season. > > We are very happy that Flickr is working with us and our communities > through Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 and we hope that the experience of > this year provides more opportunities for the two communities to > collaborate more in the future. > > Questions and comments are welcome. > > Best, > Lily > > > [1] https://www.flickr.com/ > [2] https://www.flickr.com/groups/flickr10photowalks/ > [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_ > Monuments_2017/Participating_countries#Definitely_participating_countries > [4] > On our end, we will need to do the following: > * Workout how to keep the local organizers updated about the > submissions on Flickr end as the contest is moving forward. > * Create a bot that will call a Flickr API at the end (or at specific > intervals) of the contest to import photos from Flickr to Commons. We > should communicate with Flickr what exact information they should make > sure gets collected and served via the API. (country code, monuments > ID, name/id of the photographers, license, photo, ...) > * Licenses accepted. > * [optional] A mapping tool such as Monumental is something > photographers will appreciate a lot. :) > * and more > > [5] Continents/cities that have had participated more than a couple of > times in the past photowalks by Flickr: > > Europe: London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, León or Valladolid (and other > cities) in Spain, Moscow, Rome and other Italian cities... > > Americas: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, Las Vegas, > Vancouver, Toronto, Sao Paolo, Guadalajara (Mexico) > > Asia: Bangalore and other cities in India, Taipei, Karachi, > > Oceania: Sydney, Melbourne and other smaller cities in Australia, > occasionally some city in New Zealand (Christchurch) or Japan (Nigata, > Tokyo) > > > > -- > [[User: LilyOfTheWest]] > > _______________________________________________ > WLM-Announce mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Saqib, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Saqib
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