All great suggestions.

In the past the WLM international team has also maintained a database of
jurors to be backup. We had very little requests in recent years though,
probably because so many people know organizers form other countries. If
you're stuck, I would suggest to either ask someone you already know, or to
ask this list. Most likely you have a response within 48h. But don't wait
until the last minute, if you can avoid it. Jurors typically like a week to
get things done (if the country isn't huge).

Lodewijk

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:48 AM Rebecca O'Neill <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thank you Yaroslav, I will send you a separate email now!
>
> Having the WLE team setting up a pool of jurors like that was so helpful
> Anton. Yes, I could find the names and email other WLM organisers, but this
> system took that extra work away from me - which was hugely appreciated,
> especially in our first year!
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 11:45, Anton Protsiuk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The international WLE team this year has tried to create a database of
>> jurors from different countries for local contests. We had a Google form
>> for these purposes (https://forms.gle/Pj61adjgYiE6Jn687) & asked local
>> teams whether they needed help with jury.
>> We haven't estimated the results yet, since the local selection process
>> is still ongoing, but it seems to have worked well.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Anton Protsiuk
>> Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:05 AM Yaroslav Blanter <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If WLM Ireland is in September I can help as a juror. If it is in
>>> October this could be more difficult because I am also in the jury for
>>> Russia, and there is typically a lot of work there.
>>>
>>> Generally, asking around (may be also on Commons) typically helps. In
>>> the past I have been on jury for a few different countries. Somebody would
>>> just approach me and ask.If I can make it, I agree.
>>>
>>> Yaroslav
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 9:50 AM Mārtiņš Bruņenieks <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Rebecca!
>>>>
>>>> I have organized multiple WLM/WLE editions in Latvia. We have used
>>>> Montage in most of them.
>>>> After experiencing problems with jurors dropping out or being known at
>>>> the last moment, we created new Wikimedia accounts just for the jury and
>>>> sent the passwords to them.
>>>>
>>>> Montage allows some editing of jurors after the round has started but
>>>> results can be unexpected.
>>>>
>>>>  Mārtiņš
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:13 AM Rebecca O'Neill <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Lodewijk,
>>>>>
>>>>> As a slight aside to this, and perhaps something that might help ease
>>>>> some of the worries around judging processes in other countries, would it
>>>>> be an idea to have a pool of international WLM Wikimedia jurors that could
>>>>> help judge other countries? Here in Ireland we have done this with Malta,
>>>>> exchanging jurors over the past few years, and for our first WLE this year
>>>>> we had Axel from Sweden be on our jury. You get the benefit of a fellow
>>>>> Wikimedian who understands the whole process, and who could bring some
>>>>> different expertise or perspective to a country's WLM. Having someone who
>>>>> is completely unfamiliar with your local built heritage means they can
>>>>> assess the images with a different take than someone who knows them very
>>>>> well.
>>>>>
>>>>> After 6 years, we have found it harder to recruit a jury from our pool
>>>>> of active Wikimedians and relevant expert judges from the arts and
>>>>> architecture sectors in Ireland. I know I would really appreciate it if we
>>>>> could "borrow" a juror from another Wikimedia group (in the past we have
>>>>> had some UK help with this too with jurors). We have suffered from jurors
>>>>> dropping out of the process at the last minute or after judging has begun
>>>>> (which results in having to restart rounds in Montage), generally it has
>>>>> been those who are not Wikimedians who perhaps did not fully understand 
>>>>> the
>>>>> commitment when they agreed. Not only is it frustrating, it's very
>>>>> stressful. It may be less of an issue this year, given that the deadline
>>>>> for submitting to the international jury won't be at the end of October.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps clarify some of the issues some of the smaller
>>>>> countries can face over the years of WLM!
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Rebecca
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 23:57, effe iets anders <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for the status of Montage requests: I suggest that you start a
>>>>>> separate thread on that, and would like to leave this to the maintainers 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> respond to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for publishing the settings: I was imagining some kind of
>>>>>> log-style publication, not a near write-up. This won't be pretty, but it
>>>>>> will allow people to figure out how it worked out in practice. If we 
>>>>>> follow
>>>>>> a logical naming convention, people should be able to puzzle it together.
>>>>>> Ideally, the national organizers also publish their process on the 
>>>>>> website,
>>>>>> but this log would be a way to verify that. But I accept your note that 
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> may need to add a context explaining that more process may happen
>>>>>> before/after this tool is used.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lodewijk
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:17 PM Alexander Tsirlin <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear Lodewijk,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We also intend to publish by default the settings of the montage
>>>>>>> jury tool, and the number of photos in each round that the national
>>>>>>> competitions have used. We're debating whether there should be an 
>>>>>>> opt-out
>>>>>>> for this year.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is unrealistic, because jury process may involve several
>>>>>>> campaigns that are later merged together (in Russia, we do it all the 
>>>>>>> time
>>>>>>> in order to meet your submission deadline). Moreover, some of the photos
>>>>>>> can be accepted for the next round within Montage but excluded later on 
>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>> we find that they do not depict cultural heritage. The end result is 
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> any number you take from Montage will not match the number of photos 
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> we publish (e.g., as a short-list). This will only lead to confusion and
>>>>>>> won't be of any use for anyone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since you mentioned Montage, let me also ask when two important pull
>>>>>>> requests, which were done by one of our team members, are going to be
>>>>>>> merged into the code:
>>>>>>> https://github.com/hatnote/montage/pull/169
>>>>>>> https://github.com/hatnote/montage/pull/175
>>>>>>> These are really, really important fixes. Without them I would have
>>>>>>> a problem creating new Montage campaigns in October.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>> Alexander
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9/2/2020 11:49 PM, effe iets anders wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> over the past years, we have had various requests to encourage
>>>>>>> national organizers to be transparent in their judging processes and who
>>>>>>> sits on their jury. Most of the national organizers are currently
>>>>>>> transparent about this already. In the past weeks/month, more 
>>>>>>> conversation
>>>>>>> around this has continued with some concerns (valid or not) on certain 
>>>>>>> jury
>>>>>>> processes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In this light, the international team intends to institute a new
>>>>>>> expectation for national organizers, namely to publish the members of 
>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>> jury (be it their username or real life name) at some point. We have not
>>>>>>> figured out the practical details yet, but I can imagine that while we
>>>>>>> encourage publication on the website, we would ask national organizers 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> add a list of jury members to their submission to the international 
>>>>>>> jury -
>>>>>>> which we then will publish as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We also intend to publish by default the settings of the montage
>>>>>>> jury tool, and the number of photos in each round that the national
>>>>>>> competitions have used. We're debating whether there should be an 
>>>>>>> opt-out
>>>>>>> for this year.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We will of course apply at least the same level of transparency to
>>>>>>> the international jury.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Before we make this decision, I would like to ask for feedback on
>>>>>>> this, and whether there are edge cases we should consider where
>>>>>>> such transparency would be harmful. I'll take 1 week to gather some
>>>>>>> feedback on this, and then we'll make a final decision. You can respond 
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> this on this mailing list, or privately to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Warmly,
>>>>>>> Lodewijk
>>>>>>>
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