Thank you for the update Nana! Looking forward to seeing Ukraines beautiful pictures again, they are stunning every year. ❤️
Best, Ciell Op di 5 dec 2023 om 20:47 schreef attolippip <[email protected]>: > Hello all. Just wanted to share some love on the mailing list -- thank you > to all who volunteered to help us with the pre-selection process! > We have been able to meet the deadline, and submit our national winners to > the international stage > (at this point in time our winners are still not public) > > Thank you <3 <3 <3 > > З повагою / Best regards, > antanana > Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine > > Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as > a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation > > > вт, 3 жовт. 2023 р. о 10:55 attolippip <[email protected]> пише: > >> Dear all, >> >> >> We would like to organise a pre-selection committee to help select >> pictures that the Ukrainian national jury will then evaluate, and we need >> volunteers for that. Please fill in the Google form if you are interested >> to help during October and first days of November: >> https://shorturl.at/mqB13 >> >> (You can also reach out to me directly at [email protected] if you >> would like to help, but do not want to fill in a Google form) >> >> == Context on why we need your help == >> >> This is our first time implementing such a step in the process – and we >> do it because: 1) we would like the jury to be able to select better >> pictures (our usual processes had them looking at ~1500 pictures at a time >> ''each''), and more suited for illustrating Wikipedia and other >> wikiprojects; 2) “Winter is coming”, as they say in “Game of Thrones”, for >> real, and we are bracing up for another complicated period of time, with >> rockets hitting our infrastructure, and power outages, and we want to lower >> the risks of Ukrainian jury members not finishing pre-selection and >> evaluation before the international deadline. >> >> Our contest just started, and we have more than 1400 pictures so far. >> Unfortunately the circumstances are very new, so we do not know what to >> expect in terms of the number of pictures uploaded, but we are estimating >> that we at least can get ~14000 pictures this year like in 2022. So far the >> progress has been higher than last year, but we do have harsh restrictions >> like pictures need to be taken on or before June 30, 2023, and only in one >> special category – interiors of the monuments – we allow uploading of the >> currently taken photos. >> >> In case you wonder about these restrictions – we are trying to balance >> our needs as organisers to document as much as possible (thus already >> allowing pictures created after the full-scale invasion), but also safety >> of the participants (people feel really uneasy when somebody unknown goes >> around their house taking photos with the war going on), and national >> security (most likely pictures taken on or before June 30, 2023, do not >> risk revealing any sensitive information). >> >> == What exactly is required == >> >> Participants submit pictures for the “Quality” category, and we would >> like help with pre-selecting pictures for the national jury, so the results >> of their work are better. >> >> You would need to look at ~500-1000 photos during October and first days >> of November, and select the ones that would go to the Ukrainian national >> jury. >> >> We are using WLX Jury Tool for our jury selection process, it is quite >> easy to use and has an English interface; there are also instructions in >> English. >> >> Please feel in the Google form if you are interested to help during >> October and first days of November: https://shorturl.at/mqB13 >> >> (You can also reach out to me directly if you would like to help, but do >> not want to fill in a Google form) >> >> I would be happy to answer any questions you might have about the >> Ukrainian contest (we do have a bit of a complicated system developed over >> the years). You can read the English page of our contest here [1], or a >> diff post about our 2022 edition here [2]. >> >> >> Thank you all, and please take care! >> >> [1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3964870 >> [2] >> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/20/ukraine-presenting-10-winning-pictures-of-wiki-loves-monuments-2022/ >> >> З повагою / Best regards, >> antanana >> Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine >> >> Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not >> as a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
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