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
>>
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