[Wiki Loves Monuments] Re: Decision of WLM in Ukraine organizers not to submit photos for the international round
I appreciate this and the extraordinary photos of Ukrainian heritage that came out of past years' contests, one of the fruits of which is sitting on my wall. ❤️啕⚡, SJ On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:46 AM Olga Milianovych < olga.milianov...@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote: > Hi all, > > On behalf of the organizing team for Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine I’m > writing to inform you of our decision not to submit photos for the > international round. > > Traditionally, Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine has been one of the biggest > WLM local contests in the world, as well as among the biggest projects > supported by Wikimedia Ukraine. > > This year, Ukraine and subsequently the contest has suffered from Russia’s > full-scale invasion. Particularly, for security reasons the organizers had > to limit submissions only to photos taken before February 24th, 2022, which > is the date when Russia openly invaded Ukraine. > > Despite the limitations, we managed to organize the contest in 2022 and > attract almost 14,000 photos of Ukrainian cultural heritage from almost 300 > participants. They illustrate over 5,300 monuments, including 351 monuments > depicted for the first time. > > However, the local organizers will not be submitting Ukrainian photos for > the international round because of the international organizers’ decisions > to accept photos from Russia on the international stage. To be clear, we do > not support this decision and had asked the international team not to > accept Russian photos in the international round. > > While we fully support the spread of free knowledge in various forms, we > believe that it is not appropriate to promote on the international level > photos from the country that wages a brutal war against Ukraine, kills > thousands of Ukrainians – and systematically destroys and steals Ukrainian > cultural, architectural and archaeological monuments. > > Besides, Russia’s war has deprived Ukrainian photos of equal conditions in > the competition. While daily life in Russia continues largely as normal, > Ukrainian photographers have had to operate in extremely difficult > conditions and under many limitations – both the formal ones imposed for > security reasons and the overall situation in Ukraine (power blackouts, > problems with internet connectivity, personal hardship etc.) > > Therefore, we cannot accept Ukrainian photos competing alongside Russian > ones – we do not think that in current circumstances it is the right thing > to announce which Ukrainian photos are better and which are worse than > Russian ones. > > We are grateful to Ukrainian participants and volunteers who have made the > contest possible this year against the odds, as well as to international > organizers for their hard work in supporting the largest photo contest in > the Wikimedia ecosystem. > > Best regards, > Olga Milianovych > Member of the organizing committee for Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine > > (Disclaimer: Antanana is a member of the Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine > organizing committee. Due to her currently serving on the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees she recused herself from taking part in > discussions and making decisions on this topic). > ___ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to > wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list To unsubscribe send an email to wikilovesmonuments-le...@lists.wikimedia.org http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [WLM announce] Announcement: special awards for African monuments
This is lovely news. Thank you. . ·.·.><º> . ·.·.><º> . ·.·.><º> On Sun., Sep. 8, 2019, 1:29 a.m. effe iets anders, wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It is my pleasure to announce on behalf of the international team that > this year there will be three special awards for African monuments. > > All images that are nominated as the top-10 by the national juries are > eligible for this prize and a dedicated jury will take a decision on this > in November. One restriction is that all three prizes have to go to a > different country. > > More information about all prizes this year: > https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/awards/ > > Warmly, and looking forward to many exciting pictures this year. > > Lodewijk > ___ > WLM-Announce mailing list > wlm-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-announce > ___ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] SVG map - some help needed
<3 <# <3 On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:43 PM André Costa wrote: > New version up at File:Participating_Countries_WLM_2018.svg > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participating_Countries_WLM_2018.svg>. > I tried to keep it as similar as possible to the old one but the base map > is different since it is a bit more detailed. > > Easiest way to update it is actually to open the file in a simple text > editor, scroll down to "/* Enter WLM data here */" and add the ISO_3166 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166> code of the new country to the > ones listed already. Inkscape also works and likely no one but me would > notice the difference =) > > Cheers, > André > > André Costa | Chief Operating Officer, Wikimedia Sverige | > andre.co...@wikimedia.se | +46 (0)733-964574 > > Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. > Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se > > 2018-06-18 16:16 GMT+02:00 effe iets anders : > >> We can assume it is :). Once there is an updated map, i can keep it >> updated again with an svg editor. >> Thanks! >> Lodewijk >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 03:57 André Costa wrote: >> >>> I'll give this a stab later today. >>> >>> Is >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Participating_countries >>> up to date? >>> >>> /André >>> >>> André Costa | Chief Operating Officer, Wikimedia Sverige | >>> andre.co...@wikimedia.se | +46 (0)733-964574 >>> >>> Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. >>> Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se >>> >>> 2018-06-17 6:21 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk : >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> as usual, I'd like to keep a visualization of our participating >>>> countries. See here for 2017 >>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participating_Countries_WLM_2017.svg>. >>>> Unfortunately, that map is a bit outdated (in particular South Sudan is not >>>> separate yet). >>>> >>>> Could anyone help me set up a new version of this map with an updated >>>> world map? Ideally with the same style (white countries with grey borders & >>>> oceans, including antarctica). >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance! >>>> >>>> Lodewijk >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>>> WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >>>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>> WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> >> >> ___ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >> > > ___ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Special prize for St. James Way in 2015
Hi Santiago, what a charming idea. It would be wonderful if WLM could help introduce some of these local associations to one another. Sam On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Santiago Navarro Sanz wikimill...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello. Last year, Wikimedia Spain had a collaboration with an association of friends of the French St. James Way. That partner provided books as prizes for a special category of WLM contest.[1] It seems that this year they will be partners too, and we could look for more different partners for that. Maybe there could be a special prize for St. James Way at an international level, because St. James Way is present in different European countries. For example, the Way is present also in England, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy or Portugal. Besides, the Way in Spain and France is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.[2][3] This is only an idea, so, please feel free to say your opinion. Last week we run an edit-a-thon in Jaca about the Fench St. James Way in Aragon, and during WMCON, I could talk with Anne-Laure Prévost, of Wikimedia France, about starting a project related with this. Regards Santi Navarro Wikimedia España [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014_winners#Way_of_St._James [2] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/669 [3] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/868 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Wiki Loves Monuments
Thanks! Great to see this summary. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:00 PM, LiAnna Davis lda...@wikimedia.org wrote: (please excuse cross-posting) Hi everyone! I posted the latest in the string of program evaluation reports on Meta today, on Wiki Loves Monuments: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/WLM Highlights of the report include: * About 17% of the images uploaded through Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 are in use on our projects. * The majority of Wiki Loves Monuments participants are new users; however, the survival rate of new users is low (1.7% of the 2012 participants made at least one edit and 1.4% uploaded at least one new file to Commons six months after the event). * Half of the existing editors who participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 also participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, with new users making up for the other half. * The global Wiki Loves Monuments organizing team helps support Wiki Loves Monuments organizers around the world, providing replication opportunities via direct support. This makes it easier for someone to organize their own Wiki Loves Monuments contest. Questions are welcomed and encouraged on the talk page. On behalf of the Program Evaluation team, LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org +1-(415) 839-6885 x6649 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Metro Photo Challenge
Do any Swedish Wikimedians have contacts with MTG or Metro International? This does sound like a great opportunity for partnership in future years. Sam. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: I guess that until our 2012 record was recognized, they just assumed that their 250k photos was above the record, so they were fine. However, their competition might not fit the GWR definition of competition - so that might be a reason they never tried to get recognized. Lodewijk 2013/9/4 Ole Palnatoke Andersen o...@palnatoke.org So a bigger competition has more participants, while a larger competition has more photos? The English language has fine nuances. :-) On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: You retain copyright but grant them a pretty wide license for the next five years: http://metrophotochallenge.com/about/ Last year was claimed as 80,000 people contributing 225,000 images, so they are technically larger in terms of participants if not of results. A. On 4 September 2013 09:19, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Does someone know this challenge? I saw it quite prominently advertised on Metro this Monday. «The Metro Photo Challenge, the world’s biggest photography competition, officially launched on Tuesday», «2013 will mark the seventh Metro Photo Challenge [...] we’re going to ask you to capture more of a process than a thing [...] sensing the world around you». http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-your-senses-enter-the-2013-metro-photo-challenge/ http://metrophotochallenge.com/ Are they the previous holders of the Guinness world record (forgetting to update their claims) or are they just making it up? I didn't actually try to register but I can't find any information on licensing; interesting that they felt compelled to add a we'll donate to a charity incentive. They have 5200 photos and and 2700 uploaders so far. Nemo ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Android mobile app is back
A magic fantastic. Thank you, Maarten and Yuvi. On Aug 25, 2013 2:28 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: Hi everyone, Last year the Wikimedia Foundation developed a Android mobile app for Wiki Loves Monuments. After September it was abandoned. But the app is open source, so now it's back as a community supported app. I rebuild the backend server in toollabs and Yuvi did his magic mobile tricks. Yuvi also works for the WMF mobile team, but he did all of this in his spare time as a volunteer. You can download a test version of the app at https://tools.wmflabs.org/** heritage/downloads/WLMMobile-**debug.apkhttps://tools.wmflabs.org/heritage/downloads/WLMMobile-debug.apk. It uploads to https://test.wikipedia.org so feel free to play around. Feedback is appreciated! For the people interested in helping with the development, see https://github.com/wikimedia/**WLMMobilehttps://github.com/wikimedia/WLMMobile You can file bugs at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.** org/enter_bug.cgi?product=**Wiki%20Loves%20Monumentshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wiki%20Loves%20Monuments(for now component general, will ask for a mobile component) Maarten __**_ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.**wikimedia.orgWikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/**wikilovesmonumentshttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.**org http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wikimedia Foundations app for Wiki Loves Monuments
[Thanks, Tomasz, for sharing your roadmap!] On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote: At the beginning of your e-mail, you wrote that you wanted to use this thread to collect our ideas. I'm not exactly sure what this means I believe he meant collect the ideas of the mobile team here in this thread, to share with the WLM list. That said, I'm quite suprised to see how low on the Foundation's list of priorities supporting Wiki Loves Monuments lies. It sounds to me like a scheduling mismatch between competing priorities, rather than non-prioritization. (solely my perception as an interested community member; as far as I know the Foundation is pretty darn proud of WLM.) Are there any WLM-loving developers outside of the staff who might submit a short-term grant proposal to update/maintain the old WLM app this year? SJ ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 300.000!!
That's wonderful :)-Sj On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Samat sama...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations!!! Samat On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Alexander Wagner alexander.wag...@wikipedia.at wrote: Wow ;) Greets, Alex ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM and Human.io
This (app and response) is awesome. SJ On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/9/26 Tomasz W. Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com: We are now sorting out the behind-the-scenes technical details, and I'll let you know as soon as there is more update on this. Thank you for your prompt intervention, Tomasz. Cristian ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] wanted: suggestion for international media partners to WLM 2012
I'd be happy to help organize something with the Globe. SJ On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: It's less international, but The Atlantis and the Boston Globe have a great and very popular weekly picture posts (The Big Picture). Maybe we can also combine something with them - Sent from my mobile device. On May 11, 2012 12:01 PM, Barbara Fischer barbara.fisc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hello all of You, we would love to further the outreach of the WLM contest even beyond the boundaries of the community. For that reason each participating chapter will likely to be organizing its own press information center and maybe try to get media partners for support. In case you like to get support in how to raise a media partnership please do contact me. We are working on a basic pattern for such purpose. In any case please do inform me about Your press activity as soon as it comes to partnerships. On international level we strive for media partnerships aswell. Please let me know, if You do have specific media in mind, that could be interesting to address. Right now we consider magazines on photography and heritage of interest but also web related focus as open access would be fine. If You do have further ideas, come on and share them.Both print and online would be just nice. Here some examples: National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Metro Newspaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_International Eikon http://www.eikon.at/content/en/termine_wettbewerbe.php world monuments fund http://www.wmf.org/watch Please help me to complete the list! If You do know who to address to obtain a quick decision please let me know. :)) best regards and have a nice weekend Barbara -- Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
