[This email contains important information on how you can submit the 10 nominees of your country to the international finale and the deadline. Please forward this to your coordinators if need be.]
Dear national coordinators, jury coordinators, Thank you for an amazing job in the past weeks and months in organizing what seems to have been yet again an amazing competition in 56 countries! It's great to see all the beautiful images that have been submitted. As you know, the international Wiki Loves Monuments competition is based on a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country, with a national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted to the international finale. Submitting your top 10 for the international round can be done in two ways: - By publicly announcing the 10 winners on Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 winners <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2024_winners> before the deadline below, and via email notifying the WLM-i jury coordinator ([email protected]) of the publication of the winners on Commons; or - By sending the 10 winning photos directly to the WLM-i jury coordinator of the international WLM team ([email protected]), for instance in cases where the national winners will be announced in a prize ceremony or a press release that will happen after the deadline mentioned below. If you wish to keep the 10 winning photos secret a little while longer, please send the ten winning photos to the jury coordinator with the date of when they will be published. In this case please also include at least one member of your national jury in the cc of the email for confirmation of the result. *The deadline is 2 December 2024, 23:59 UTC*. But if you like me, please send them at least a few days before that time. Submissions after this deadline are not guaranteed to be included in the finale. When submitting your finalists, please take these instructions into account: * Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high quality. * Submit for each image (in the case of sending them by email): URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author username. * Check basic information about the images. It is NOT possible to replace finalists after the deadline! ** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons. If we cannot email the user there, they may automatically forfeit any prize. You can help them by posting a message on their talk page, or tracking them down through social media. ** that the monument in the image is identified (preferably also described in English). ** that the image is freely licensed. If you want, there are opportunities to share your national winners also on the international blog. Please get in touch with either of us about this. Thanks a lot for your cooperation. After all nominees have been received, this will result in a pool of images for the international jury to consider. The jury will first rate all images with 1-5 stars, from which a top-40/60 will be considered. Then, the jurors will have the opportunity to remove images from the selection, which they consider unfit. Finally, they are asked to rank their top-25 images, and share their reasoning. We will create a jury report based on this information. We expect to announce the results in January/February. We're looking forward to the judging process! With warm regards, Rubén Ojeda International jury coordinator, Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
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