Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in Pakistan/To do
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Organizers
[edit]The competition is planned and organized by an all volunteer organising team, all of whom are editors of at least one Wikimedia project. The following Wikimedians are part of the core team;
- Samar is an editor at English Wikipedia since 2008 and is the spokesperson of Wikimedia affiliate in Pakistan.
- Rzafar is a public historian and volunteer editor at Wikipedia since 2007 where she contributes to Pakistan related articles on various topics.
- Saqib Qayyum is the lead co-ordinator of WLM Pakistan and spokesman of Wikimedia affiliate in Pakistan. He is a volunteer editor at travel guide project Wikivoyage where he’s administrator and writes articles on Pakistani destinations.
Funds
[edit]- Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2014 - WMF Grant
- Cash grant of USD 200 from Creative Commons
Timeline
[edit]Due time | Task | Importance | Status |
January 2014 | |||
January 31 | from this date you are invited to indicate that you're interested in organizing WLM in your country by sending an email to wikilovesmonumentslists.wikimedia.org
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Done | |
February 2014 | |||
February 1 | contact local Wikipedians (if any) to start a heritage project on your local Wikipedia | Done | |
February 5 | analyse what information about the monuments is available in your country (e.g. full address, coordinates, unique identifiers etc.) | Done | |
February 18 | add your country to the participating countries list and set up a page with general information about your local contest | Done | |
February 19 | register your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD domain. Create a redirect to Wikimedia Commons if you have no content yet
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Done | |
February 19 | create your local OTRS queue and team | ||
February 20 | (if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments | ||
February 21 | start preparing a task management system, divide the work between the people | Done | |
February 22 | contact your government or other responsible institution/organisation and ask for the lists of monuments | Done | |
February 25 | Add your country to this list on Wikimedia Commons and create a page for it. Also, fill in the progress table for your country | Done | |
February 26 | have all main organisers subscribed to the global mailing list | Done | |
February 28 | (if needed) create a timeline for your local Wiki Loves Monuments; feel free to use this one as a base! | Done | |
March 2014 | |||
March 1 | contact other partner organisations or institutions (cultural institutions, governmental offices in charge of heritage, etc.) | Done | |
March 2 | start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community (if exists) | Done | |
March 4 | start a discussion on defining communication channels (including outside ones) | Done | |
March 11 | have structured list templates finished | Done | |
March 21 | have the list of monuments received from the government/other responsible institution | Done | |
March 24 | have some structured lists ready | Done | |
March 25 | create environment where people can report errors in the lists | ||
March 25 | create a local helpdesk (including legal questions) | ||
March 31 | have a landing page ready at your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD page
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Done | |
April 2014 | |||
April 1 | consider asking your local Ministry of Culture or other cultural heritage institution to formally support the contest in your country | ||
April 8 | decide on "real life" meetings with volunteers, try to identify local problems & possibilities (including freedom of panorama and other copyright issues) |
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April 15 | start working on your official (external) website | Done | |
April 16 | start working on local documentation (how to locate monuments on a map using software available in your country etc.) | ||
April 30 | start looking for local sponsors to provide awards | ||
May 2014 | |||
May 1 | start thinking about some promotional materials and goodies to give to the participants | Done | |
May 13 | set up category structure for your local monuments on Wikimedia Commons | ||
May 16 | (if possible) start working on a local events programme | ||
May 23 | join the work on a pre-announcement to be sent to all Village Pumps | ||
May 30 | have the official website up, running and shining | Done | |
May 30 | have an OTRS queue set up with at least two-three people with access | ||
May 31 | have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump | ||
June 2014 | |||
June 2 | write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury | ||
June 10 | start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons | ||
June 30 | have the rules of the contest set up and posted to your external website (you can check out and adapt other countries' rules) | Done | |
July 2014 | |||
July 29 | local sponsors should be ready & informed about the goings-on | ||
July 31 | (if needed) set up a Flickr group (and other platforms) for an easy upload | ||
July 31 | have your local jury fully formed and set up judging criteria | ||
August 2014 | |||
August 1 | start preparing Commons infrastructure (UploadWizard) and CentralNotice in your language | ||
August 11 | (if possible) finalise local events programme | ||
August 31 | monuments lists should be finished; finish processing already existing photos on Wikimedia Commons | ||
August 16 | decide if you want to hold an awards ceremony and (if agreed on) start preparations | ||
August 19 | have local Public Relations people start working on an announcing press release | ||
August 24 | have all upload environment in your language tested | ||
August 25 | start sending invites to Flickr users in relevant groups to join the contest | ||
August 31 | have UploadWizard and CentralNotice translated to your language and ready | ||
August 31 | have the announcing press release ready and translated into your language; send it to the media! | ||
August 31 | have all crucial infrastructure and pages on Wikimedia Commons as well as the tools translated into your language | ||
September 2014 | |||
September 1 | start the contest! | ||
September 9 | have local Public Relations people start working on a middle-of-the-contest press release | ||
September 12 | have the middle-of-the-contest press release ready and translated into your language; send it to the media! | ||
September 16 | have the local awards ceremony confirmed | ||
September 25 | have local Public Relations people start working on a final press release | ||
September 30 | finish the contest! | ||
October 2014 | |||
October 1 | have the final press release ready and translated into your language; send it to the media! | ||
October 9 | have the participants survey ready and translated into your language | ||
October 31 | Hard deadline: have the final decision of the local jury; send your nominations to the international level | ||
October 31 | have your local winners informed about the results of the contest | ||
November 27 | have a press release about the results of your local contest ready and sent out to the media | ||
November 2014 | |||
November 4 | send thank-you letters or e-mails to the volunteers, partners and sponsors and invite them to your local awards ceremony | ||
November 11 | start working on the evaluation of the project | ||
November 18 | (if applicable) hold your local awards ceremony | ||
November 25 | make sure all photos are in the lists and are properly categorised | ||
November 30 | have the evaluation ready & posted to your local Wikipedia; translate at least the most important parts of it into English | ||
December 2014 | |||
December 1-31 | get some rest! well done! :-) |
Continuous tasks
[edit]There are, of course, some tasks that would need to be performed every now and then during the preparations for the contest and the contest itself. A short list of such tasks follows here; the most important ones have been marked with a yellow background:
Task | Due time |
driving the decision-making process | February-November |
motivating the organisers and the volunteers | February-November |
task and budget management | February-November |
keeping the timeline up-to-date | February-November |
writing regular blog posts on the official website of your local project | April-November |
social media management | April-November |
# operate transfer bots for secondary uploads (flickr) and do the moderation # post regular updates on progress both on your external website and on the international mailing list |
September |