Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom
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Wiki Loves Monuments (http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org) is an annual international photography contest and crowdsourcing event in which participants photograph and upload images of historic monuments to Wikimedia Commons. These images are then available for free use on Wikipedia and beyond. More details about this year's annual competition can be found at Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. The competition takes place throughout the month of September each year.
The UK part of this year's contest will focus specifically on listed buildings. This will be the first time the UK has taken part in the international competition, and everyone is welcome to get involved, whether as a participant (photographer), organizational volunteer, or both. There is no requirement for participants or volunteers to be from the UK. The UK part of the competition is volunteer-led, with significant support from our local WMF chapter, Wikimedia UK.
The main competition website (for competitors) is at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/
About the contest[edit]
| WLM-UK 2013 links:
For organizers & helpers
For competitors |
Wiki Loves Monuments in the United Kingdom will follow the same rules as the international competition. Participants upload pictures taken by themselves of listed buildings within the UK and upload them to Wikimedia Commons during the month of September under a free licence. Uploaded photographs do not have to be taken during September 2013, but they must not have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons before. Participants are free to take photographs of any eligible building, even if Commons already has one or more photographs, but of course a new angle or a new detail is more useful to the project than simply repeating what has been done before.
For this year's competition we are concentrating on historic buildings of significant importance, as determined by the official national listings maintained by English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw, and NIEA. Eligible buildings are those of grades I and II* (England), category A (Scotland), grades I and II* (Wales) and grades A and B+ (Northern Ireland). Nationally-listed buildings of lesser importance, and buildings on local lists only, will not form part of the competition. For more details, see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/Eligible buildings.
If you would like to help organize the contest, think you might like to take part in September, or would just like to register your support, please add your name at Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/People.
Remember to subscribe to the Wiki Loves Monuments UK mailing list as well. The list admin is Katie Chan (WMUK).
Work to be done (planning)[edit]
See Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/planning.
Top-level timeline for UK competition[edit]
For details of current work, and names of responsible volunteers, see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/planning.
| Due time | Task | Status |
| March 2013 | ||
| - | indicate that you're interested |  Done
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| - | analyse what information is available in the UK (e.g. full address, grid references, geolocation, unique identifiers etc.) | Done
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| - | make the final decision on joining the project | Done
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| - | set up a portal page for Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK on the English Wikipedia |  Not done
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| - | register wikilovesmonuments.org.uk as the main WLM domain. Create a redirect to Wikimedia Commons | Done
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| - | create a local OTRS queue and team | Done
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| - | (if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments | Done
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| - | start preparing a task management system, divide the work between the people | Done
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| - | contact the four listing authorities | Done
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| - | decide if you'd like to have local workshops organized by the international team and let them know | Done
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| - | create a page on Wikimedia Commons (see the portal page) and fill in the table for the UK | Done
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| - | have all main organizers subscribed to the global mailing list | Done
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| - | (if needed) create a timeline for your local Wiki Loves Monuments | Done
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| - | contact other partner organizations or institutions | Done
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| - | start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community | Done
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| - | start a discussion on defining communication channels (including outside ones) | Done
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| - | have structured list templates finished | Done
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| - | have the list of monuments received from the government/other responsible institution | Done
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| - | have some structured lists ready | Done
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| - | create environment where people can report errors in the lists | Done
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| - | create a local helpdesk (including legal questions) | Done
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| March 31 | have a landing page ready at wikilovesmonuments.org.uk | Done
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| April 2013 | ||
| April 1 | Seek official backing from the listing organizations | Done
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| April 8 | decide on RL meeting with volunteers, try to identify local problems & possibilities (including freedom of panorama and other copyright issues) |
Not done
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| April 15 | start working on the official (external) website | Done
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| April 16 | start working on local documentation (how to locate monuments on a map using software available in your country etc.) |  In progress
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| April 30 | start looking for local sponsors to provide awards | Done
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| May 2013 | ||
| May 1 | start thinking about some promotional materials and goodies to give to the participants | In progress
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| May 13 | set up category structure for your local monuments on Wikimedia Commons | In progress
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| May 16 | (if possible) start working on a local events programme | Done
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| May 23 | join the work on a pre-announcement to be sent to all Village Pumps | Done
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| May 30 | have the official website up, running and shining | Done
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| May 30 | have an OTRS queue set up with at least two-three people with access | Done
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| May 31 | have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump | Done
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| June 2013 | ||
| June 1 | partners should be ready, participating & informed about the goings-on | Done
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| June 2 | write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury | Done
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| June 10 | start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons | In progress
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| June 17 | have the promotional materials and goodies designed and at least being produced if you want to distribute them | |
| June 30 | have the rules of the contest set up and posted to the external website | Done
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| July 2 | have somebody join PR team to work on press releases and external outreach | Done
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| July 29 | local sponsors should be ready & informed about the goings-on | Done
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| July 30 | have the main website and other materials translated into Welsh | Not done
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| July 31 | have your local jury fully formed and set up judging criteria | |
| August 2013 | ||
| August 1 | start preparing Commons infrastructure (UploadWizard) and CentralNotice in Welsh | Not done
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| August 7-11 | go to Wikimania and |
Done
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| August 11 | (if possible) finalise local events programme | |
| August 12 | monuments lists should be finished; finish processing already existing photos on Wikimedia Commons | |
| August 15 | have promotional materials and goodies sent out to volunteers around the country | |
| August 16 | decide if you want to hold an awards ceremony and (if agreed on) start preparations | |
| August 19 | have local PR people start working on an announcing press release | Done
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| August 24 | have all upload environment tested | Done
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| August 25 | start sending invites to Flickr users in relevant groups to join the contest | |
| August 27 | have UploadWizard and CentralNotice all ready | Done
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| August 28 | have the announcing press release ready; send it to the media! | |
| August 31 | have all crucial infrastructure and pages on Wikimedia Commons as well as the tools fully documented | Done
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| September 2013 | ||
| September 1 | start the contest! | |
| September 9 | have local PR people start working on a middle-of-the-contest press release | |
| September 12 | have the middle-of-the-contest press release ready; send it to the media! | |
| September 16 | have the local awards ceremony confirmed | |
| September 25 | have local PR people start working on a final press release | |
| September 30 | finish the contest! | |
| October 2013 | ||
| October 1 | have the final press release ready; send it to the media! | |
| October 9 | have the participants survey ready | |
| 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 2013 | ||
| 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 categorized | |
| November 30 | have the evaluation ready & posted to Commons/English Wikipedia/WMUK website | |
| December 2013 | ||
| December 1-31 | get some rest! well done! :-) | |
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Timeline - Progress - Documentation - Tools - FAQ - Media - Sponsors - List of landing page, monuments and uploadlink - Winning photos
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