Dear organisers!
Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 is approaching!
In less than a month the first group of countries is going to start.
If you are organising WLM this year, please make sure *now* that your
country is in the list of countries to avoid problems and delays:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2025/Partic…
(This has been forgotten before, please avoid that mistake! )
(A few tips: don't wait to check/add until you notice there is no
banner/uploading, don't wait until it is 10 minutes before midnight that
you want to start, or at the last day before, don't think it will start in
October so you have time, don't think that your colleague organiser has
added your country, just check/add it now on the page, it avoids a lot of
issues! Having your country added in the list of countries is the 1st
requirement the international team has set. If you are late with adding,
please contact me!)
When you have added your country/checked for it: thank you!
Spoiler: The 2nd requirement is that you have a landing page.
Countries starting in September: your landing page needs to be ready at the
latest on 29 August!
Countries starting in October: your landing page needs to be ready at the
latest on 27 September!
When not ready on these days, the contest may get delayed or cancelled.
PS: You don't have to wait until the last day to have your landing page
ready, you may already have it (close to) ready this week!
There is a Telegram group called Wikilovesmonuments where you as organisers
are welcome to come!
- For asking questions, reporting issues and getting help.
- For getting inspiration what you can do.
- For helping others with questions.
- For seeing last minute notifications.
- For just for hanging out to see how it is going.
- For seeing how the event starts/end at the beginning and end of the
months.
If you have an urgent issue regarding the special upload wizard or with the
banner, contact me personally on Telegram for the fastest response. A bit
more slow: write something on my Commons talk page
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Romaine> or write somewhere
else and ping me. The slowest will be sending an e-mail.
If you are unsure if something is in order or even urgent, don't hesitate
and just contact me!
Don't forget: have fun! 😀
Romaine
(Apologies for cross-posting and for the message being in English only!)
Dear WLM organizers and participants,
We have some good news for you! As potential interested stakeholders, we
would like to share with you that the Connection Product team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/Foundation_Pro…>
at the Wikimedia Foundation is enabling the CampaignEvents extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents> on Wikimedia
Commons by the week of September 15th.
This extension is designed to simplify the management of community events,
projects, and campaigns, such as yours! In addition to facilitating the
discovery and participation of all contributors in these events. Once it's
enabled on Wikimedia Commons, organizers will have access to features that
will help communicate with participants, as well as plan, organize, and
promote events/campaigns/projects on Wikimedia Commons, without having to
rely on external platforms.
The features of the extension are:
- Event Registration:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Center/Registration> A tool that
helps organizers and participants manage event registration directly on the
wiki.
- Collaboration List
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/Foundation_Pro…>:
A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at
Special:AllEvents <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllEvents>.
- Invitation List:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Invitatio…>
A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on
their past contributions.
For more information, please check the message shared
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Upcoming_Deployment…>
on Wikimedia Commons’ Village Pump.
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to share them on
the extension discussion page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CampaignEvents>. We would love to
hear from you before the rollout!
As organizers, if you want to know more about the extension or help us
engage/use the features on Wikimedia Commons, and assist us in creating an
adoption strategy for the extension, please let us know either here,
on the extension
discussion page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CampaignEvents>, or
by contacting me directly via <gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org>.
Thanks so much for your attention!
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
If you are attending Wikimania in person -- let's meet for a working lunch
as Wiki Loves Monuments organisers:
Wednesday, 06 August 13:00 – 14:00 in *Eldoret (Clubhouse) // Trademark*
Sign up here:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:2025/Meetups/Wiki_Loves_Monu…
(Feel free to add to the agenda if you have anything on your mind!)
There are also WLM dedicated or connected sessions in the programme (local
times):
*Bike-quest for WLM in Moldova: from competition to collaboration*
<https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/ZBUKTS/>
2025-08-06 15:45–16:10, NAKURU
Language: English
Inspired by the notion of the classical city quest, we opened the door for
cyclists to join Wiki Loves Monuments while on their bike saddles. After
several iterations, we discovered how the competition format may not be
working fully in our favor. We'll talk about how we are trying to mitigate
it.
*Connecting monuments on Commons with Wikidata *
<https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/7NKMHR/>
2025-08-07 15:00–15:25, NAKURU
Language: English
"Hunting for Lost Heritage": how to create thousands of new items on
Wikidata about "lost heritage", using data mining on existing images on
Wikimedia Commons.
Lightning talk: *Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine: using special prizes to
build partnerships and attract unique content*
<https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/review/QG9FSXGMNJMSN…>
2025-08-07 15:45–17:10, NAIROBI ( ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
Wikimedia Ukraine has been running Wiki Loves Monuments since 2012. Since
the second edition we started adding special prizes (such as 'Greek
heritage' or 'Elements of exterior') with a double purpose: increase
diversity of content we attract, and build interesting partnerships. This
lightning talk will cover our experience.
*Poster Session
<https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/HUNJRN/>*
2025-08-08 17:15–18:45, Common Area / Other
Language: English
*How to keep Wiki Loves participants interested even after 10+ editions*
<https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/BGTM38/>
2025-08-09 16:15–16:40, MERU ( ar, es, fr, sw)
Language: English
Wikimedia Ukraine has been organising Wiki Loves photo contests for over 10
years. Our goal is to keep participants interested and involved, and
maintain a good balance between retaining veteran Wiki Loves contributors
and keep the contest relevant and accessible for newcomers.
We will discuss different approaches that worked in Ukraine, share ideas on
how to improve different areas of Wiki Loves contests, and also hear the
ideas and experiences from the audience. We want to discuss a number of
problems and solutions to them, such as: building a monuments database,
biases in heritage lists, getting more diverse photos, community building,
attracting new participants, increasing use of images, evaluating large
numbers of upload, and others.
This session will be beneficial for current or prospective organisers of
Wiki Loves photo competitions all over the world.
(I hope I have not missed any!)
Hope to see you soon!
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