Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in the Netherlands
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 2015. The competition takes place throughout the month of September each year.
This will be the fifth time NL has taken part in the 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 NL. The NL part of the competition is volunteer-led, with significant support from our local WMNL chapter, Wikimedia NL.
About the contest[edit]
Wiki Loves Monuments in the Netherlands will follow the same rules as the international competition. Participants upload pictures taken by themselves of listed buildings within NL 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 2015, 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 Gemeentelijke monumenten and the theme "Art & Crafts". For more details, see our eligible buildings list.
Get involved![edit]
Volunteers are currently being sought to help organize the contest. If you can help, 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 2015 in the Netherlands/People.
Remember to subscribe to the Wiki Loves Monuments NL mailing list as well.
Work to be done (planning)[edit]
See:
- Inventorisation of Municipal Monuments (Dutch)
- Turning distinctive emblems for municipal monuments into SVG files.
- Vera is going to get files send to her by the producers of enemal emblems, so contact her if you want to help with this.
Top-level timeline for NL competition[edit]
Timeline for local teams[edit]
| Due time | Task | Status |
| January 2015 | ||
| January 31 | indicate that you're interested |  Done
|
| February 2015 | ||
| February 1 | start a heritage project on your local Wikipedia and analyse if the community wants to join the project | Done
|
| February 5 | analyse what information is available in your country (e.g. full address, coordinates, unique identifiers etc.) | Done
|
| February 18 | make the final decision on joining the project (or not) | Done
|
| February 18 | set up a portal page for Wiki Loves Monuments on your local Wikipedia | |
| February 19 | register your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD domain. Create a redirect to Wikimedia Commons if you have no content yet
|
Done
|
| February 19 | create your local OTRS queue and team | Done
|
| February 20 | (if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments | Done
|
| 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 | create a page on Wikimedia Commons (see the portal page) for your country | Done
|
| February 26 | have all main organisers subscribed to the global mailing list | still working on main organisers, check later on to make sure they are on the list |
| February 29 | (if needed) create a timeline for your local Wiki Loves Monuments; feel free to use this one as a base! | Done
|
| March 2015 | ||
| March 1 | contact other partner organisations or institutions | still to be done |
| March 2 | start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community | needs to be worked on |
| March 4 | start a discussion on defining communication channels (including outside ones) | ? |
| 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 | Done
|
| March 25 | create a local helpdesk (including legal questions) | Done
|
| March 30 | (if applicable) go to the Chapters Meeting and take part in the brainstorming session | |
| March 31 | have a landing page ready at your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD page
|
Done (site) needs updating for 2015
|
| April 2015 | ||
| 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 RL meeting with volunteers, try to identify local problems & possibilities (including freedom of panorama and other copyright issues) |
|
| April 15 | start working on the 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 2015 | ||
| May 1 | start thinking about some promotional materials and goodies to give to the participants | |
| May 13 | set up category structure for your local monuments on Wikimedia Commons | Done
|
| 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 - needs update
|
| May 30 | have an OTRS queue set up with at least two-three people with access | Done
|
| May 31 | have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump | |
| June 2015 | ||
| June 1 | partners should be ready, participating & informed about the goings-on | |
| June 2 | write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury | |
| June 10 | start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons | Done
|
| 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 your external website | guess not much changes - to decide |
| July 2015 | ||
| July 1 | have somebody join the international Wiki Loves Monuments translation team | Basvb and Romaine are the persons to ask for dutch translations |
| July 2 | have somebody join PR team to work on press releases and external outreach | |
| July 15-19 | go to Wikimania and |
Who will be there? |
| July 29 | local sponsors should be ready & informed about the goings-on | |
| July 30 | have the international website translated into your language | Ask Basvb or Romaine when the time is there |
| 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 2015 | ||
| August 1 | start preparing Commons infrastructure (UploadWizard) and CentralNotice in your language | |
| 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 your 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 | |
| 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 27 | have UploadWizard and CentralNotice translated to your language and ready | |
| August 28 | 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 2015 | ||
| 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 and translated into your language; 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 2015 | ||
| 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 21 | have the final decision of the local jury; send your nominations to the international level | |
| October 22 | have your local winners informed about the results of the contest | |
| October 24 | have a press release about the results of your local contest ready and sent out to the media | |
| November 2015 | ||
| 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 2015 | ||
| 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 |
Winners[edit]
Website[edit]
| Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Tools - FAQ - Media - List of landing page, monuments and uploadlink - Winning photos - Training For local organisers - Landing pages - CentralNotice - Upload campaigns - Winners (tracking page) - Lists of monuments
|
| ||