Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom

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Wiki Loves Monuments

Photographing the UK's premier listed buildings

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

WLM-UK 2013 links: For organizers & helpers Main page Organizers & helpers Main planning page Progress lists for Wikipedians Organizers' FAQ Organizers' help desk Publicity lists For competitors Main competition website Competition rules Competitors' FAQ Competitors' help desk Eligible buildings

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.

Get involved!

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)

See Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/planning.

Top-level timeline for UK competition

For details of current work, and names of responsible volunteers, see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/planning.

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Due time	Task	Status
March 2013
-	indicate that you're interested	Done
-	analyse what information is available in the UK (e.g. full address, grid references, geolocation, unique identifiers etc.)	Done
-	make the final decision on joining the project	Done
-	set up a portal page for Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK on the English Wikipedia	Not done
-	register wikilovesmonuments.org.uk as the main WLM domain. Create a redirect to Wikimedia Commons	Done
-	create a local OTRS queue and team	Done
-	(if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments	Done
-	start preparing a task management system, divide the work between the people	Done
-	contact the four listing authorities	Done
-	decide if you'd like to have local workshops organized by the international team and let them know	Done
-	create a page on Wikimedia Commons (see the portal page) and fill in the table for the UK	Done
-	have all main organizers subscribed to the global mailing list	Done
-	(if needed) create a timeline for your local Wiki Loves Monuments	Done
-	contact other partner organizations or institutions	Done
-	start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community	Done
-	start a discussion on defining communication channels (including outside ones)	Done
-	have structured list templates finished	Done
-	have the list of monuments received from the government/other responsible institution	Done
-	have some structured lists ready	Done
-	create environment where people can report errors in the lists	Done
-	create a local helpdesk (including legal questions)	Done
March 31	have a landing page ready at wikilovesmonuments.org.uk	Done
April 2013
April 1	Seek official backing from the listing organizations	Done
April 8	decide on RL meeting with volunteers, try to identify local problems & possibilities (including freedom of panorama and other copyright issues)	Not done
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.)	In progress
April 30	start looking for local sponsors to provide awards	Done
May 2013
May 1	start thinking about some promotional materials and goodies to give to the participants	In progress
May 13	set up category structure for your local monuments on Wikimedia Commons	In progress
May 16	(if possible) start working on a local events programme	Done
May 23	join the work on a pre-announcement to be sent to all Village Pumps	Done
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	Done
May 31	have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump	Done
June 2013
June 1	partners should be ready, participating & informed about the goings-on	Done
June 2	write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury	Done
June 10	start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons	In progress
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
July 2	have somebody join PR team to work on press releases and external outreach	Done
July 29	local sponsors should be ready & informed about the goings-on	Done
July 30	have the main website and other materials translated into Welsh	Not done
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
August 7-11	go to Wikimania and take over the world take part in RL discussions about Wiki Loves Monuments	Done
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
August 24	have all upload environment tested	Done
August 25	start sending invites to Flickr users in relevant groups to join the contest
August 27	have UploadWizard and CentralNotice all ready	Done
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
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! :-)