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Wiki Loves Monuments

Photographing Thailand'S Historical Sites

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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.

This will be the first time Thailand 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 Thailand. The Thailand part of the competition is volunteer-led, with significant support from our local Wikimedians in Thailand.

About the contest

Wiki Loves Monuments in Thailand follow the same rules as the international competition. Every submission should be:

• Self taken and self uploaded;
• Uploaded in September 2013;
• Freely licensed;
• Contain a listed monument at the time of judgement;

Next to that, there are a few practical rules:

• The participant should have an activated e-mail address on the upload platform;
• The first winner will get to choose the first prize etc.

Uploaded photographs do not have to be taken during September 2013, and they must NOT have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons before. Dissemination of photographs through other channels before September 2013 is fine. 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 Thailand historical sites regcognized by the Thai Fine Arts Department. For more details, see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Thailand/Eligible sites.

Get involved!

Volunteers are needed now to help us set up the competition!

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 2013 in Thailand/People.

Remember to subscribe to the Wikimedia-TH mailing list as well.

Work to be done (planning)

See w:th:วิกิพีเดีย:ศาลาชุมชน/อภิปราย/Wiki loves monuments 2013 in Thailand. (in Thai)

Top-level timeline for TH competition

For details of current work, and names of responsible volunteers, see w:th:วิกิพีเดีย:ศาลาชุมชน/อภิปราย/Wiki loves monuments 2013 in Thailand.

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Timeline for local teams

Due time	Task	Importance	Status
January 2013
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
February 2013
February 1	contact local Wikipedians (if any) to start a heritage project on your local Wikipedia
February 5	analyse what information about the monuments is available in your country (e.g. full address, coordinates, unique identifiers etc.)
February 18	add your country to the participating countries list and set up a page with general information about your local contest
February 19	register your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD domain. Create a redirect to Wikimedia Commons if you have no content yet		Not done
February 19	create your local OTRS queue and team		Not done
February 20	(if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments		Not done
February 21	start preparing a task management system, divide the work between the people
February 22	contact your government or other responsible institution/organisation and ask for the lists of monuments
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
February 26	have all main organisers subscribed to the global mailing list
February 28	(if needed) create a timeline for your local Wiki Loves Monuments; feel free to use this one as a base!
March 2013
March 1	contact other partner organisations or institutions (cultural institutions, governmental offices in charge of heritage, etc.)
March 2	start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community (if exists)
March 4	start a discussion on defining communication channels (including outside ones)
March 11	have structured list templates finished
March 21	have the list of monuments received from the government/other responsible institution
March 24	have some structured lists ready
March 25	create environment where people can report errors in the lists		Not done
March 25	create a local helpdesk (including legal questions)		Not done
March 31	have a landing page ready at your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD page		Not done
April 2013
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)		Not done
April 15	start working on your official (external) website		Not done
April 16	start working on local documentation (how to locate monuments on a map using software available in your country etc.)		Not done
April 30	start looking for local sponsors to provide awards
May 2013
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
May 16	(if possible) start working on a local events programme		Not done
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		Not done
May 30	have an OTRS queue set up with at least two-three people with access		Not done
May 31	have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump
June 2013
June 2	write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury
June 10	start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons		Not done
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)
July 2013
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		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 your language
August 11	(if possible) finalise local events programme		Not done
August 31	monuments lists should be finished; finish processing already existing photos on Wikimedia Commons		Not done
August 16	decide if you want to hold an awards ceremony and (if agreed on) start preparations		Not done
August 19	have local Public Relations people start working on an announcing press release		Not done
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		Not done
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 2013
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		Not done
September 25	have local Public Relations people start working on a final press release
September 30	finish the contest!
October 2013
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 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		Not done(sent via post)
November 25	make sure all photos are in the lists and are properly categorised		Not done not enough volunteers
November 30	have the evaluation ready & posted to your local Wikipedia; translate at least the most important parts of it into English
December 2013
December 1-31	get some rest! well done! :-)		Not done(we have more work than volunteers at WMTH)

Continuous tasks

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 # organise local meetups with a focus towards monuments and try to get press atenttion, especially in local media # keep adding all new photos to the lists on your local Wikipedia	September

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