Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024/Organise/Announcement
| WLM 2024 | Participating countries | Uploaded images | Organizers | FAQ | Help desk | For organizers |
| Subpage for Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 organizers. |
| Instructions for local organizers | Knowledge Exchange | Landing pages | CentralNotice | Upload campaigns | Lists of monuments | Overview of monuments | Juries | Tools | Winners |
 | In a nutshell
|
It's that time of year again when we get started for the next edition of Wiki Loves Monuments. By 2023, we have completed thirteen iterations of the international edition. Thanks to all other organizers, participants, sponsors and partners, who collectively achieved this feat. Last year we received 218,800+ images.
Responsibility for national organizers
[edit]We would like to emphasize that the international team coordinates the national competitions: we are not qualified to tell you exactly how to organize your competition. National teams are best placed to decide whether and how to organize a competition in your country. We will try to set an international framework, and assist in the exchange of best practices. We expect that national organizers will follow the guidelines and regulations set by their national governments, combined with the Wikimedia Commons guidelines and principles for photographs.
Transparency of national juries
[edit]The international team has been receiving feedback over the last couple of years for better transparency of national juries, to avoid potential conflict of interest organizers may have with jurors. National organizers should now publish their information (username or name) of jurors and rounds organized at Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024/Juries.
Timeline
[edit]National organizers have the opportunity to choose a different range of dates for their national competition. You can pick any range of 30 or 31 days within the period of September-October 2024 as your upload dates. That means that one country does not have to use the same upload dates as another. This will allow flexibility according to the situation in various countries.
- The last date for all uploads is 31 October 2024, and any uploads beyond that date will be ineligible for consideration.
- The jury deadline will be December 2, 2024, for all countries.
Exchange of knowledge
[edit]National organizers innovate in many ways to make their competitions successful. While some try out new social media campaigns, some organize an interesting photo walk, and others use Wikidata to make the upload process easy. It would be helpful for other organizers to learn from these practices. Here is the page where you can share your strategies and let the community know what worked, what didn’t and any suggestions for others interested in the idea.
Special awards in 2024
[edit]We would like community members to suggest ideas for these special prizes. For example, underrepresented regions, the most numbers of unique monuments covered etc. Please send in your ideas via email or by posting on the Commons talk page by 31st of August.
Organize!
[edit]Lastly, and most importantly, if you are interested in organizing the competition for your country/region, please sign up at Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024/Participating countries.
If you need any support with organizing, please reach out to one of the international team members, or you can also post an email to the international organizers mailing list at wlm-global-org@lists.wmnederland.nl, or ask your question on the WLM help desk page on Wikimedia Commons.
the International Team, 16:56, 31 July 2024 (UTC)