Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in Cambodia

Wiki Loves Monuments

The Wikipedia Photo Contest

around Cambodian Cultural Heritage.

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 2014. The competition takes place throughout the month of September each year.

This will be the first time Cambodia 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 Cambodia. The Cambodia part of the competition, Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in Cambodia, is volunteer-led, with significant support from our local Wikimedia Community of Cambodia (our FB Fan page).

About the contest

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

• Self taken and self uploaded;
• Uploaded in September 2014;
• 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. (TBC)

Uploaded photographs do not have to be taken during September 2014, and they must NOT have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons before. Dissemination of photographs through other channels before September 2014 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 Cambodia's historical sites recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, and other relevant government agencies/authorities. For more details, see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in Cambodia/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 2014 in Cambodia/People.

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

Work to be done (planning)

See Commons:Wiki loves monuments 2014 in Cambodia.

Top-level timeline for KH competition

For details of current work, and names of responsible volunteers, see Commons:Wiki loves monuments 2013 in Cambodia.

• Edit Timeline

Timeline for local teams

Due time	Task	Importance	Status
January 2014
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 2014
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
February 19	create your local OTRS queue and team
February 20	(if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments
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 2014
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
March 25	create a local helpdesk (including legal questions)
March 31	have a landing page ready at your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD page
April 2014
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)
April 15	start working on your official (external) website
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 2014
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
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
May 30	have an OTRS queue set up with at least two-three people with access
May 31	have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump
June 2014
June 2	write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury
June 10	start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons
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 2014
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
July 31	have your local jury fully formed and set up judging criteria
August 2014
August 1	start preparing Commons infrastructure (UploadWizard) and CentralNotice in your language
August 11	(if possible) finalise local events programme
August 31	monuments lists should be finished; finish processing already existing photos on Wikimedia Commons
August 16	decide if you want to hold an awards ceremony and (if agreed on) start preparations
August 19	have local Public Relations 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 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 2014
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
September 25	have local Public Relations people start working on a final press release
September 30	finish the contest!
October 2014
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 2014
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 2014
December 1-31	get some rest! well done! :-)

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

Website

• 'http://www.wikilovesmonuments.kh/ (still work in progress to secure the domain)