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Lluniau da ar Wici Henebion! Nice uploads on Wiki Loves Monuments! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:48, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Eight days into Wiki Loves Monuments[edit]
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Thank you for taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments UK |
| Thank you for submitting so many photos to the competition! You're one of nine people who have uploaded more than 25 images to the UK competition, and that really helps increase our coverage of historic sites. Photos from this year are already being used on Wikipedia - though it may take a while for the monuments map to catch up so don't be disheartened if some pins haven't turned blue yet.
WLM runs until the end of the month, so please add more and invite other people to take part. The UK is closing in on 1,000 uploads putting us just behind the United States in 14th place out of 49 countries taking part. Let's see if we can jump a few places. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message here or contact me directly at richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk. |
An update from Wiki Loves Monuments UK[edit]
| Thank you for taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments UK |
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| More than 300 people have contributed a total of 4,000 photos to this year's competition and we wanted to say thank you for helping us get this far. The competition runs until the end of September, and you can upload as many images as you want - so feel free to document some more sites. Or why not go through your old images to see if you have any others that could be submitted?
Since you've already submitted some pictures to the competition, you might be interested in the banner mini-contest; to take part you crop your images to a 7:1 and upload a new version. You can find out more about how to do that here. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the competition and share it with others! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:24, 22 September 2017 (UTC) |
Quality Image Promotion[edit]
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Your image has been reviewed and promoted
Congratulations! Moored at the Aqueduct.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images.
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Quality Image Promotion[edit]
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Your image has been reviewed and promoted
Congratulations! Gate and Gondola at Newport Transporter Bridge, Wales.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images.
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Thank you for your participation in Wiki Loves Love 2019[edit]
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Wiki loves love 2019 has ended and team Wiki Loves Love sends you greetings and appreciation for joining us in spreading love around the globe and documents how love is expressed in different cultures. We hope to see you again in 2020. Till then stay tuned to know the results of WLL that will be out in April.
Congratulations on being the winner of Wiki Loves Love postcard prize.
Please make sure that you fill this form so we can collect details for the address.
Best regards.
Wiki Loves Love International Team
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:57, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Love[edit]
Hello,
This is a reminder message for the postcard winners of Wiki Loves Love to kindly fill the form by 10th April which is the last date!
Please Ignore this message if you have already filled
Regards, Wiki Loves Love International Team
Categorization[edit]
Hi Dave, thanks for all the new photos.
I've been doing a bit of trimming on the categories. How categorization works is that we only need the main categories here. Many of the others are implicit in those. So if something has "Canals in Wales", we don't need to re-state "Canals" too. For this one, I took it down from 5 to just 1: If it's in the Brecon basin, then we know which canal that is, which town that is and all the rest.
File:Canal Weights and Measures Office.jpg
Brecon canal basin
Brecon
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Canals
Canals in Wales
COM:OVERCAT covers this. There are times when we shouldn't remove related or parent categories, despite this, but they're less common. We only remove if the category is implied, i.e. clearly everything that's in the sub-category will also be a member of the parent category.
MediaWiki categorization is mostly there as a navigational convenience. It's not formally defining, it's just not powerful enough for that. So there are also cases where being in two categories, even with some overlap, can be worth keeping just for convenient navigation. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:44, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019![edit]
Hi
Thank you so much for contributing to the UK section of this year's Wiki Loves Monuments contest, which finished yesterday. We really do appreciate the time and effort you've put in to record the UK's built cultural heritage for future generations.
Your contribution has been been added to our collections here on Wikimedia Commons, and is already available for editors to make use of on Wikipedia and elsewhere. It has also been entered into this year's contest. If you'd like to see your own images, just click on the uploads link at the top right of this page (if you don't see it, click on the Log in option first).
We've received over 10,000 UK entries this year, and it will take a few weeks for our volunteers and professional judges to decide on the final top 10. The winners will be announced by the end of this month, both here on Wikimedia Commons and also on the competition website.
The top 10 UK images will go forward to the international section where they will compete against winners from some 50 other countries. The international winners should be announced here in December.
Don't forget, by the way, that if you're hoping to win a prize in the contest it's essential that you have enabled email in your Wikimedia preferences. If you haven't, you're not eligible to win. If you're unsure, please check here.
Once again, many thanks for your help! MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:58, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019! Please help with this survey.[edit]
Dear WelshDave,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.
To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.
Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 12:31, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey (Reminder)[edit]
Dear WelshDave,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.
To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.
Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 03:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Photo[edit]
Hello. You made this photo File:Cast Iron Footbridge.jpg. The bolted connections is seen on it. Can you make good photos of the bolted connections? Blast furnace chip worker (talk) 18:05, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020! Please help with this survey[edit]
Dear WelshDave,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 200K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.
Please fill in this short survey and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2020.
Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team, 08:21, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Earth (Wales)[edit]
Bore da!
For the first time, Wales will be taking part in the international photo competition Wiki Loves Earth this year. It really is a fantastic competition! All the images need to be upload in June, by the photographer.
Please take a look at our WLE (Wales) landing page for further information:
Having taken photos for Wiki Loves Monuments in the past, I though, maybe, you would like to join us - and keep fit at the same time - or use images you took a while back.
Pob hwyl
Robin, en:Wikimedia UK, (aka - Llywelyn2000 (talk) 08:51, 21 April 2021 (UTC))
- Thanks for uploading! Great images. Can you help me please: I can't find any protection listings for Porthcawl eg SSSIs, Areas of outstanding beauty, Special Areas of Conservation etc. WLE is for photographs taken in these protective sites only. But do correct me if I'm wrong. If they're not, they're still excellent stuff for Commons! Thanks and keep 'em rolling! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:06, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
I think may be right - the Severn Estuary is an SSSI but the protected area only extends down the coast as far as Barry. I'll try to uploaded some photos taken further east along the estuary.
Maybe you could help me - Tyr Hen Forwen in Torfaen is listed as an SSSI but I can't find any directions - advice would me most welcome! Would Cwmynyscoy local nature reserve be a suitable subject?
This is a wonderful event - it's great that Walesis taking part and that there are so many contributions.
Kind reagrds, Dave
Wiki Loves Earth / Wici'r Holl Ddaear[edit]
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Thank you for taking part in Wiki Loves Earth Wales |
| Thank you for submitting great photos to the competition! Your images will help us document Wales diverse natural environment. Photos from this year are already being used on Wikipedia.
WLE runs until the end of the month, so please add more and invite other people to take part. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message here or contact me directly at jason.evans@llgc.org.uk |
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is on![edit]
You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:17, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Earth Wales 2022[edit]
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Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Wales is back! |
| Hello! We are happy to announce that Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Wales will open on June 1st. Your participation will help us to document the nature of Wales and show it to the world through Wikipedia and other projects.
Please go to the page of the contest to read the rules: Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in WalesThere you can also find out how to take part in the contest. Thanks, You are receiving this message because you took part in the contest before If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message here or contact me directly at jason.evans@llgc.org.uk |
Wiki Loves Earth (Wales)[edit]
Hi WelshDave! Bore da! And thanks for uploading your work (once again!) as part of Wiki Loves Earth! We came 8th out of over 30 countroes last year; let's see if we can ddo better this year! Best regards... Robin (Wikimedia UK) aka... Llywelyn2000 (Sgwrs) 10:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022! Please help with this survey[edit]
Dear WelshDave,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 150K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 35 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.
Please fill in this short survey and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2022.
Kind regards, Wiki Loves Monuments team, 09:40, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 has started, Join us![edit]
Hello WelshDave,
Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team!
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photography contest hosted on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from around the world, such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folktales, folk games, folk religion, mythology, and many more.
The campaign invites participants to document photographs, videos, and audios linked to folk culture and fit within the contest's theme. Through this campaign, you may become a part of a community dedicated to preserving our intangible culture, which has been brought and passed down for thousands of years.
How to Contribute?
The dates for the submission in the photography contest on Wikimedia Commons are from 1 February to 31 March 2023. Probably you are wondering how you can take part. It’s simple: grab a camera, record an image, video or audio under the folklore theme and start uploading ! To learn more about the rules, check out our Project page on Wikimedia Common. Here are the exciting prizes which you can win internationally.
International Prizes
- 1st prize: 500 USD
- 2nd prize: 400 USD
- 3rd prize: 300 USD
- Top 10 consolation prizes: 40 USD Each
- Best Video prize and best Audio prize: 150 USD & 150 USD
- Top uploader prize for images: First Prize: 100 USD, Second prize: 50 USD
- Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards to top 100 Uploaders
- Certificates and postcards to Local Organizers.
(Disclaimer : The above prizes will only be disbursed in form of gift card or voucher format only)
You can win both International prizes and your local Prizes simultaneously !
If you are interested in participating in the photography campaign, start photographing and collecting media of your local culture and get ready for the photo campaign happening on Wikimedia Commons. For more information about rules and prizes of the contest, refer here. For any questions, email us or join our telegram group
Warm regards,
Rockpeterson
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team.
Wiki Loves Earth in Wales 2023[edit]
Thanks Dave! You're one of our most consistent uploaders! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 07:09, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
- Absolutely great stuff - bendigedig! I think you're the second biggest contributor so far! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 05:40, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments (Wales)[edit]
Brilliant stuff! Thanks for participating Dave! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 06:16, 2 September 2023 (UTC)