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| January 2013 |
| January 31 |
à partir de cette date, vous êtes invités à indiquer que vous êtes intéressé à organiser WLM dans votre pays en envoyant un courriel à wikilovesmonuments lists.wikimedia.org |
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| February 2013 |
| February 1 |
contact local Wikipedians (if any) to start a heritage project on your local Wikipedia |
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| February 5 |
analyse what information about the monuments is available in your country (e.g. full address, coordinates, unique identifiers etc.) |
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| February 18 |
add your country to the participating countries list and set up a page with general information about your local contest |
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| February 19 |
register your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD domain. Create a redirect to Wikimedia Commons if you have no content yet |
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| February 19 |
create your local OTRS queue and team |
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| February 20 |
(if needed) create a mailing list for your local Wiki Loves Monuments |
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| February 21 |
start preparing a task management system, divide the work between the people |
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| February 22 |
contact your government or other responsible institution/organisation and ask for the lists of monuments |
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| 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 |
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| February 26 |
have all main organisers subscribed to the global mailing list |
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| February 28 |
(if needed) create a timeline for your local Wiki Loves Monuments; feel free to use this one as a base! |
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| March 2013 |
| March 1 |
contact other partner organisations or institutions (cultural institutions, governmental offices in charge of heritage, etc.) |
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| March 2 |
start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community (if exists) |
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| March 4 |
start a discussion on defining communication channels (including outside ones) |
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| March 11 |
have structured list templates finished |
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| March 21 |
have the list of monuments received from the government/other responsible institution |
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| March 24 |
have some structured lists ready |
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| March 25 |
create environment where people can report errors in the lists |
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| March 25 |
create a local helpdesk (including legal questions) |
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| March 31 |
have a landing page ready at your local wikilovesmonuments.TLD page |
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| April 2013 |
| April 1 |
consider asking your local Ministry of Culture or other cultural heritage institution to formally support the contest in your country |
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| April 8 |
decide on "real life" meetings with volunteers, try to identify local problems & possibilities (including freedom of panorama and other copyright issues) |
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| April 15 |
start working on your official (external) website |
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| April 16 |
start working on local documentation (how to locate monuments on a map using software available in your country etc.) |
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| April 30 |
start looking for local sponsors to provide awards |
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| May 2013 |
| May 1 |
start thinking about some promotional materials and goodies to give to the participants |
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| May 13 |
set up category structure for your local monuments on Wikimedia Commons |
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| May 16 |
(if possible) start working on a local events programme |
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| May 23 |
join the work on a pre-announcement to be sent to all Village Pumps |
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| May 30 |
have the official website up, running and shining |
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| May 30 |
have an OTRS queue set up with at least two-three people with access |
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| May 31 |
have the pre-announcement posted to your local Village Pump |
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| June 2013 |
| June 2 |
write an announcement asking people to submit nominations for your local jury |
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| June 10 |
start processing already existing pictures on Wikimedia Commons |
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| 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) |
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| July 2013 |
| July 29 |
local sponsors should be ready & informed about the goings-on |
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| July 31 |
(if needed) set up a Flickr group (and other platforms) for an easy upload |
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| July 31 |
have your local jury fully formed and set up judging criteria |
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| August 2013 |
| August 1 |
start preparing Commons infrastructure (UploadWizard) and CentralNotice in your language |
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| August 11 |
(if possible) finalise local events programme |
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| August 31 |
monuments lists should be finished; finish processing already existing photos on Wikimedia Commons |
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| August 16 |
decide if you want to hold an awards ceremony and (if agreed on) start preparations |
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| August 19 |
have local Public Relations people start working on an announcing press release |
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| August 24 |
have all upload environment in your language tested |
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| August 25 |
start sending invites to Flickr users in relevant groups to join the contest |
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| August 31 |
have UploadWizard and CentralNotice translated to your language and ready |
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| August 31 |
have the announcing press release ready and translated into your language; send it to the media! |
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| August 31 |
have all crucial infrastructure and pages on Wikimedia Commons as well as the tools translated into your language |
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| September 2013 |
| September 1 |
start the contest! |
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| September 9 |
avoir des relations personnel publiques locales commencer à travailler sur un-of-the-concours milieu communiqué de presse |
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| September 12 |
avoir le middle-of-the-concours communiqué de presse prêt et traduit dans votre langue; send it to the media! |
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| September 16 |
confirmer Préparation de la cérémonie de remise des prix locaux |
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| September 25 |
avoir des relations publiques personnel locales commencer à travailler sur un communiqué de presse finale |
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| September 30 |
terminer le concours! |
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| October 2013 |
| October 1 |
have the final press release ready and translated into your language; send it to the media! |
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| October 9 |
have the participants survey ready and translated into your language |
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| October 31 |
Hard deadline: have the final decision of the local jury; send your nominations to the international level |
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| October 31 |
have your local winners informed about the results of the contest |
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| November 27 |
have a press release about the results of your local contest ready and sent out to the media |
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| 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 |
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| November 11 |
start working on the evaluation of the project |
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| November 18 |
(if applicable) hold your local awards ceremony |
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| November 25 |
make sure all photos are in the lists and are properly categorised |
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| November 30 |
have the evaluation ready & posted to your local Wikipedia; translate at least the most important parts of it into English |
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| December 2013 |
| December 1-31 |
get some rest! well done! :-) |
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