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| ;IRC chat – logs available and new regular slot confirmed | | ;Voting opens for 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition |
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| [[File:IRC_cover.svg|thumb|right|200px]] | | [[File:Lake_Bondhus_Norway_2862.jpg|thumb|240px|right|This image of Lake Bondhus in Norway was last year's winner]] |
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| As trailed on this blog last week, Wikimedia UK held an IRC office hours chat last Wednesday.
| | ''The below message was originally shared via email by the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year Committee. We’re happy to share it here.'' |
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| The office found the exercise really useful as another way to actively communicate with volunteers and the Wikimedia community. We hope those who dropped in found it helpful too.
| | [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons] is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We’re interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria: |
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| Topics covered in the conversation included the 2013 annual plan, potential funding sources, Wikimedia Commons and more. [[IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_16-01-2013|The logs of the chat are available here on the UK wiki]]
| | 1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000*[UTC] |
| | 2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility using the [http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=&wiki=&event=27 POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool] |
| | 3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user’s Commons account through [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login SUL] ). |
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| Given the success of the event we’re committing to making this a regular occurrence. To this end, we’ll be hosting a monthly IRC chat on the third Wednesday of every month at 5.30pm UK time. The next one will take place on Wednesday 20 February. We’ll share reminders closer to the time.
| | Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world’s best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavours. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/01/voting-opens-for-2012-wikimedia-commons-picture-of-the-year-competition/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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| Participants are welcome to send questions in advance if they wish. These can be sent to stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/01/irc-chat-logs-available-and-new-regular-slot-confirmed/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
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