Hi all,
We’d like to share some more information about the jury tool options available to you during this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments contest.
The national competitions typically set up their own jury process. If the number of pictures submitted to a local contest is small (less than 500) you could probably go through your jury process manually, but especially if you have more pictures, some jury tool would be helpful. While all existing tools have proven useful for several countries over several years, the international team would like to particularly draw your attention on two tools, that will be given a certain level of support from the international team: Montage (currently being developed) and the WLX tool (commonly used in the past WLM contest as well as WLE).
Normally, this jury process starts only after the end of the contest in each country (September 30th in the majority of participating countries) to give every photo an equal opportunity. However, we understand that some countries with a particularly large number of submissions prefer to start the jury process already in September - while the contest is taking place in their country. If you are the jury coordinator for one of these countries, we recommend that you use the WLX tool (contact Ilya cc-ed to request an instance to be set up for your country), or reach out to one of the developers for the other jury tools listed here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Jury_tools to ask for help with early launch of your jury process.
For all other countries: We recommend that you wait until September 24 to make a decision about which jury tool to use. This timeline will allow the tool developers for at least two tools that are actively being developed/improved, Montage and WLX, to bring the tools to their latest stage (resolving as many bugs as possible, improving the UI, etc.). It will also allow you to review demos of these tools and make a decision about which tool you want to proceed with.
If you have any questions about the jury tools, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
Best,
Leila, on behalf of the WLM international team
PS: If you didn’t start with putting together your jury, now is a good time! Please reach out to me if you have any question about this.