Wiki Loves Love Recruiting International Team

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February. The primary goal of the competition is to collect photos of love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects. The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

We have openings for the volunteer position in the international team! Check out the team roles below and email us for the positions that interests you.

Skill sets we are looking for:

• Passion and experience to work on wiki projects
• Moderate communication skills in English
• Five hours per week time commitment for the project, from January to February 2019

How to apply: Send a short introduction to wikiloveslove[@]gmail.com

Approximate number of volunteers: 10

Why join us?

• To gain expertise and skills to organise international events on and off-wiki
• Global networking with Wikimedians
• Special token for teammates from WMF
• Certificate for the volunteer position on team

Benefits of joining us

Be a part of the global movement of free-knowledge and free-media culture. This is what Wikimedia Foundation aims for, with Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, and other sister projects. Not only you would get to know Wikimedians around the world, who create content for one of the most-visited website in the world; this is an opportunity to gain expertise and skills to organize international events: let it be on-wiki or off-wiki.

Team members would also receive special tokens from the WMF and certificate for the volunteer position on team.

Positions include:

• Commons Categorization
• Contest uploads Filter and sub-categorization
• Community outreach and promotion liaison from Europe, Africa, North America, South America and Asia

Application deadline: January 2, 2019