Hi Everyone! My name is Susanna Ånäs and I am active in the Finnish Wikimedia. We have a cooperation project going with the Finnish National Archives with their historical maps and this has given us the opportunity to look anew at the Wikimaps environment. http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english
Wikimaps was introduced as a concept by Maarten Dammers http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps. The idea is to combine environments in Wikimedia to form a maps environment for scanned (historical) maps. I introduced the idea at GLAM-Wiki in London and I have my presentation slides on Sideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/susannaanas/glam-wiki-wikimaps. A test environment is planned to be put up for testing for the Amsterdam Hackathon, more info to follow. Let's put up a Wikimaps page in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps and gather material there (Feel free to start, I have not yet had the time :) Please let's discuss the project on this list! Nice to know all of you! Best regards, Susanna User:Susannaanas -- *Susanna Ånäs* Wikimedia Suomi <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Etusivu> GLAM <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> – tiedotus – yhteistyö Puhelin: +358 40 557 8039 Sähköposti: [email protected] Wikimedia Suomi <http://blog.wikimedia.fi/> -blogi on aloitettu! Seuraa meitä Twitterissä @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland>WMFinland<https://twitter.com/WMFinland>tai Facebookissa <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi>. Liity jäseneksi!<http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi>
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