Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-13 Thread KIZU Naoko
Hello there, Japan has a such (thanks Yaroslave for your concern) and iirc Taiwan has too. Perhaps other countries. If people are ambition enough to spread coordination efforts to the large international orgs, I'd point out not only UNESCO but also International Society of Aesthetics would be a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-13 Thread Strainu
Hi Naoko, Thanks for your pointers. What I'm seeing this year is that in order to go global, we'll probably need around 10 people to coordinate the event (I'm thinking that this year there were only 2 people involved in all the steps and a few more that helped in different areas). This means

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-13 Thread KIZU Naoko
Agreed with Lodewijk, and thanks for your clarification On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi, just a few clarifications: I totally agree with Naoko of course. However, for me the main goal is not even just the photos itself, but the reach it gives

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-13 Thread Béria Lima
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-13 Thread Lodewijk
Yes, there is (thanks Béria for linking) - however I think I speak for many on that list that it would be appreciated if you can hold off the more general 2012 discussions until October :) Just to state the obvious. Best regards, Lodewijk Am 13. September 2011 12:28 schrieb Béria Lima

[Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Lodewijk
Hi, just a few clarifications: I totally agree with Naoko of course. However, for me the main goal is not even just the photos itself, but the reach it gives us to involve more people. If I understand the statistics correctly; up to date, we have been able to involve roughly 1000 people

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
@Yaroslav: the main reason to focus on Europe this year was the large concentration, intergovernmental support (European Commission Council of Europe) and lack of resources (mainly man power). If there are next year enough people to carry on the idea, I'm sure we can include more countries,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Lodewijk
Am 12. September 2011 11:04 schrieb Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru: @Yaroslav: the main reason to focus on Europe this year was the large concentration, intergovernmental support (European Commission Council of Europe) and lack of resources (mainly man power). If there are next year

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Thanks for the clarification - I understand better what you mean now. We indeed chose explicitely only to organize WLM in countries where there could be an effort to make the necessary preperations (preparing monument lists that are useful for non-Wikipedians, having a national jury and

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:04, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Also, if there was no group let us give a random example - in Macedonia - who wanted to organize the contest, still it would be a good idea to open a category for WLM in Macedonia, just to get a chance to indeed involve

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Tomasz Kozłowski
On 12.09.2011 19:05, Milos Rancic wrote: Eh, wrong example. There is Wikimedia Macedonia and they really hate monuments because every local tycoon builds monuments in Macedonia, presently. What was that supposed to mean? Either I don't get the joke or this isn't really a joke, is it? --

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
W dniu 12 września 2011 19:30 użytkownik Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com napisał: On 12.09.2011 19:05, Milos Rancic wrote: Eh, wrong example. There is Wikimedia Macedonia and they really hate monuments because every local tycoon builds monuments in Macedonia, presently. What was that

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

2011-09-12 Thread Milos Rancic
2011/9/12 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com: W dniu 12 września 2011 19:30 użytkownik Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com napisał: On 12.09.2011 19:05, Milos Rancic wrote: Eh, wrong example. There is Wikimedia Macedonia and they really hate monuments because every local tycoon builds