Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Feedback for the evaluation of WLM 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/11/4 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru: Another option, which I personally find more attractive, is to create a permanently functioning meta-project, smth like Project Cultural Heritage (scope to be discussed). It could be based on Commons or on Meta (to be discussed, both options

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Long term

2012-11-04 Thread Lodewijk
(changing the title to give it its own thread) I think this discussion would indeed be best on the feedback page. But I will respond to some of the points already here. First off: I personally do not think this will be an ever lasting event. I think that a country can only organize Wiki Loves

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long term

2012-11-04 Thread emijrp
When we finish Wiki Loves Monuments, we can do Wiki Loves Earth, imitating this project http://www.geograph.org.uk but worldwide. One image per km2 in the world (discarding oceans). Coverage is biased for now

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long term

2012-11-04 Thread Jane Darnell
Lodewijk, Don't give up on this initiative for the long term, we definitely need a WLM2013, and I even believe in a WLM2020!! It's great to see the results coming in now for 2012 - what amazing photo's! That picture of the walls of Aquila I saw this morning has got my fingers itching to write an

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Long Term - something a bit different

2012-11-04 Thread Peter Ekman
re Lodewijk I do think that WLM is ultimately going to have to change focus, and some sort of permanent organization will be helpful here. In particular, I think WLM is getting too big to be sustainable (over several years) and that we've aimed too much for bigness. Let's look at our goals,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long Term - something a bit different

2012-11-04 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Pete, that's an interesting way to look at things! I think it would be helpful if you bring this to the evaluation table as seperate ideas (the combination makes it harder to grasp), but some comments from my perspective (and not necessarily the Truth): * I don't agree that the yearly cycle

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long Term - something a bit different

2012-11-04 Thread Bas vb
Hello, One of the key strengths from Wiki Loves Monuments, at least in the Netherlands, is that we actually can use the pictures (3.000 new monuments photographed even in the 3rd year with a coverage of 70%). In 2009 there was Wiki loves Art in the Netherlands. Wiki Loves Monuments had a few

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Winners from India

2012-11-04 Thread Sophie Österberg
Beautiful! 2012/11/4 Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Hi all, winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 India is now declared: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners#India Thanks all for your support :) -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long Term - a bit different

2012-11-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:38:29 -0500, Peter Ekman wrote: I'm pretty encouraged by the several responses to my different proposal, in particular Basvb and Lodewijk (below) My proposal in brief - move toward a platform/permanent organization that supports multiple contests on multiple topics at

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Winners from India

2012-11-04 Thread Matthew Roth
so nice! On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Sophie Österberg sophie.osterb...@wikimedia.se wrote: Beautiful! 2012/11/4 Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Hi all, winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 India is now declared:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long term

2012-11-04 Thread emijrp
2012/11/4 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Yeah! But don't discard oceans: take photos down from a height of 100m... Hahaha nice point. Award to the best underwater photography. ; ) A good WLE project would also have denser and less dense photo regions; to include things like street view

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Long term

2012-11-04 Thread Roel Balingit
If I may just provide input, at the height of Wiki Loves Monuments Philippines, we received a phone call from Natural Wonders Foundation (Philippines) about a proposal that they would like to launch a similar project like Wiki Loves Monuments, in this case featuring the natural beauty of the