Hi,
There is already several projects on Wikidata :
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Built_heritage
But, the definition of a "monument" varies a lot from country to country
(for some countries, "monument" is a building,
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> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 11:34 PM Mykola Kozlenko wrote:
> > The heritage lists are also not a 'some degree' dependency but a major
> one: organising contest without lists will result in a mess of photos that
> someone needs to categorise manually. It's not easy to sort pictures from
> places
Thanks for the constructive thoughts both here and in the meeting.
Richard: I'm not sure this would really 'avoid' the challenge altogether -
there would likely still be calls for sites from certain regions to be
excluded, or even participants from certain countries. It may be an
interesting
Hi Richard,
This is not really an unusual way: in fact, most of our campaigns are
locally-based because of language and culture barriers. While Commons is
multilingual, most discussions (including this one) happen in English, a
language most people in the world actually don't speak.
The
Indeed, this is something I thought about proposing at the Office Hours
today but we did not get to this point: Making the international part more
"individual" and less "team" might help. Sure, the selection of submissions
to the international part are made by national juries (who might or might
I think some of the tensions might be reduced if WLM and similar
photo drives were in future structured less around "national" contests, and
"national" teams. This is a somewhat unusual way to organize activities in
our movement, and I think alternatives might be possible, even as we rely
to some
Totally agreed with Alexey. We are not supposed to judge and sanction
people based on what their governments are doing. Our focus should
completely remain on how to digitally preserve built heritage of our
regions in a better way, keeping aside geopolitical conflicts and
differences. If we want to
Thank you, Alexey for your words. I can also add to that the fact that people
doing crimes against humanity and people photodocumenting the preciousness of
our large planet are mostly different people. I can understand the feelings
that can form in one's head towards anything connected to a
Dear all,
I wanted to add my 2 cents, since I'll be at another wikimedia call and
will miss this call (or most of it) and since last time I followed
principle of least drama.
I am seriously afraid stepping into this territory will open a Pandora's
box with dozens of requests to exclude this or
Hi Illia,
thanks for letting us know. I understand the constraints you must be
dealing with, and I wish we could have announced this earlier (not limited
to your situation - this is desirable for other reasons too). Please know
that it was not our intention to announce it last minute, but that we
Hi Lodewijk,
WLM Ukraine's organizing team is interested in this discussion, but it's
difficult to find time for it on such a short notice -- because of the
armed conflict most Ukrainian Wikimedians have to simultaneously fit into
their agendas their main work, Wikimedia volunteering and
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