Hi Ziko, Hi everybody On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]>wrote:
> It seems that Kilian was very successful in Bergheim, a municipality > close to Cologne. Indeed, we had quite a succesful press conference last thursday. For more background on the project see http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2011/08/18/wiki-loves-monuments-bergheim/ > Alas, the newspaper did not really understand the > character of "Wiki loves monuments", calling it a new platform and > "Ableger" (branch, offset, spin-off) from Wikipedia. I always found > the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should > simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion. > I guess that most press people got it right, though, there is quite a lot of press coverage collected on the german wikipedia at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WLMBM and we even had one radio interview and a short sequence in a state-wide news show on public television. Another TV report from a local station is still to come. I wouldn't want to change the name, there'll always be a lot of confusion with Wikimedia and Wikipedia etc. ;) > A funny thing besides: the local liberal party (FDP) complained about > the collaboration between the city and Wikipedia. People could be > identified on the photographs taken. So it prefers the local > government to take pictures and put them on an official website. > I don't think it's that funny, especially since we pointed out that of course there are laws and rules and that we'll follow those (e.g. [[:commons:Commons:PEOPLE]] etc.) and delete everything that's illegal... This guy didn't get that much attention, but if there's a large group campaigning against WLM in Germany, we'll have a really hard time (we had a long debate about Google Streetview and now they allow people to blur out their houses even though it's perfectly legal to photograph buildings the way Google and we do). I'll probably report about WLM in Bergheim again in September if we have the first pictures submitted to the contest. Kilian
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