Kilian,
That's wonderful. Could I use parts of this info for an article on the
Commission's culture portal?
Monica
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jane
Darnell
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:43 PM
To: [email protected]; Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Interview with new contributor
Kilian,
That story is totally awesome! Congratulations to all of you working in
Germany on this success, and of course a big welcome to Daniel (or Hippie Bug
or whatever he wants to be called)!
Jane
2011/9/6 Kilian Kluge <[email protected]>
Hi everybody,
I interviewed one of the new contributors for wlm.eu. Since it
will take some time untils it's published, Lodewijk suggested I send it to the
list as well.
Kilian
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It's been almost a week since Wiki Loves Monuments started and
we're about to reach 17,000 uploads. Germany, the first country with more than
2,000 submitted pictures, is now keeping a steady second place behind France.
Among the most active uploaders is a user called Hippie Bug93
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hippie_Bug93) who
despite being new to the Wikimedia projects has already contributed almost 130
pictures.
Hippie Bug93, in the real world a 17-year-old named Daniel,
became aware of the contest through local press coverage and his hometown's
Facebook account. In a partnership with Wikimedia Germany, Bergheim, a small
city near Cologne, calls upon its citizens (link those four words to the "old"
article about Bergheim) to photograph the monuments in their neighbourhood and
upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
As a member of the local heritage club, Daniel has been
interested in the region's history and old buildings for a long time. "I had
thought about contributing to Wikipedia before," he explains, "but I never
actually did." For the contest, Daniel is taking his hometown village by
village, with the printed lists from Wikipedia as a guide.
With the first pictures uploaded, Daniel started to add them to
the lists on Wikipedia as well. "It took some time to figure out the editing,"
Daniel says. He has already set up his User page and started to edit regular
articles as well. So asked for his future plans, he states: "If I see the
opportunity to contribute to Wikipedia after Wiki Loves Monuments has ended, I
will certainly do so."
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