2011/9/27 Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:00:16 +0200, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> What amazes me more than the actual numbers of uploads is also the > number >> of >> new users with more than one upload - this is a big improvement over > last >> year and shows that the combination of the new uploader on Commons with > the >> "campaign" tactics of the WLM organizers has really made a difference. I > am >> already looking forward to our evaluation to see if anyone has any more >> brillant ideas to help us increase participation next year... >> >> But what could we do next year to beat this result? Better mapping? > Better >> id-lookups? Multi-lingual lists? All of EU? Africa? China? Alaska? Mars? >> >> Jane >> > > Again, I will write my opinion and suggestions in more details in the > beginning October, not to start the discussion now, but I think for most > countries (in particular, for the Netherlands) we will not be able to beat > this year in terms of the number of pictures because the monuments will be > over (in the Netherlands we are approaching now to the 60% mark, and by > next September I hope it will be more like 75%, without anything left in > the centers of big cities). I am not even sure that the Netherlands will > repeat the last year mark in terms of the number of pictures this year. My > vision is that we we should go to different dimensions, the most obvious > being article creation, and differentiate the countries - at least those > with the most monuments pictured from those which are only at the > beginning. I think it is pretty much obvious we can not expand forever. >
Yes.. Although in Poland we have work for at least next 3-4 editions of WML. The problem is that it is relatively easy to have many pictures of object in big cities - but the real pain in case of Poland is to got pictures of objects scatered in forestry and agricultural areas - especially that many of them are just in ruins. This is why we organise our "Wikiexpeditions" which are focused on such poorly covered areas. I guess for Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia etc.. it is probably the same story. By the way - one of our most active WML participant: Roweromaniak: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Roweromaniak mixed his participation with his personal action to save monuments which slowly dissapear due to lack of good ownership/care, so his pictures are no so beautufill, but showing monuments which are usually not photographed... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
