I agree with Lodewijk. We're still wrapping up, but we at WLM-PT soon realized this event would break all expectations we had. A warm thanks to Lodewijk and Maarten to bring this thing to all countries involved.
We had people actually running through the country taking photographs, and I personally don't think it was for the prizes (at least, only). It was a "call to action" and, in that terms, WLM was perfect. And Fréderic said it all: awareness it's so much needed - at least in Portugal - rather than making obvious we need participants. -- Nuno Tavares Wikimedia Portugal http://www.wikimedia.pt Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. Participe também: http://www.wikimedia.pt Em 02-10-2011 21:11, Lodewijk escreveu: > Just to be clear: We were successful :) Talking about new users: 4000 of > the 5000 participants were new accounts! Of course you are right if you > say we're not done yet, but there is an opportunity, lets grab it. Oh, > and by the way, in Austria 66% of the uploaders were new. not bad! > > Lodewijk > > No dia 2 de Outubro de 2011 22:08, Jean-Frédéric > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu: > > 2011/10/2 Hubert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > I very agree, that the goal, to attrakt new users with such an > competition as long-term wikipedia-autors, is almost completely > missed. > > > Quick comment: that may have been your goal, it was not mine − or > maybe a side goal. > > My hope, if anything, was to raise awareness. Have people notice > that cultural heritage is just around the corner. Make them aware of > the fact that they can contribute photographs to Commons (and just > that, and that even that is great). Have them take part in a free > knowledge/culture project. Make them realise that Wikimedia is a > volunteer thing. > > Wikipedia and articles are important, of course. But the whole world > does not revolve around it. The free culture world, and even the > Wikimedia world, do not either. > > -- > Jean-Frédéric (Commonist & proud of it). > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
