Nina, WLM is a photo competition, so the project pages are all concentrated on Wikimedia Commons. You are right in assuming that these pictures should be linked to Wikipedia articles. On the Dutch Wikipedia, very many of the Dutch rijksmonument photos taken in past competitions are at least linked to the "list articles". The "list articles" are simply lists of monuments with their meta data (address, monument number, and short description). Some monuments are quite large and have various photos taken from different angles outside and many pictures taken inside as well. Many of these have separate articles, and some have even more than one article.
However, writing such articles is not in the scope of the photograph competition. There was some talk during the evaluation we had the day before GLAMcamp Amsterdam to maybe create a "WLM writing challenge" in say, March, to write such articles. We figured teams would need until March to get the "list articles" updated so the writing would be possible. In the end we decided our time is better spent on planning and preparing for the 2012 competition which will be very big this year (worldwide). That said, I still feel there is a need to coordinate our efforts on the Wikipedia's. Last year I made a "Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011" wikiproject on the English Wikipedia. This year I am tempted to create a page called Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments" that will just be a portal page. On this page I could put links to Commons of course, but also to each participating country's project page. So for example "Wikipedia:The Netherlands/Wiki Loves Monuments", and so forth. On those pages, the articles could be coordinated per country all year round, with interwiki links to the various language Wikipedia's and to the proper language pages on Wikimedia Commons. Jane 2012/1/16, Nina Wikipedia <[email protected]>: > We need to have articels of the monuments too, and to write about parts of a > monument we must have pictures to confirm descriptions. > > Nina > Sendt fra min iPad > > Den 16. jan. 2012 kl. 23:42 skrev Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Nina, >> >> Op 16-1-2012 23:30, Nina Wikipedia schreef: >>> I have been thinking a lot, and it will be very useful to have sets of >>> pictures who describe monuments. When we loose something in fire etc. >>> those pictures are gold. Can we have a part of wlm this way? >> To be able to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments you need to know what >> buildings in your country are a monument. That's something every country >> needs to do. I started documentation about this at >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/How_to_get_a_list_of_monuments >> >> . It's a start with an outline at the moment, but it gives an idea. I >> would like to invite people to help expand and improve it so other >> countries can learn from your experiences. >> >> Maarten >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
