Àlex, That is great news! I would love to see more WWI monuments and memorials added (especially since I picnic-lunched at many of them while on a bike trip through Belgium and France several years ago). It was amazing to me to see how many small towns in Belgium and France still have yearly ceremonies for WWI memorials, even though no one is left to tell the stories anymore first hand. While munching my sandwich I could often read how many men died, and I couldn't figure out why there were so many names when all I could see around me was a small street with a few houses. It seemed as though that war really wiped out centuries of human habitation in some places, so there is no one left to take pictures and put them on Wikimedia Commons. Maybe this will help. I have often thought it was too bad I didn't take any pictures of the monuments, just the pretty countryside, so it will be fun to see what gets added in the contest.
Jane 2013/7/23, Àlex Hinojo <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > as some of you may know, I'm now also collaborating with Europeana in their > Wiki-related projects. I have a couple of good announcements to share with > you: > > 1) Again this year, Europeana will be an official partner of Wiki Loves > Monuments and will sponsor the main prize, as did last year. > > 2) Beside of sponsoring main prize, We’ll have a special category within > the contest entitled ‘World War I Monuments and Memorials'. > > This category is understood in an inclusive way (all monuments/memorials > related to WWI in participating countries) This category proposal is > related to another ongoing Europeana project, Europeana 1914-1918 [1] > designed for collecting memorabilia in digital form from related to WW1. > Previous editions of the WLM contest also had an special Europeana category > (GLAM for 2012 [2] and Art Nouveau for 2011 [3]). The contest and jury > systems for this particular category will be the same one than used on > previous years, following our KISS principles :) Still not sure about it > but probably will manage an online exhibit like the one Europeana did for > Art Nouveau in 2011 [3] > > > We are still drafting all so will be glad to read your comments and > questions on this. > > Best, > > Àlex Hinojo > @kippelboy > > [1] www.europeana1914-1918.eu > [2] > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 > [3] http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/wiki-loves-art-nouveau > _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
