If you are not going to support ErfgoedBot, I can take it over Ilya, one of the organizers of Wiki Loves Earth 2013 in Ukraine
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Emilio, > > Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada schreef op 11-1-2014 20:13: > > Hi all; >> >> Will we see in 2014 a new edition of WLM? I don't see any coordination >> messages or pages in Commons. >> > > As pointed out by others we seem to have three pages: > * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014 > * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014 > * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Public_Art_2014 > > In my opinion we should not organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2014 and not > even local competitions under that name. Wiki Loves Monuments was very > successful over the last couple of years and of course people are eager to > continue with that, but I'm very afraid of the sequel syndrome: Each next > edition gets worse than the previous one. I'd rather not do it this year > and maybe do it again in 2015 or 2016. Than everyone who is a bit fed up > with the project might be up to a new edition. > > I'm not even sure if we should do a photo competition this year, we don't > want to become a one trick movement. If we would do one I would opt in for > the Earth one, I love public art, but the whole (lack of) freedom of > panorama is a pain in the ass. Wiki Loves Earth does seem to be quite late > in the whole organization if you compare it one of the previous WLM time > lines (like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_ > Monuments_2012/Timeline). > > One thing I would like is that the language Wikipedia's have "heritage" as > the writing theme for September 2014. > > Something else. All these projects seem to rely on ErfgoedBot. That's > hosted on the Toolserver and unless someone else takes it over, I'm going > to let it die with the Toolserver. Might be a bit inconvenient if you're in > the middle of a photo competition. > > Maarten > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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