I'm happy to help.
Sent from my iPhone
On 15 Dec 2010, at 20:03, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote:
Forwarding with permission of the sender. I'm very eager to see the
UK and Ireland participate in this if possible, but from my
experience of running Britain Loves Wikipedia I'm very aware that
this needs a team of people running it rather than just one person.
So: is anyone interested in leading/helping with this project?
Thanks,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org>
Date: 14 December 2010 20:20:15 GMT
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
subscription)" <interna...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 - Europe?
Reply-To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed
subscription\)" <interna...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Summary of this email (sorry for long text): We did Wiki Loves
Monuments (WLM) 2010 in the Netherlands, we would like to do Wiki
Loves Monuments again in 2011, but now in Europe. This is only
possible when many chapters participate, therefore this e-mail. To
be clear: this event will only happen on a European level if there
is sufficient chapter participation to combine efforts. Please feel
free to forward to whomever you find appropriate.
You might have heard before about Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 in the
Netherlands. It was a highly successful photo scavenger hunt with
12.500 submissions and over 250 participants[0]. We recently
completed a post mortem of this event with a more extensive
description and analysis [1]. However, there are still many
monuments in the Netherlands which can be photographed, so we are
considering another run for next year - but then in a European
context. Below we will explain a bit how we got where we are, what
we have in mind, and what you could expect.
So how did this all start? At the Dutch Wikipedia we have the
windmill project. One of the main goals was to get an article with
an image for every windmill in the Netherlands. Lists were created
of windmills per province and statistics were made on a regular
basis to track progress. This approach worked very well and made it
possible to tackle a big problem; All the windmills have an article
now.
Some volunteers, in cooperation with the chapter, managed to get a
dataset of all "Rijksmonumenten" (Dutch national monuments - 60.000
buildings/objects with some historical or cultural relevance) from
the "Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed" (Dutch national
heritage organisation, RCE). This marked the birth of the
"Rijksmonumenten" project. The project uses the lessons learned in
the windmill project. The data from the RCE was converted into
lists by location and put on the Dutch Wikipedia. The community
started improving the lists by adding missing information or adding
photo's.
In June 2009 Wikimedia Nederland ran Wiki Loves Art /NL [2] : A
photo scavenger hunt in more than 40 museums. Also quite successful
(5.400 photos), but much more work intensive because you need to
keep contacts with all the museums and usually museums are further
away from people's homes than the nearest monuments.
For 2010 we were looking for a nice topic for a photo competition.
The "Rijksmonumenten" project was running very well so we decided
to organize Wiki Loves Monuments to give this Wikipedia project a
boost.
So, what would a European WLM most likely look like? Let me give
you an idea of what we are thinking of, changes are open for debate
of course. Trying to incorporate the main lessons from last year in
the Netherlands into a European model, we think it might work best
if Wiki Loves Monuments is organized on a national level primarily,
but with cooperations, shared resources and international prizes on
a European level. The national contests do not have to be
identical, but some consistency would be practical. We are not sure
yet what countries would be most successful, but our initial hope
would be EU chapter countries and Switzerland.
Basically, Wiki Loves Monuments would run 1-30 September 2011, and
participants would be allowed to submit photos of monuments which
are part of the object list. This object list includes the address
and ideally geo-coordinates of all monuments which are allowed to
participate. In each participating country there would be some
prizes available, to be awarded by a jury for that country. The top-
X of each could be competing for European prizes.
You can find more information on how WLM 2010 was organized on the
post-mortem [1]. That also lines out in more detail how much work
it would be, and what the positive impact could be.
Most of the local work would be to get a database with the objects,
create object lists from that (possibly Dutch volunteers could
support you with that, they have the experience [3]) and get the
community involved on that. You would need to get communications
going, both external to the press (press releases etc) as to
participants (have a clear website in your language(s) with
explanation, rules etc), find a jury and prizes for them to award.
We can help each other with example press releases, best practices,
template and list examples and community motivation.
So, what to do when you like this idea? Well, it would be good to
first of all check with your collegues (at the board, other
members, community) what they think of it. You probably need
several people to run such a competition over time to some extent.
Next step would be to do some analysis on your local situation: who
would be good partners (who keeps the lists of monuments?) for you,
how many monuments are there in your country, are they well spread?
What information/photos are already available of it roughly? Are
there community members involved in that kind of topic? Definitely
read the post-mortem and some relevant links from there [1].
For the time being, we registered www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and are
in touch with CARARE and Europeana (European cultural heritage
organizations) - who seem to be interested in laying contacts with
local cultural heritage organizations. Hopefully that helps them to
realize the European context and impact this could have. The most
important partner in each country would be the one that governs the
database with all monuments, and could release that to you. This
database/list is crucial for the success of such an event.
Please inform us (ideally through internal-l) when you would be
interested in joining in such European event, if there is enough
enthusiasm, we will create a special (easy to join) mailing list to
coordinate efforts to allow more volunteers to join in the
discussions. We already took the liberty of discussing this with
some other chapters, and are hopeful that it will actually get to a
first grand chapter cooperation program. Of course this does not
mean you are bound, but that you think you would like to
participate. You can also join #wikilovesmonuments on freenode irc
of course if you like.
With kind regards,
Maarten Dammers
Lodewijk Gelauff
[0]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments
[1]:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/post_mortem
[2]:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands
[3]:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/template_system
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