Keep me posted - I'm hopeless at taking pics but might help in the east midlands Roger
On 15 December 2010 20:21, Parul BavIshi <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm happy to help. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 15 Dec 2010, at 20:03, Michael Peel <[email protected]> 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 < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> > *Date: *14 December 2010 20:20:15 GMT > *To: *"Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed > subscription)" < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> > *Subject: **[Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 - Europe?* > *Reply-To: *"Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed > subscription\)" < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> > > *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 <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/> > 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<http://piratepad.net/ep/search?query=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> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments > [1]: > > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/post_mortem> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/post_mortem > [2]:<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands > [3]: > > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/template_system> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/template_system > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Internal-l mailing list > <[email protected]>[email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: <http://uk.wikimedia.org>http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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