Hi Rod, Unfortunately, we couldn't find a volunteer to lead the UK involvement in the project. I'd love to see us participating in this in future years - but I think it is definitely too late now to organise something properly this year...
Thanks, Mike On 7 Jul 2011, at 09:41, Rod Ward wrote: > Hi all, > > Because of my tangential involvement with WikiProject:Historic Sites I > spotted a note about a Europe wide contest “Wiki loves Monuments” (see > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/ ). > > The UK is included on the map but there is not link to the UK chapter and I > wondered if this was a deliberate decision for some reason? > > There is a wikiproject page > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 – which > seems to have lots of broken links) and more detail on Commons > (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 ) > > They say “Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 is a public photo contest around > monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters.” And aims to improve the quantity > and quality of CC licensed images of cultural heritage sites and objects. It > may be too late for 2011 (it seems to run in September but unclear) but what > about the UK participating in future years? > > Rod > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
