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 <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>wrote;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
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