Congratulations to Wikimedia Polska from Wikimedia España. Santi Navarro - Millars From: lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:25:03 +0200 To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Agreement between Wikimedia Polska and National Heritage Board of Poland + update Hi Tomasz, this sounds great! I am so glad things are going well! I have been thinking in this light, maybe we should also set up a wlm-eu blog and put announcements like this on there? (fairly open blog) That could give this kind of partnerships a bit of extra international exposure. Best, Lodewijk 2011/6/24 Tomasz Kozłowski &lt;odder.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, I am delighted to announce on behalf of the Wikimedia Polska Association that this week we have finally signed an official agreement on partnership and cooperation with the National Heritage Board of Poland (NHB), which is the main state institution dealing with protection of cultural heritage monuments in the country. Wiki Loves Monuments is now under an Honorary Patronage of the Board (yay!). Both parties to the agreement have obliged themselves, for instance, to inform about each other's projects; thanks to that obligation, news on Wiki Loves Monuments will be published on the NHB's homepage (<http://www.nid.pl>) and information about the project will be printed on all advertisement materials (posters, leaflets, invitations etc.) produced for the European Heritage Days. Moreover, in accordance with the agreement, we have received the full registry of monuments in Poland which will uploaded on Wikipedia in (most probably) a few days' time. I believe this to be an amazing milestone for our Wikiproject. The Wikiproject itself has significantly developed since our meeting in Berlin and now we have 40 *active* and enthusiastic members who are working on our lists of monuments, adding coordinates and pictures -- this makes us the most active Wikiproject of the Polish Wikipedia. Furthermore, we have prepared a yet-unfinished category tree on Wikimedia Commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cultural_heritage_monuments_in_Poland> as well as a categorisation template with a full English translation <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Zabytek>. We are also in the process of securing a media patronage and, hopefully!, an Honorary Patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, for which an answer we should receive in the next few days. That would be it, if anyone has any questions, I am more than happy to answer them. Regards, - -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]] _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jane, I haven't been thinking about the Commons categories like that and I honestly can't see the reason for them to be deleted -- they won't be empty in the future, we'll just need to wait a bit, for the categorisation process is ongoing :-)) As for the portal page, I will add links to our local Wikipedia lists of monuments that we have been creating, thanks for the information. As for the Unesco petition, Wikimedia Polska hasn't considered supporting it -- all signatures coming from Poland are the decision of the supporting users. Most probably there will be no banner on the main page of the Polish Wikipedia due to the way the process has been organised: as you may probably know, a World Heritage Site nominee has to be proposed by a state -- not by the mean of a public petition, and this is what we have strong reservations about. It is said that the initial reaction of the chapters at the Chapters' Conference in April was "overwhelmingly positive"; as far as I am concerned, the reaction of the Polish chapter's representatives was just lukewarm (reasons above). I've met with the National Heritage Board on 19 May and we haven't discussed this subject due to not having an official stance of our chapter. Warm regards, - -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]

2011/6/25 Maarten Dammers &lt;maarten(a)mdammers.nl&gt;nl>: Sure.. if there is such a possibility, we would like to send several people there. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26.06.2011 19:49, Jean-Frédéric wrote: Not at all -- feel free to mention the National Heritage Board of Poland cooperating with us very closely. We shall produce an official press release in a few days' time and translate it into English; for now, there is an information on the Board's official website -- just in Polish, unfortunately: <http://www.nid.pl/idm,100,idn,1842,30-v-nid-honorowym-patronem-projektu-wiki-lubi-zabytki.html>. As for the Ministry, I shall inform you all about the outcome, hopefully the coming week. Regards, - -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]