Hello!
Sorry for this late reply.
I was part of the WLM 2012 in Kenya though there was no upload via
my user-name! I also previously participated in a photowalk in
Nairobi which in a way or the other mirrors the WLM!
From my personal experience, the partaking was a good one since I
discovered of monuments and other heritage sites that I never
thought existed. After the WLM I now know more about most of the
monuments in the city than before.I can now give an almost perfect
site seeing experience to a friend around the city.
What I would take as challenges; some monuments were not in the
govt database and they were discovered as WLM was going on.From
what I was told while I was hunting for the monuments list,the
govt is still in the process of recording all the monuments in its
database. For this case they might just refer to Wikipedia since
the documentation is already done there :)
The lack of cameras also hindered some participants from
undertaking WLM. Probably next time we should look for camera
hiring firms and organize some sort of sponsorship deals with
them.
As for the awareness, the site notice worked magic! We had more
new users create accounts and they used those new accounts to
upload photos. [1] This is a great improvement when compared to a
previous photowalk which had fewer participants and it had no new
faces! The site notice is a great tool to use when running such
campaigns in the future.
All in all it is a venture I would try out in the near future even
in other regions across the country.
PS: There is a new monument that shall be inaugurated by HE the
president this week near Thika.Any takers?
Thanks,
Stephen.
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http://toolserver.org/~superzerocool/wlm/?pais=kenya
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