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Mike Dupont

5 Jun 2011 5 Jun '11

12:18 p.m.

Hi there, now that I found this list, I wanted to let you know about this photo contest we have been working on for almost one year http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaC… there are photos on flicker, facebook and commons, we are still working on processing all of them, any help would be nice. The idea was from gerardm who spoke at the freesb conference in vlore albania last year. We are still working on the next events for this year, sfk11 is being planned for the first weekend of november in prishtina. It would be nice if we can find some sponsors of the photo contest, I was thinking of something like a 500Euro prize for the first photo to make it to the picture of the day for the commons, I would even be willing to donate some money myself to wikimedia ev germany if I could tax deduct it. thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org

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Maarten Dammers

5 Jun 5 Jun

1:02 p.m.

Hi Mike, Did you guys consider joining Wiki Loves Monuments 2011? It's a (big) European photo contest organized in September 2011, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 for more information. Maarten Op 5-6-2011 14:18, Mike Dupont schreef:

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Mike Dupont

2:41 p.m.

But thanks for the tip for the monuments, it is a great idea. We need to do alot of education for this project, people are not used to using wikis etc. The best user interface I can find so far is panoramia with a creative commons flag. The problem is that we need to talk to people and to tell them about wikipedia, we need to show them how. This also includes people submitted pictures they dont have rights to. All this requires work. We need to motivate the people as I said, I think we need a prize money. I would be happy to work on the monuments project, and I think it could work. there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in kosovo, for example. But I would like to find a prize money. Even if I am donate the prize money myself, I would like a tax break. That is what is missing here. thanks, mike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi Mike, Did you guys consider joining Wiki Loves Monuments 2011? It's a (big) European photo contest organized in September 2011, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 for more information. Maarten Op 5-6-2011 14:18, Mike Dupont schreef:

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Maarten Dammers

3:22 p.m.

Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef:

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there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in kosovo, for example.

Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials. Maarten

Mike Dupont

3:25 p.m.

ok, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:

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Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef:

there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in kosovo, for example.

Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials.

Well there are also historical buildings, I took a lot of those. Monastaries, Mosques, turkish castles, old bridges, ancient stone houses(kullas), towers etc. you will find many already in that category. thanks, mike

Mike Dupont

4:45 p.m.

I just talked to some of the guys, one thing that they mentioned is the contentious issue of serbia claiming kosovo territory. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participating_countries_WLM2011.svg can we change that? This map could be used as the basis, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_of_Europe_-_Atelier_graphi… or this http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iberian_map_europe.svg instead of this one : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_europe_%28Kosovo_as_part_o… or this one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_europe.svg Funny is that the previous version contained kosovo, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/3/31/20101008223827!B… it is just an endless fight to have any stability on this issue, there seems to be no agreement on it. thanks, mike On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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ok, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:

Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef:

there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in kosovo, for example.

Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials.

-- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org

Maarten Dammers

5:15 p.m.

Hi Mike, Op 5-6-2011 18:45, Mike Dupont schreef:

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I assume good faith and that people are lazy: Lot of the svg maps of Europe are broken or incomplete but nobody bothered to fix it. Feel free to update the map with a more correct one. Maarten

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This map could be used as the basis, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_of_Europe_-_Atelier_graphi… or this http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iberian_map_europe.svg instead of this one : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_europe_%28Kosovo_as_part_o… or this one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_europe.svg Funny is that the previous version contained kosovo, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/3/31/20101008223827!B… it is just an endless fight to have any stability on this issue, there seems to be no agreement on it. thanks, mike On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

ok, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers<maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:

Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef:

there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in kosovo, for example.

Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials.

Mike Dupont

5:18 p.m.

ok, great. Well the previous version was ok, I wrote to the guy who broke it. I will ask people to start gearing up for the sept competition. thanks for your support, all the best, mike On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:

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Hi Mike, Op 5-6-2011 18:45, Mike Dupont schreef:

I assume good faith and that people are lazy: Lot of the svg maps of Europe are broken or incomplete but nobody bothered to fix it. Feel free to update the map with a more correct one. Maarten

ok, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers<maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:

Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef: > there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in > kosovo, for example. Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials.

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Mike Dupont

7:01 p.m.

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:

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Op 5-6-2011 16:41, Mike Dupont schreef:

there are many many monuments for the kosovo war in kosovo, for example.

Wiki Loves Monuments is about historic buildings, not about memorials.

Here is our newest candidate : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PrizrenStoneBridge.jpg I have started with a template http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_Kosovo… to be used to tag all the Monuments that are already part of our photo competition and will be also submitted to the contest. any comments are welcome, and of course we have to translate it. mike

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