>Hi everyone - this is the announcement for WIki Loves Monuments. The US will be participating (in some capacity) for the 2012 event, and we're of course looking for participants around >the world. And since this is gender gap - perhaps you know some cool women's groups, or yourself - who would like to step up and help lead a group or your country/state/chapter into >the WLM event.
 
 
 
I should also add a plug here for the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NRHP) on the English (and German) wikipedias ... on the former, we’ve been photographing and writing articles about the 80,000+ properties on that particular heritage listing since late 2006. I’ve done everything from 17th-century Dutch Colonial stone houses here in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York to ski lifts in Aspen.
 
I mention this because writing about (and photographing) local listings is a great way to get people contributing. If you live in the US, particularly outside of a major metropolitan area, and you’re trying to show people what they can contribute, you might want to look up the “National Register of Historic Places listings in ...” page for your county and see what photos can be taken, what articles can be created or expanded.
 
Daniel Case