I'm Thomas Springer aka User:Ordercrazy from Kaufbeuren, Germany and i've recentlly initiated Wiki Loves Earth 2014 in Germany.

44 years, currently living on some kind of sabbatical after what you might call a burnout within the it-security-industry, therefore with a nice bunch of time to do a bit more volunteering for wikipedia without getting into the usual time-conflicts with life, kids and job.

WLE Germany is likely to be held from 5/1/2014 to 6/30/2014, for we started the organization really late.

Currently Lists for major protection-areas are quite well done, but category IV/V-Areas in Germany are currently only half complete and poorly documented.

As wikipedian since 2003 I'm quite familiar with advanced scraping of government-sites for generating and maintaining wp-lists of cultural heritage monouments in bavaria, and whilst i'm quite sure that we won't finish all german lists of protected areas by june 2014 i'm quite sure that we'll be able to harmonize the format of the currently quite diverse german lists and that WLE will help us getting a huge step closer to complete lists (like WLM did back in 2011,12 and 13 for the cultural heritage monuments lists).

WLE 2014 Germany is currently funded by WMDE (thanks!), we're trying to catch sponsorships or support for coordination-events and prices. At the moment we're busy with creating List-Templates, making WLE 2014 public within the german community and doing PR within printmedia, for we're already missed some deadlines for quarterly or bimonthly magazines.

We'd be happy to participate in any international cooperation - but currently it looks to me like WLE 2014 will be quite decentralized at all.

Greetings from, err, actually Nuremberg - i'm sitting in a train to get up to a german GLAM-Meetup in Bremen,