WikiLovesMonuments April 2011

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Overview status - Wiki Loves Monuments throughout Europe. Please read up on your country.
by Vicenç Riullop 16 Apr '11

16 Apr '11

Update from Barcelona. This morning we had a working meeting with volunteers and Amical. For this purpose I made a prezi with the slides of Lodewijk. Maybe it will be usefull for others: http://prezi.com/8qt7rlhbseb2/wlm/ I can confirm the participation of Andorra with the support of Amical, local volunteers and the local heritage institution. We will also organize local events and local contests in the area where we have contacts. Obviously we will continue collaborating with WM-ES to make WLM a great event as possible and to coordinate efforts. Àlex Hinojo (user Kippelboy, mail kippelboy(a)gmail.com) will be representative of Amical on WLM meeting in Berlin with financial support from our association. Please send him the registration code. Vicenç From: lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:23:21 +0200 To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Overview status - Wiki Loves Monuments throughout Europe. Please read up on your country. == Andorra == Likely to participate with the help from our friends from Amical! Wonderful news, just another country. To be confirmed. == Spain == Two organizations working on this, Wikimedia España and Amical - hopefully in good harmony. Exact model still unclear. Spain is the only participating country with European heritage days in October. Setting up a multilingual system, and some regions are more complete than others. _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu

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Overview status - Wiki Loves Monuments throughout Europe. Please read up on your country.
by Lodewijk 16 Apr '11

16 Apr '11

Hi everyone, just another update on where we are with organizing Wiki Loves Monuments for 2011 :) It is a lengthy report, so I will first give a very short glance over the topics. First, I will try to give an understanding where we are with the workshop in Berlin. I will give a short overview of which countries are participating, and discuss some of the details and discussion topics. Finally, I will try to give for each country that expressed interest a short overview of what I know of their status. I would like to ask you to add anything relevant I might have forgotten. I put it at the bottom, so you can skip the countries you don't like ;-) Please at least check your own! Best, Lodewijk = May Meeting / Workshop = >From 13 - 15 May there will be an international workshop/meeting [1] for the coordination on a European level. We would like to see attendees from all participating countries. Unfortunately there is a limit of 25 people, so please keep your delegation limited to 2 per country. All practical information is or will be available through [1]. The currently confirmed attending countries are: Estonia, Finland, France, (Germany), Netherlands, Poland. Still awaiting reply at least from: Spain, Austria, Portugal, Sweden (and all countries not confirmed to participate the contest). Switzerland is unfortunately not able to send someone due to time constraints. If your organization/chapter is not able to cover the travel costs, please just get in touch with me. We will most likely be able to find another chapter to help you cover the costs (Wikimedia Polska is generously already supporting Estonia, and we have had some other offers) Topics to be discussed: Please see [1] for a brainstorm. Somewhere this weekend I will try to iron out a bit of a clearer list of topics, but your input is needed for that! Please give it, even if it is only "I agree with everything" on the talkpage :) = Participating countries = Based on the information available on Wikimedia Commons [2], the following countries will be participating: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland Unclear: Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Ukrain, United Kingdom Please contact us (via this list ideally) as soon as possible if you have any information about the "unclear" category of countries :) If you definitely will not participate, we also would like to know. If I forgot any country, please let us know too. = Other topics = == Logo contest == Delphine launched a logo contest last week, and the number of submissions is astonishing! Thanks a lot everybody, it is great to see such enthusiasm. More information and voting (starting April 17): [3] == Mailing lists == Some countries have created their own mailing list you can join for local discussions, please do so! If you would like a mailing list for your country organization, Wikimedia Nederland has offered to create one for you. Current existing mailing lists (please add if we forgot one): Spain ( http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-es), Netherlands ( http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cultureelerfgoed), Poland (link?) ** Tools (Maarten, can you help?) == Tooling == The big monuments database [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Monumen…] at the Toolserver is slowly expanding. It currently has 13 sources of information. More work needs to be done to make this data easily accessible. Requirements and progess is documented at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Tools. We need more people to help! Your help would be very much appreciated. We will work on tooling at the meeting in Berlin too, but most important is that you share what you are doing! Please communicate if you work on something. We try to make everything scalable to all participating European countries. = Overview per country = Please note this information is based on (by definition) outdated and incomplete data. Add any information I might have forgotten please. I'll keep it short. The full progress table is available on [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Progress], please update that as well when something is outdated! Especially the contacts are very helpful. Just to be clear: I am thrilled about all the work being done! The overview below is mainly focussing on the problems, so please dont take that the wrong way :) I am so happy to see everything happening everywhere! Just know that we love to help where we can, and advise where needed. == Andorra == Likely to participate with the help from our friends from Amical! Wonderful news, just another country. To be confirmed. == Austria == Austria is working hard on their lists (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Denkmalpflege/%C3%96ster… ) - a lot of work still to be done. This work is being done from their "denkmal projekt" and not just related to WLM. Help is likely appreciated. Uclear what the status of WLM-organization and cooperations with partners is. WLM page on Commons is still a red link. == Denmark == Working with their potential partners to see what is possible. Checking out any legal issues. Seem to have complete lists already (?). Some links on Commons would be helpful! The number of volunteers is still low, so I think help is appreciated. == Estonia == Seems to be going well - group of active volunteers, but it is unclear what the status is of lists, partners etc. Anyone can add more info? == Finland == Has addresses and a number of geo coordinates available - is working out with the government partner now what data they can get and use for WLM. No link yet to project pages, will send one representative to Berlin. Please add project page. == France == Work is being done, and volunteers are being enthusiast. It is unclear what exactly the status is, but at the General Meeting some weeks ago, there was apparently a fruitful discussion. JF, care to give a short update perhaps? == Germany == The list of volunteers enthusiast about it, is growing. The chapter is supporting the organization actively, so that is promiseful. The main worry is the huge amount of monuments in the country, combined with the decentralized structure of list keeping. Much work to be done to collect the lists. Progress depends a lot on the state. == Netherlands == Lists are already finished from last year. Contacts laid with several partners, one of them offered to do PR for us, others want to help in other ways. Meeting with volunteers somewhere in the coming weeks. == Poland == Still working with the government to get useful lists available. Contacting potential partners for cooperations. Exact status unclear, bottle neck with the raw data. == Portugal == Lists are there, addresses are still missing. Working on getting the right partners/sponsors, and getting a good online environment (tools). Also preparing the website and rules. == Spain == Two organizations working on this, Wikimedia España and Amical - hopefully in good harmony. Exact model still unclear. Spain is the only participating country with European heritage days in October. Setting up a multilingual system, and some regions are more complete than others. == Sweden == Indicated to participate, but haven't heard much about it. Still mainly in the preperatory phase. == Switzerland == There are monument lists, completeness is unclear. Monuments have already been added to the monument database including geo location. Seems quite well organized. LINKS [1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/May_Mee… [2]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 [3]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest

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Wikilovesmonuments.tld domain names
by Lodewijk 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hi all, as a kind reminder, please all make sure that you have registered wikilovesmonuments.yourcountry :) I understand that at least in one country the domain has already been hijacked, so if you haven't done so yet (and even if you want to use a translation in your country) please make sure to register it. If you do not have the funds for that, please contact me and we will find another way. We can always worry about what to put on the site or where to link it to later. Best, Lodewijk

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Web application for the Swiss contest
by Manoillon 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Hi all, This small message to present you the web application we are developing for the Wiki Loves Monuments Swiss contest. You can reach it at : http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ch . Main features: - displays the full list of items per canton (Swiss division), with indication of the ones having already pictures or not - allow registered people to "reserve" an item, i.e. to indicate willingness to take a picture of the item - allow registered people to link a photo (uploaded on Commons of course) with the corresponding Item - displays already existing photos on Commons per item - ability for a user to download KML files of all reserved item, all items for a canton or all items without pictures for a canton Currently, the tool is only available in English and French. Italian and German version should follow very soon next week. Feedback, comments and ideas welcome ! For the Swiss team, Nico

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how many photos from each country will take part from European WLM
by Raul Kern 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hallo, how many photos from each country will take part from European WLM competition? -- Raul Kern

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Halo From Hong Kong
by Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Dear all I would like to say bit about my inspiration from Berlin, after hearing Lodewijk's presentation one point strike me particularly as he explained that photo taking is rather easy way to contribute to Wikimedia where is absolutely a good way to increase participation here so I did study a bit on the situation on the local monuments (no more than 2000) and WM commons photographic coverage on them (about half of them werre photoed and upload commons) I do find space to work on for WLM event for once or twice, no longer than 2 yrs. So I do think Hong Kong will jump on the wagon anyway, as I will leaving the HK board soon, and I am not the future board will support the effort, so I might push this forward as senior Wikipedian, gathering support on local Wikipedia community, and then ask for support from the future board of Hong Kong chapter. And one more thing, we probably not following the European time line though. -- Jeromy-Yu "Jerry" Chan, ARAD User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia President, Wikimedia Hong Kong ChapCom/ComCom, Wikimedia Foundation also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places http://about.me/jeromyu/bio | http://jeromyu.blogspot.com Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601 *Trotz dem alten Drachen*

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Progress in Sweden?
by Maarten Dammers 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi Lars, How is Wiki Loves Monuments going in Sweden? Are you already in contact with http://www.raa.se/ ? I ran into some people from there at the Europeana hackathon and they told me that there's interest to help with Wiki Loves Monuments. They have a nice site with a great dataset behind it! Maarten

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Coordinates tools & pan-European sponsorship
by Tomasz Kozłowski 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have been wondering for some time about a tool which could be used for adding geographic coordinates to the list of monuments in a country. Some users on the Polish Wikipedia have already started adding coordinates to monuments located near their locations (example: <http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Tommy_Jantarek/Zabytki_wielkopolski>). Answering their question about what tool should be used, I told them to use the famous GeoLocator <http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html> which has been used both on the Polish Wikipedia as well as on the Commons. What tool do you use? Are there any other, better suitable tools to be used? Another question is about the possibility of having a pan-European sponsorship or patronage from a European (not only from the European Union) organisation or institution. It has been suggested to me that we may try getting sponsorship or patronage from Europeana <http://www.europeana.eu/portal/> and today I have been leaked that indeed we have gained sponsorship from that organisation; however I can't find any information about that in the archives, so that's maybe a behind-the-scenes activity? Any upcoming press releases of which I haven't been told? :-) Regards, - -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNj8igAAoJEKvZGSRfXI2ny9UH+wQviFCIBjQvm9lnYdTS1NTk BceduCCDNnPC59Z84G5a01Pw+YY5BABeLogkcXTksNuhXYgPL7k8DhbdZZtomSIr loUCbzpl0M47UkkFSw9k4H/GtQF5pEnmoX+n4HivUarJdOlPiu/QLbDGAGShOSI8 6X7Pr2hkwGjKSX+hyh/PN5Ye+98taFE2LQ77i2AWGtZU7qHkbsm1pVcpJFEjcmB/ 6Rp5Uu/j4EdzvK4IAn+m7OIzdAkZBtcstoAh6UUGjooNZa9vP0Kw4w6sRKieLe9F HNftkvVSaSAAoFPUpqgZhSuJntVQR7NBRxvk02kedGg+PvG8JXPLEO9fcTLD2p0= =Bl4y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wiki Loves Monuments at Wikimania
by Maarten Dammers 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hi everyone, Extra reason to go to Wikimania this year http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wiki_Loves_Monuments :-) I hope it will get accepted. It's a nice moment to see what the status is of the project in all the countries. Maarten

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