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Dear All,
I am, finally, glad to inform you that the long-awaited Wiki Loves
Monuments calendars have left Wikimedia Polska's office in Łódź and are
on their way to your countries; at the end of this e-mail you will find
a link to a Google spreadsheet and all necessary information.
Firstly, let me begin with a short introduction about the delay we had
(it's February 2012 already, and the calendars were supposed to have
been delivered to you by the middle of December!); I feel that you all
deserve an explanation and somebody to bite (that'd be me).
== The Story of the Delay ==
Due to a delayed decision of the international jury of which we are all
aware, we have started the work on the design of calendars only after
the end of GLAMcamp in Amsterdam (2-4 December). This took us a week,
and the printing company was given the final design file on December 14.
However, because of the Christmas & New Year holiday season and some
additional changes to the project, the calendars arrived at WMPL's
office as late as January 16. And then, a catastrophic miscommunication
has happened in Wikimedia Polska's side, for which I am the only one to
be blamed -- so please accept my sincere apologies.
I would also like to assure you that we have learned our lesson and will
draw all the neccessary conclusions not to make this situation happen
again in the future.
== Technical details ==
The calendars are A4 in size, printed on a 170 g/m2 glossy photographic
paper, and are combined together by a metal spiral on the longer side of
the page (yes, they're horizontal).
Due to the small size, the calendars have been given an additional
cardboard, thanks to which they could not only be hanged on a wall, but
also put on a flat surface (e.g. a desk).
For those of you wishing to have a look at how the calendars look like,
Tomasz "Polimerek" Ganicz has taken some photos
<http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~poli/Kalendarz_WLM/> -- they should be
uploaded to Commons very soon, we'll just need to sort out some
copyright information to avoid an unnecessary havoc :)
== Shipping information ==
All the shipment information, together with the tracking numbers, is
available on the following Google spreadsheet: <http://goo.gl/N7abT>.
I hope that all companies will do their job and there won't be any
problems with shipping the packages to you -- as we have been told, you
should await the packages in 3-5 working days, probably even sooner in
the countries closer to Poland.
As for Russia, we have, as previously agreed upon, sent the package via
the Polish Postal Service; I don't have the tracking number yet and will
approach you off-the-list with more information. We haven't also been
able to send the package to the post-office box of Wikimedia Norge (as
far as I remember, it happened to WMDE, too), so I decided to use
another address instead.
I hope that this (too long) e-mail answers all the questions you might
have had about the delay; please feel to comment, ask questions, and
share the information with your friends at local Wikimedia chapters --
and don't forget to let us know as soon as you receive the calendars!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
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Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]
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Hello everybody!
Few weeks ago the board of Wikimedia Czech Republic agreed that we would like to participate in 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments contest. We were ipressed by the 2011 results. Some members of czech Wikipedia community also asked why the heck we do not participate in this competition. Last year we organized similar event - the best contributors that expanded some articles from the list chosen by a particular committee (http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Ceny_za_rozvoj_%C4%8Desk%C3%A9_Wikip… ) were rewarded. Also, there is a lot of skilled photographers in our community and we have already several activities of photographic nature that involve both Wikimedia Czech Republic chapter and Wikipedia community.
We started some basic organizing: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_Wiki_Loves_Monuments and as a good example - or a model - we use polish Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Lubi_Zabytki
So... we look for future cooperation and for eventual help that can improve our project. We are right on the start.
Thanks.
Aktron
Wikimedia Czech Republic
Hi everyone,
We just wrapped up an amazing GLAMcamp DC. Not only was the weekend
productive and inspiring, but we were able to solidify some solid plans
for this year's WLM. Here is a brief yet disorganized summary:
* Kaldari gave a brief explanation to the group about how the tech
side works. This was to give us a better idea of what it would
entail to have the United States participate, and how he can help.
(Thanks Kaldari for volunteering!)
* Kippelboy gave a great explanation of how WLM worked
(Catalonia/Spain?) in his area and it was really really valuable. He
also was great at calming us all down - especially me!
* On that note, Benoit, myself, and a few other folks decided to be
BOLD! First, I'm working on the Commons page for the WLM US page,
more to come with that, I've been traveling and really really busy.
That will reflect these updates in an organized way.
* We have decided once we can gain access to the WLM.us website (Aude
purchased) we are going to translate, copy and paste a WLM site that
is similar to others. Benoit is helping me with this, as I am not a
tech genius but I want to get it done since we are a bit behind
schedule.
* We are going to translate WLM US into Spanish, hoping to get more
Spanish speaking communities involved. (Spanish speaking communities
are the fastest growing in the US)
* We have decided to focus specifically on ONLY the National Register
of Historic Places. Not only is this easier for us to digest the
data (since most of the data for state specific content isn't easily
organized on Wikipedia at this point), but it's also less
overwhelming for first time participants. Next year we can expand.
Besides, over 1 million properties are on NHRP - I think we'll be
just fine :)
* Templates will be modified so that each state can have it's own -
it'll just show the flag and name of that state. I'm not sure how
all that works, but, Jarek, Kaldari and Benoit are going to be on
top of it.
* We will of course reach out to NHRP for a partnership opportunity
and we need to get a game plan together for other sponsors. Right
now we just need to get a web presence.
* We haven't quite solidified a judging process for the US winner,
however, we did agree that the public will vote on the winner(s).
I'm thinking it'll run something like the Commons Picture of the Day
contest with some assistance from volunteers to weed out just plain
bad images (blurry, rainy, ideally not helpful for WM projects). Not
more details on that at this time.
* We figure that since the US is so large, Wikimedians can organize
their own Wiki takes and road trip events, mixed with encouraging
national participation. All 50 states and US territories will be
involved in the NHRP data.
* Flickr will be used, we might have some special groups organized,
contests, we're not sure yet. I'm a big Flickr person, so, I've
offered to lend a big hand with this.
Other details are rather unimportant right now, but we've got the ball
rolling. Short term goal right now:
* Get a web presence.
I am seeking help, because I am not savvy with graphic design, to modify
the WLM logo to feature "United States" someplace in the logo. Please
let me know if you can help (or be bold and do it ;-) ).
This week I have other priorities, but I hope when I'm back in DC I can
get the website content started. Benoit and I will be speaking with each
other. I also know we want to have a meeting at Wikimania about this.
Perhaps after we get the web presence part started, a Skype can be
arranged or an IRC talk for those interested in volunteering for the
US/Canada events. We also are going to have cross-border events too :)
I hope the US people don't mind me being bold about this, I just want to
get the ball rolling, and I know that myself, Kaldari, Benoit and Pharos
have agreed that "let's do this and get it started now," is the best
policy. Time is ticking!
-Sarah
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Hi,
For France, after a phone call to Chronopost, we should receive them
tomorrow.
Regards,
Sylvain.
Le 16 févr. 2012 12:48, "Tomasz Kozłowski" <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Dear All,
> it's been two weeks already since my final announcement and the shipping
> of the calendars and I haven't received any information about the status
> of the delivery from the following countries:
>
> * Austria;
> * Norway;
> * Portugal;
> * Russia;
> * Spain (Catalonia);
> * Switzerland.
>
> Could you please guys & girls let me know if you received the package?
> Furthermore, I haven't been confirmed that, after some problems, the
> packages have been received in:
>
> * Estonia;
> * France;
> * Romania
>
> Can I have some updates on the situation? Thanks!
>
> - --
> Tomasz Kozłowski
> a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
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Hi, everyone.
I've been pretty quiet since adding my name to the group of people
interested in working on WLM USA. I just wanted to check and see if the USA
team has discussed or decided on an approach or any activities? I've been
keeping an eye on the wiki, but haven't seen any discussion, etc...
Sarah: I just saw your tweet about the the progress at GLAM Camp. Awesome!
I'm guessing you're taking the lead here, but just want to let you know I'm
happy to help any way you need!
I promised Lodewijk a long time ago that I'd help recruit and plan, but I
wanted to check in with the team before I did anything to make sure I'm
aligned with what you guys have decided.
Excited to see things are getting ramped up. Let me know how I can help.
Cheers,
Moka
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415.894.0522
@moka
Wikimedia Ukraine takes a decision to join "Wiki loves monuments" movement
and to
organize the competition in Ukraine this year.
Here<http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0…>is
the Board resolution and
here <http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_loves_monuments> is a project page
in our official site.
Unfortunately we could not register wikilovesmonuments.ua because HLD
.uais permitted for official trademarks only. So we decided to
register
domain wikilovesmonuments.in.ua, We hope it could be read in English as
meaningful.
Please accept our participation.
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Best regards,
Andrij Bondarenko (User A1),
Member of the Board of the Wikimedia Ukraine
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Dear List,
this is just to inform (and possibly inspire & motivate) you that I have
finally managed to publish an evaluation (or "a summary") of the 2011
Wiki Loves Monuments in Poland.
The summary is quite long -- in fact, there's over 48 KB of text -- and
is, obviously, available in Polish only; for those of you that would
like to get something out of the text, the translation provided by
Google Translate (a handy link: <http://translate.google.com>) seems to
be just acceptable.
The evaluation is available at the following page on the Polish
Wikipedia:
<https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:Wiki_Lubi_Zabytki/Raport/2012-02-…>.
Thanks,
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Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]
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Concerning "wikilovesmonuments.TLD" in the local team timeline: is
such domain name obligatory? We don't have a chapter and we don't have
sponsors yet. On the other hand, we have wikimedia.by domain and
making the project in wlm.wikimedia.by would be fine.
What do you think?
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З павагай,
Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas
Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects
p.selitskas(a)gmail.com, +375257408304
Skype: p.selitskas