WikiLovesMonuments May 2013

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Meeting with Fed. Office for Civil Protection - Section Cultural Property Protection
by Sven Manguard 25 May '13

25 May '13

I guess I might just be because I'm a jaded American, but I am stunned and impressed that you were able to get that much support and encouragement from your government/government agency. It's is an example that I hope many national WLM groups will be able to follow. Yours, Sven -------- Original message -------- From: Estermann Beat <beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch> Date: 05/24/2013 9:30 AM (GMT-06:00) To: "Mailing list for Wikimedia CH (wikimediach-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org)" <wikimediach-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,"Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition (wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org)" <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Meeting with Fed. Office for Civil Protection - Section Cultural Property Protection Dear all, Yesterday, I have met with the people responsible for the protection of cultural properties at the Federal Office for Civil Protection in Switzerland. The minutes (in German) can be found here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Schweizer_Denkmallisten/… Here a summary: - They are happy to help us with the monuments lists in their area of competence (in addition to the lists of cultural properties of national and regional significance which are handled at the national level, there are also cantonal and municipal monuments lists which they are not responsible for). - They are positive about Wiki Loves Monuments; the same is true for the cantonal instances they are in contact with (monument protection services / civil protection services). - They promised to provide us with database dumps, including all the KGS-identifiers (A- and B-objects; identifiers of B objects have been missing so far) by the end of May / beginning of June. - They will take measures to facilitate the updating of the lists on Wikipedia in the future (clearly indicating changes on their lists; making database dumps available). - They ask us not to use the official white-blue cultural-property sign for any other objects than KGS class A objects and not to use similar signs either (in fact the use of the official sign is regulated by international law and Swiss law) – This should be taken into account when designing the interfaces of information systems (map applications, phone apps, etc.) - They gave us recommendations in order to avoid complications due to the different semantic systems at various federal levels - They will be happy to get informed about any corrections made by the community. So, and now I hope that the 26+ cantonal and municipal authorities responsible for the rest of the monuments will be as cooperative as the federal ones! ;-) Kind regards, Beat Estermann _____________________________________________________ Beat Estermann Research Associate Berne University of Applied Sciences E-Government Institute Morgartenstrasse 2a Postfach 305 CH-3000 Bern 22 beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch www.e-government.bfh.ch Phone +41 31 848 34 30 Phone (direct number) +41 31 848 34 38 Fax +41 31 848 34 31

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monument list, senegal
by rupert THURNER 25 May '13

25 May '13

hi, anybody of you could be helpful to judge the basis to have wlm in senegal? like monuments list, known editors, support in french? best regards, rupert

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Meeting with Fed. Office for Civil Protection - Section Cultural Property Protection
by Estermann Beat 24 May '13

24 May '13

Dear all, Yesterday, I have met with the people responsible for the protection of cultural properties at the Federal Office for Civil Protection in Switzerland. The minutes (in German) can be found here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Schweizer_Denkmallisten/… Here a summary: - They are happy to help us with the monuments lists in their area of competence (in addition to the lists of cultural properties of national and regional significance which are handled at the national level, there are also cantonal and municipal monuments lists which they are not responsible for). - They are positive about Wiki Loves Monuments; the same is true for the cantonal instances they are in contact with (monument protection services / civil protection services). - They promised to provide us with database dumps, including all the KGS-identifiers (A- and B-objects; identifiers of B objects have been missing so far) by the end of May / beginning of June. - They will take measures to facilitate the updating of the lists on Wikipedia in the future (clearly indicating changes on their lists; making database dumps available). - They ask us not to use the official white-blue cultural-property sign for any other objects than KGS class A objects and not to use similar signs either (in fact the use of the official sign is regulated by international law and Swiss law) - This should be taken into account when designing the interfaces of information systems (map applications, phone apps, etc.) - They gave us recommendations in order to avoid complications due to the different semantic systems at various federal levels - They will be happy to get informed about any corrections made by the community. So, and now I hope that the 26+ cantonal and municipal authorities responsible for the rest of the monuments will be as cooperative as the federal ones! ;-) Kind regards, Beat Estermann _____________________________________________________ Beat Estermann Research Associate Berne University of Applied Sciences E-Government Institute Morgartenstrasse 2a Postfach 305 CH-3000 Bern 22 beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch www.e-government.bfh.ch Phone +41 31 848 34 30 Phone (direct number) +41 31 848 34 38 Fax +41 31 848 34 31

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in the UK
by Maarten Dammers 24 May '13

24 May '13

Hi Michael, Op 20-5-2013 16:02, Michael Maggs schreef: > Hi Maarten > Many thanks, that is a fantastic start! You're welcome. I prefer to keep the discussions on the mailing list. That way other people can learn from it or help out. > Having discussed this with others on the (so far informal) UK team, and also with WMUK staff, one of the main problems we are going to have is that none of us have the real technical expertise to accomplish the sort of thing you have been doing. We can get hold of that raw data, but importing that into the main WLM database, and providing user tools and so on may be beyond what we can achieve without outside help (or, at least, no-one in the UK with that expertise has yet volunteered to help out). You should focus on getting the data and putting it on Wikipedia as lists. Usually getting the data is the difficult part. For the next steps see https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Monuments_database/… . Many countries managed to get this done so I'm sure someone is willing to assist you with this. > Your reputation has preceded you, and I know that you are extremely busy, but you couldn’t give us a hand, could you - or perhaps suggest someone else who might have the skills to do that? I hope someone on this list well respond to this :-) Maarten

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Alert: WLM US meeting today at 7 PM UTC on IRC
by User Mono 24 May '13

24 May '13

Hi all, Join us for an IRC meeting to start planning Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, the world's largest photo contest, in the US. The meeting will take place TODAY Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7 PM UTC in IRC channel #wikilovesmonuments. We will discuss our goals for the contest and planning details, including organizational roles. More at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the… User:Mono WLM US

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Italian lists
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 23 May '13

23 May '13

Yaroslav M. Blanter, 27/04/2013 09:48: > Thank you for clarification and for providing on-wiki link. > Unfortunately, for Toscana it still does not look great, so I will just > take pictures and then see whether the buildings eventually make it to > the lists. Yes, given the lack of freedom of panorama in Italy I* personally suggest you, as a foreigner, to put aside WLM and 1) avoid recent stuff of course for copyright reasons, 2) disregard the non-copyright restrictions, cross the border with all your precious treasures and immediately upload to Commons, laughing at the ministry. Nemo (*) I and not WMIT: WMIT doesn't suggest or recommend law breach.

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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Tunisia in WLM 2013
by Habib M'henni 22 May '13

22 May '13

Le 22/05/2013 22:18, wikilovesmonuments-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org a écrit : > Re: Tunisia in WLM 2013 Hi Lodewijk, Yep :) <http://villedesayada.tn>

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Philippines is in for 2013
by Roel Balingit 22 May '13

22 May '13

The Philippines will once again participate in Wiki Loves Monuments. -- *ROEL BALINGIT* *Treasurer* *______________________________________________________________* *WIKIMEDIA PHILIPPINES* *G/F Gervacia Center, 152 Amorsolo Street, Legaspi Village, 1229 Makati City * *T: +63-2-8123277 | F: +63-2-8127177 | M: +63-917-8807635 * *W: **www.wikimedia.org.ph | E: roel.balingit(a)wikimedia.org.ph* ******************************************************************* ******************************************** This e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. ******************************************************************* ********************************************

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Tunisia in WLM 2013
by Habib M'henni 22 May '13

22 May '13

Hi, This year, Tunisia will take part of the Wiki Loves Monuments contest<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Tuni…>. It will be organized by Wikipedia User Group in Tunisia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_Tunisia>(formalization is in process!), CLibre (local association) and the Photo Club of Tunis. We are very interested by the competition and hope that it leads to success! Regards! Note: wikilovesmonuments.tn is our local website. -- _____________________________________ Habib M'HENNI <http://habibmhenni.tn>

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Mexico in WLM 2013
by Carmen Alcázar 22 May '13

22 May '13

Dear all! We are pleased to announce that after the success that was Wiki Loves Monuments in Mexico we will organize again in the 2013 edition. Due to the good number of received photos (the most in Latin America) and the pending monuments that were not integrated in 2012, Wikimedia México are excited to join the contest this year. We have in mind to make a couple of new dynamics for the contestants and we have already begun discussions with sponsors. Regards, Carmen Alcazar Wiki Loves Monuments Mexico Coordinator -- *"Wikipedia es algo especial. Es como una biblioteca o un parque público. Es como un templo para el pensamiento. Un lugar al que todos podemos ir a pensar, a aprender, a compartir nuestros conocimientos con otros." JW*

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