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
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From: Estermann Beat <beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch>
Date: 05/24/2013 9:30 AM (GMT-06:00)
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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>
The Philippines will once again participate in Wiki Loves Monuments.
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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
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