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.
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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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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]]
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Hi Lars,
starting a new thread.
The exact definition of a monument depends by country. We go with the
definition that the national government is using - they usually recognize
monumental objects. Which category(ies) you want to use, depends on your
situation, and you can make a choice there. I suggest you discuss that with
the local volunteers and on the project. The common remark: do whatever
works best in your country.
Best,
Lodewijk
2011/4/1 Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>
> On March 28, Tomasz Kozłowski wrote:
> > 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
> >).
>
> I'm sorry for being a little behind on this project.
>
> Do we have or do we need a clear definition of
> what "monunments" are? Apparently memorial stones,
> statues, and buildings. But only man-made things?
> Or also remarkable trees and cliffs? Should also
> entire gardens or cities be included in the lists?
>
> Is the castle of Versailles one monument or a
> large system of many monuments? Is there a lower
> limit for how insignificant things can be included?
> Do we include individual milestones? (I'm referring
> to actual milestones, by the roadside.) Or is
> there some "notability" requirement?
>
> Do we need a standard way to indicate types
> of monuments? Some sort of ontology or
> controlled vocabulary? Do heritage instutitions
> already have a classification that we can reuse?
> Are existing categories on Commons sufficient?
>
> Should each monument have its own category
> on Commons? If it is a monument, I guess we
> can expect to get more than one photo of it.
> Is there a standard way to add geo coordinates
> and object type to categories on Commons?
>
>
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
> Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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>
>
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Dear all,
OK, I do not want to hurt anyone while saying this, so please feel
free to shunt this email and never to talk to me again if I am out of
place and maybe you've discussed this for ever or something.
I find the WLM monuments logo a bit sad. It's very academic, it says
what it should, but if I try to imagine it on a cap or an armband or a
t-shirt, I'm left a bit un-wow-ed.
So I was thinking that maybe launching a logo competition might be a
good way to:
*get a funkier logo
*get some attention in the Wikimedia communities
What do you think?
I am actually ready to launch it and monitor it and maybe find a jury
and and and and...
Cheers,
Delphine
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Dear all,
I am happy to announce on behalf of the Board of the Wikimedia Polska
Association that there have been a few resolutions concerning Wiki Loves
Monuments 2011.
Firstly, it has been decided that Poland is now officially joining the
project this year! We'll use the name of 'Wiki lubi zabytki' and I will
take the role of the project's coordinator.
Secondly, it has been decided that Wikimedia Polska is sending two of
its representatives for the meeting in Berlin on May 13-15. I will be
one of them and we are looking for the second person.
And finally, the Board decided that we are going to support two
representatives of another Wikimedia Foundation chapter for a total sum
of 1,000 EUR in going for the meeting. From the countries that have
already joined the project we have chosen the now third-youngest
chapter, Wikimedia Eesti (Wikimedia Estonia) -- although there is the
possibility that if the Estonian chapter doesn't have any
representatives, we may support another chapter.
Best regards,
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Tomasz W. Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]
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Hi all,
things are going better and better, and I see people getting excited all
over the world.
Last week I was in Wroclaw, Poland, to present on Wiki Loves Monuments on
their annual conference to make them enthusiast about the contest and
persuade volunteers to participate. It was pretty successful I think, at
least several volunteers from Poland were committed to make this happen in
Poland (reported here before by Odder). However, there were also people from
Ukraine and Belarus present, and they are also considering to participate if
it is practically possible. Thank you Wikimedia Polska for making this
possible!
This weekend I am at the Chapters Meeting (because of my involvement in
Movement Roles), and I was able to lead a session (together with the
facilitator of course) on WIki Loves Monuments. I will post the
documentation on that later on, but would like to give you an ahead notice
on this. The session was really positive, and I learned that there were many
questions still left over. I hope that the documentation coming out of this
session will therefore benifit many others. Delphine shared a whole bunch of
notes with us from the AGM at Wikimedia France where WLM was discussed with
some pretty cool ideas, so I hope these will be up soon, too. Many chapters
present were really interested.
In the mean while, Austria joined Wiki Loves Monuments too (Welcome!) and
some more are considering. What is maybe also exciting, non-european
chapters are considering to set up a similar event.
Both presentations I gave (they are quite similar) are available on
Wikimedia Commons in category:Wiki_Loves_Monuments .
Of course you also saw the great report by Maarten, who visited in Berlin
the AGM of Wikimedia Deutschland, and was able to help them make quite some
progress - also great work :) Please see his email for more info on that.
If you have any questions, please let me know through this list.
I repeat: If you need some help in brainstorming, to give a workshop in your
region for your volunteers, please let us know through this list.
Best regards from Berlin,
Lodewijk