It would be great! Thank you Ilya.

I think that we should do WLM 2014 because there were many new countries last year, and it was a pitty that their effort last year has not impact this one. There are still many countries that have not participated yet and some others that are still interested. I understand that some countries lost interest because near all monuments have a picture, but other not yet.

WLE is a very good project and also WLPA, and I don't see any problem in having three contest in different months of the year. Some countries could organize more than one contest.

At this moment some countries have showed their interest in one or more contest. E.g. for WLM 2014 there are already three countries on the Commons page, and others have said here that they would be interested.

Santi Navarro (from Spain)

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:58:19 +0200
From: intracer@gmail.com
To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] 2014 contest

If you are not going to support ErfgoedBot, I can take it over

Ilya, one of the organizers of Wiki Loves Earth 2013 in Ukraine

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:

Hi Emilio,

Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada schreef op 11-1-2014 20:13:

Hi all;

Will we see in 2014 a new edition of WLM? I don't see any coordination messages or pages in Commons.

As pointed out by others we seem to have three pages:
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Public_Art_2014

In my opinion we should not organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2014 and not even local competitions under that name. Wiki Loves Monuments was very successful over the last couple of years and of course people are eager to continue with that, but I'm very afraid of the sequel syndrome: Each next edition gets worse than the previous one. I'd rather not do it this year and maybe do it again in 2015 or 2016. Than everyone who is a bit fed up with the project might be up to a new edition.

I'm not even sure if we should do a photo competition this year, we don't want to become a one trick movement. If we would do one I would opt in for the Earth one, I love public art, but the whole (lack of) freedom of panorama is a pain in the ass. Wiki Loves Earth does seem to be quite late in the whole organization if you compare it one of the previous WLM time lines (like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline).

One thing I would like is that the language Wikipedia's have "heritage" as the writing theme for September 2014.

Something else. All these projects seem to rely on ErfgoedBot. That's hosted on the Toolserver and unless someone else takes it over, I'm going to let it die with the Toolserver. Might be a bit inconvenient if you're in the middle of a photo competition.

Maarten

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