Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] International Flyers

-- Nuno Tavares Wikimedia Portugal http://www.wikimedia.pt Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. Participe também: http://www.wikimedia.pt Lodewijk escreveu: > Thank you so much Susana! Looks wonderful. Could you upload it to > commons (if not done yet)? > > Maybe we should collect this kind of material more :) > > Best, > > lodewijk > > ps: I see a lot of partners down there, wonderful work! I would really > appreciate it if someone could (in a seperate thread) give a short > update on where you are :) > > 2011/6/15 Susana Morais <susana.morais@wikimedia.pt > mailto:susana.morais@wikimedia.pt> > > Hi all, > > We have started a poster for the portuguese competition (sending you > in JPG). Does it help in any way? > > Susana > > > 2011/6/15 Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com > mailto:jane023@gmail.com> > > Hi Nicole, > The text we have currently is limited to what we > wrote on the etherpad in Berlin, and of course our > ad that Hay made (it is on page 53 of Europa > Nostra's summer edition of the European Cultural > Heritage Review). > > The text is here > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/May_Meet... > > The printable pdf is here > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Wikilovesmonuments-europa... > > I don't know if you saw Julia's earlier query on > this. Right now all of our up-to-date info is here: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011I > myself have been thinking hard about what the text > should be, and last Thursday, Austin Hair and I > stood behind a table at the Europa Nostra fair in > Amsterdam. It was an interesting afternoon, since a > lot of people came to the table with questions that > I would never have dreamed of beforehand, such as > whether I knew about the publicly accessible > databases on threatened monuments, or on monuments > in ultra-hard-to-get-to-places, or similar things. I > did my best to get people interested in Wiki Loves > Monuments and the Dutch WP10 birthday celebration > this Saturday (though most people coming to the > booth didn't speak Dutch). I printed out all of the > winning photos, plus a few Wikipedia logos (the WLM > logo, the puzzle one, the Wikmedia one, the Commons > one, and the WP10 one). I also had printed out a > short explanation how to uplaod a photo, and the > jury report from last year. There were several > photographers who came to the booth and wanted to > know what the judging criteria were. > > I was sorry I didn't have any flyers, since people > really seemed to want this. Fortunately the booth > across from us was giving away the Heritage > magazines, so I told them to bookmark page 53. > > I was very happy that I hadn't yet had a chance to > give Tomasz's Wikibook on Chopin to Ziko, because I > was using it as a paperweight (we were outside and > it was quite windy). Many people commented on the > book and were impressed that "we" at Wikipedia knew > that Chopin was Polish. Fortunately there was a > delegation from Poland who were attracted by the > book and after looking at all the winning pictures > got very excited. There was also a fairly large > group of students from the Reinwardt academy in > Amsterdam interested in architecture, many of whom > have tons of pictures they could upload. I realized > quite quickly however that it starts sounding very > complicated when you talk about uploading groups of > photos to Wikimedia Commons. That is definitely not > the right approach for a casual computer user, which > most of these people were. > > The ten winning pictures did get a lot of attention, > and when I explained that each of these is linked to > an article on the Dutch Wikipedia, people seemed > eager to learn more. The photo that got the most > attention was the electricity transformer station. > > So to summarize, I think the main thing to focus on > is the result we hope to achieve with the contest, > namely to gather lots of freely accessible photos of > monuments for use in Wikipedia articles. The best > way to get people to understand what this means is > to pick a nice monument photo (or choose one of the > winning ones from last year) and make sure it is > linked to an article on the native Wikipedia. Then > you can use that link to send to people in emails. > > This page has the links to Dutch articles with the > winning photos: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010 > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010A > nice teaser for the upcoming would be to say how > nice it would be to have pictures on Commons of > nearby monuments that aren't there yet. It would > also be nice if more people participated who lived > in rural areas, since those monuments have the least > photos on Commons. > > Secondary information that is crucial to have is the > criteria for judging the photos (everyone seemed > interested in that) and the method used to upload > the photos (especially the older people seemed very > skeptical about being able to do this, though they > seemed quite interested). > > Hope it gets all of you thinking! > Jane > > 2011/6/15 Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de > mailto:nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de> > > Hi all, > > I am not sure how the status is here, so please > excuse if this was > already discussed, > > We are planning to create info flyers for > participants, partners, and > other target groups of the contest. In my > opinion, it would be best to > have one international flyer and then adapt it > to all other > languages/countries. > > Wikimedia Deutschland could take care of all the > design and printing > stuff, if some of you can provide texts, images > and all necessary > information. What do you think? > > Best, > Nicole > > -- > Nicole Ebber > Projektmanagerin > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Eisenacher Straße 2 > 10777 Berlin > > Tel.: +49 30 219158260 > http://wikimedia.de > > Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO > als erstes digitales > Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie > die Online-Petition: > http://wikipedia.de/wke/. > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur > Förderung Freien Wissens e. > V. 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