I can explain the Andorran case. First we thought to expand the list with archaeological
sites, but this results problematic as they use to be access protected areas. Another
suggestion was to focus thematically on most unknown monuments: granite architecture. But
people love to photograph nice landscapes with romanesque churches and any restriction is
against WLM principles. Finally we will focus on articles. We expect that creating and
expanding articles about monuments will result in more interest in some aspects not
covered with photos.
But what surprised me most is that the sponsor had no doubt and he wanted to participate.
Vicenç
From: kikkocristian(a)gmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:02:27 +0200
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Andorra is also in
2013/8/20 Àlex Hinojo <alexhinojo(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 2012 participation decreased a lot (challenge
feeling was low as every
single pic was taken) and that's the reason why we've being doubting on
organizing it or not.
But finally we decided to join this great party!
Hi Àlex,
just a quick suggestion.
At Wikimania in Hong Kong there was a panel about the "future of
WLM", since for quite a number of countries this will be the third
year of participation many of the may face a similar problem of
"saturation".
Since you have already hit the "quantity milestone" (which is really
great, btw) you may start thinking about some other activities to
increase participation again.
Devising something is not a simple task, but here's one suggestion:
Maarten pointed out some time ago that many WLM images are still not
used on Wikipedia. Since one of the goal of the contest is enriching
Wikipedia (and I think this is also a very satisfactory thing for a
participant) you may want to organize some activities to improve the
usage of WLM images from Andorra in Wikipedia articles.
You may find useful the page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Statistics
which contains some statistics about the usage of the images.
Of course, if everybody has some idea on this topic please share it
with the rest of the world.
Cristian
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