Hi all,
Indeed France and Belgium both have many of these monuments, but I believe that in France
a lot of these wont be monument historique. Due to the fact that most of their monuments
are really really old and special. (there are ca 60.000 monuments in France but there are
also that number in both Flanders and the Netherlands, this means that to become a
monument is easier in the latter two and therefore less special buildings are monuments).
The same issue might hold for Wallonie. For other countries I don't know how the
situation is, so this point is a little bit focused on only some of the countries.
So there might be a lot of these monuments (in every small city) but a lot of them wont be
eligible for the local contest, how to deal with that?
Mvg,
Bas
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:10:47 +0200
From: jane023(a)gmail.com
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Europeana Loves Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 edition
Àlex,
That is great news! I would love to see more WWI monuments and
memorials added (especially since I picnic-lunched at many of them
while on a bike trip through Belgium and France several years ago). It
was amazing to me to see how many small towns in Belgium and France
still have yearly ceremonies for WWI memorials, even though no one is
left to tell the stories anymore first hand. While munching my
sandwich I could often read how many men died, and I couldn't figure
out why there were so many names when all I could see around me was a
small street with a few houses. It seemed as though that war really
wiped out centuries of human habitation in some places, so there is no
one left to take pictures and put them on Wikimedia Commons. Maybe
this will help. I have often thought it was too bad I didn't take any
pictures of the monuments, just the pretty countryside, so it will be
fun to see what gets added in the contest.
Jane
2013/7/23, Àlex Hinojo <alexhinojo(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi all,
as some of you may know, I'm now also collaborating with Europeana in their
Wiki-related projects. I have a couple of good announcements to share with
you:
1) Again this year, Europeana will be an official partner of Wiki Loves
Monuments and will sponsor the main prize, as did last year.
2) Beside of sponsoring main prize, We’ll have a special category within
the contest entitled ‘World War I Monuments and Memorials'.
This category is understood in an inclusive way (all monuments/memorials
related to WWI in participating countries) This category proposal is
related to another ongoing Europeana project, Europeana 1914-1918 [1]
designed for collecting memorabilia in digital form from related to WW1.
Previous editions of the WLM contest also had an special Europeana category
(GLAM for 2012 [2] and Art Nouveau for 2011 [3]). The contest and jury
systems for this particular category will be the same one than used on
previous years, following our KISS principles :) Still not sure about it
but probably will manage an online exhibit like the one Europeana did for
Art Nouveau in 2011 [3]
We are still drafting all so will be glad to read your comments and
questions on this.
Best,
Àlex Hinojo
@kippelboy
[1]
www.europeana1914-1918.eu
[2]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monu…
[3]
http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/wiki-loves-art-nouveau
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