Hi Yaroslav,I set that wiki project up on the English Wikipedia with two primary goals in mind:
1) Try to form an English common set of terms for the national heritage of the participating countries (links from those pages link to the various country pages on the English wikipedia and wherever possible to their protection agencies if an article exists)
2) Try to create a common landing page for the various WLM subprojects in the various language wikipedias (note the links on the left hand side of the page)
I think the project has been useful to give people an impression of what the project is all about. I was hoping to get a chance to create lists of national heritage for the participating countries, and especially for those countries with more than one official language and no "native wikipedia", but I didn't manage to do that.
Some countries have managed to put up lists on the English wikipedia - see this link:
As is always the case, there is room for improvement, and of course, there's always next year!
We discussed making article writing part of the competition, for example in October after the uploading stops, but we quickly decided this just complicates things for the juries, who will all have a difficult enough time just looking at the pictures.
If you have ideas about a writing competition, in order to get more articles on more national heritage sites, that would still be very cool to do, and may be a way for people to get stimulated to go back and take more pictures inside the buildings (most of the pictures in the competition are taken from the outside).
Jane
2011/9/16 Yaroslav M. Blanter
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:56:27 +0200, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
> That will depend definitely on the project. I know that on the Dutch
> Wikipedia, rijksmonumenten are generally considered to be encyclopedic
> (although in some cases collections of buildings should be put into one
> single article because they clearly belong together - for example the
> Entrepotdok buildings in Amsterdam I imagine). I can't speak for other
> language projects.
>
> Lodewijk
>
I am not talking now about notability or other issues, I just wanted to
understand whether there is any relation to WLM2011 contest. Apparently,
there is none. It is just an English Wikipedia project not endorsed by the
central WLM organization and focusing on article writing which are not part
of the contest in 2011.