On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:00:15 +0100, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Dear all,
(apologies for the long message, but I think this info is helpful.
Please
feel free to translate and/or post elsewhere.) We're well on our way for organizing Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! With already many
countrieshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Participating_countriesconfirmed,
and working on their local organization, it starts to look all exciting. With many new countries on board, it is probably helpful to explain a bit better what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, and why certain parameters have been chosen in the past. This email will contain
a
bit background information about the philosophy we had in mind, and
several
useful (in-text) links too.
...
Lodewijk, thanks for the clear and thoughtful message. Please consider putting it to commons so that it will be up top translation.
There is one thing which we did not emphasize last year (or at least I have not seen it emphasized): that many of the picture they upload actually very quickly end up in lists and some of them end up in articles. I think many of the uploades do not realize how to look up where the images are used, and it is extremely motivating if you upload an image of a monument in Portugal and it ends up being used on Finnish Wikipedia. I think this year we should pay attention to this (mey be even think for an image used in most articles globally - but here we run a danger of users replacing other images with their image, which is not what we want to stimulate).
Cheers Yaroslav