Hi Vincenç,
thank you for the update from your side. I think it is important to
cooperate with the other association and volunteers working on this in Spain
and France to make sure you dont do double work.
For Italy, I'm afraid that Italian law won't allow such event (we discussed
this with the Italian chapter - there is some problem that the Italian
government would get copyright, so a free license would not really be an
option). So I'm afraid that for Wiki Loves Monuments we cannot let Italy
participate, not even Alghero.
I am glad everything is going so well, and I hope you are coordinating
especially in spain well together with the chapter, to avoid approaching the
same institution twice - that would come across very awkwardly.
best regards,
Lodewijk
2011/3/6 Vicenç Riullop <vriullop(a)hotmail.com>
The participation of Amical Viquipèdia is someway
atypical. We are working
with lists on ca.wiki and we are in contact with some partners potencially
interested on promoting local awards. Most lists are of Spanish monuments
but there are also some ones of other countries.
*Andorra, completed with 57 monuments. Heritage institution is very
interested in participating. At present his website is broken due to
problems of configuration on DNS servers.
*Pyrénées-Orientales (France), completed with 266 monuments. Source
information is the same one used on fr.wiki. Geolocation has been added
manually. As there is no freedom of panorama, perhaps some monuments should
be marked as excluded from WLM contest. This should be treated accordingly
with other cases where there is no freedom of panorama.
*Alghero (Italy), completed with 20 monuments. Italian law is complex.
Apart from no freedom of panorama, some monuments may be subject to prior
authorization and payment of a tax for reproductions for a non private use.
The town council collaborates with the project and his lawyer has confirmed
us that there is no restrictions for monuments of Alghero. Perhaps we could
make more lists of Sardinia based on a case by case analysis with the suport
of local authorities.
*Spain. Source information is problematic. There are two sources with two
different identifiers: from autonomous communities and from central
government. Some autonomous communities have online information and others
have none. Information from the central inventory is incomplete, outdated,
and there are problems to correctly identify some monuments without location
or description. It must be worked manually and we can not link it. We have
completed Valencian Community, with a local website, and we are in contact
with heritage institutions of Catalonia and Majorca for providing us a
better database. In total, we are working with about 1/3 of Spanish
monuments.
We have made an onwiki portal to group all lists:
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Wiki_Loves_Monuments
Vicenç
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From: lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 16:20:32 +0100
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments, an update (march
2011)
Hi all,
The proposal for Wiki Loves Monuments Europe is around for a while now, and
we're getting somewhere! On [1] you can find that there are currently 10 (!)
countries interested in participating. This report is to help you get an
idea of what is going on, where we are and where we are going. Any
additional information about your countries situation would be extremely
helpful.
The following countries have indicated that they want to participate in
this project:
Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal -
Spain - Sweden - Switzerland
Additionally, there are a few countries interested and people are working
on letting them participate, including:
Andorra - Austria - Belgium - Denmark - Liechtenstein - Luxembourg -
Ukraine - United Kingdom
Currently most chapters are working on laying contacts and getting a
structure off the ground. I have already participated a brainstorm session
in Cologne, and will give a lecture/workshop on WLM in Wroclaw, Poland and
Maarten will give a workshop in Berlin, both later this month. Do you need
some help in getting your thoughts together? Would you like us to
participate in a brainstorm session/workshop? Please let us know very soon,
and we can probably organize something.
In May we intend to organize a meeting in Berlin for representatives from
all organizations participating in this European contest. We are still
looking for funding to be able to fly in people that cannot afford it
themselves (please poke me if your chapter can help with that), and
Wikimedia Deutschland has generously offered to host us in Berlin.
They will organize there a developers meeting, and that would be an
excellent synergy for us since we could perhaps persuade some people there
to write tools useful for WLM! I would like some input from you on this
meeting, but more information about that in a seperate email.
Short summaries as I am aware (happy to be corrected and see additional
information) about the participating countries:
* Estonia - Decided recently to participate. Need some thinking about the
Freedom of Panorama, but 5 volunteers are enthusiast. Status of lists and
contacts unknown.
* Finland - Have the data available for the 2000-3000 monuments, no lists
yet?
* France - started off as one of the first countries with some 43000
monuments. There is a structure for the lists, all lists are not there yet.
Chapter is supportive (?)
* Germany - Problematic with their 700.000 monuments and no central
authority registering them. Volunteers are working to get the data bit by
bit, and might take quite some effort. Project set up, seems to be moving.
Chapter is organizing workshops to get volunteers involved.
* Netherlands - structure and lists is already there from last year. Many
monuments have already photos, work for NL starts later this year.
* Poland - Chapter is enthusiast, need to get more volunteers. Some 60000
monuments, and there is some list structure. Unclear how much work to be
done.
* Portugal - the 4000-5000 monuments are already structured in lists on the
wiki.
* Spain - volunteers from both Wikimedia España and Associació Amical
Viquipèdia are involved in organizing the list structures in several
language Wikipedia's about Spain and Andorra. (13000 monuments)
* Sweden - situation unclear.
* Switzerland - 8300 monuments, available in structured lists.
I realize this probably contains errors, so please correct me!
Unfortunately Italy will not participate because of issues with Italian
copyright law regarding cultural heritage :(
Looking forward to keep working on this and your replies (short reports on
how things are going in your country and what problems you face would be
welcome!)
Lodewijk and Maarten
[1]:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/progress
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