Hi all,
We're headed to another exciting year of Wiki Loves Monuments! As you may have read before, the international team is full with ambition to make the lives of the national organizers easier, including efforts to improve the infrastructure and start a slow move towards including more monument data in our shared Wikidata repository. Lily has presented our ambitions also in Berlin, so the slides of her presentation here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170331_-_New_Ambitions_for_Wiki_Loves_Monuments.pdf, may be interesting to you as background.
Important initiatives include this year: * Maintain the level of infrastructure and support from previous year * Start the migration of monument data to Wikidata * Enrich monuments data * Make monuments data better discoverable through the Monumental tool * Make it easier to monitor your campaigns
To realise these ambitions, we have requested a grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_international_team/2017_coordination https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_international_team/2017_coordinationby the Wikimedia Foundation for the international team. While the activities outlined above are done in volunteer time, the grant helps set the conditions and focus on what we're best at :)
As always, we warmly invite you to share your feedback on this on the talkpage or directly with us. The grant request includes more elaboration, and is currently under review.
If you have any questions with regards to the ambitions in general, or other questions about this year's WLM, this mailing list is probably the best place to ask.
With warm regards,
Lodewijk