>
> Hi Nicole,
> The text we have currently is limited to what we
> wrote on the etherpad in Berlin, and of course our
> ad that Hay made (it is on page 53 of Europa
> Nostra's summer edition of the European Cultural
> Heritage Review).
>
> The text is here
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/May_Meeting/Notes/Europa_Nostra
>
> The printable pdf is here
>
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Wikilovesmonuments-europanostra-ad.pdf
>
> I don't know if you saw Julia's earlier query on
> this. Right now all of our up-to-date info is here:
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011
>
> <
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011>I
> myself have been thinking hard about what the text
> should be, and last Thursday, Austin Hair and I
> stood behind a table at the Europa Nostra fair in
> Amsterdam. It was an interesting afternoon, since a
> lot of people came to the table with questions that
> I would never have dreamed of beforehand, such as
> whether I knew about the publicly accessible
> databases on threatened monuments, or on monuments
> in ultra-hard-to-get-to-places, or similar things. I
> did my best to get people interested in Wiki Loves
> Monuments and the Dutch WP10 birthday celebration
> this Saturday (though most people coming to the
> booth didn't speak Dutch). I printed out all of the
> winning photos, plus a few Wikipedia logos (the WLM
> logo, the puzzle one, the Wikmedia one, the Commons
> one, and the WP10 one). I also had printed out a
> short explanation how to uplaod a photo, and the
> jury report from last year. There were several
> photographers who came to the booth and wanted to
> know what the judging criteria were.
>
> I was sorry I didn't have any flyers, since people
> really seemed to want this. Fortunately the booth
> across from us was giving away the Heritage
> magazines, so I told them to bookmark page 53.
>
> I was very happy that I hadn't yet had a chance to
> give Tomasz's Wikibook on Chopin to Ziko, because I
> was using it as a paperweight (we were outside and
> it was quite windy). Many people commented on the
> book and were impressed that "we" at Wikipedia knew
> that Chopin was Polish. Fortunately there was a
> delegation from Poland who were attracted by the
> book and after looking at all the winning pictures
> got very excited. There was also a fairly large
> group of students from the Reinwardt academy in
> Amsterdam interested in architecture, many of whom
> have tons of pictures they could upload. I realized
> quite quickly however that it starts sounding very
> complicated when you talk about uploading groups of
> photos to Wikimedia Commons. That is definitely not
> the right approach for a casual computer user, which
> most of these people were.
>
> The ten winning pictures did get a lot of attention,
> and when I explained that each of these is linked to
> an article on the Dutch Wikipedia, people seemed
> eager to learn more. The photo that got the most
> attention was the electricity transformer station.
>
> So to summarize, I think the main thing to focus on
> is the result we hope to achieve with the contest,
> namely to gather lots of freely accessible photos of
> monuments for use in Wikipedia articles. The best
> way to get people to understand what this means is
> to pick a nice monument photo (or choose one of the
> winning ones from last year) and make sure it is
> linked to an article on the native Wikipedia. Then
> you can use that link to send to people in emails.
>
> This page has the links to Dutch articles with the
> winning photos:
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010
>
> <
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010>A
> nice teaser for the upcoming would be to say how
> nice it would be to have pictures on Commons of
> nearby monuments that aren't there yet. It would
> also be nice if more people participated who lived
> in rural areas, since those monuments have the least
> photos on Commons.
>
> Secondary information that is crucial to have is the
> criteria for judging the photos (everyone seemed
> interested in that) and the method used to upload
> the photos (especially the older people seemed very
> skeptical about being able to do this, though they
> seemed quite interested).
>
> Hope it gets all of you thinking!
> Jane
>
> 2011/6/15 Nicole Ebber <
nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de