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