On 2/15/12 11:26 AM, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Buh, I missed it. Where can I find the detailed essay
about the whole
glamcamp? ;-)
I think Lori has a blog going up today via WMF. I know she's also
posting things on the North American Cultural Partnerships list.
A lot of work still needs to be done, but, the logo is there, which
makes me happy. Heather from WMF volunteered to do that!
According to my statistics we have 86144 listings in
the database. A
listing can be multiple buildings (a historic distric). We have 35779
(41%) with a photo so plenty of buildings left to take a photo of.
Full statistics at
http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=statistics&stcountry=…
. And of course you can use the api to include a map at your website
like at
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl/monumenten/
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The reason it's "over a million" actually is because many of the
listings encompass numerous buildings (i.e. historic districts), as you
said. I'm not savvy enough to deal with anything regarding api's etc.
I'm more comfortable with Kaldari and others dealing with that. I'm here
to mainly crowd source and take photos :)
That's just a couple of lines at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_country_lo…
to add countries. Not sure if adding 50 state flags is a good idea.
I'd rather have just the USA flag.
The consensus from our meeting was that we'd like to have one for every
state. As the United States is very very very "state pride" oriented and
I think it'll be an important key in luring participants, too, including
Wikiprojects. If this has been done someplace outside of that area
(since these would be "State logos," than I guess it will have to be
done that way!
National Park Service? Do you already have contacts there? Would be
nice to get in touch with them. I know the NRHP project at the English
Wikipedia has several questions.
NHRP is a service of NPS. I'll probably reach out directly to NHRP
instead of going through NPS as a broader sector. I don't know anyone
directly at NHRP, but that doesn't mean my list of over 100+ GLAM
professionals doesn't ;) I also know that Daniel Case volunteered to
serve as the liaison between WLM and NHRP project on ENWP. This allows
me and others to focus on our own specific tasks. I am going to speak
with Lori Phillips, to see if she'd be comfortable contacting NHRP with
me. I think her title will be a nice factor in that.
Do you really want to change the branding this way?
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Yup. This is not really a change in branding, actually. The WLM logo is
still there, and everything is the same just an addition of "US" at the
bottom. We already put the logo up and Canada did the same. Again, the
United States is very "pride" oriented, so if we can have a nice nod to
the focus towards the United States, that'd be a nice factor. Also,
we're already keeping the name "Wiki Loves Monuments," which completely
confuses US people because "monuments = public art and statues," so I
have enough to deal with there :)
We hang out in #wikilovesmonuments on Freenode
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Yup, but many of our US participants /don't/ hang out on IRC (and trust
me, many of them don't intend on doing so anytime soon!). So we'll
probably have a Google Hangout or Skype conference, combined with some
meetings in person.
Exactly! I'm sure they love to see you do all the
hard work ;-) I hope
you get a lot of people on board.
Yes, but Sarah can only do so much :( (Especially with two jobs
totaling over 40 hours and full time last semester of school!) Thanks
for the support!!!
Sarah
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