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.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_the_United_States looks good :-)

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=us&format=html&limit=0 . And of course you can use the api to include a map at your website like at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl/monumenten/

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_logos 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?


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


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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