Dear all
As mentioned UNESCO is going to be promoting WLM throughout September with a new post each day featuring a different country, we will be sharing them in 5 of the 6 UN languages (all except Chinese). I hope that this can help WLM reach a wider audience with more people taking part.
We would really appreciate your help by resharing the posts in the most suitable language for your country each day, you can get a full list of all the UNESCO social media accounts here.
en.unesco.org/social
We will be producing posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (English only). We are promoting Wiki Loves Monuments as part of our Unite4Heritage campaign http://www.unite4heritage.org
We don't have a full list of countries we will feature yet as we are waiting for some image permissions but we will try and cover as many regions as possible.
Please let me know if you have any questions
Many thanks
John
On 6 September 2016 at 12:47, ido ivri idoivri@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
UNESCO is promoting the Wiki Loves Monuments this year with one post per day across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in English, French and Spanish. The promotion will help drive traffic (and hopefully participants).
As part of the promotion, they will be featuring photos from previous WLM competitions, from countries which are taking part this year. This first photograph is from The Islamic Republic of Iran: https://www.facebook.com/unesco/photos/a.10150253911838390.341477. 51626468389/10154502271758390/?type=3&theater
The promotion is under their #Unite4Heritage initiative to raise awareness to the preservation of cultural heritage across the globe.
A big thanks to John Cummings for making this great thing possible!
Ido on behalf of the International WLM Team
On 07/09/16 23:06, Beppo.S@gmx.at wrote:
Hello to all countries participating in WLM! Congratulations to you for the successful start of Wiki Loves Monuments in 2016. In Austria we don't have the opportunity to run a full WLM competition this year, because we already have pictures of 96 percent of the monuments in the cultural heritage of our country. We almost completed the lists of 37.000 protected monuments and many people say, we have reached our goal and should try other things. To maintain the idea of WLM (and our lists of monuments) we have a little photo competition with special prizes around the Austrian "Day of the Monument" in cooperation with the Federal Office for the Monuments. The motto for this year's special prizes is "on the way together". We hope to get photos of protected railroad infrastructure for example the Semmeringbahn, mentioned on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and old buildings on traditional roads. I hope we can join the international WLM-Community again with another one month photo competition next year. Kind regards from Beppo (former WLM coordinator in Austria)
That's a happy reason not to participate, Beppo :)
Thanks for the update, Beppo!
Maybe it would be nice to share on the WLM blog (will have to consult)? When is the day of the monuments?
Lodewijk
2016-09-08 14:11 GMT-07:00 Platonides platonides@gmail.com:
On 07/09/16 23:06, Beppo.S@gmx.at wrote:
Hello to all countries participating in WLM! Congratulations to you for the successful start of Wiki Loves Monuments in 2016. In Austria we don't have the opportunity to run a full WLM competition this year, because we already have pictures of 96 percent of the monuments in the cultural heritage of our country. We almost completed the lists of 37.000 protected monuments and many people say, we have reached our goal and should try other things. To maintain the idea of WLM (and our lists of monuments) we have a little photo competition with special prizes around the Austrian "Day of the Monument" in cooperation with the Federal Office for the Monuments. The motto for this year's special prizes is "on the way together". We hope to get photos of protected railroad infrastructure for example the Semmeringbahn, mentioned on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and old buildings on traditional roads. I hope we can join the international WLM-Community again with another one month photo competition next year. Kind regards from Beppo (former WLM coordinator in Austria)
That's a happy reason not to participate, Beppo :)
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
On 07/09/16 16:32, john cummings wrote:
Dear all
As mentioned UNESCO is going to be promoting WLM throughout September with a new post each day featuring a different country, we will be sharing them in 5 of the 6 UN languages (all except Chinese). I hope that this can help WLM reach a wider audience with more people taking part.
We would really appreciate your help by resharing the posts in the most suitable language for your country each day, you can get a full list of all the UNESCO social media accounts here.
I thought this meant you would be publishing the same entry on all the languages. However, after looking at the facebook and twitter accounts for those 5 languages, I only see a WLM post in English
?
Hey
Well spotted :) The other language posts were translated today so we will be posting in all five languages from tomorrow.
Thanks
John
On 8 Sep 2016 11:21 pm, "Platonides" platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/09/16 16:32, john cummings wrote:
Dear all
As mentioned UNESCO is going to be promoting WLM throughout September with a new post each day featuring a different country, we will be sharing them in 5 of the 6 UN languages (all except Chinese). I hope that this can help WLM reach a wider audience with more people taking part.
We would really appreciate your help by resharing the posts in the most suitable language for your country each day, you can get a full list of all the UNESCO social media accounts here.
I thought this meant you would be publishing the same entry on all the languages. However, after looking at the facebook and twitter accounts for those 5 languages, I only see a WLM post in English
?
wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org