Hi everyone, just another update on where we are with organizing Wiki Loves Monuments for 2011 :) It is a lengthy report, so I will first give a very short glance over the topics. First, I will try to give an understanding where we are with the workshop in Berlin. I will give a short overview of which countries are participating, and discuss some of the details and discussion topics. Finally, I will try to give for each country that expressed interest a short overview of what I know of their status. I would like to ask you to add anything relevant I might have forgotten. I put it at the bottom, so you can skip the countries you don't like ;-) Please at least check your own! Best, Lodewijk = May Meeting / Workshop = From 13 - 15 May there will be an international workshop/meeting [1] for the coordination on a European level. We would like to see attendees from all participating countries. Unfortunately there is a limit of 25 people, so please keep your delegation limited to 2 per country. All practical information is or will be available through [1]. The currently confirmed attending countries are: Estonia, Finland, France, (Germany), Netherlands, Poland. Still awaiting reply at least from: Spain, Austria, Portugal, Sweden (and all countries not confirmed to participate the contest). Switzerland is unfortunately not able to send someone due to time constraints. If your organization/chapter is not able to cover the travel costs, please just get in touch with me. We will most likely be able to find another chapter to help you cover the costs (Wikimedia Polska is generously already supporting Estonia, and we have had some other offers) Topics to be discussed: Please see [1] for a brainstorm. Somewhere this weekend I will try to iron out a bit of a clearer list of topics, but your input is needed for that! Please give it, even if it is only "I agree with everything" on the talkpage :) = Participating countries = Based on the information available on Wikimedia Commons [2], the following countries will be participating: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland Unclear: Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Ukrain, United Kingdom Please contact us (via this list ideally) as soon as possible if you have any information about the "unclear" category of countries :) If you definitely will not participate, we also would like to know. If I forgot any country, please let us know too. = Other topics = == Logo contest == Delphine launched a logo contest last week, and the number of submissions is astonishing! Thanks a lot everybody, it is great to see such enthusiasm. More information and voting (starting April 17): [3] == Mailing lists == Some countries have created their own mailing list you can join for local discussions, please do so! If you would like a mailing list for your country organization, Wikimedia Nederland has offered to create one for you. Current existing mailing lists (please add if we forgot one): Spain ( http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-es), Netherlands (http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cultureelerfgoed), Poland (link?) ** Tools (Maarten, can you help?) == Tooling == The big monuments database [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Monumen…] at the Toolserver is slowly expanding. It currently has 13 sources of information. More work needs to be done to make this data easily accessible. Requirements and progess is documented at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Tools. We need more people to help! Your help would be very much appreciated. We will work on tooling at the meeting in Berlin too, but most important is that you share what you are doing! Please communicate if you work on something. We try to make everything scalable to all participating European countries. = Overview per country = Please note this information is based on (by definition) outdated and incomplete data. Add any information I might have forgotten please. I'll keep it short. The full progress table is available on [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Progress], please update that as well when something is outdated! Especially the contacts are very helpful. Just to be clear: I am thrilled about all the work being done! The overview below is mainly focussing on the problems, so please dont take that the wrong way :) I am so happy to see everything happening everywhere! Just know that we love to help where we can, and advise where needed. == Andorra == Likely to participate with the help from our friends from Amical! Wonderful news, just another country. To be confirmed. == Austria == Austria is working hard on their lists (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Denkmalpflege/%C3%96ster… ) - a lot of work still to be done. This work is being done from their "denkmal projekt" and not just related to WLM. Help is likely appreciated. Uclear what the status of WLM-organization and cooperations with partners is. WLM page on Commons is still a red link. == Denmark == Working with their potential partners to see what is possible. Checking out any legal issues. Seem to have complete lists already (?). Some links on Commons would be helpful! The number of volunteers is still low, so I think help is appreciated. == Estonia == Seems to be going well - group of active volunteers, but it is unclear what the status is of lists, partners etc. Anyone can add more info? == Finland == Has addresses and a number of geo coordinates available - is working out with the government partner now what data they can get and use for WLM. No link yet to project pages, will send one representative to Berlin. Please add project page. == France == Work is being done, and volunteers are being enthusiast. It is unclear what exactly the status is, but at the General Meeting some weeks ago, there was apparently a fruitful discussion. JF, care to give a short update perhaps? == Germany == The list of volunteers enthusiast about it, is growing. The chapter is supporting the organization actively, so that is promiseful. The main worry is the huge amount of monuments in the country, combined with the decentralized structure of list keeping. Much work to be done to collect the lists. Progress depends a lot on the state. == Netherlands == Lists are already finished from last year. Contacts laid with several partners, one of them offered to do PR for us, others want to help in other ways. Meeting with volunteers somewhere in the coming weeks. == Poland == Still working with the government to get useful lists available. Contacting potential partners for cooperations. Exact status unclear, bottle neck with the raw data. == Portugal == Lists are there, addresses are still missing. Working on getting the right partners/sponsors, and getting a good online environment (tools). Also preparing the website and rules. == Spain == Two organizations working on this, Wikimedia España and Amical - hopefully in good harmony. Exact model still unclear. Spain is the only participating country with European heritage days in October. Setting up a multilingual system, and some regions are more complete than others. == Sweden == Indicated to participate, but haven't heard much about it. Still mainly in the preperatory phase. == Switzerland == There are monument lists, completeness is unclear. Monuments have already been added to the monument database including geo location. Seems quite well organized. LINKS [1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/May_Mee… [2]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 [3]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu