Hello,
It seems that Kilian was very successful in Bergheim, a municipality close to Cologne. Alas, the newspaper did not really understand the character of "Wiki loves monuments", calling it a new platform and "Ableger" (branch, offset, spin-off) from Wikipedia. I always found the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion.
A funny thing besides: the local liberal party (FDP) complained about the collaboration between the city and Wikipedia. People could be identified on the photographs taken. So it prefers the local government to take pictures and put them on an official website.
Kind regards, and congratulations to Kilian, Ziko
http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1313489138488.shtml
Hi Ziko,
Op 20-8-2011 10:56, Ziko van Dijk schreef:
I always found the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion.
It might be confusing to you, but this is the name we decided upon. Please don't use the name "Wikipedia Loves Monuments" in any communication to the outside world to avoid confusion.
Maarten
Maarten & Ziko, You guys made me laugh because we still have a lot of trouble just defining the "monuments" part of this title in all languages. I agree with Maarten and the name "Wiki Loves Monuments" should definitely stay the same as it is, with all of the problems of communication.
I think we need to look at the bright side of this publication: They didn't write associate us with Wikileaks this time!
Jane
2011/8/20 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl
Hi Ziko,
Op 20-8-2011 10:56, Ziko van Dijk schreef:
I always found the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion.
It might be confusing to you, but this is the name we decided upon. Please don't use the name "Wikipedia Loves Monuments" in any communication to the outside world to avoid confusion.
Maarten
Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
Op 20-8-2011 10:56, Ziko van Dijk schreef:
I always found the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion.
Must be: "We should have simply..." No, it is not the time to change the name, but in future we must be more careful about the words we are using. We cannot blame people for confusions when we use "wiki" as an abbreviation for "Wikipedia" or "Wikimedia".
Kind regards Ziko
Hi Ziko, Hi everybody
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.comwrote:
It seems that Kilian was very successful in Bergheim, a municipality close to Cologne.
Indeed, we had quite a succesful press conference last thursday. For more background on the project see http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2011/08/18/wiki-loves-monuments-bergheim/
Alas, the newspaper did not really understand the character of "Wiki loves monuments", calling it a new platform and "Ableger" (branch, offset, spin-off) from Wikipedia. I always found the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion.
I guess that most press people got it right, though, there is quite a lot of press coverage collected on the german wikipedia at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WLMBM and we even had one radio interview and a short sequence in a state-wide news show on public television. Another TV report from a local station is still to come.
I wouldn't want to change the name, there'll always be a lot of confusion with Wikimedia and Wikipedia etc. ;)
A funny thing besides: the local liberal party (FDP) complained about the collaboration between the city and Wikipedia. People could be identified on the photographs taken. So it prefers the local government to take pictures and put them on an official website.
I don't think it's that funny, especially since we pointed out that of course there are laws and rules and that we'll follow those (e.g. [[:commons:Commons:PEOPLE]] etc.) and delete everything that's illegal... This guy didn't get that much attention, but if there's a large group campaigning against WLM in Germany, we'll have a really hard time (we had a long debate about Google Streetview and now they allow people to blur out their houses even though it's perfectly legal to photograph buildings the way Google and we do).
I'll probably report about WLM in Bergheim again in September if we have the first pictures submitted to the contest.
Kilian
wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org