> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:57:47 +0200
> From: claudia.garad@wikimedia.at
> To: wikilovespublicart@lists.wikimedia.org; verein@wikimedia.at
> Subject: Re: [WikiLovesPublicArt] Let's do Wiki Loves Public Art again in 2014!‏
>
> Hi John,
>
> thanks for your support with WLPA - it was a pleasure collaborate on this.
>
> WMAT's board and staff discussed the future of WLPA lately and although
> we are happy with this year's results, we are not sure whether we will
> participate again for several reasons.
>
> The three main reasons are:
>
> - No available open data for other cities in Austria
> - Not a lot of modern artwork compared to other countries (it was hard
> to compete in the international contest)
> - Besides WLPA, we can do one more photo contest per year. Everything
> else would be too much. There are some other interesting options (e.g.
> Wiki Loves Earth) for photo contests, that we consider at the moment.
>
> Therefore, we can't commit to another edition of WLPA in 2014 at the moment.
>
>
> Best
> Claudia
>
>
>
>
> Am 27.08.2013 12:14, schrieb John Andersson:
> > Thanks again for all of your great work with Wiki Loves Public Art 2013!
> >
> > We at Wikimedia Sverige are considering to organize the contest again in
> > 2014 and I am wondering if there is interest from the teams that took
> > part this year to organize the contest again in your countries? You can
> > either simply use existing lists or expand to more cities.
> >
> > I believe that we have proven the concept as we had thousands of
> > artworks successfully digitized and hence digitally preserved them for
> > the future and shared them with the world, a good amount of new and old
> > volunteers participated and we also had a good deal of media attention.
> > With all this said, I really hope that we can do it again!
> >
> > Please let me know your plans and ideas!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > John
> > - - - -
> > *John Andersson*
> > Wikimedia Sverige
> > Project Leader Europeana Awareness
> >
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