Oops I assume it's apparent but let me correct myself
2011/12/8 KIZU Naoko aphaia@gmail.com:
Hello all,
As I earlier stated on foundation-l, on an individual basis I generally support the idea on this "competition" or "campaign" behind, on the other hand I agree with Siska on two points. First clearly she mentioned on this thread there are pros and cons (organizing is always a challenge and
we are not Europeans:
that means not only that we are living in countries whose culture, economic, law shortly the society in general differ but also we have no common jurisdictional/financial ground as Shengen zone or Euro zone. Organizing a pan-Asia event will sure be a bigger challenge.
We may say we write and apply for WMF grant, but it means we need to organize the event. Organizing a genuine online vote is itself a challenge (I speak it as former member of Board Election caretakers), even we may ask WMF for setting an online voting system which is however not suitable for PotY type poll according to its designer, Tim Starling,
The question if Indonesia lacks monuments which Siska claims, I'm not sure what she means: in my view Indonesia is one of rich countries of cultural heritages including static ones as Borobudur and Prambanan and intangible ones as Wayang Kulit. In other words we have not to stick the "Monument" concept in the early WLM competitions. I fully understand of course WMID and Indonesian community have their own priorities and it's fine if you Indonesians put the highest priority to alluring text contributors at this moment: you know your own people best among us all.
Cheers,
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Josh Lim jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi guys,
The 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments competition will become global next year, and I'd like to ask how many countries in Asia intend to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments. During Wikimania last August, a pan-Asian Wiki Loves Monuments-style contest was proposed as a common project of the Asian communities, and with the global competition, I think we can focus our efforts on the global competition instead. However, we can have something like an "Asia's Best Picture" award or something like that.
Wikimedia Philippines had expressed interest in organizing a local Wiki Loves Monuments competition next year during GLAMcamp Amsterdam, and I hope other Asian chapters and communities will likewise be interested in doing the same thing. Information on next year's competition may be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012.
Regards,
Josh
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