But pictures are content, Siska! ;)
True, we can use more articles, but at least in the Philippines' experience, it has been easier for us to organize photo competitions than article-writing contests (not surprisingly since we currently do not have enough partners to organize such a competition at the moment). However, this is merely an idea brought up during GLAMcamp that I'd like to transmit to the rest of the Asian communities, since save for us and India (and Israel too if you'd like to count it that way), almost everyone who went to Amsterdam the last weekend was from the "Global North", and I would presume Asian voices are equally important on the matter.
On the other hand, the WLM model is designed to be tailor-fit to the
needs of individual countries, so I don't buy the copycat argument if a lot of project concepts anyway are going to be copied at one point or another by other chapters and/or communities. The same argument can be said for other projects: for example, me instituting a writing competition in the Philippines could be interpreted as me borrowing from the similar Indonesian concept if I were to believe your argument hook, line and sinker.
Josh
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From: Siska Doviana <siska.doviana@wikimedia.or.id>
To: Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
> Since this list is maintained by Wikimedia Hong Kong,
Gotcha.
Look, I'm just curious, to be honest. South East Asia nation based on
statistic definitely need articles and more contents.
Why are you pushing that we do what Europe do instead of focusing on
content first? I hate to be copycat for something that we didn't
really need simply because it's a feel good project.
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