---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Hale laura@fanhistory.com Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
Add me to the mailing list too please. :)
Australia may do it but limited people to implement.
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==== One more request to the quiet admin list.
-------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Tanvir Rahman wikitanvir@gmail.com wrote:
Arranging WLM in Asia would be great, but I am afraid it's not easy, at least not in South Asia. Not that we don't have enough monuments (Dhaka, my city, itself has a lot of monuments)
So I've been thinking. Why does Commons based project worked for Philippines and not so much for Indonesia. I dare say it worked for Hong Kong and India too. And then I remember this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTlhuokVDs
That is Wikimedia Italy "how to" and "what is" video and it hit me that they already localized everything, up to content, to Italian language. Now Philippines and Hong Kong are more "English" than the rest of Asia, India maybe somewhere in there too. Indonesia is not, I doubt Thailand, Bangladesh, Vietnam were far off from Indonesia situation.
If we (Indonesian) are to do "wiki loves free copyright pictures taken here and there" - with an English infrastructure Commons, I need to aim B level society (this is advertising code for middle class to upper class economy) that understand English. Here's the problem, although a lot of them are equipped with fancy camera, they usually don't want to release it under a free license since they consider themselves "pro" (although most of the time it is arguable).
An excited supporter would be a C level (students etc) which need an Indonesian language infrastructure commons, up to, it's how to cartoon in the beginning of uploading page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
So regardless monument or not, taken pictures effort would be more successful effort if commons localized (localized! Not just translated - see monalisa picture to most of Indonesian it will not fly) - it's instruction in basic Asian language.
That's all from me.