On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Josh Lim <jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
WLM does not use the standard uploading interface, as far as I remember.
Maybe the organizers of the European competitions know something about
this, but then again, they're not on this list. :P
But as I said earlier, localization is another matter altogether. The
question now is whether or not localization is a strong guarantor of a
project's success.
As a completely random aside,
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2012RecentChangesC…
2012 is going to happen in Canberra, Australia from 20-22
January 2012. We don't necessarily have the money to fully fund
non-Australians to attend, but after we clear our local requests, we can
see about providing a small supplement to people outside our region to
attend and we could discuss Wiki Loves Monuments there. (Or if 2 or 3
people committed to attend and quickly, we could ask the Europeans to send
some one to Canberra to talk specifically about Wiki Loves Monuments.)
Will Australia do Wiki Loves Monuments? Maybe. Maybe not. I'd like to
see it done, but
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:Wikipedia_loves_…_my_town
is a chapter proposal that I believe passed. I haven't heard a single
thing from local organisers about it since then. It probably will hurt our
ability to do stuff in the future with organisations that we promoted this
to unless it gets picked up. The people I know who I could really push and
push hard to do something similar like Wiki Loves Monuments aren't as
interested in monuments. They are military history people. We could
probably launch something like "Wiki Loves Military History" and get some
support from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Wagga_Heritage_Centre so put
on an exhibition of pictures. Could we duplicate that in Indonesia? Based
on my extremely limited knowledge of the Indonesian military, I don't think
you'd be likely to find Indonesians who love their military or the military
loving Wikipedians taking pictures.
Thus, our local situation makes it difficult because I can't drum up the
people to do Wiki Loves Monuments that easily, even if most of the work is
done just by having a heritage listing, which I was repeatedly reassured it
was. (And no, I some how doubt it is that easy. After you have the list,
you need to then go through and identify all the articles about those
heritage listed sites on your own language Wikipedia, then go on Commons
and search to see if there is a picture. Then you put that information
about the listing, Wikipedia and Cmmons into a spreadsheet, then a list of
eligible pictures is created. At some point, a panel needs to be found to
help judge the quality of the pictures submitted on a national level. (I
was reassured this too was easy, and once the ball was rolling, it would be
easy to get people on board. On the other hand, we haven't done anything
LIKE THIS with our GLAMs, our membership is tiny and scattered across a
huge country… so it doesn't seem that easy.) You'd also need gallery space
and a way to print the pictures. This takes a fair amount of leg work… and
in a country like Australia, no easy, quick and cheap way to get to say
Canberra to see your picture on display. That also puts it off.
I'd like to see it happen in Australia. I'd support a member who wanted to
make it happen. I've prodded people to see if it will happen. I just, at
this moment in time, can't see it happening unless the Germans or the Dutch
or the Spanish turned up at what amounts to our national wiki conference
and got some one enthusiastic enough about it to make it their single
person mission to make it happen. (Anti-European bias is another reason
I'm having trouble finding people.)