Hi all,

I had been planning to help coordinate and organize Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) in the New England region (including Boston), but I won't be able to devote significant time to that. If you are interested in that coordinating role, please add your name to the Team Organization table at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_the_United_States#Team_organization. If you're interested in helping plan an event in Boston or another place in the region, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America.

There are a few important high-level tasks that need to be done for WLM in the New England region:

1) Generate a list of places to photograph and make that list user-friendly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Massachusetts and similar pages for other states are a great starting point. For WLM, it's OK to photograph NRHP sites for which an image already exists on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.
Most of the places/goals from Wikipedia Takes Boston in 2011 still need to be photographed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WTB/Goals. Note that most of these places are not NRHP sites, though.
Tools for WLM are available:

Erfgoedbot (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ErfgoedBot) seems like it could be useful. In particular, erfgoed's 'Search Monuments' and 'Statistics' tools seem relevant:

Search Monuments: http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/toolbox/search.php
Statistics: http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/toolbox/statistics.php

A list of other WLM tools is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Tools

2) Get in touch with local media entites: The Boston Globe, Worcestor Telegram and Gazette (http://www.telegram.com/), The Lowell Sun http://www.lowellsun.com/, and/or others listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Massachusetts would be appropriate.

3) Put up paper fliers around universities, community centers, etc. announcing WLM, and reach out to photography clubs

There is a Wiki Loves Monuments IRC channel on freenode -- #wikilovesmonuments -- where you can talk with people knowledgeable about WLM. There is also an active Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments/. Other helpful people to contact about WLM include Pharos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pharos), Multichill (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill), Dominic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic) and SJ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj).

Although I won't be able to devote much time to the WLM planning for New England in August, I might be able to contribute in a minor role in September.

Thanks,
Eric