Hi Lodewijk, I like your ideas, especially the one about Wiki Loves Food which I think could be a really good mini-contest. However, this year I hope that you will share your expertise with WLPA! :-) You have a really good point about the exams in May and I have been thinking hard about your suggestions. At least in Sweden June would not work very well as a lot of people take their Summer vacation already by then and all the GLAMs that we might cooperate with would most likely be running at half speed that month (at least for the second half of June). Also I believe that we should not put WLPA too close to WLM as some of the organizers might work with both. The problem with March is that it is too early for us to be able to organize everything in time and also in the Nordic countries March is not a very suitable month for outdoor photographing because of the bad weather. That leaves April, but when looking at how Europe's weather was this year during Spring I am hesitant to put it entirely in April as well, also we would loose an entire month of time to organize it by moving it there. To give us a bit more time to get everything in place, avoid the worst weather and make it possible for students to participate I therefor have three suggestion: 1. We could start the contest on the 15th of April and end it on the 15th of May; or 2. Extend the contest backward and have it from the 15th of April until the end of May, i.e. having it for 1.5 months instead of 1 month; or 3. Extend the contest forward from the 1st of May to the 15th of June, i.e. having it for 1.5 months instead of 1 month. What do you all think about these suggestions? Which one would you think makes most sense? All the best, John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) Event Manager, Europeana Awareness Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com Skype: johnandersson86 Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! From: lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:25:49 +0200 To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org CC: glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs your help Hi, interesting announcement :) I myself have been thinking of organizing a new 'Wiki Loves' in June 2013 (I don't think May is a good month due to the exams everywhere - and students will make up a significant part of the organizers), probably first in the Netherlands. I am still doubting between some 20 different ideas which were shared by several people; ranging from a relaunch of the good old 'Wiki Loves Art' (it would be preferable if WLPA could get a name that is not as easily confused with WLA) all the way to a Wiki Loves Food (photograph food items, dishes etc in your country/region) or Wiki Loves Concepts (photograph concepts like 'love', 'community', 'neighborhood', 'philosophy' etc as explanatory and useful as possible). Wiki Loves Public Art is amongst those ideas too (as are non-photo contests), although I should admit personally it is not my favorite :) So... would it perhaps make sense to do WLPA one or even two months earlier? (March/April) That way it would leave three months per year to do a contest (but imho running two in a country is already quite a challange! Best,Lodewijk 2012/7/2 Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips(a)gmail.com Thanks John, It's exciting to see this getting off the ground. I want to remind that WikiProject Public Art was established two years ago as a model for photographing, researching, and creating articles about Public Artworks. It was established under the leadership of Richard McCoy, conservator of objects at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Jennifer Mikulay, a public arts scholar and professor, both of which are Wikipedians in their own right. While the Wikipedia Loves Public Art project may be photo-based, the resources developed within WikiProject Public Art could prove useful - and I hope that the wikiproject can plan a role. I admit that the image guide and some of the process can be US-centric, if only to keep us sane in developing this model to start. But it can be a good jumping off point. With Jane's suggestion of article-creation, I wanted to specifically point out that WikiProject:Public Art has as its core goal the creation of articles about Public Art, rather than image gathering. So if you're interested in that being a component of Wikipedia Loves Public Art, there are step by step guides that could be useful resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_art This would also be useful to share on the public GLAM list as well! cc'ing now : ). Let me know if you have any questions, Lori On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM, John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote: > 2012/7/2 John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu