Hi Lodewijk,

We have made changes to the common pages as per your recommendation:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Thail... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Thail...

I had called The Fine Arts Department - Ministry of Culture on Tuesday after I arrive in Bangkok. A formal letter has been sent to them by express mail on Wednesday. The approximate turnaround time is one week to one month. Getting the list is trivial and they said on the phone that they are very happy to provide it free of charge as soon as the letter is "formally" received by respective department. However, in the same letter, I take the opportunity to invite them to be a partner (send a judge, providing prizes or help spreading the news). The collaboration part is expected to take more time and further discussion.

For a domain name, there are several options as you mentioned. .in.th - This requires an individual ID. It is the simplest but unprofessional. .co.th - This requires registration documents (Juristic person or trademark) in Thailand or from overseas. What documentation can you provide? .or.th - The requirement is similar to .co.th but a bit looser. However, I don't think we (unregistered movement in infancy stage) are qualified yet. .THAI - It does not require anything but not available yet. No one can provide a firm date that it will become available However, all of these are equally difficult. May I suggest th.wikilovesmonuments.org instead? You could do this for other countries too and redirect them to proper sites. (or vice versa)

Many thanks, Taweetham

On 29 May 2013 23:40, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:

Thanks for the update and enthusiasm, it was good meeting you last weekend in Amsterdam!

When it is more common in your country, .org.th or .com.th is of course similarly OK (I assume you have a similar situation as in the UK, which uses .co.uk / .org.uk)

In Amsterdam we already shortly discussed the reformatting of the existing Thai monument lists (on th.wikipedia), could you link this as well from the page on Wikimedia Commons? I also see that you copied the timeline from the Dutch competition. Probably it is best to copy the updated timeline on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Timeline . Please bear in mind this is still a 'perfect' timeline, for a perfect world. As you started later, it is to be expected that things happen later, and that you may have to skip certain steps.

Best, Lodewijk

2013/5/25 KaewWiki@gmail.com

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Hi there,

Please find the information in the link below.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Thail...

Registration of wikilovesmonuments.th is not allowed. (THNIC admits .th registration only third-level domain under seven groups of predefined second-level domains. Strict registration rules make the risk of cybersquatting extremely low. There is currently no chapter in Thailand and small grant may be asked.

The rationales behind Wiki Loves Monuments in Thailand is twofold:

• we wish to recruit more volunteers
• we wish to start a high-impact outreach activity that strengthen the

movement to pave the way for chapter registration.

Many thanks, Taweetham

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On 30/05/13 01:25, Lodewijk wrote:

However, all of these are equally difficult.  May I suggest
th.wikilovesmonuments.org <http://th.wikilovesmonuments.org>
instead? You could do this for other
countries too and redirect them to proper sites. (or vice versa)

Ooh, for this question I look towards the people with more knowledge of how our website infrastructure is set up :) I have no fundamental objection, it would just be a technical question I think.

Lodewijk

Technically, it's perfectly possible. It just needs someone (from WMDE?) with access to the domain panel to configure it.

Would you also need the hosting, or would you take care of that separatedly?