> Forwarding with permission of the sender. I'm very eager to see the UK and
> Ireland participate in this if possible, but from my experience of running
> Britain Loves Wikipedia I'm very aware that this needs a team of people
> running it rather than just one person. So: is anyone interested in
> leading/helping with this project?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Lodewijk <
lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
> Date: 14 December 2010 20:20:15 GMT
> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
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> Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 - Europe?
> Reply-To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed
> subscription\)" <
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>
> Summary of this email (sorry for long text): We did Wiki Loves Monuments
> (WLM) 2010 in the Netherlands, we would like to do Wiki Loves Monuments
> again in 2011, but now in Europe. This is only possible when many chapters
> participate, therefore this e-mail. To be clear: this event will only happen
> on a European level if there is sufficient chapter participation to combine
> efforts. Please feel free to forward to whomever you find appropriate.
> You might have heard before about Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 in the
> Netherlands. It was a highly successful photo scavenger hunt with 12.500
> submissions and over 250 participants[0]. We recently completed a post
> mortem of this event with a more extensive description and analysis [1].
> However, there are still many monuments in the Netherlands which can be
> photographed, so we are considering another run for next year - but then in
> a European context. Below we will explain a bit how we got where we are,
> what we have in mind, and what you could expect.
> So how did this all start? At the Dutch Wikipedia we have the windmill
> project. One of the main goals was to get an article with an image for every
> windmill in the Netherlands. Lists were created of windmills per province
> and statistics were made on a regular basis to track progress. This approach
> worked very well and made it possible to tackle a big problem; All the
> windmills have an article now.
> Some volunteers, in cooperation with the chapter, managed to get a dataset
> of all "Rijksmonumenten" (Dutch national monuments - 60.000
> buildings/objects with some historical or cultural relevance) from the
> "Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed" (Dutch national heritage
> organisation, RCE). This marked the birth of the "Rijksmonumenten" project.
> The project uses the lessons learned in the windmill project. The data from
> the RCE was converted into lists by location and put on the Dutch Wikipedia.
> The community started improving the lists by adding missing information or
> adding photo's.
> In June 2009 Wikimedia Nederland ran Wiki Loves Art /NL [2] : A photo
> scavenger hunt in more than 40 museums. Also quite successful (5.400
> photos), but much more work intensive because you need to keep contacts with
> all the museums and usually museums are further away from people's homes
> than the nearest monuments.
> For 2010 we were looking for a nice topic for a photo competition. The
> "Rijksmonumenten" project was running very well so we decided to organize
> Wiki Loves Monuments to give this Wikipedia project a boost.
> So, what would a European WLM most likely look like? Let me give you an idea
> of what we are thinking of, changes are open for debate of course. Trying to
> incorporate the main lessons from last year in the Netherlands into a
> European model, we think it might work best if Wiki Loves Monuments is
> organized on a national level primarily, but with cooperations, shared
> resources and international prizes on a European level. The national
> contests do not have to be identical, but some consistency would be
> practical. We are not sure yet what countries would be most successful, but
> our initial hope would be EU chapter countries and Switzerland.
> Basically, Wiki Loves Monuments would run 1-30 September 2011, and
> participants would be allowed to submit photos of monuments which are part
> of the object list. This object list includes the address and ideally
> geo-coordinates of all monuments which are allowed to participate. In each
> participating country there would be some prizes available, to be awarded by
> a jury for that country. The top-X of each could be competing for European
> prizes.
> You can find more information on how WLM 2010 was organized on the
> post-mortem [1]. That also lines out in more detail how much work it would
> be, and what the positive impact could be.
> Most of the local work would be to get a database with the objects, create
> object lists from that (possibly Dutch volunteers could support you with
> that, they have the experience [3]) and get the community involved on that.
> You would need to get communications going, both external to the press
> (press releases etc) as to participants (have a clear website in your
> language(s) with explanation, rules etc), find a jury and prizes for them to
> award. We can help each other with example press releases, best practices,
> template and list examples and community motivation.
> So, what to do when you like this idea? Well, it would be good to first of
> all check with your collegues (at the board, other members, community) what
> they think of it. You probably need several people to run such a competition
> over time to some extent. Next step would be to do some analysis on your
> local situation: who would be good partners (who keeps the lists of
> monuments?) for you, how many monuments are there in your country, are they
> well spread? What information/photos are already available of it roughly?
> Are there community members involved in that kind of topic? Definitely read
> the post-mortem and some relevant links from there [1].
> For the time being, we registered
www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and are in touch
> with CARARE and Europeana (European cultural heritage organizations) - who
> seem to be interested in laying contacts with local cultural heritage
> organizations. Hopefully that helps them to realize the European context and
> impact this could have. The most important partner in each country would be
> the one that governs the database with all monuments, and could release that
> to you. This database/list is crucial for the success of such an event.
> Please inform us (ideally through internal-l) when you would be interested
> in joining in such European event, if there is enough enthusiasm, we will
> create a special (easy to join) mailing list to coordinate efforts to allow
> more volunteers to join in the discussions. We already took the liberty of
> discussing this with some other chapters, and are hopeful that it will
> actually get to a first grand chapter cooperation program. Of course this
> does not mean you are bound, but that you think you would like to
> participate. You can also join #wikilovesmonuments on freenode irc of course
> if you like.
> With kind regards,
> Maarten Dammers
> Lodewijk Gelauff
>
> [0]:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments
> [1]:
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/post_mortem
> [2]:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands
> [3]:
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/template_system
>
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