Hi Rod,
We've discussed this a couple of times at London meetups and elsewhere, I also suspect that the UK board have discussed it. The honest answer is I think threefold, firstly no-one in the UK has volunteered to run it, secondly in the UK we already have the geograph mass upload which still has tens of thousands of uncategoried images on commons. Not all of them are monuments by any means, but enough are that our UK priority is probably more about categorising and using what we already have whilst in other countries it may make more sense to concentrate on filling in the gaps. Thirdly in the UK chapter there seems to be more enthusiasm for collaborations with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, this has the potential in some collaborations such as the British Museum backstage pass to get our photographers access to stuff that is not normally on Public display.
Having said all that I'm conscious from my own backyard there are still lots of monuments that we don't have images of and I hope that someone comes forward and volunteers to run wiki loves monuments in the UK. I rather suspect that the UK chapter have a bit of budget available if someone needed money for prizes etc.
Regards
WereSpielChequers
On 7 July 2011 09:41, Rod Ward rodward@plus.net wrote:
Hi all,
Because of my tangential involvement with WikiProject:Historic Sites I spotted a note about a Europe wide contest “Wiki loves Monuments” (see http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/ ).
The UK is included on the map but there is not link to the UK chapter and I wondered if this was a deliberate decision for some reason?
There is a wikiproject page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 – which seems to have lots of broken links) and more detail on Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 )
They say “Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 is a public photo contest around monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters.” And aims to improve the quantity and quality of CC licensed images of cultural heritage sites and objects. It may be too late for 2011 (it seems to run in September but unclear) but what about the UK participating in future years?
Rod
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