The list of monuments at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Monumentos_de_la_Provincia_de_Tierra_del… - includes Port Darwin, Fox Bay, Goose Green, Stanley, Pebble Island, and a few more. I think it's been imported straight from the Argentine national registry, which of course assumes that the Falklands are Argentine. I don't think it's intentional, and I don't have an issue with Argentinian Wikipedians taking pictures, obviously - we're all friends - but it'd be quite easy for an unscrupulous individual to turn WLM into a political issue. Just something to be aware of, I think. Richard Symonds On 21 August 2012 08:30, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Well there's an idea for the 2013 activity plan! A couple of C-130s and some parachutes... Harry Mitchell http://enwp.org/User:HJ Phone: 024 7698 0977 Skype: harry_j_mitchell ------------------------------ *From:* Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> *To:* Wikimedia UK mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *Sent:* Tuesday, 21 August 2012, 12:45 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Falklands The list of monuments at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Monumentos_de_la_Provincia_de_Tierra_del… - includes Port Darwin, Fox Bay, Goose Green, Stanley, Pebble Island, and a few more. I think it's been imported straight from the Argentine national registry, which of course assumes that the Falklands are Argentine. I don't think it's intentional, and I don't have an issue with Argentinian Wikipedians taking pictures, obviously - we're all friends - but it'd be quite easy for an unscrupulous individual to turn WLM into a political issue. Just something to be aware of, I think. Richard Symonds On 21 August 2012 08:30, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: : Has anyone else noticed that the Falkland Islands are participating in Wiki Loves Monuments this year, but as part of Wikimedia Argentina? I hadn't - what makes you think they are? Chris _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

On 21 August 2012 12:54, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: /anyone/ it's Are there any Wikimedians in the Falklands? I'm sure WMUK can lend them its name, for the sake of good will all round! Has anyone cc'ed WMAR on this yet? - d.

Hi, We have discussed this issue quite up front actually - and decided to follow our usual path. Wiki Loves Monuments is based on what countries recognize as monuments - in this case the national heritage board of Argentina. We don't want to selectively shop in such a list, as that would be original research - which isn't allowed per Wikipedia policies. If the UK would have participated, that would simply have resulted in two sets of monuments on these islands. One set as recognized by the Argentina government, and one set as recognized by the UK government (if there are monuments there recognized by the UK). There are some more examples like this: Argentina also recognized some monuments in Antarctica and some countries have recognized monuments in former colonies, or they have recognized buildings that have been moved to another country over time (i.e. taken apart and reconstructed elsewhere, or shipwrecks). Anyway, we don't want to take a political approach here but I don't exclude the possibility that this is taking an interest in Latin American media at some point. I suggest that then the explanation as above could be used to explain that it's about the neutrality principles of Wikipedia - and not about taking a political stance. Lodewijk 2012/8/21 Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk>