All,
I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia District of Columbia has selected Leo Zimmermann
to lead our Wikipedia Summer of Monuments project. Leo's experience running Wikipedia
workshops and reaching out to rural libraries have prepared him for what is our largest
outreach project yet. The object of Summer of Monuments is to improve photographic
coverage of nationally recognized historic sites in the Southern United States, a region
that is underrepresented on Wikipedia. In particular, we have identified ten states where
photographic coverage lags behind: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Our plan is to build on the
success we had with Wiki Loves Monuments with a campaign of direct outreach to those
historical and cultural institutions who share our mission to improve access to the
world's knowledge. To learn more, read our latest blog post:
<http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2014/06/introducing-wikipedia-summer-of-monuments/>.
We invite Wikimedians and our allies to join us in this effort to share history on
Wikipedia!
—
James Hare
President, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc