Well I wouldn't mind changing it to GLAMM - the extra M for monuments...
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On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2012/11/4 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru:
Another option, which I personally find more attractive, is to create a permanently functioning meta-project, smth like Project Cultural Heritage (scope to be discussed). It could be based on Commons or on Meta (to be discussed, both options have advantages and disadvantages). This must be a meta-project, because it coordinates efforts of many different projects: Different language Wikipedias, Commons (with which the interaction was sometimes not ideal), and potentially different languages in Wikivoyage, may be even Wikidata. Many components of this meta-project already exist on Commons and are supported by Maarten and other enthusiasts.
Well actually it would be a kind of repetition of GLAM / Outreach portal /wiki . I would rather suggest to better integrate WLM with GLAM inititative of which WLM is just one of many other projects. Quite successful - but not the only one.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Many of these projects are about the same as WLM is - i.e. they upload many photographs and then, there is no-one to effectively use them in Wikipedias. Actually there is plenty of photographic/database content around which is not very effectively "consumed" by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The bottleneck is manpower of wiki-editors, not the number of free pictures or public domain governmental data.
So, maybe it would be interesting to have a project "Commons heritage cleanup project" which might just screen how Common's content is organized in Commons and how effectively it is used in other Wikimedia projects.
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