Hello, unfortunately we have not received any replies after this thread. As I understand it, there is some enthusiasm with individuals, but nobody is prepared to take a lead, within or outside Wikimedia UK? Basically what you need is two types of leadership:
1) someone to set up a primary structure on Wikipedia - basically a Wikiproject - and motivates others to help out setting up the list system (this is the most important and urgent job) 2) someone to do the real life part of the organization: organize a brainstorm meeting, organize a meeting with the relevant authorities to get the databases released if not yet available, to find sponsors, set up a budget etc. Any volunteers? I hope Wikimedia UK can pick up from here though ;-) Thanks, Lodewijk 2011/2/4 effe iets anders <[email protected]> > Hello all, > > I know there has been some discussion about a Wiki Loves Monuments in > the UK, but I have heard little back after that. I think there is > definitely a lot of potential in the UK for setting up a project like > this, and hope that it would be possible to find the volunteers to run > this in the coming time. > > Who can take the lead on this in the UK? > > Please see > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2011-January/000001.html > for my email and offer to join a brainstorm session if there would be > need/advantage for that. If that would help, I am more than happy to > join you guys somewhere reachable in a conversation on how to make > this happen. I got the suggestion the coming up London Meetup might be > helpful. Are there many interested people from outside London? Would > Wikimedia UK be able and willing to set up a meeting there and to > reimburse for example some travel costs for those outside London to > join the meeting? Just shooting some suggestions here, I'm sure you > can come up with better :) > > Do remind please that to make this work, you really have to give this > a start in February, or it will be very hard to have the lists and > systems in place in time. > > I look forward to your positive and constructive replies! > > Lodewijk Gelauff > > 2010/12/15 Michael Peel <[email protected]>: > > 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 <[email protected]> > > Date: 14 December 2010 20:20:15 GMT > > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed > subscription)" > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 - Europe? > > Reply-To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination \(closed > > subscription\)" <[email protected]> > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Internal-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > >
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