In a general way we were talking about doing an indoor-shots photography competition in the "Wiki takes" theme in the run up to Lincoln AGM, so we could use that to motivate/drive WLM perhaps?
Tom On 16 January 2013 17:28, John Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > WMUK were ready to support WLM last year (I was the speaker at the last > AGM) but the main problem was that no one stepped up to run it. To answer > Harry's question on how much work is needed, & talked about it with several > from the Netherlands & elsewhere, & had meetings about doing it in the UK, > I'm pretty sure the short answer is - a lot! There is the possibility this > year that the expanded office staff would be able to do much or nearly all > of this (which we have not discussed), but otherwise we remain where we > were a year ago. The Geograph issue has probably reduced the motivation > for many, but is not an obstacle as such. The talks we had showed there > were things Geograph is very good at (broad exterior shots) but others it > was not (interiors, details of various kinds, special sorts of buildings > ....) and we could skew the competition towards those. This year the AGM > will be I think too late to start the process though, but if it is > underway, then a progress report at the AGM would certainly be a good idea. > > John > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:49:28 +0000 > From: Andrew Gray<[email protected]**> > To: HJ Mitchell<[email protected]>**, UK Wikimedia mailing list > > <wikimediauk-l@lists.**wikimedia.org<[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WikiConference 2013 Speakers > Message-ID: > <CAE4f==do6=iSx5UMnh+JXAdLKMj+**J7KH1owkhFeNzX2Xp=SMFw@mail.** > gmail.com <[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > As I recall, the objections were in part that we have most of this > material already on Commons (via Geograph), but badly organised. I > don't know if that's changed, or if we've got a better idea of what's > out there... > > - Andrew. > > On 16 January 2013 16:45, HJ Mitchell<hjmitchel > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l<http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l> > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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