[Wiki Loves Monuments] International Flyers

Lodewijk lodewijk at effeietsanders.org
Wed Jun 15 22:58:03 UTC 2011


OK - I won't (wouldn't upload it myself anyway :) ), I just wanted to
indicate that sharing is very much appreciated and I hope we will do it (in
the end) all.

Lodewijk

2011/6/16 Nuno Tavares <nuno.tavares at wikimedia.pt>

> Please do not redistribute the poster, it's a draft, and there are logos
> still pending approval.
>
> Best,
> --
> Nuno Tavares
> Wikimedia Portugal
> http://www.wikimedia.pt
>
> Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
> estamos a fazer.
>
> Participe também: http://www.wikimedia.pt
>
>
>
> Lodewijk escreveu:
> > Thank you so much Susana! Looks wonderful. Could you upload it to
> > commons (if not done yet)?
> >
> > Maybe we should collect this kind of material more :)
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > lodewijk
> >
> > ps: I see a lot of partners down there, wonderful work! I would really
> > appreciate it if someone could (in a seperate thread) give a short
> > update on where you are :)
> >
> > 2011/6/15 Susana Morais <susana.morais at wikimedia.pt
> > <mailto:susana.morais at wikimedia.pt>>
> >
> >     Hi all,
> >
> >     We have started a poster for the portuguese competition (sending you
> >     in JPG). Does it help in any way?
> >
> >     Susana
> >
> >
> >                 2011/6/15 Jane Darnell <jane023 at gmail.com
> >                 <mailto:jane023 at gmail.com>>
> >
> >                     Hi Nicole,
> >                     The text we have currently is limited to what we
> >                     wrote on the etherpad in Berlin, and of course our
> >                     ad that Hay made (it is on page 53 of Europa
> >                     Nostra's summer edition of the European Cultural
> >                     Heritage Review).
> >
> >                     The text is here
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/May_Meeting/Notes/Europa_Nostra
> >
> >                     The printable pdf is here
> >
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Wikilovesmonuments-europanostra-ad.pdf
> >
> >                     I don't know if you saw Julia's earlier query on
> >                     this. Right now all of our up-to-date info is here:
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011
> >
> >                     <
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011>I
> >                     myself have been thinking hard about what the text
> >                     should be, and last Thursday, Austin Hair and I
> >                     stood behind a table at the Europa Nostra fair in
> >                     Amsterdam. It was an interesting afternoon, since a
> >                     lot of people came to the table with questions that
> >                     I would never have dreamed of beforehand, such as
> >                     whether I knew about the publicly accessible
> >                     databases on threatened monuments, or on monuments
> >                     in ultra-hard-to-get-to-places, or similar things. I
> >                     did my best to get people interested in Wiki Loves
> >                     Monuments and the Dutch WP10 birthday celebration
> >                     this Saturday (though most people coming to the
> >                     booth didn't speak Dutch). I printed out all of the
> >                     winning photos, plus a few Wikipedia logos (the WLM
> >                     logo, the puzzle one, the Wikmedia one, the Commons
> >                     one, and the WP10 one). I also had printed out a
> >                     short explanation how to uplaod a photo, and the
> >                     jury report from last year. There were several
> >                     photographers who came to the booth and wanted to
> >                     know what the judging criteria were.
> >
> >                     I was sorry I didn't have any flyers, since people
> >                     really seemed to want this. Fortunately the booth
> >                     across from us was giving away the Heritage
> >                     magazines, so I told them to bookmark page 53.
> >
> >                     I was very happy that I hadn't yet had a chance to
> >                     give Tomasz's Wikibook on Chopin to Ziko, because I
> >                     was using it as a paperweight (we were outside and
> >                     it was quite windy). Many people commented on the
> >                     book and were impressed that "we" at Wikipedia knew
> >                     that Chopin was Polish. Fortunately there was a
> >                     delegation from Poland who were attracted by the
> >                     book and after looking at all the winning pictures
> >                     got very excited. There was also a fairly large
> >                     group of students from the Reinwardt academy in
> >                     Amsterdam interested in architecture, many of whom
> >                     have tons of pictures they could upload. I realized
> >                     quite quickly however that it starts sounding very
> >                     complicated when you talk about uploading groups of
> >                     photos to Wikimedia Commons. That is definitely not
> >                     the right approach for a casual computer user, which
> >                     most of these people were.
> >
> >                     The ten winning pictures did get a lot of attention,
> >                     and when I explained that each of these is linked to
> >                     an article on the Dutch Wikipedia, people seemed
> >                     eager to learn more. The photo that got the most
> >                     attention was the electricity transformer station.
> >
> >                     So to summarize, I think the main thing to focus on
> >                     is the result we hope to achieve with the contest,
> >                     namely to gather lots of freely accessible photos of
> >                     monuments for use in Wikipedia articles. The best
> >                     way to get people to understand what this means is
> >                     to pick a nice monument photo (or choose one of the
> >                     winning ones from last year) and make sure it is
> >                     linked to an article on the native Wikipedia. Then
> >                     you can use that link to send to people in emails.
> >
> >                     This page has the links to Dutch articles with the
> >                     winning photos:
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010
> >
> >                     <
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010>A
> >                     nice teaser for the upcoming would be to say how
> >                     nice it would be to have pictures on Commons of
> >                     nearby monuments that aren't there yet. It would
> >                     also be nice if more people participated who lived
> >                     in rural areas, since those monuments have the least
> >                     photos on Commons.
> >
> >                     Secondary information that is crucial to have is the
> >                     criteria for judging the photos (everyone seemed
> >                     interested in that) and the method used to upload
> >                     the photos (especially the older people seemed very
> >                     skeptical about being able to do this, though they
> >                     seemed quite interested).
> >
> >                     Hope it gets all of you thinking!
> >                     Jane
> >
> >                     2011/6/15 Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber at wikimedia.de
> >                     <mailto:nicole.ebber at wikimedia.de>>
> >
> >                         Hi all,
> >
> >                         I am not sure how the status is here, so please
> >                         excuse if this was
> >                         already discussed,
> >
> >                         We are planning to create info flyers for
> >                         participants, partners, and
> >                         other target groups of the contest. In my
> >                         opinion, it would be best to
> >                         have one international flyer and then adapt it
> >                         to all other
> >                         languages/countries.
> >
> >                         Wikimedia Deutschland could take care of all the
> >                         design and printing
> >                         stuff, if some of you can provide texts, images
> >                         and all necessary
> >                         information. What do you think?
> >
> >                         Best,
> >                         Nicole
> >
> >                         --
> >                         Nicole Ebber
> >                         Projektmanagerin
> >
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