[Wiki Loves Monuments] International Flyers

Susana Morais susana.morais at wikimedia.pt
Thu Jun 16 08:20:50 UTC 2011


Hello all,

I will upload de logo-free version in Commons (in vectors), so you can use
it any way you want!

Susana

2011/6/16 Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber at wikimedia.de>

> Hi all,
>
> thanks a lot for your input, great works!
>
> The Spanish WLM flyer is almost exactly what I was thinking of, very
> nice and a good format.
>
> Ziko, feel free to add a page where we can collect ideas, texts and
> images for a German or international Flyer.
>
> Best,
> Nicole
>
> On 16 June 2011 04:54, antonio <atortosaverano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > Parabens Susana :)
> >
> > I like your poster, is it possible to have the vector version in order
> > to adapt your work for the Spanish contest? (.SVG would be great)
> >
> > In Spain, we already have started with the WLM flyer, if someone is
> > willing to improve it, go on. You can find the SVG versions at commons
> > (
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_in_Spain)
> >
> > Antonio
> >
> > El mié, 15-06-2011 a las 18:03 +0100, Susana Morais escribió:
> >> 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>
> >>                                 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
> >>
> >>
> >>                                 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
> >>
> >>
> >>                                 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>
> >>
> >>
> >>                                         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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> >>
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> Nicole Ebber
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>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
> Eisenacher Straße 2
> 10777 Berlin
>
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