[Wiki Loves Monuments] International Flyers
Nuno Tavares
nuno.tavares at wikimedia.pt
Thu Jun 16 09:42:07 UTC 2011
Yes, the "triptico" idea is great!
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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.
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antonio escreveu:
> 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
>>
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