[Wiki Loves Monuments] Thinking about the future

[Lodewijk]

As I also indicated elsewhere, I have my doubts about some of these
conclusions. Yes, there's enthusiasm for many different initiatives (the
session at Wikimania had a focus on improving the concept and surfacing
innovation), but we should reconsider the picture as a whole. I'm not
convinced that we should continue with Wiki Loves Monuments should be
repeated in 2014, but that it would perhaps be good to pause it for one or
two years, at the benefit of Wiki Loves Earth.

I think that we should have a more in-depth discussion after Wiki Loves
Monuments has finished (end of October), about what the path for the next
year should be. I personally think that we can only run one major
competition on a large scale internationally at a time - and perhaps a few
tryouts parallel to it in individual countries. Also, I think it would be
wise to reconsider exchanging Wiki Loves Public Art for the internationally
more realistic Wiki Loves Art (using museums and their contents rather than
things on the streets).

In any case, thanks for publishing the notes, lets be careful with
extrapolation enthusiasm into big picture results.

Lodewijk



2013/9/25 Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel at gmail.com>

> Hi Beat and all,
> Conducting Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Public Art are good to start.
>
> We have many media in the commons especially photographs unused in any
> project.
> Wiki-RIC concept is to have a photo campaign for meaningful use. That's
> why it is considered important and rated highest in the conference.
> Let's think this aspect of Wiki RIC positively.
>
>  Best,
>
> Ganesh K. Paudel
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Estermann Beat <beat.estermann at bfh.ch>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Today, I have transferred the documentation of the Wiki Loves Monuments
>> Future Workshop (Wikimania 2013, Hong Kong) to the WLM portal:****
>>
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/WLM_Future_Workshop
>> ****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Given the results of the workshop and the feedbacks received from the
>> participants so far, it seems that we are heading for three international
>> photo contests next year:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> **-       **Wiki Loves Monuments****
>>
>> **-       **Wiki Loves Earth****
>>
>> **-       **Wiki Loves Public Art****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> There was also a fourth proposal, “WikiRIC – Requested Image Competition”
>> that was very highly rated by the workshop participants. – I think it would
>> be great to see also a pilot project implementing this idea during next
>> year. To my knowledge, no project group has formed yet. Those who signaled
>> their interest are therefore warmly invited to coordinate the formation of
>> a project team! (let me know if you need the contacts of the people that
>> were interested to help implementing this approach!)****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *Suggestions for the next steps:*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> I think it would be great if for each contest a core group for 2014 would
>> form that:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> **-       **sets up an international project page for 2014, so
>> interested countries can sign up****
>>
>> **-       **sets up a mailing list for the coordination of the contest
>> (in case this hasn’t happened yet)****
>>
>> **-       **follows up on the evaluation of this year’s contests and
>> starts working on the improvements for next year (some improvements might
>> concern the institutional setup, so it would be wise to start early)****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Furthermore, I would suggest, that the coordinators of the three thematic
>> contests get together (online), to discuss:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> **-       **when which contest is going to take place in 2014 (this year
>> we had an overlap between WLPA and WLE, which is probably not ideal)****
>>
>> **-       **how to tackle the technical issues in 2014 (there are many
>> potential synergies, and there is also a lot of room for improvement)****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Kind regards,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Beat****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
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>> ** **
>>
>> _____________________________________________________ ****
>>
>> Beat Estermann
>> Research Associate****
>>
>> Berne University of Applied Sciences
>> E-Government Institute
>> Morgartenstrasse 2a
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>> CH-3000 Bern 22  ****
>>
>> beat.estermann at bfh.ch
>> www.e-government.bfh.ch ****
>>
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