[Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM International Team

Fri May 22 11:21:36 UTC 2015

Hi,
Great to hear that some work on putting the data on Wikidata has already started! That should reduce some complexity with the project. If there are any limitations or problems that we should be aware of, please do tell :-).
We are now talking with John Cummings, that soon will start at UNESCO, about cooperation around this. Hopefully this will be possible, but there are a bunch of practical things to solve first.
Also, I just came back from a meeting with a Swedish organization called Cultural Heritage Without Borders that are interested in working with us. They have a lot of contacts on high levels in the Balkans, the Middle East and in a number of African countries. Their involvement could open up some doors for us and help convince the decision makers about the value of releasing this type of data. Is there anyone on this list from these parts of the world that think that this would be interesting? 

Regards,
John

Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 07:30:49 +0100
From: Michael at maggs.name
To: wikilovesmonuments at lists.wikimedia.org
CC: magnusmanske at googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM International Team

Hi All

You need to talk to Magnus Manske who did a lot of work last year 
putting the official listing particulars of 50,000 or so UK monuments 
onto Wikidata.  Last year's entire UK contest was run using Wikidata as 
the main database.

I am copying Magnus in as he may not be subscribed to this list.

Michael

   	Lodewijk      
  20 May 2015 22:43
  Hi Jon,
thanks
 for that! Sounds like a good development after all. Probably you could 
provide some examples of monument databased that have already been 
included in wikidata? (I believe Maarten did the Rijksmonumenten, and a 
few more). Also, for several countries, the wikipedia lists were the 
first accessible for a wide audience. If worked out well, the result 
could be the largest monument database in the world as far as I know. 
Best,Lodewijk

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   	John Andersson      
  20 May 2015 12:47

Hi everybody,
We are still talking with the fund 
Postkodlotteriets Kulturstiftelse about project financing. They have 
indicated that work with the WLM database might be a way forward!
Hence, we are now 
about to prepare an application that (if it goes through) would enable 
us to put in a considerable amount of staff time to help local teams 
with getting and processing the data needed for the contest, as well as 
moving the current data to Wikidata for a long term solution. Also, I 
would think that some statistical analysis of the data or other form
 of reporting also could be done as part of the project.
Is there any local 
teams that would benefit from this technical assistance for 2016? 
Ideally we should present a few concrete examples.
The fund is especially
 interested if we could help in countries that have more limited 
resources and/or where culture is at risk. This could be done even if 
your team wouldn't have capacity to organize WLM next year.
Please let us know 
your thoughts as soon as possible!
Best,
John

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   	John Andersson      
  11 May 2015 11:04

Hi all,
Just a quick 
update: Sadly we didn't get the funding for staff support for the 
international part of WLM. 
However, the fund 
do want to support our work with preserving cultural heritage somehow 
(but photo contests are outside their scope) and we will have future 
meetings with them to see what we can do together. This means that in 
2015 Sweden will have a national contest, but we will not be able to 
help out internationally with staff support.
One
 thing that I will be talking with them about is the gathering of 
official monument data, and that would benefit WLM 2016. The question is
 what we could help with from Sweden on top of the technical work on the
 database? Can we support the smaller national teams somehow? Please 
share your good ideas on the list so that I can give examples at the 
meeting and draft a project plan for them :-).
Best,
John

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   	John Andersson      
  14 January 2015 
10:57

Great! Thank you Lodewijk. The application will have to be in Swedish and 
we will also include the Swedish national WLM contest. My idea is that 
we can specify the needs and the outcomes of the international part of 
the project together so that the international team gets everything 
needed. Each year the foundation I am thinking about give out around 
11.5 million euros to cultural projects, and each project can get up to 
500 000 euros - so we could, and should, include a lot of relevant 
things.
I have a bunch of other applications 
to finalize that have deadlines shortly, but my plan is to start working
 on this application in the middle of next week. 
Best,

John

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   	Lodewijk      
  9 January 2015 
15:37
  Hi John, 
sounds
 great, and I'd be happy to brainstorm with you. I guess most of the 
writing is something a Swedish native speaker will have to do though, 
but this kind of stuff I'd be happy to assist where possible. 
Best,Lodewijk

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   	John Andersson      
  9 January 2015 
14:39

Hi,

I would be happy to look into the possibility of finding 
external funding for the International contest (perhaps based on the PEG

 application from 2013?). 

There are a few Swedish funds that I know of that might be 
interested in supporting the international part of WLM - after all it is
 pretty awesome. 
If you think that I should pursue this I would of course be grateful for
 any and all help with drafting the content. Even though these are 
Swedish foundations some of the staff costs 
might still be possible to be moved to WMNL or other chapters that have 
been 
involved in the international part previously (I think that would be 
very 
beneficial because of their expertise) - but I would have to look into 
if the funds have any rules preventing that. I am sure that it could be 
solved somehow. 

The funds I have in mind have a pretty
 fast process - and 
we could probably have a preliminary answer from them within a couple of
 months or so. Please let me know if you would like me to get cracking 
at it. 

Best, 

John

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