Wiki Loves Monuments brainstorm

Wiki Loves Monuments ran very successfully in a number of countries across Europe in 2011. WLM 2012 is currently in the early stages of being planned. This meeting is aimed at brainstorming the issues involved in this, and identifying a group of people who are interested in taking the project forward. So: if you are interested in helping the UK participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, then please sign up below.

The meeting will take place in Manchester so that people from all across the UK and Ireland can attend without having to travel too far. Travel expenses to attend will most likely be covered by WMUK (TBC in the near future).

We're planning a one-day meeting, probably between 1-5pm, with informal gatherings in the morning and the evening (please discuss below!). The date is to be confirmed, but will probably be in late January or early February - please fill in the doodle poll.

Background

Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in 18 European countries. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It is organised in every country that participates separately by the local people who best know how things work there, and the best photos are nominated for an international contest.

In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165,000 photos submitted. This because of the hard work of the hundreds of volunteers in the 18 countries who helped organize Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another, working with a number of local and national partner organisations. The winning pictures per country are at www.wikilovesmonuments.eu. The event had over 4,000 people who had never uploaded an image to Wikimedia Commons before.

Volunteers and Participants

Please sign up below! Please also leave a rough estimate of how much your travel costs to get to the meeting will be, and whether there are any specific elements you are interested in.

• Mike Peel
• Effeietsanders 11:42, 4 December 2011 (UTC) I'll be coming in from the Netherlands and will hopefully share my experiences and ideas from organizing Wiki Loves Monuments 2010 and 2011.
• Andy Mabbett; travel costs tbc; especially interested in OpenStreetMap liaison (they've already covered a lot of this ground, at least in the West Midlands)
• Rod Interested in listed buildings, industrial & archaeological history + liaison with local museums (Somerset/Bristol). Unlikely to be able to travel to f2f meeting due to health issues amongst my family.
• WereSpielChequers Have been doing a lot of categorisation of Geograph images on Commons. As that project has over ten times as many images from a much smaller area than WLM I'm intrigued to see how we can run WLM in the UK in a way that fills in gaps rather than replicates what we have. Travel costs would be a day ticket from London all zones to Manchester if Manchester turns out to be the most cost effective locale for the people who sign up. Also wondering whether we should run a UK based Olympics project instead for 2012.
• Harry Mitchell. Travel costs £20 to £50, depending on exact time and date (will be able to give a precise estimate once a date is confirmed). I was involved in preliminary discussions about WLM at GLAMcamp Amsterdam and have quite a bit of experience in outreach, including a little event-running experience.

Discussion topics

• Databases of monuments

Comments

• When is the best time for the meeting? We've suggested 1-5pm above - but could we start earlier, or finish later? Mike Peel 11:40, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
  • If people are travelling by train off-peak (ie after 09:30ish), then 1pm is probably the most sensible time to start; if WMUK are happy to pay more for peak-time travel to get people there then we could aim for a 10:00/10:30 start. On another note, if we're just having a discussion (and not anything that requires, it might be worth having it at the Liverpool meetup on 28 January—co-locating it with a meetup might attract more people (but I don't know if you were planning to hold it earlier than the 28th, Mike). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC)