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.

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)