Talk:Wiki Loves Monuments brainstorm

Location

I'll probably come. Presumably where it says "Manchester" that is old information? 86.6.26.208 20:50, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Thoughts on classes

Following on from conversations at the Jan 17 events, mentioned on the UK mailing list, there seemed to be considerable agreement that, apart from the general aim of recruiting people etc, the most useful actual photos might well be in specialized areas where we were weak, as opposed to general "old buildings" where we are mostly very strong. Such specialized requirements could be encouraged by special classes with their own prizes. Those mentioned, as I recall, were:

• War memorials
• Wrecks (there are "Scheduled wrecks")
• Church furnishings
• Side of a building murals
• Historic defence works (what's the site for that?)

Please add any other thoughts above or below. Johnbod 14:04, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I agree wholeheartedly with Johnbod that we should try to concentrate on specialized areas where there is the opportunity to do something useful that doesn't just duplicate what is already available elsewhere. My particular interests would be in:

• Ogham stones -- I uploaded images of 4 stones from Cornwall and Devon a while back, but there are 30+ stones in Wales, nearly 40 in Scotland, and half a dozen in the Isle of Man, and most of these are in situ.
• Anglo-Saxon crosses, especially Runic crosses

BabelStone 14:37, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Just to have a clear image: with focus, do you mean give people an extra incentive to upload those images, or to forbid them to upload other monumental sites? The first is definitely a good idea as long as it is well communicated (picking one single topic as focus might help), but it seems that negative incentives (forbidding) usually don't work as well. For example, we didn't forbid people to upload images of the Eiffel tower, although we didn't need them - because those people might then after that also upload more useful images because they learn it is fun and welcomed. Effeietsanders 14:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I think we were thinking in terms of special classes with their own prizes for some of these (we don't have to do them all), but also a general class for, let's say, all listed buildings. We were also thinking of prizes for categorizing the uncategorized stuff we already have - an unknown 6-figure number of images. 87.194.52.251 22:09, 19 January 2012 (UTC)