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

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Maggs
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

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

2015-05-20 Thread Lodewijk
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 firs

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
2015-05-20 15:02 GMT+02:00 attolippip : > Dear Emilio, > > But what exactly do you suggest? > > Creating lists to include the photos locally? > Taking pictures of monuments that are going to be not monuments anymore? > Raising awareness? Smth else? > > There can be solutions to look for based on y

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread attolippip
Dear Emilio, But what exactly do you suggest? Creating lists to include the photos locally? Taking pictures of monuments that are going to be not monuments anymore? Raising awareness? Smth else? There can be solutions to look for based on your answer(s) :) Best, antanana 2015-05-20 15:50 GMT+0

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
2015-05-20 14:43 GMT+02:00 attolippip : > Yeah, there is local upload in Ukrainian Wikipedia enabled, unfortunately > But one needs articles where these pictures can be used, of course > > A list of communist monuments would fit? There is one in English Wikipedia.[1] A table with the name, sculpto

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread attolippip
Yeah, there is local upload in Ukrainian Wikipedia enabled, unfortunately But one needs articles where these pictures can be used, of course Best, antanana 2015-05-20 15:28 GMT+03:00 Pierre-Selim : > 2015-05-20 14:22 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : > >> On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-P

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2015-05-20 14:28, Pierre-Selim wrote: 2015-05-20 14:22 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: Hi all; In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was increased,

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Special prize for St. James Way in 2015

2015-05-20 Thread Santiago Navarro Sanz
Hello. Last year, Wikimedia Spain had a collaboration with an association of friends of the French St. James Way. That partner provided books as prizes for a special category of WLM contest.[1] It seems that this year they will be partners too, and we could look for more different partners for t

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Pierre-Selim
2015-05-20 14:22 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : > On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: > >> Hi all; >> >> In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have been >> damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was increased, >> with many examples of destr

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2015-05-20 14:11, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: Hi all; In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was increased, with many examples of destroyed sculptures.[1] I have heard in the news that many more monum

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread attolippip
Hello there What steps exactly d'you suggest? Even if we take pictures of them, we cannot upload them to Commons, as there is no freedom of panorama in Ukraine Best, antanana 2015-05-20 15:11 GMT+03:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada : > Hi all; > > In the past years, monuments related to communism

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Communist monuments in Ukraine

2015-05-20 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
Hi all; In the past years, monuments related to communism in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed. During Euromaidan protests that was increased, with many examples of destroyed sculptures.[1] I have heard in the news that many more monuments are going to be removed soon by law. I know that it

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

2015-05-20 Thread John Andersson
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 consider