Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-28 Thread Philip Chang
ted this one with the idea "beter > iets dan niets" (better something then nothing). > > Mvg, > > Bas > > > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:06:24 +0200 > > From: maar...@mdammers.nl > > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Subject: Re: [

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-28 Thread Bas vb
eated this one with the idea "beter iets dan niets" (better something then nothing). Mvg, Bas > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:06:24 +0200 > From: maar...@mdammers.nl > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Chât

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-27 Thread Maarten Dammers
Op 27-8-2012 23:05, Maarten Dammers schreef: Op 22-8-2012 11:08, Jan Ainali schreef: Why use that sort of name at all? I think WLM Helpdesk is more informative. Enough about the name. Is anyone willing to set this up and help maintain it? I think this could really make the difference but I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-27 Thread Maarten Dammers
Op 22-8-2012 11:08, Jan Ainali schreef: Why use that sort of name at all? I think WLM Helpdesk is more informative. Enough about the name. Is anyone willing to set this up and help maintain it? I think this could really make the difference but I don't have the time to set this up myself.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-22 Thread Jan Ainali
> eurocentric. For a photographic term, what about tripod? Commons:Tripod >>> suggests a photo helpdesk. >>> >>> Vicenç >>> >>> ---------- >>> From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org >>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:09:36 +0200

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-22 Thread Andrea Zanni
term, what about tripod? Commons:Tripod >> suggests a photo helpdesk. >> >> Vicenç >> >> -- >> From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org >> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:09:36 +0200 >> To: b...@altern.org >> CC: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wi

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-22 Thread Sophie Österberg
helpdesk. > > Vicenç > > -- > From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:09:36 +0200 > To: b...@altern.org > CC: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château > >

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-22 Thread Vicenç Riullop
@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château Ooh, I like the bridge concept! Sounds windy, but like a good theme to build on. Lodewijk 2012/8/22 Bastien (French speaker here.) I love the idea. Lodewijk writes: > Also a castle gives me mostly

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Lodewijk
Ooh, I like the bridge concept! Sounds windy, but like a good theme to build on. Lodewijk 2012/8/22 Bastien > (French speaker here.) > > I love the idea. > > Lodewijk writes: > > > Also a castle gives me mostly the feeling of something > > you're trying to defend from outsiders. > > I agree.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Platonides
El 21/08/12 23:24, Matthew Roth escribió: > What about something photography-related? Is "Darkroom" too negative and > anachronistic? Does anyone younger than me know what those are ;) ? > > -Matthew It is indeed "negative" ;) It's likely placed in the dungeons of that castle... I got easily wha

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Bastien
(French speaker here.) I love the idea. Lodewijk writes: > Also a castle gives me mostly the feeling of something > you're trying to defend from outsiders. I agree. What about "the bridge"? It's more welcoming. -- Bastien ___ Wiki Loves Monume

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Cristian Consonni
2012/8/21 Maarten Dammers : > Hi everyone, > > Wiki Loves Monuments will (hopefully/probably) attract a lot of new users to > Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is a very nice project, but it can be > very scary and hostile for new users. On the English Wikipedia they have a > new project called

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Lodewijk
I'm afraid 'darkroom' would get totally different associations over here although if you explain it, people will know what it originally meant... Aside from that I'd be happy with photography names of course. Lodewijk 2012/8/21 Matthew Roth > What about something photography-related? Is "Darkro

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Platonides
El 21/08/12 22:52, Lodewijk escribió: > I am totally open for the concept (although I wouldn't like to be the > one answering everything!). Just a minor suggestion: lets pick something > that is easier to spell ;) We Dutchies might be used to complicated > French spelling, but I'm afraid not everyo

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Matthew Roth
What about something photography-related? Is "Darkroom" too negative and anachronistic? Does anyone younger than me know what those are ;) ? -Matthew On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: > What's a teahouse? I've never heard of a teahouse? It's so > Anglophone-centric...

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
What's a teahouse? I've never heard of a teahouse? It's so Anglophone-centric... :-)) The English Wiktionary lists some great hyponyms for "pub" at , maybe we can get some inspiration from there? How about the Heritage Café, for example? :-)) -- Toma

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Itzik Edri
What's wrong with using the same name, teahouse? - Sent from my mobile device On Aug 21, 2012 11:53 PM, "Lodewijk" wrote: > I am totally open for the concept (although I wouldn't like to be the one > answering everything!). Just a minor suggestion: lets pick something that > is easier to spell

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Lodewijk
I am totally open for the concept (although I wouldn't like to be the one answering everything!). Just a minor suggestion: lets pick something that is easier to spell ;) We Dutchies might be used to complicated French spelling, but I'm afraid not everyone is as lucky to have been tortured with that

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Platonides
On 21/08/12 22:21, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Wiki Loves Monuments will (hopefully/probably) attract a lot of new > users to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is a very nice project, > but it can be very scary and hostile for new users. On the English > Wikipedia they have a new

[Wiki Loves Monuments] The Wiki Loves Monuments Château

2012-08-21 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi everyone, Wiki Loves Monuments will (hopefully/probably) attract a lot of new users to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is a very nice project, but it can be very scary and hostile for new users. On the English Wikipedia they have a new project called the Teahouse (https://en.wikipedia