Hi Lars, great idea indeed. In the Italian Wikisource, we decided to "participate" in Wiki Loves Monuments just working on geographic/travel books, with illustrations and engravings. next step could be relating those with the list of monuments, as you suggest.
It would need a lot of work, but it's probably worth it. Aubrey 2012/4/27 Kilian Kluge <kil...@k-kluge.de>: > Hi Lars, > > that is a great idea! I don't know if it's suitable for a photo > competition aiming at the general public like WLM, but it's at least a > great project for a group of photographers! > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: >> I'm sure we could find similar books from many countries. A photo >> competition could be organized around taking new photos of the same >> objects, from the same angle, trying to reproduce the old book. > > While adding images to monuments lists and looking through old > pictures of monuments, I noticed that this happens quite often "by > accident": There seem to be certain views people prefer above all > others when it comes to depicting a certain monument (even unknown and > small ones). > > Just one really great example: The first two pictures in the gallery > at the bottom of > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alte_Lahnbr%C3%BCcke_(Limburg) were > created about 150 years apart and show the same scenery from almost > the same angle. I think I will try to reproduce the view of the > painting more precisely this summer, thanks for the idea! > > Best regards, > > Kilian > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
