Well I wouldn't mind changing it to GLAMM - the extra M for monuments... Sent from my iPad
On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/11/4 Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>: > >> Another option, which I personally find more attractive, is to create a >> permanently functioning meta-project, smth like Project Cultural Heritage >> (scope to be discussed). It could be based on Commons or on Meta (to be >> discussed, both options have advantages and disadvantages). This must be a >> meta-project, because it coordinates efforts of many different projects: >> Different language Wikipedias, Commons (with which the interaction was >> sometimes not ideal), and potentially different languages in Wikivoyage, may >> be even Wikidata. Many components of this meta-project already exist on >> Commons and are supported by Maarten and other enthusiasts. >> > > Well actually it would be a kind of repetition of GLAM / Outreach > portal /wiki . I would rather suggest to better integrate WLM with > GLAM inititative of which WLM is just one of many other projects. > Quite successful - but not the only one. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM > > Many of these projects are about the same as WLM is - i.e. they upload > many photographs and then, there is no-one to effectively use them in > Wikipedias. Actually there is plenty of photographic/database content > around which is not very effectively "consumed" by Wikipedia and other > Wikimedia projects. The bottleneck is manpower of wiki-editors, not > the number of free pictures or public domain governmental data. > > So, maybe it would be interesting to have a project "Commons heritage > cleanup project" which might just screen how Common's content is > organized in Commons and how effectively it is used in other Wikimedia > projects. > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
