Hi Osmar, this is indeed a very exciting news and it frankly killed the Monday Blues! :)
Regards, Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. http://wiki.wikimedia.in /karthikndr <https://www.facebook.com/karthikndr>, @karthikndr<http://twitter.com/karthikndr> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Osmar Valdebenito <os...@wikimedia.org.ar>wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm glad to announce you that, this year, we will have a Wiki Loves > Monuments edition in... Antarctica! > > We believe that, to actually make this a global contest, we need to reach > all continents. Antarctica, despite having no permanent population, has > several sites that commemorate the attempts of exploration and research > carried out by the international community over the past centuries. There > are 86 monuments declared by the Antarctic Treaty System that will > participate. > > This certainly will be a particular and very symbolic contest. We expect a > very low amount of participants but most of the images will be unique, so > each one will have a lot of impact. > > In the past weeks, I have been in contact with the Secretariat of the > Antarctic Treaty and they have accepted to support our contest. We expect > to reach different institutions (researchers, tourist operators, national > institutions, etc.) with the help of the ATS... but there are still a lot > of things to do. In line with the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty and the > Wikimedia Movement, this local contest will be an international one. > > We expect a lot of volunteers of different countries to help us > translating the monuments lists, updating the website, contacting > institutions in their own countries, becoming juries and so on... Wikimedia > Argentina will only participate as a coordinator. > > Do you want to join the WLM-AQ team? Send an e-mail to > cor...@wikimedia.org.ar! > Also, you can take a look at our page in Commons: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Antarctica > > We expect to reach this year to every place in the world... even the most > remote and cold! :) > > *Osmar Valdebenito G.* > Director Ejecutivo > A. C. Wikimedia Argentina > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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