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 first accessible for a wide audience. If worked out well, the result could be the largest monument database in the world as far as I know.
Best, Lodewijk On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:47 PM, John Andersson <john.anders...@wikimedia.se > wrote: > 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 considerable amount of staff time to > help local teams with getting and processing the data needed for the > contest, as well as moving the current data to Wikidata for a long term > solution. Also, I would think that some statistical analysis of the data or > other form of reporting also could be done as part of the project. > > > Is there any local teams that would benefit from this technical assistance > for 2016? Ideally we should present a few concrete examples. > > > The fund is especially interested if we could help in countries that have > more limited resources and/or where culture is at risk. This could be done > even if your team wouldn't have capacity to organize WLM next year. > > > Please let us know your thoughts as soon as possible! > > > Best, > > > John > - - - - > *John Andersson* > Wikimedia Sverige > Project Manager > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se <johnandersso...@hotmail.com> > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana > <http://twitter.com/#%21/wikieuropeana> and @WikimediaSE > <https://twitter.com/WikimediaSE> > Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider > becoming > a member <https://donera.wikimedia.se/node/6> of Wikimedia Sverige! We > need your support. > > ------------------------------ > From: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 12:04:53 +0200 > > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM > International Team > > Hi all, > > Just a quick update: Sadly we didn't get the funding for staff support for > the international part of WLM. > > However, the fund do want to support our work with preserving cultural > heritage somehow (but photo contests are outside their scope) and we will > have future meetings with them to see what we can do together. This means > that in 2015 Sweden will have a national contest, but we will not be able > to help out internationally with staff support. > > One thing that I will be talking with them about is the gathering of > official monument data, and that would benefit WLM 2016. The question is > what we could help with from Sweden on top of the technical work on the > database? Can we support the smaller national teams somehow? Please share > your good ideas on the list so that I can give examples at the meeting and > draft a project plan for them :-). > > Best, > > John > - - - - > *John Andersson* > Wikimedia Sverige > Project Manager > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se <johnandersso...@hotmail.com> > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana > <http://twitter.com/#%21/wikieuropeana> and @WikimediaSE > <https://twitter.com/WikimediaSE> > Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider > becoming > a member <https://donera.wikimedia.se/node/6> of Wikimedia Sverige! We > need your support. > > > ------------------------------ > From: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:57:39 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM > International Team > > Great! Thank you Lodewijk. The application will have to be in Swedish and > we will also include the Swedish national WLM contest. My idea is that we > can specify the needs and the outcomes of the international part of the > project together so that the international team gets everything needed. > Each year the foundation I am thinking about give out around 11.5 million > euros to cultural projects, and each project can get up to 500 000 euros - > so we could, and should, include a lot of relevant things. > > I have a bunch of other applications to finalize that have deadlines > shortly, but my plan is to start working on this application in the middle > of next week. > > Best, > > John > - - - - > *John Andersson* > Wikimedia Sverige > Project Manager > > ------------------------------ > From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 16:37:36 +0100 > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM > International Team > > Hi John, > > sounds great, and I'd be happy to brainstorm with you. I guess most of the > writing is something a Swedish native speaker will have to do though, but > this kind of stuff I'd be happy to assist where possible. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, John Andersson < > john.anders...@wikimedia.se> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I would be happy to look into the possibility of finding external funding > for the International contest (perhaps based on the PEG application from > 2013 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_international_team/2013_coordination>?). > > > > There are a few Swedish funds that I know of that might be interested in > supporting the international part of WLM - after all it is pretty awesome. > If you think that I should pursue this I would of course be grateful for > any and all help with drafting the content. Even though these are Swedish > foundations some of the staff costs might still be possible to be moved to > WMNL or other chapters that have been involved in the international part > previously (I think that would be very beneficial because of their > expertise) - but I would have to look into if the funds have any rules > preventing that. I am sure that it could be solved somehow. > > > The funds I have in mind have a pretty fast process - and we could > probably have a preliminary answer from them within a couple of months or > so. Please let me know if you would like me to get cracking at it. > > > Best, > > John > - - - - > *John Andersson* > Wikimedia Sverige > Project Manager > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se <johnandersso...@hotmail.com> > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikiEuropeana > <http://twitter.com/#%21/wikieuropeana> and @WikimediaSE > <https://twitter.com/WikimediaSE> > Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider > becoming > a member <https://donera.wikimedia.se/node/6> of Wikimedia Sverige! We > need your support. > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 10:09:03 +0100 > From: romaine.w...@gmail.com > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM > International Team > > > Hi Alex, > > > Please also note that last year PEG funded 7 WLM grants (+1 to the > international team). The earliest request was made in June and the last in > mid-September. Next year, we will recommend that national requests come in > by early July, and will be communicating this as well as other tips on > national WLM grant requests, over the next couple of months. > > Sorry, but that is not workable. We definitely should not recommend to > submit requests in early July, that is for a big organisation with much > activities and active partners way too late. > > Also the 2014 situation was worse: it should be possible to have a last > moment grant request (for unforeseen circumstances), but that is far from > handy to recommend such for all national teams! > > And I am sorry to say, but closing the grant requests for good requests is > insane. The situation will be that instead of coming with a good and well > defined plan, people have to rush and will come with less well set up > project plans or are too late to be in time! > > > We do believe that this is a positive campaign > > It is a negative campaign. Not thought through well, and with problems. It > is at such fine to have more attention to a strategic priority, but this > works counter productive for other good projects. > > Also this is a negative campaign, as good projects are not taken seriously > this way. > I thought the grantmaking was intented to support the community > (mission-allied people and organisations), apparently that basic idea has > disappeared... > > > All folks with grants currently in draft stage have been contacted > > But all folks with grants in draft stage elsewhere, planning to submit in > February or March, aren't aware! > Yes, we have multiple project plans to submit in February... > > This is really disappointing. > > Romaine > > > > > > 2014-12-30 20:33 GMT+01:00 Alex Wang <aw...@wikimedia.org>: > > Hi Lodewijk, > > If the international team (whomever they may be) cannot submit the request > before February 1st and need funds before April 30th, I am happy to talk > about a solution. I am also happy to review a draft grant request at any > time in order to make the process of review and discussion by the Grant > Advisory Committee more efficient. > > We do believe that this is a positive campaign, addressing a strategic > priority, that demands more time and focus from the grants team. We > honestly cannot provide this focus in the stream of our normal grantmaking > workflow. All folks with grants currently in draft stage have been > contacted, as well as grantees whose current annual grants are coming to an > end. > > Please also note that last year PEG funded 7 WLM grants (+1 to the > international team). The earliest request was made in June and the last in > mid-September. Next year, we will recommend that national requests come in > by early July, and will be communicating this as well as other tips on > national WLM grant requests, over the next couple of months. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> > wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > it is indeed the case that the 2013 team started in May only. One of the > lessons was however, that this was way too late and that it should ideally > be started in December. > > I'm sorry to hear that the grant system is being used in this way, and > that this will only be announced two weeks before the period starts. I > would be much more in favor of a /positive/ campaign to support requests of > a certain type rather than to a negative campaign like this, which > discourages everything besides that type. > > In either way, perhaps we learn this in time to make an effort to submit > the grant request before February 1, so that we stay ahead of this and the > damage is limited to all the national requests that have to be made. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Alex Wang <aw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Yes, we are in the planning stages of an Inspire Grants campaign that we > will be announcing more broadly the week of January 12th. Please stay tuned > for the details. > > In short, Inspire is a global campaign to proactively source and support > new projects aimed at addressing a specific strategic topic. Our first > campaign will focus on addressing the gender gap: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign. > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign> > > > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign> > > In order to focus, we will take a short break from the regular funding > routines in both Project and Event Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement > Grants (IEG). We are dedicating round 1 of IEG funding and 3 months of PEG > funding to the campaign. From February 1-April 30, PEG will only accept > proposals as part of the gender gap campaign, with the exception for urgent > requests. And IEG's first round of the year will be devoted to this > experiment. > > > I don't anticipate this having a large impact on 2015 WLM grant planning. > The 2013 international team started on their proposal at the end of May, > leaving plenty of time for discussion and approval. However, if you feel > this will be a challenge, please let me know and I am happy to discuss. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > -- > Alex Wang > Program Officer > Project & Event Grants > Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> > +1 415-839-6885 > Skype: alexvwang > > > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign> > > > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign> > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yes, exactly. > > It's a plan, it's not a definitive plan. > > It has been communicated to the committees as general plan to focus some > period of the year to some specific areas in order to produce more impact. > > Regards > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> > wrote: > > Hi Ilario, > > I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying. Are you suggesting that > for three months long, nobody can get a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation > if it is not directly related to the gender gap? This would be very > surprising to me, and inconsistent with communications that I am aware > of... It would be quite disruptive of the process as well. > > Nonetheless I do think that any project like Wiki Loves Monuments that > involves a general audience, is in part a solution to the bias-problems > such as the gender gap. But it would be counterintuitive to position it as > such. > > Lodewijk > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > For your record, there is the plan to reserve the grants of the first > quarter of 2015 for project for gender gap. It's an idea not official yet. > > So I agree that the best is to draft the budget because the submission > probably may be conditioned by this decision and delayed to the middle of > 2015. > > Best regards and happy new year (at least for those using the Gregorian > calendar). > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> > wrote: > > Hi Yan, > > Actually, the grant for next year should already be drafted by now :) I > don't want to hurry people too much, but I'm afraid it would be unwise to > wait with finding the team for next year... > > Best, > > Lodewijk > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Ynhockey <ynhoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can we wait for this year's competition to end before agreeing on next > year's team? There are actually still quite a few things to do, including > regarding the grant. > > —Yan (Ynhockey). > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Saqib Qayyum <saqib.qay...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > I can help too .. :P > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:17:10 +0530 > From: karthik...@wikimedia.in > To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM International > Team > > > Dear all, > > We shall need a good international team to have another successful version > of Wiki Loves Monuments after 2014. The team should comprise of experience > volunteers who have conducted WLM or any such event in their country. > > There are numerous tasks and first task will be to hunt and find our > countries who shall be willing to organise Wiki Loves Monuments again. To > brief, the International Team is more of coordinating with all > participating countries and without proper coordination, there will be no > international competition for WLM 2015. > > Been in the international team is also more of applying for grant, > documenting, following up and keeping track of status of all participating > countries. Time to be spent may vary according to the skill of team > members; more the skills and people, lesser the burden; however you can > assume 10 hours a week during the contest (just horrifying). > > Would you be interested to be part of international team for WLM 2015, > please send me a brief introduction of yourself and also a note on how you > would benefit the international team. Please send the same by 6th of Jan. > > > > Regards from Mumbai, > Karthik Nadar. > > _______________________________________________ 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > -- > Ilario Valdelli > Wikimedia CH > Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre > Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera > Switzerland - 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