Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in the United States

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In September 2012, the United States participated in Wiki Loves Monuments, a photography contest and crowdsourcing event in which participants photograph and upload images of national historic sites and places to Wikimedia Commons. This images can be used on Wikipedia and beyond for free. The 2012 contest has focused specifically on the National Register of Historic Places event.

Introduction[edit]

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Click on the map for the list of NRHP sites in that state

WLM in the United States will follow the same rules and practices as the international event. WLM involves participants uploading photographs that were taken by themselves, of places on the National Register of Historic Places. Participants can either upload images to Flickr for transport to Commons, or, preferably, create an account and upload images via Wikimedia Commons. All images will be licensed via CC-BY-SA 3.0, unless otherwise specified. Photographs can be taken anytime (i.e. past vacation images, or a Wiki Takes event), but, in order to be considered part of the contest, participants must upload them during September. Each image should include the NHRP registry number, and participants are encouraged to add images as appropriate to NRHP County Lists, an article on the individual site, or perhaps in a gallery on Commons. The most valued are images in the articles previously without illustrations.

NRHP County Lists will be the starting point for finding the sites you want to photograph. The county lists can be easily found in any of several ways:

Learn more about past Wiki Loves Monuments events here: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/

What is needed[edit]

  • Help for prizes; usually these are sponsored by local parties or cultural partners.
  • Help for organizing "Wikipedia takes your city/town".
  • Help with the http://wikilovesmonuments.us website, including writing blog posts and technical setup
  • One or more people to help coordinate communications (external and internal, such as with the Wikipedia community and wikiprojects)

Ideas[edit]

Wikis Take America[edit]

We can encourage local meetup groups to organize a series of Wiki Take Manhattan-type events during September, similar to the series of Wiknic and library events that happened in 2011.

We will need to help provide infrastructure, materials and make it simple for people to organize such events.

See also: Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments/Organizing a Wiki takes.

Outreach to local historical societies[edit]

Maybe in Spring 2012, like we did Wikipedia Loves Libraries, we can do themed events to encourage outreach to local historical societies. Build ties with them early.

Other[edit]

  • Road trips? How to encourage photos in smaller towns, rural areas, ... and by non-Wikipedians?
  • Flickr groups, outreach?
  • National Register of Historic Places ran a Flickr contest in Fall 2011. (Aude has contacts with them)
  • Outreach to OpenStreetMap folks in the US?

Event organizing[edit]

Please add your username, what you'd like to help with, and if you're able to plan events in your area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monuments_of_the_Gettysburg_Battlefield
Carptrash (talk) 16:06, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Emw: I'm enthusiastic about large-scale, freely licensed photographic surveys of US cities and towns. I plan to help coordinate the event in Boston/Massachusetts/New England. (I won't be able to devote enough time to this.)
  • Almonroth I'm helping with press, jury outreach, sponsor outreach, and events in California, SF Bay Area, etc.
  • User:janeatcc I'm interested in organizing a small road trip locally in Los Angeles/Orange County area to take pictures of monuments!
  • User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy): I'm available to organize events in the Greater Cincinnati area. My time will be relatively limited due to school, but I'd like to put together at least one or two meetups.

Team organization[edit]

Communications
WikiProject Coordinator Smallbones
Outreach Coordinator
Outreach, Social Media
Outreach, Press
Outreach and Press/Media Relations Support AutoGyro, Almonroth
Partnerships & Sponsorships
Partnership Coordinator
Sponsorship Coordinator
Contest/Judging
National Judging Coordinator
National Judging Support
Tech
Tech Coordinator Aude
Tech Coordinator Kaldari
Technical Assistant, wikilovesmonuments.us
NRHP database
Technical Assistant, on-wiki support
Regional events
Wikimedia New England area
Wikimedia DC area AutoGyro & Harej
California SarahStierch
Wikimedia NYC area and WALRUS-wrangling Pharos
Wikimedia Midwest area Varnent
Wikimedia Florida area FloNight♥♥♥

Get started![edit]

To participate in Wiki Loves Monuments USA, see our Get Started page.

See also[edit]


Wiki Loves Monuments 2012

Participating countries - Timeline - Progress - Documentation - Tools - FAQ - Media - Sponsors - Communication - Highlighted pictures
Lists per country - European Heritage Days - Wiki takes ...
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