Hi Ziko, Hi everybody
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
It seems that Kilian was very successful in Bergheim,
a municipality
close to Cologne.
Indeed, we had quite a succesful press conference last thursday. For more
background on the project see
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/2011/08/18/wiki-loves-monuments-bergheim/
Alas, the newspaper did not really understand the
character of "Wiki loves monuments", calling it a new platform and
"Ableger" (branch, offset, spin-off) from Wikipedia. I always found
the name "Wiki loves monuments" a bad idea, by the way, we should
simply talk about "Wikipedia loves monuments" to avoid confusion.
I guess that most press people got it right, though, there is quite a lot of
press coverage collected on the german wikipedia at
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WLMBM and we even had one radio interview
and a short sequence in a state-wide news show on public television. Another
TV report from a local station is still to come.
I wouldn't want to change the name, there'll always be a lot of confusion
with Wikimedia and Wikipedia etc. ;)
A funny thing besides: the local liberal party (FDP)
complained about
the collaboration between the city and Wikipedia. People could be
identified on the photographs taken. So it prefers the local
government to take pictures and put them on an official website.
I don't think it's that funny, especially since we pointed out that of
course there are laws and rules and that we'll follow those (e.g.
[[:commons:Commons:PEOPLE]] etc.) and delete everything that's illegal...
This guy didn't get that much attention, but if there's a large group
campaigning against WLM in Germany, we'll have a really hard time (we had a
long debate about Google Streetview and now they allow people to blur out
their houses even though it's perfectly legal to photograph buildings the
way Google and we do).
I'll probably report about WLM in Bergheim again in September if we have the
first pictures submitted to the contest.
Kilian