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Great initiative and great report! Bravo! --Hispalois (talk) 00:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Agreed, this is a great idea! It would be great if the US could do this. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 04:15, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

i heartily agree. When I first heard about this, I knew we had to put it in The Signpost. It even turned out that there was a distant connection to a similar project that I'd actively worked on and thoroughly enjoyed in Pennsylvania. I'll encourage anybody who is doing anything similar to this to get a list of photos and a few words together and we can do a gallery for that country, state, province, metro area, etc. This should be especially good over the summer, when folks are thinking about getting out, doing something different for the 1st time in a couple of years. The project doesn't have to be "complete" - in fact I'd guess most of them will never be 100% complete. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

• What a lovely thing! I've been doing the same in my home home state of North Carolina for a few years now and have visited 220 different towns, learned some cool stuff, and added over 100 photos of unique places to Commons that didn't already have any (plus several more pictures that seemed of interest). I fully encourage this activity, it's a very enriching thing to do! The Spanish Wikipedia editors should keep at it! -Indy beetle (talk) 06:31, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

See above - should I pencil you in for June? Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

• • Gladly, just remind me around May so I can assemble something. Fair warning, I don't own a great camera so all my photos are from my phone and thus are of varying technical quality. -Indy beetle (talk) 22:45, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Illinois may or may not be the state with the most municipalities. Not that I'm going

to fly back and check... kencf0618 (talk) 02:10, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

• What a great story. I've done something similar, as a soloist, on several occasions. At the end of 2010, I decided to spend about three months translating one Italian Wikipedia article into English each day, being an article about a significant railway station in Italy. It felt a bit like going on a tour of Italy, except that I never left my home country, Australia. Since then, I have also ventured out into the Western Australian countryside several times to photograph small towns, and have also done something similar in other places, eg East Timor. But I have generally been photographing buildings, rather than people, plates of food, piles of carrots, etc. Maybe next time I will target a wider range of subjects. Bahnfrend (talk) 13:54, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
  • At first we centered on places, meaning mainly panoramas or monuments. But we realised that understanding a place takes more than that. So we started taking more pictures of wash houses, police stations, railways, schools, health centers... My wife and I try no to picture people, but other companions do like the subject a lot (one says that a school without pupils loses its meaning). Foodstuff is something we still don't master but it's pretty significant (everybody knows paella and gazpacho but who has tasted zarajos?) so we keep trying. B25es (talk) 10:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

• A really lovely story—images like these can really help bring places to life. It's one thing to read a stub of statistical details that says the municipality has a population of 118 as of 2006, and another to see a simple but beautiful image of the small town. — Bilorv (talk) 22:31, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
  • Small places are really worth going. We went to Toril y Masegoso in 2018. A local man was there and we told him that they were very few people, some 25 we thought. He said that population was officially 36 inhabitants, but that in fact they were only 12, and mentioned all of them one by one. That's small! B25es (talk) 10:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

• What a wonderful project! I'm very curious how you organized so much work over such a long time. Was there a talk page or project page where you coordinated? Or was this more of a real-life effort? Thank you for your hard work! ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:16, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
  • We have a coordination project: es:Wikiproyecto:Ningún municipio español sin fotografía. We also talk a lot on Telegram. Sometimes we coordinate a lot, specially for places that are large or complex. It can be to hold a Wikitakes, as we did in Cuenca, Burgos or Zamora, but sometimes it's just that we are going to places in an extended area that cannot be done at once, and you have to know if somebody else is going or has just gone. For instance, Calera y Chozas, the last municipality we did in Toledo, is quite far away for all of us, an hour and a half from Madrid. But there were three of us planning to go! We barely avoided duplicating the effort. But any of us can go to a place on in individual activity and that's how most places have been pictured.
    I have to stress that the coordination page being in Wikipedia in Spanish does not mean that the project is only in (Castilian) Spanish. In fact Galician, Catalan, Basque and Asturian speakers have helped a lot. Galicia and Catalonia have always been above the average in this project! B25es (talk) 10:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

• Such an incredible project! Much respect to you and your friends! The photos are lovely. Why do the people of Rueda create the path of carrots? What happened to the delicious carrots afterwards? (Hopefully people didn't actually walk on them?) Thanks for sharing the results of your five year project. I am reminded of Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis, perhaps a soundtrack to these impressive photographs. Best wishes, Tribe of Tiger ^{Let's Purrfect!} 21:45, 17 March 2022 (UTC)