It's a shame, the National Summer games for Switzerland where last
week-end, and I was not aware of it...
I do agree that the para-sport (both disabled and special athletes) needs a
better coverage (and the french public agrees [1]). Some of us went to the
2013 IPC Athletics World Championships last year [2], Pyb was at
the Meeting d'Athlétisme Paralympique de Paris [3] this week, Ludo and I
will go to the french paralympic cycling championship next week-end...
Parasport is (IMO) a good way to try sport photography. People are really
nice and accessible, and the parasport is in need of more media coverage,
so they are less likely to rebuff you.
I really like parasport photography, and I'm willing to provide more photos
and vidéos for Commons. But the main problem is the knowledge of such
events. They are not advertised in the press, and we must go and seach the
information on the websites of the federations, which is very time
consuming. I discover sports and events in the press, when the events are
over (like the National Summer games...). One of the goals of this thread
is to find a way to help us (as a community) to better communicate on those
events (para and not para), and try to have a better coverage (and many
more photographers all around the world).
Pleclown
[1]
http://www.paralympic.org/news/para-sport-needs-more-media-coverage-says-fr…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2013_IPC_Athletics_World_Champi…
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Meeting_d%27Athl%C3%A9tisme_Par…
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Russavia <russavia.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Whilst going through some of the thousands of photos I
managed to get
a CC release for from the Korean Culture and Information Service,[1] I
came across 200 photos from the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter
Games held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[2] There is an "article" (for
want of a better word) on English Wikipedia[3] and Chinese
Wikipedia[4], where the images do not see any usage. The only usage
these images see on our projects (related to the actual sporting
event) is a single image on Spanish Wikipedia on its article for the
Special Olympics.[5] Funnily enough, the en.wp article for the Special
Olympics World Games[6] uses an NFCC image which fails the NFCC
criteria.[7]
Outside of the 2013 Pyeongchang games, Commons' coverage of Special
Olympics is basically non-existent.[8]
The next Summer games are in Los Angeles in 2015, and the next Winter
games are in Graz in 2017.
Could be good to increase coverage of this one area which I have
noticed seriously does suffer from systematic bias on our projects.
Cheers,
Russavia
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Korea.net_Flickr_str…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2013_Special_Olympics_World_Win…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Special_Olympics_World_Winter_Games
[4]
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%86%AC%E5%A…
[5]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=2013+…
[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Olympics_World_Games
[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Special_Olympics_World_Summer_Games_Open…
[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Special_Olympics
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