[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

[Bala Jeyaraman]

>*>I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of
meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected.

*The execution would be simple but needs a bit of spade work before and
after, especially with copyvio detection. New editors usually misunderstand
copyright policies and upload stuff that isnt their own work and it results
in commons being overloaded.

Similarly if you a customised upload wizard, categorising and tagging with
templates can be done automatically and will lower the burden on
uploaders.  Customisation of the upload wizard is easy but can be done only
by an admin in commons. Tanvir did it for us (go Tanvir!), so knowing a
commons admin eases things..


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53, <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a
>> national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th
>> if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide
>> to celebrate Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo
>> Scavenger Hunt in India to celebrate Wikipedia 11?
>>
>> Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India
>> to Commons.
>>
>
> There were 97 events on paper. I cannot recollect reading more than 10
> reports. Practically we could say the number would have been around 20.Lets
> leave that aside.On the scavenger hunt, Tamil community already has one for
> 3 month long duration[1], we are also planning for Central Sitenotice for
> Indian IPs for 3-4 days in January. You could replicate the same, but be
> sure to add volunteer support based on the scale, otherwise it cant
> sustain,will have difficulties (Hey, didnt you learn that from
> WikiConference! :D)
>
> Steps required for photo scavenger hunt.
>
> 1. Customize Upload Wizard, test it.
> 2. Create help documents, FAQs / videos. [2][3]
> 3. Create PR using media / social media.
> 4. Monitor for copyvios, tag them manually post verification.
>
>  -- We are still on process to learn more -- :D
>
> The above activities took us around 30-45 days by a small community.
>
> [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest
> [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv
> [3] http://tawp.in/r/2rvn
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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