><i>>I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected.<br><br></i>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.<br>
<br>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..<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com" target="_blank">wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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? <br>
<br>Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India to Commons.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Steps required for photo scavenger hunt.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Customize Upload Wizard, test it.</div><div>2. Create help documents, FAQs / videos. [2][3]</div><div>3. Create PR using media / social media.</div>
<div>4. Monitor for copyvios, tag them manually post verification.</div><div><br></div><div> -- We are still on process to learn more -- :D</div><div><br></div><div>The above activities took us around 30-45 days by a small community.</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest" target="_blank">http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv" target="_blank">http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv</a></div>
<div>[3] <a href="http://tawp.in/r/2rvn" target="_blank">http://tawp.in/r/2rvn</a></div><div><br></div></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br>
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