Hello friends
I was looking at the proposals put on meta and I would like to thank all those who have already posted their propositions !
I would like to extend a special "thank you" to Egypt https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WLAf_2015/Proposal_by_Egypt#Program_plan
Egypt group added a fairly nice paragraph on measures of success, which I copy here
Number of participating : 50
Number of photos uploaded: 1000
Number of new users: 15
4 months after the contest, 100 of photos are used on wiki projects
4 months after the event, 50 of uploaded photos are categorized as valued, quality or featured
I think that it is great to go beyond giving a figure of "images uploaded" and I particularly appreciate the goals regarding "high quality image" (at least 50, which may represent 5%) and regarding reuse (at least 100 reused, which may represent 10%).
I strongly think that all propositions should include such metrics. Nice incentive :)
Anthere
Le 17/08/15 15:25, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Le 17/08/15 12:32, Isla, WikiAfrica a écrit :
Dear Wikipedians in Africa
We have sent this to many individuals, but we might have missed someone - excuse the cross posting if you get this twice.
A while back, Anthere and I sent a request for country proposal from teams across Africa to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa 2015 competition. We need you to upload this proposal by the 30th August. Do not send the proposal by email. Write it up on meta and add a link here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_that_wish_to_participate_in_2015
If you have already sent it, then thank you. We have uploaded it and linked it. Please check that it is there.
If you haven’t, and you do wish to be involved, please can you upload the proposal directly to META, and link to the page above. The competition starts on the 1st October, the last day we can accept proposals is the 30th August. The theme this year is Cultural Fashion and Adornment. It will be an exciting and interesting theme.
Hello friends
An important note with regards to "program"...
There were two points to note with regards to last year contest (points=criticisms :))
1) The general quality of pictures could be (should be) improved
2) The usage of the images on Wikipedia pages stayed low (=compared to other contests) - 6%
At the personal level, I also think that the images uploaded last year were unsufficiently categorized, which makes their reuse slightly more difficult.
We need to brainstorm together about what can be done in those two directions. Some solutions may be worked upon "online", others can be worked on "in the field".
I invite you to think how you could improve things (quality and usage) when it comes to setting up your program.
For example, I think a potential event could be an editathon, with a specific goal of improving illustrations.
Or a categathon, with the goal of working on categories (I bet that would be useful to "train" participants to edit Wikimedia Commons :))
Or it could be writing an article (or translating it) with improving illustrations.
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A couple of examples...
I noticed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-textured_hair
is fairly long (I did not read it), but exist only in English.
Or I read waist beads have a meaning
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Waist_beads.png
but there is basically nothing on the topic on this article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_chain
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It would be lovely that local events be planned with those two issues in mind. Quality and Usage.
As a side note, usage data will be monitored and will be part of the success metrics.
Ant
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