hello there!
has anyone tried locally to organise something around outreach to
photographers whose pictures were made on photographic films?
we have not had such a campaign in Ukraine before, just individual efforts,
like when a Wikipedian convinced an old photographer to upload his pictures
of lost heritage to Commons, they had to scan his films to do that:
https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/photos-of-destroyed-heritage/
as this year (to make sure people are not roaming around taking pictures
for their own safety) for the Ukrainian part of the contest we decided to
accept only pictures taken before February 24, 2022, we thought of maybe
looking for ways to reach this audience -- photographers whose pictures are
on films, so most probably old enough... but maybe there are some
tips/things to be aware of when dealing with scanned films, and somebody on
the list has travelled down this path already, and can share useful
information?
(sorry for crossposting, i have also asked about this on the telegram
channel)
З повагою / Best regards,
antanana
Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine
Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as
a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation
Dear organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments contests,
Again we would like to invite you to help us make our joint effort to
improve documentation of monuments around the world even more successful
and a good experience for everyone involved.
So we would appreciate it if you found the time to fill out the survey
linked below, which should not take more than maybe up to 10 minutes
(also depending on how much you would like to share):
* https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9uhJYhgmuUw5APA
Thank you for all your efforts and thank you for providing us with some
feedback!
Kind reagrds,
Manfred on behalf of the team of Wiki Loves Monuments International
Hi everyone,
As you probably know, Wiki Loves Monuments started in 2010 in the
Netherlands, 2011 in Europe and 2012 worldwide (I was one of the main
organizers for those years). We managed to get a lot of monuments
photographed that didn't have a photo before. In the Netherlands we also
got a large collection from the local heritage organization (see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Rijksdienst_voo…
). After that, we had some sequels in the Netherlands, but attention and
numbers dropped as you can see at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monument…
.
In my opinion this is because Wiki Loves Monuments is suffering from the
sequel problem: We keep repeating the same concept that worked really
well in the past, but is a bit of a stale copy of what it used to be.
Bit like movies where successful movies keep getting sequels. Of course
this only applies to countries where WLM was done multiple times.
Just like movie franchises that have become a bit stale, we can go back
to our basis and reinvent ourselves. Our basis is at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Philosophy :
* Make it easy
* Make it fun
* Make it local
* Help Wikipedia
* Give quick and visible results
The coverage in the Netherlands is currently 90%. So if you compare it
to the first years: It's not easy to find something to photograph, not
much fun finding it, probably not local (already done), it's hard to
help Wikipedia because it already has a photo and no quick and visible
results.
I made a query at https://w.wiki/AGP5 to give a random sample of
rijksmonumenten (monuments in the Netherlands) that have an image.
Clicking through it I noticed that the majority of images (80%? 90%?) is
of 10 years old. A lot has changed in 10 years: The monuments might have
changed and camera quality improved a lot. So my idea for 2024: Let's
focus on getting new images for monuments that currently have an old
image. This would be like a reset where suddenly you'll have tons of
monuments to photograph nearby. We would need to update some of our
tooling to find monuments to photograph and to get them used, but let's
worry about that later.
What do you think?
Maarten