I want to share some ideas about activities. In Mexico
we organize a more
comprehensive program for 2013 in three cities of the country with a lot of
attendance [1]. We wanted to give an aditional experience among the contest
for the people who want increase their personal knowledge about the main
themes of the contest: photography and heritage. All the photowalks had, in
advance, two workshops about basic concepts of photo and composition [2].
An in the tour, we have the participation of historians and professional
photographers [2] who given "live" advices to the tourers for get the best
shoot fixing the more commons mistakes: backlighting, composition,
saturation, etc [3].
Another activity was a panel of discussion about heritage, Creative
Commons and Wiki Loves Monuments with the participation of free culture
activists and photography experts. It was so interesting and in fact, the
time was not sufficient for discuss a very broad amount of related terms.
All this activities had too much attendance. In fact, for the tours, is
strongly reccomended have small groups of people.
If someone want advices about this kind of events, we will very happy to
support :)
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2014-03-20 8:32 GMT-06:00 <vacio(a)riseup.net>et>:
Hi, I want to share a little bit about our experience.
We organized a number of photowalks during September 2013 (usually in the
weekends). I think the good thing about this photowalks was:
* Involved local people, which means the photowalks helped to reach
geographic locations where there were no Wikimedians (currently the
overwhelming majority of active Wikipedia editors in Armenia are from the
capital).
* Locals can more easily find and identify monuments.
* We found that many people have no writing skills/interests, but are
willing to contribute to Wikipedia. They learnt that they can do so by
making photographs
* After the upload workshops. For 80% of the participants, this was the
first time they contributed to a Wikimedia project.
After the contest, we found that 14% of this participants continued to
edit Wikipedia.
We also found that it would be a good idea to:
* Organize more than 1 workshop in a location, at least 2 (in fact, any
Wikimedia program we have done until now in Armenia, has proved, that it
is much more effective if you meet the same group of people at least
twice.)
* Organize a workshop on basic photography skills. This will help to avoid
the flow of large number of low quality images.
Cheers,
Vacio
Hi All,
I recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Program Officer for the
Project
and Event Grants Program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG>(PEG). One of my main
duties is to review grant proposals and reports. Many
PEG grantees participate in WLM and I have noticed a trend in their
reporting on WLM activities -- there is a decrease in volunteer
participants year-on-year and a desire to strategize on how to address
this
issue.
It would be great to start a discussion around new strategies for
engaging
WLM participants. The proposed session at
Wikimania on "What can we
learn
from the WLM participants' survey"
<
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/What_can_we_learn_from…
will
be a great place to discuss this issue, but please also feel free to
share
ideas on this email thread. If there is a better
place to have this
conversation - perhaps on the WLM 2014 page -- please feel free to move
it
there!
One idea that some grantees have been implementing is to organize *photo
expeditions* to places that are under-represented. These photo
expeditions
have two benefits -- (1) they allow people to
travel to places they may
not
normally have the chance to visit due to transportation issues and (2)
they
travel to places where monuments have not been photographed. They also
promote community!
Another interesting strategy is to introduce *photography workshops*.
Skills training can definitely be appealing to participants and will
increase the quality of photos on wiki projects. We are encouraging
grantees who have organized photography workshops to share their
materials.
Excited to hear your ideas!
Thanks,
Alex
--
Alex Wang
Program Officer
Project & Event Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: alexvwang
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