Fun, fascinating and simple idea that is a really good example of innovative projects that can be run :-) Thanks for sharing.
I think that this project, like the Wikimedia Norway Nobel Peace Prize announcement live-editathon a few months ago, show how Chapters and local groups can take advantage of what makes their region special. By choosing a subject that is close to everyone's daily life (especially in France!) this makes for not only an enjoyable project, but a very clever way of gaining public attention to the issue of free-knowledge. I see Wikimedia France has been retweeting some mainstream media coverage which use the fun subject of 'photos of cheese' to mention the importance of free licenses: http://ecrans.liberation.fr/ecrans/2014/11/24/les-wikipediens-en-font-tout-u... And http://www.numerama.com/magazine/31369-wikimedia-france-veut-gouter-200-from...
Crowdfunding it separately also helps avoid anyone complaining about whether Wikimedia donors' money was incorrectly spent on cheese-eating parties :-)
Well done WM-Fr, I hope it is a success! Perhaps other Chapters and local groups can look at improving Wikimedia's coverage of their national/regional cuisine - and having a good time in the process!?
-Liam
On Monday, 24 November 2014, Christophe Henner christophe.henner@gmail.com wrote:
Good news everyone,
Cheese articles are gonna get improved!
As french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese on Wikipedia. This is about to change.
A group of french Wikimedians, lead by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, designed a project to photograph many cheeses, up to 200 for the moment.
This project is perticular as we aim to have it found through a french crowdfunding platform, KissKissBankBank.
Of course Wikimedia France could have funded it itself, but we wanted to use the project as a way to get the larger audience aware of their ability to contribute and to give a fun image of contributing.
The project in few words iss follow :
- 10 cheeses per session
- During the session the cheeses are photographed and their articles
improved
- During the sessions experimented wikimedian would train new editors
- At every session every participant would enjoy eating good cheese too
If you want to read more, or even contribute, about the project you can go on KissKissBankBank : http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/wikicheese
If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot them on or off list.
All the best,
-- Christophe _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe>