Hello Illario and Jane,
Thanks by your comments. That is exactly the point!
WLM and WLE are not only about the number of pictures loaded and the general quality of the pictures. It's about our mission and new users engagement too.
That is what our group is trying to do here, teach people about our mission and what Wikipedia and commons really is and how to contribute. Unfortunately we receive more international community support than local support #SadButTrue.
As you can read in all planning pages, grant requests and emails, Rodrigo Argentom is always there trying to create barriers, posting negative comments and generating unfruitiful discussions. We never received any contribution or constructive comment from him, so I decided to just ignore him and move forward with our ideas and objectives. Based on that bad behavior he was blocked in many Wikimedia projects (pt.wikipedia and etc) and as I know, he is not part of any group, he is only around with that old trash talking.
Based on the level of maturity of our Brazilian community and the low interest of that community in off-line activities like WLM, WLE, GLAM and etc, is a utopia to think that in a single project we will collect a huge amount of pictures, with high level of quality and that all the photographers will join on commons, will categorize properly all the pictures and they will look at Wikipedia and will add the good pictures there, it will never happens here, not without a massive support from the local community.
We will have to do it in many steps, right now we are just a small user group trying to move forward, we are not a chapter with payed staff and a lot of people working on this full time, we are just a group of students, teachers and researchers doing what we can, when we can.
The WLE and WLM are generating a good impact in Brasil with a good media coverage and a lot of positive external comments.
We had many posts published on blogs, important portals, printed magazines(60.000 copies) and newspapers regarding the contest, spreading our objectives and the final results.
- WLE 2015 media coverage: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2015_in_Brazil/P... - WLM event page access statistics: http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015/Br... - WLM 2015 media coverage: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015_in_Braz...
For both contests we used strategies and campaigns on social media, reaching hundreds of thousands of people.
During WLM we get an important structured list of monuments from the Brazilian gov and now we are in touch with IPHAN, the institute responsible by protect and register the national monuments in Brasil. So, for the next years we will have conditions to improve and increase the list of monuments. This king of stuff are positive impact
WLE and WLM are only the beginning of our efforts to move forward with the Wikimedia Movement here in Brasil.
I know that I shall meet many barriers and many "R. Argentoms" along the way, but I will continue fighting for our mission, that is bigger than anyone of us ;-)
Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558
---- Em Sáb, 31 Out 2015 09:37:31 -0200 Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> escreveu ----
I totally agree with Ilario here. We have yet to put a financial value on a Wikimedia contributor time unit, but I would venture to say that if such projects manage to procure even one Wikimedia contributor for the projects then that is money well spent.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31.10.2015 12:12, Fæ wrote: > >> On 31 Oct 2015 11:00, "Ilario Valdelli" <valdelli@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 31.10.2015 11:46, Fæ wrote: >>> >>>> Hang on. Could I have an independent reality check; is that really $7 >>>> per photograph? >>>> >>>> Fae >>>> >>> 30.000 is exact, but they are 30.000 Real which means 11.000 USD. >>> >> Cool. So about $2.50 per image. >> >> This looks expensive compared to my upload projects (the last 500,000 >> images have cost $0.00 in total) but perhaps the benchmark is better when >> measures against other WLM projects. >> >> Anyone have the numbers to show comparative value? >> >> Fae >> > > Using a bot to collect images in internet probably would have been lesser > than 0$ per image. > > Anyway the real calculation of an impact of a project is not so simple. > > Because if we would use the same parameters, people reading this thread > have spent more than 5 minutes, and calculating the sum of people reading > this thread we can calculate a big time waste. > > We can say that this thread is really time-expensive without producing a > real impact. But we know that this mailing list is done to help the > communication and not to calculate the time waste, so a thread like this is > accepted. > > I have put the links, it's sufficient to read the measures of the success > to know that the aim of the project is not to produce only images. > > Kind regards > > -- > Ilario Valdelli > Wikimedia CH > Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre > Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera > Switzerland - 8008 Zürich > Tel: +41764821371 > http://www.wikimedia.ch > > > _______________________________________________ > 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?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ 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?subject=unsubscribe>