Hoi, What would be really cool if we can make a contest out of creating these pictures. When we want to provide pictures in certain categories for EVERY country, we can use it to stimulate interest in these countries.. when the "enemy" has a face, it becomes more like a "friend".
Even when a contest costs us money (a T-shirt a Certificate with the name of the photographer and the picture on it) it also helps us raise awareness of Commons. When we make this an anual event it will only be bigger next year.
Yes, the photo's that are the price winners would be offered in all the ways that are mentioned...
I am sure we can find a sponsor to pay for the prices as well ....
Thanks, GerardM
On 6/7/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I am constantly amazed at the quality of Wikimedian photography at the Commons and we could easily bundle, say, 10 super high quality images together in a ZIP and offer "10 free computer wallpapers".
This has worked well for a few webcomics artists: make a donation, get a wallpaper. Of course, given that all our content is out there anyway, people may feel a bit cheated if they don't get something exclusive.
I don't think so, because (A) I don't think your average "Wikipedia rocks, man!"-appreciative donor probably even realises that the other projects exist. Let's face it, half the Wikipedians don't. ;) Also they are essentially paying for the convenience. Of course they could go and get them for free (that's rather the point), but they were going to donate anyway, right? And hey, we make it so easy for them...seems like warm fuzzies all round to me.
Besides being able to offer lots of PDFs of featured material from a range of projects in a range of languages (particularly a few European ones), we could also offer country/region-specific items to encourage parochial donations. eg. I could probably dig up 10 wallpaper-worthy pictures from Australia, to encourage Australian donations. Definitely the same with the UK, possibly NZ.
I'm not taking it so much from the angle of "let's sell these" as "let's encourage them to donate a tiny bit more with a feelgood 'freebie' and simultaneously display the breadth and quality of our coverage which they probably didn't realise existed".
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