The women's FA Cup is a good idea actually. With this, as with any other idea, if there's a UK volunteer keen to take this forward then please do get in touch. You can contact me directly if it helps.
WMUK has had some success in arranging credentials for sporting events actually. Recently a Wikinews reporter was offered funding to cover this year's Youth Olympic Games in China but had trouble getting accreditation but after a phonecall or two to the IOC in Geneva, it's all been sorted. Happy to work on similar things for others.
Stevie
On 7 June 2014 09:49, Pipo Le Clown pleclown@gmail.com wrote:
It's a shame, the National Summer games for Switzerland where last week-end, and I was not aware of it...
I do agree that the para-sport (both disabled and special athletes) needs a better coverage (and the french public agrees [1]). Some of us went to the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships last year [2], Pyb was at the Meeting d'Athlétisme Paralympique de Paris [3] this week, Ludo and I will go to the french paralympic cycling championship next week-end... Parasport is (IMO) a good way to try sport photography. People are really nice and accessible, and the parasport is in need of more media coverage, so they are less likely to rebuff you.
I really like parasport photography, and I'm willing to provide more photos and vidéos for Commons. But the main problem is the knowledge of such events. They are not advertised in the press, and we must go and seach the information on the websites of the federations, which is very time consuming. I discover sports and events in the press, when the events are over (like the National Summer games...). One of the goals of this thread is to find a way to help us (as a community) to better communicate on those events (para and not para), and try to have a better coverage (and many more photographers all around the world).
Pleclown
[1]
http://www.paralympic.org/news/para-sport-needs-more-media-coverage-says-fre... [2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2013_IPC_Athletics_World_Champio... [3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Meeting_d%27Athl%C3%A9tisme_Para...
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Whilst going through some of the thousands of photos I managed to get a CC release for from the Korean Culture and Information Service,[1] I came across 200 photos from the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[2] There is an "article" (for want of a better word) on English Wikipedia[3] and Chinese Wikipedia[4], where the images do not see any usage. The only usage these images see on our projects (related to the actual sporting event) is a single image on Spanish Wikipedia on its article for the Special Olympics.[5] Funnily enough, the en.wp article for the Special Olympics World Games[6] uses an NFCC image which fails the NFCC criteria.[7]
Outside of the 2013 Pyeongchang games, Commons' coverage of Special Olympics is basically non-existent.[8]
The next Summer games are in Los Angeles in 2015, and the next Winter games are in Graz in 2017.
Could be good to increase coverage of this one area which I have noticed seriously does suffer from systematic bias on our projects.
Cheers,
Russavia
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Korea.net_Flickr_stre...
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2013_Special_Olympics_World_Wint...
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Special_Olympics_World_Winter_Games
[4]
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%86%AC%E5%AD...
[5]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=2013+S...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Olympics_World_Games [7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Special_Olympics_World_Summer_Games_Openi...
[8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Special_Olympics
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