Hello,
I think that using crowdsourced funding platforms is a great model to support the creation of photos for Wikimedia Commons, and it seems to draw support from people outside the Wikipedia community.
I have seen success with a similar project in the past. User:Evan-Amos did this some time ago with video game consoles. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos < https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-online-game-museu...
Thanks for sharing.
yours,
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, 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,
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