New subject: Fwd: [WMCEE-l] European Science Photo Competition 2015 [must read!]

19 Oct 2015

Привествую, коллеги!
По существу:
А) Нужно создать локальное жюри, хотя бы 3 человека, немного
разбирающиеся в научности и фотографиях.
Б) Призовой вопрос -  спонсора  нет, похоже ВМ.РУ
предстоит выделить по 4 000 рублей на каждого из победителя в 5-ти
номинациях. 20 000 рублей сумма не критичная. Ну, или до 30 октября нужно
найти спонсора.
В) ЭТО САМОЕ ВЫЖНО. Нужно создать большую красную кнопку "нажмите
здесь, чтобы загрузить    фотографии" на странице конкурса. А так же разместить линк
на загрузку на коммонс (в шаблоне загрузки необходимо добавить возможность выбора
загружающим конкретной номинации конкурса, как это сделано у украинских коллег:
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?campaign=espc-ua ).
Основная страница конкурса будет на ВМ.РУ и уже создана 
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Европейский_конкурс_научных_фотографий_2015 Доработки
страницы только приветствуются.   Можно сделать анонс на главной странице наше
Вики.
Г)На коммонс страница конкурса готова на 90% - оставшееся
дело времени. 

...
 Воскресенье, 18 октября 2015, 13:07 +03:00 от Stanislav
Kozlovskiy &lt;stas(a)wikimedia.ru&gt;ru>:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:  Ivo Kruusamägi < ivo.kruusamagi(a)gmail.com >
Date: 2015-10-16 3:42 GMT+03:00
Subject: [WMCEE-l] European Science Photo Competition 2015 [must read!]
To: A list for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe < wmcee-l(a)tools.wikimedia.pl
>

Hi everyone!

Some Q&A round about soon to come  European Science Photo Comp .

1) Are you still looking for local teams? Yes we are!
Someone should carry out the sub-competitions and organize sufficient promotion. You can
all ask around on if your country has a person (or more) for this. Or step up yourself.
Minimum goal is just to set up a local jury who would take care of the image selection
process.

2) May we skip this year? No way that's gonna happen.
There isn't any good reason to repeat this competition next year. What's the point
of even setting up prizes if there would be two half-held competitions? Better to have one
and do it big. This isn't WLM. The rate of new good images emerging yearly in this
field also isn't that high. So: everyone will participate. Only difference is if you
will participate actively or in a default mode. 

3) Is there a time to do promotion? Yes there is.
We are mainly aiming for images that are already there. That's why there isn't
even a need to start the promotion before November (but it clearly doesn't do harm to
start early). We want people to upload what they have and encourage them to take more
images in the future.

4) But we don't have money /time to ask stuff from WMF? Well, you don't need to.
It's a competition. Sponsors should be the ones paying for this stuff and not you. If
you haven't learned that out by now, then this is the chance. There are plenty of
organizations and companies who are willing to give prizes and/or money. Just go and ask.

5) What information is needed about local competition?
Local competition subpages should be set up with the information about who are the local
jury members, what (special) prizes will be given out and who to contact with problems or
information. Rest of the information is already present in the international competition
page. NB! Don't forget to add the big red button named "Press here to upload your
photos".

6) How should we set up the jury?
I'd recommend to include at least  one professional photographer, a science
journalist, a wikipedian who is competent in photo related stuff and some scientists in
from different fields who know a bit about photography.
It isn't going to be problem if some images presented to the competition will be from
topics unknown to jury members. Description should be the thing that makes it clear how
special it is or isn't and jury still needs to find images that are visually stunning
and have some wow-effect related to them (this is a photo competition you know!). It is
just the same in nature photo competition: no-one cares on how difficult it was to make
that image (only the author knows that anyway). Question is about what story this image
has for the audience.

7) What is the expected outcome of the competition?
I would expect the total number of submission somewhere around 30k (but the numbers per
country would of course differ substantially and the end number would be greatly dependent
on what counties would have local organization/promotion groups and which ones would
not).
This is an excellent event to get some media attention, so please use it! I'd also
expect that this would help to set up some cooperation with local organizations, get some
good contacts with companies who are willing to sponsor Wikipedia-related activities and
speed up some university cooperation.

As a conclusion. We are perfectly positioned to carry out huge low cost photographic
events. European Science Photo Competition could be just like that. So, do some promotion
and set up a local jury. Already that would make ESPC the biggest science photo
competition ever held. Help us to reach for the starts!

With regards
Ivo Kruusamägi
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