*>I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where
people instead of
meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected.
*The execution would be simple but needs a bit of spade work before and
after, especially with copyvio detection. New editors usually misunderstand
copyright policies and upload stuff that isnt their own work and it results
in commons being overloaded.
Similarly if you a customised upload wizard, categorising and tagging with
templates can be done automatically and will lower the burden on
uploaders. Customisation of the upload wizard is easy but can be done only
by an admin in commons. Tanvir did it for us (go Tanvir!), so knowing a
commons admin eases things..
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53,
<wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea
might be applicable on a
national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th
if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide
to celebrate Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo
Scavenger Hunt in India to celebrate Wikipedia 11?
Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India
to Commons.
There were 97 events on paper. I cannot recollect reading more than 10
reports. Practically we could say the number would have been around 20.Lets
leave that aside.On the scavenger hunt, Tamil community already has one for
3 month long duration[1], we are also planning for Central Sitenotice for
Indian IPs for 3-4 days in January. You could replicate the same, but be
sure to add volunteer support based on the scale, otherwise it cant
sustain,will have difficulties (Hey, didnt you learn that from
WikiConference! :D)
Steps required for photo scavenger hunt.
1. Customize Upload Wizard, test it.
2. Create help documents, FAQs / videos. [2][3]
3. Create PR using media / social media.
4. Monitor for copyvios, tag them manually post verification.
-- We are still on process to learn more -- :D
The above activities took us around 30-45 days by a small community.
[1]
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest
[2]
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv
[3]
http://tawp.in/r/2rvn
--
Regards
Srikanth.L
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