Steve,
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:42:04 +0300 From: wanjaustev@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi • How long should we run the photo competition??
Bear in mind that; Some teams in Australia had more than 1 GB of photos yet the competition was run for only a single day. For our case here in Kenya running the competition for a day might not even scratch the surface of our targets just an example.
yes, you're absolutely right. Even that guy from Capital (I've forgotten his name) told us that a one-day competition might not be the best way to go. Wiki Loves Monuments, for instance ran through the month of September and had over 160,000+ photo uploads. Of course I do not anticipate that we'll get that magnitude of uploads if we run this competition for a month (since in WLM, around 20 countries participated), but it was just worth comparing a one-day competition to a one-month competition.
On that note consequently, a budget has been prepared by a portion of interested WMKE members [...]
I personally did not contribute to the Google Doc page regarding WTN because Alex told me that Wikimedia France had agreed to fund this project. I think we need proper clarification (from Alex) onto who's funding what, because there seems to be a mis-communication here.
• What are the proper awards for the 1st prize, 2nd prize and the 3rd prizes?
The prizes should proportionate the efforts that you universally consider sincere. I.e. we cannot seek a sponsorship to Wikimania 2012 from the WMF for a winner who only took photos for only a day – for you to go to Wikimania I think you are in better shape if you know how to edit Wikipedia and wikis in general, just a case in point.
I'm the one who suggested the Wikimania prize since it could be easily arranged for as compared to looking for a sponsor/grant, etc. And when I suggested this prize, I did not have the one-day competition in mind.
• To make sure we not only preserve the guys who partake in this photo contest, we also plan to teach them how to edit and become wikieditors, we shall run an article writing competition later after which we can now award a single ticket to Wikimania 2012 for the best article which ought to be of a very high quality.
Erm, a writing competition is quite controversial and didn't prove to retain editors in the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge. What makes you think it will, this time round? --Abbas.