Steve,
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:42:04 +0300
From: wanjaustev(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)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.