[Wikimedia-l] First Wikimedia-related contributor Kickstarter?

[Seb35]

Le Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:56:30 +0100, Steven Walling  
<steven.walling at gmail.com> a écrit:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A post is live on Gizmodo today about a Commons contributor (Evan-Amos)  
>> who
>> takes high quality photos of video game systems and hardware.[1] Towards
>> the end it mentions that Evan started a Kickstarter to fund his efforts  
>> to
>> buy and photograph more systems as part of an online museum.[2]
>>
>> Anyone know if this is the first Wikimedia-related Kickstarter  
>> campaign, or
>> has it happened before? What do people think about someone raising  
>> ~$13k to
>> contribute photos to Commons? How does that fit in the debate about paid
>> editing? To me it has a very different feel than, say, Wiki-PR. But...
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://gizmodo.com/how-i-became-gamings-most-popular-and-anonymous-photog-1456749754
>> [2]
>>
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-online-game-museum
>>
>
> This guy is a free culture badass. :-)
>
> I wish more Commons contributors could promote and support their work  
> like
> this. This project makes me think about other high quality photo
> collections, such as the many featured pictures of vintage computers or
> rocks and minerals. The list goes on and on.
>
> Like others have hinted at, both chapters and the WMF can potentially  
> give
> out grants to support photography projects like this. I wonder if Evan  
> knew
> that or considered it? I'd love to hear feedback from him about why he  
> felt
> Kickstarter was fruitful, and how it compares to our large grants
> infrastructure in the Wikimedia movement.

A small point about possible explanation for using Kickstarter is to reach  
other communities/public than the traditional Wikimedia communities and  
framework. In this sense it is also an outreach channel.

I find this type of funding is original in our movement, and moreover the  
project appears to be conducted with a good quality, so why not?

~ Seb35