Hey, folks: To close the loop here: we've posted a Wikimedia Blog post about what we did during this limited experiment, and how it went. https://blog.wikimedia. org/2017/08/29/solar-eclipse-photos/
If you have thoughts, comments, and ideas for future similar initiatives, please get in touch with us. Best, --Ed On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Melody Kramer <mkra...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to let you know about some experimental outreach we have planned > for today's solar eclipse, which will be partially visible from parts of > the Americas, as well as spots in Asia, Africa, and Western Europe. > > We put together a blog post > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/18/solar-eclipse/> [1] and infographic > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_2017_solar_ > eclipse_-_upload_to_Commons_infographic.png> > [2] > to encourage photographers of the upcoming solar eclipse > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017> [3] to > upload them to Commons. This request was placed on the Village Pump [4] > last week. > > We're planning to publicize the blog post on our social media channels > today, and the only *specific* outreach we have planned is to encourage > people who post high-quality photos on those platforms to upload them to > Commons. We're deliberately limiting our push so we don't flood Commons > with poor-quality photos, and/or make life difficult for anyone. > > Please feel free to use the infographic [2] to reach out to photographers, > and let us know if you have any comments or concerns with anything. We'd > love to work with you all on improvements as needed. This is definitely an > experiment, and your feedback will help us figure out if we'll want to > repeat it for other (perhaps more global) events. [5] We are also going to > collect some basic metrics and will send them out once we assess today's > experiment. Thank you! > > Mel > > [1] Featuring an interview with Wikimedia Commons user: Juliancolton, the > post details how to take eclipse photos and how to upload them to Commons > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/18/solar-eclipse/ > > [2] English: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_2017_solar_ec > lipse_-_upload_to_Commons_infographic.png > Spanish: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_2017_solar_ec > lipse_-_upload_to_Commons_infographic_-_es.png > > > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017 > > [4] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Ecli > pse_photography > > [5] If this works, we would love to help make templates or encourage > photographers to upload in the future. Please let us know what events might > work with this approach. > > > > -- > Melody Kramer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MKramer_(WMF)> > Senior Audience Development Manager > Read a random featured article from Wikipedia! > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featured_articles> > > mkra...@wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate | Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> | eerh...@wikimedia.org Read a random featured article from the English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featured_articles> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
