Hi all, Below a list of suggestions drawn from the WLM Future workshop and the WLM Panel at Wikimania. There are plenty of ways to transform Wiki Loves Monuments in a way that makes the contest interesting even if photos already abound. - Just be inventive, try out new things and report back what worked and what didn't!
Beat ***Ideas to enhance WLM and similar contests*** - better integration with Wikipedia, edit-a-thons, writing competitions, involvement of domain experts - outreach to and retention of new contributors - use of 3-dimensional and other photo techniques - focus on pictures of details of the monuments - better descriptions of the pictures, integration with Wikivoyage - monuments infoboxes - workshops on photographic techniques - publish best photos in a magazine, etc. / photo exhibitions - develop more and better partnerships around the contest - scavenger hunts; Wikipedia Takes Events - photography contest in museums and cultural institutions; develop partnerships with GLAMs - gather useful information for Wikivoyage: how to get to the monument, a short description (history, etc.), the best time to visit, opening hours if applicable (this is information that is urgently needed on Wikivoyage; contact: User:DerFussi). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cristian Consonni Sent: Dienstag, 20. August 2013 20:02 To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Andorra is also in 2013/8/20 Àlex Hinojo <[email protected]>: > On 2012 participation decreased a lot (challenge feeling was low as > every single pic was taken) and that's the reason why we've being > doubting on organizing it or not. > > But finally we decided to join this great party! Hi Àlex, just a quick suggestion. At Wikimania in Hong Kong there was a panel about the "future of WLM", since for quite a number of countries this will be the third year of participation many of the may face a similar problem of "saturation". Since you have already hit the "quantity milestone" (which is really great, btw) you may start thinking about some other activities to increase participation again. Devising something is not a simple task, but here's one suggestion: Maarten pointed out some time ago that many WLM images are still not used on Wikipedia. Since one of the goal of the contest is enriching Wikipedia (and I think this is also a very satisfactory thing for a participant) you may want to organize some activities to improve the usage of WLM images from Andorra in Wikipedia articles. You may find useful the page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Statistics which contains some statistics about the usage of the images. Of course, if everybody has some idea on this topic please share it with the rest of the world. Cristian _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
