Thanks all for the helpful tips! Please keep sharing them - this won't be the last competition to be organized in this way, so any documentation is helpful.
Lodewijk 2014-03-20 20:37 GMT+01:00 Ivan Martínez <[email protected]>: > I want to share some ideas about activities. In Mexico we organize a more > comprehensive program for 2013 in three cities of the country with a lot of > attendance [1]. We wanted to give an aditional experience among the contest > for the people who want increase their personal knowledge about the main > themes of the contest: photography and heritage. All the photowalks had, in > advance, two workshops about basic concepts of photo and composition [2]. > An in the tour, we have the participation of historians and professional > photographers [2] who given "live" advices to the tourers for get the best > shoot fixing the more commons mistakes: backlighting, composition, > saturation, etc [3]. > > Another activity was a panel of discussion about heritage, Creative > Commons and Wiki Loves Monuments with the participation of free culture > activists and photography experts. It was so interesting and in fact, the > time was not sufficient for discuss a very broad amount of related terms. > All this activities had too much attendance. In fact, for the tours, is > strongly reccomended have small groups of people. > > If someone want advices about this kind of events, we will very happy to > support :) > > [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shooting!.JPG > [2] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charla_5_septiembre_%2823%29.JPG > [3] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dando_detalles_del_monumento.JPG > [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preparando_la_c%C3%A1mara.JPG > > > > 2014-03-20 8:32 GMT-06:00 <[email protected]>: > > Hi, I want to share a little bit about our experience. >> >> We organized a number of photowalks during September 2013 (usually in the >> weekends). I think the good thing about this photowalks was: >> >> * Involved local people, which means the photowalks helped to reach >> geographic locations where there were no Wikimedians (currently the >> overwhelming majority of active Wikipedia editors in Armenia are from the >> capital). >> >> * Locals can more easily find and identify monuments. >> >> * We found that many people have no writing skills/interests, but are >> willing to contribute to Wikipedia. They learnt that they can do so by >> making photographs >> >> * After the upload workshops. For 80% of the participants, this was the >> first time they contributed to a Wikimedia project. >> >> After the contest, we found that 14% of this participants continued to >> edit Wikipedia. >> >> We also found that it would be a good idea to: >> >> * Organize more than 1 workshop in a location, at least 2 (in fact, any >> Wikimedia program we have done until now in Armenia, has proved, that it >> is much more effective if you meet the same group of people at least >> twice.) >> >> * Organize a workshop on basic photography skills. This will help to avoid >> the flow of large number of low quality images. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Vacio >> >> >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Program Officer for the >> > Project >> > and Event Grants Program >> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG>(PEG). One of my main >> > duties is to review grant proposals and reports. Many >> > PEG grantees participate in WLM and I have noticed a trend in their >> > reporting on WLM activities -- there is a decrease in volunteer >> > participants year-on-year and a desire to strategize on how to address >> > this >> > issue. >> > >> > It would be great to start a discussion around new strategies for >> engaging >> > WLM participants. The proposed session at Wikimania on "What can we >> learn >> > from the WLM participants' survey" >> > < >> https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/What_can_we_learn_from_the_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_participants%27_survey%3F >> >will >> > be a great place to discuss this issue, but please also feel free to >> share >> > ideas on this email thread. If there is a better place to have this >> > conversation - perhaps on the WLM 2014 page -- please feel free to move >> it >> > there! >> > >> > One idea that some grantees have been implementing is to organize *photo >> > expeditions* to places that are under-represented. These photo >> expeditions >> > have two benefits -- (1) they allow people to travel to places they may >> > not >> > normally have the chance to visit due to transportation issues and (2) >> > they >> > travel to places where monuments have not been photographed. They also >> > promote community! >> > >> > Another interesting strategy is to introduce *photography workshops*. >> > Skills training can definitely be appealing to participants and will >> > increase the quality of photos on wiki projects. We are encouraging >> > grantees who have organized photography workshops to share their >> > materials. >> > >> > Excited to hear your ideas! >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Alex >> > >> > -- >> > Alex Wang >> > Program Officer >> > Project & Event Grants >> > Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> >> > +1 415-839-6885 >> > Skype: alexvwang >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > *Atentamente:Iván Martínez PresidenteWikimedia México A.C.wikimedia.mx > <http://wikimedia.mx>Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta > pueda tener acceso libre a la suma total del conocimiento humano. Eso es lo > que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. * > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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