This is very interesting, i think to liase with the media would be the best thing since i do not know we can get really nice pictures of such public figures. We could even tell the media houses that it is a sort of CSR when the give us the photos to put on wikipedia.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:51 AM, stephen wanjau <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Folks! > > As we edit English Wikipedia, you will note that the tag Requested > photos<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Kenya>is > quite rampant in most articles that are about people or features in > Kenya. As I navigated around categories of requested photographs in Africa, > I established that Kenya has the highest number of requested photos as > compared to the rest of the African countries. (I stand to be corrected > though). > > Even if the case is not so, we still have around 500+ requested photos for > use in Wikipedia from Kenya. But again most of these photos are of people > [1]. For a case in point; Conjestina the famous female boxing champion. > Personally, I would not envisage a scenario where I would be attending a > boxing match so that I can really get a nice shot of her. But as a > Wikipedia contributor I would really like to see here photo up on Wikipedia > but how? One thing I believe is that, we can fulfill a great percentage of > these requests and this is why? > > > Recently, after the demise of the late Prof. George Saitoti, I held my > horses for a reliable source to broadcast about this on the very hour of > his passing. For this case it was the Daily Nation and Capital FM news that > did it first from my search. I went to his Wikipedia article and updated it > with the appropriate info plus some slight changes on the tense. I tweeted… > > > ”Hey! Someone already update the Saitoti Wikipedia article #KOT” >> > > > #KOT is a hash tag for Kenyans On Twitter that is used to address issues > concerning Kenya on this social network. The tweet got several retweets and > over that some positive PR that Wikipedia is up-to date. > > > Later on, I was contacted by a journalist from the Nation Media Group as a > result of my actions on Wikipedia. He told me that he had an account on > Wikipedia but he infrequently edits because he doesn’t know how albeit he > fetched my number from my FB profile via my Wikipedia userpage. He got my > username from the history of the late Professor George Saitoti article. He > interviewed me on the phone for about 45 minutes and I wish to clarify that > I spoke in my opinion as a Wikipedia editor and not for the chapter or for > the Wikimedia movement. He asked me how and why I did that and in general > why I edit Wikipedia. > > > Having said that, these journalists are a very essential base of photo > contributors to us since most of these photos about the people in question > have already been taken but in the protection of Journalists of these media > houses. Probably what we need to do is to talk to them about CC licenses > and the impact that their work would have on Wikipedia. From my interview, > he was very jubilant about my deeds. I invited the journalist to come in > after giving him an overview of cc licenses and that I need photos to make > articles about Kenya and its people on Wikipedia speak more than 1000 words:) > > > Another thing we can use social media (twitter) to inform people about > Wikipedia activities here in Kenya. Read this article [2] about a CNN > correspondent who navigated Kenya via twitter and she even organized a > meet-up via twitter by using the tag #KOT! > > > I would like to hear your point of view about this. > > > regards, > > Stephen. > > > > 1. 1. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Kenya > > 2. 2. > http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/15/world/africa/kenya-twitter-experiment/index.html > > re > > > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Kenya > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_of_people_of_Kenya > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Africa > > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F~para%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%3Farticle%3DCategory%3AWikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Kenya%26usecache%3D1<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%3Farticle%3DCategory%3AWikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Kenya%26usecache%3D1> > > > -- > *"Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better"* > <http://uwanja.wordpress.com> > uwanja <https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja> > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaKE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake > >
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