[Wikimedia-l] WG: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014
Happy New Year to Everyone! After the holidays I'd like to make another approach to you and your chapters about Wikipedians in the European Parliament. * have you already forwarded this invitation to your local community? * has you chapter already decided about supporting volunteers participating in this project? * have you - if you are interested - already signed up for participation? Please let me know! Despite the holidays we already received a number of registrations from four countries and chapter support from five chapters, not including those who have informally announced their participation or support in personal mails. I am especially proud to see a significant number of female applications in this project! Also the Commons project page has been translated in four different languages - you may help as well: just click on translate this page on top of the page. The project has a lot of potential to increase the quality of our projects which can now be evaluated using the lists that have been created in the last days: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliame nt/Lists_of_pictures https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliamen t/Lists_of_pictures https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliame nt/Lists_of_articles https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliamen t/Lists_of_articles If you have any questions, please contact me or better - post them on the talk page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk:Wikipedians_in _European_Parliamentaction=edit https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk:Wikipedians_in_ European_Parliamentaction=edit Regards, Olaf Von: Olaf Kosinsky [mailto:olaf.kosin...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Montag, 23. Dezember 2013 00:03 An: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Fwd: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014 Dear Chapters, this is a mail focused on chapters within the European Union but of course support and participation of any chapter is welcome! == Preamble == Some might have heard about the State Parliament Projects done in Germany and Austria since 2009: A bunch of Wikipedians and photographers meet politicians in the parliament, shoot professional photos, discuss their Wikipedia articles etc. This way hundreds of free licensed, high quality images have been made, Wikipedia articles have been improved. In the latest project at Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) we added videos, politicians give a short introduction about themselves, their position and political focus in German and in their mother tongue if different from German. About 20 photographers were able to participate and processes how to work with the parliament's administration, how to interact with the politicians, how to efficiently take a lot of photos in a short time and with good quality have been established. == Next Level: European Parliament == Now we would like to take this to next level: After contacting the European Parliament I was able to get their approval, the support by the parties and a date! Unfortunately the date is already in February, 3rd to 7th, as we have to use the short time gap between budget deliberations and elections. MEPs only travel to the EP when deliberations are ongoing but then they are also busy with meetings, as soon as the election preperation starts there won't be any time for our project within the next 6 months. Anyway I am sure we can do that - the elections are also a great opportunity to raise awareness on our material we have in Wikipedia and on Commons. It is also an excellent opportunity to bring together volunteers in doing our core work together, maybe we can transfer the idea of Parliament Projects to other countries. Volunteers get the opportunity to learn from each other - the EP is a very challenging project, having more than 700 MEPs to be handled within a few days. And Wikipedia may improve its articles, also by bringing together volunteers from different EU countries. Many MEPs have their articles only in a few of the European languages, some not even in their native language! == Your Chapter Involved == We are looking forward to get volunteers from as many countries as possible involved in this project. In order to be handle it we need approx. 35 people to help. Obviously the german and austrian photographers are already waiting for it, from past projects they already know what will go on. But there is much more to it: We want your volunteers! Imagine a project where we could bring together volunteers from all 24 language communities in the EU - that is what we are trying! Therefore we ask you for a favour: * please forward this invitation to your local community - you can point them to our project page on Wikimedia Commons: **
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WG: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014
On 3 January 2014 16:22, Olaf Kosinsky olaf.kosin...@gmail.com wrote: Happy New Year to Everyone! After the holidays I'd like to make another approach to you and your chapters about Wikipedians in the European Parliament. * have you already forwarded this invitation to your local community? I expect that has been done * has you chapter already decided about supporting volunteers participating in this project? Sending people to Brussels and Strasbourg for reasons other than to lobby on IP issues is not a good use of WMF donors money. You want 766 photos total. Find one person in Brussels (not Strasbourg even the majority of MEPs accept that Strasbourg is a bad idea at this point) and give them whatever support they need to get the photos. * have you - if you are interested - already signed up for participation? Of course not. Strasbourg is several hundred miles away across the English channel. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WG: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014
Could actually being there in front of UK MEP's could be one very effective way of bringing our influence to bear? Jon PS Strasbourg slightly closer to London than Edinburgh! On 3 January 2014 17:19, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 January 2014 16:22, Olaf Kosinsky olaf.kosin...@gmail.com wrote: Happy New Year to Everyone! After the holidays I'd like to make another approach to you and your chapters about Wikipedians in the European Parliament. * have you already forwarded this invitation to your local community? I expect that has been done * has you chapter already decided about supporting volunteers participating in this project? Sending people to Brussels and Strasbourg for reasons other than to lobby on IP issues is not a good use of WMF donors money. You want 766 photos total. Find one person in Brussels (not Strasbourg even the majority of MEPs accept that Strasbourg is a bad idea at this point) and give them whatever support they need to get the photos. * have you - if you are interested - already signed up for participation? Of course not. Strasbourg is several hundred miles away across the English channel. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WG: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014
Hi Geni, Am 03.01.2014 18:19, schrieb geni: On 3 January 2014 16:22, Olaf Kosinsky olaf.kosin...@gmail.com wrote: [...] * has you chapter already decided about supporting volunteers participating in this project? Sending people to Brussels and Strasbourg for reasons other than to lobby on IP issues is not a good use of WMF donors money. that is your opinion, so are you already a member of the EU policy advocacy group? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy You want 766 photos total. Find one person in Brussels (not Strasbourg even the majority of MEPs accept that Strasbourg is a bad idea at this point) and give them whatever support they need to get the photos. well, a) the minimum is 1,000 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk%3APEG%2FOlaf_Kosinsky%2FWikipedians_in_European_Parliamentdiff=6895596oldid=6895104) b) the EP has invited us to Strasbourg (not Brussels) as that is the place where the MEPs will be available for us c) one person is not enough, according to various calculations you need about 45 people to deal with all those MEPs in a short time (remember they are only available in a short timeframe, after the deliberations) This calculation has been done by people who are more experienced than me with this, as they already did 15 such projects since 2009: (https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk%3APEG%2FOlaf_Kosinsky%2FWikipedians_in_European_Parliamentdiff=6879964oldid=6879832) ...and by the way, this project does exactly this: Get enough people at the time and place where all the MEPs are and get them what they need. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
