Hello, I think that using crowdsourced funding platforms is a great model to support the creation of photos for Wikimedia Commons, and it seems to draw support from people outside the Wikipedia community.
I have seen success with a similar project in the past. User:Evan-Amos did this some time ago with video game consoles. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos> < https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-online-game-museum > Thanks for sharing. yours, On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good news everyone, > > Cheese articles are gonna get improved! > > As french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese on > Wikipedia. This is about to change. > > A group of french Wikimedians, lead by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, designed a > project to photograph many cheeses, up to 200 for the moment. > > This project is perticular as we aim to have it found through a french > crowdfunding platform, KissKissBankBank. > > Of course Wikimedia France could have funded it itself, but we wanted to > use the project as a way to get the larger audience aware of their ability > to contribute and to give a fun image of contributing. > > The project in few words iss follow : > * 10 cheeses per session > * During the session the cheeses are photographed and their articles > improved > * During the sessions experimented wikimedian would train new editors > * At every session every participant would enjoy eating good cheese too > > If you want to read more, or even contribute, about the project you can go > on KissKissBankBank : > http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/wikicheese > > > If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot them on or off list. > > All the best, > > -- > Christophe > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 l...@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
