Fellow Wikepedians, "Photographs" along with captions or descriptive essays are of prime importance for a descriptive guide or report on any subject or topic. I myself , a prolific blogger,have personally always uploaded most of my photographs on "wikepedia Commons", and some were used by "web News Media", professional writers for their blog news , etc. "Wikepedian" contributors should be taught and encouraged to "UPLOAD" photographs of their locality, interesting places visited, tourist sites , etc for assessment by "Wikepedian editors" to be used as future "Encyclopaediac references". Thanks, Rudolph.A.Furtado ----- Original Message ----- From: Utkarshraj Atmaram To: Pradeep Mohandas Cc: wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 00:48:49 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Wikipedia-X anniversary pre-event meetup I might not be able to attend tomorrow's meet due to my academic schedule, but here's a suggestion. While finalizing the agenda, please ensure that during one of the talks, people are informed about how they can contribute photographs to Wikipedia. A lot of Mumbai-related articles don't have any photographs. Even the Wikipedia article on the venue (VJTI) doesn't have any pics other than the logo! I've added around 150 articles to this category today alone: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Mumbai>, and there are many more wall-of-text articles. The Bangalore Wikipedians are already planning a session on photography: <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore#Photography> They are also organizing a photo walk tomorrow to promote addition of Bangalore-related photographs. I don't think we have time to organize a photo-walk before the 15th, but we can at least attract some attention to the need for photographs. Several newbie contributors I've interacted with during the past meetups don't understand the concepts like CC licenses or the difference between Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Things can be made easier for them with a 5-minute quick introduction to the topic. Also, nearly 60 people have registered for the event with one week to go for the event. I guess this number will rise by a good margin in the coming days? Do we enough volunteers? Maybe we can create a page similar to <http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore#Volunteers>. -- Utkarshraj Atmaram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utcursch On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Pradeep Mohandas &lt;pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: hi, We're planning to have a Wikipedia tenth anniversary pre-event meetup on January 9, 2011 at 6 pm at Barista, Chembur. Anyone who is interested in the organisation details of the meetup and who has ideas is welcome to come and attend the pre-event meetup. If you have trouble coming for the meetup because of time, you are also free to submit suggestions here on the mailing list. Do feel free to call me if you have any problems vis-a-vis the venue. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas, +91-897-625-3586 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list Wikimedia-in-mum(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum