Wikipedia:WikiProject India/India Loves Wikipedia

India Loves Wikipedia is an effort to get pictures for India-related articles on Wikipedia, inspired by Britain Loves Wikipedia.There are many India-related articles that need photographs. It's a shame that majority of the articles related to a 1-billion strong population lack photographs!

You can help us contributing articles about your place of residence, your school/college/alma mater, your workplace, your cuisine... the list is endless!

TODO: Before we launch

How do we reach out to people?

• Social media
  • Facebook (fan page?)
  • Twitter
  • Orkut
  • Blogs
  • LinkedIn
• Upload Select CC-By-SA images from Flickr

• Competition that involves school kids (something in the lines of Hindu Young World Painting Competion[1])?
• Sending out posters to colleges (Symposiums , Talent hunts by Microsoft, IBM uses this way) ?

How do we organize it?

• Request Wikimedia Photo Scavengers Hunts website to host a page for us
• Host a Facebook page to receive user uploads

This page

• Add guidelines to make sure people understand what kind of photographs we want (encyclopedic, free license etc.), otherwise people will end up contributing images of their friends and pets.
• Make sure people understand that Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited site, and the photos contributed by them might removed from an article in favor better images, if other editors wish so.
• Find a mechanism to keep track of photographs added via this initiative (category?).

How to participate?

You can contribute photographs related to any India-related article.Here are some ideas to begin with:

• Do you live in Jayanagar, Bangalore? The article doesn't have a photograph (as of 4 February 2010). Why not add an article about your place of residence (locality, city, village, town etc.)?
• Does you city have a historical monument such as Shaniwarwada? Please photograph it & add it to Wikimedia Commons?
• Are you planning to visit Kullu for the famous Kullu Dussehra? Get us some photographs of the tourist places you are visiting!
• Did you have Dal Baati for lunch today? The articles on Indian cuisine need photographs!
• Are you going to see Usha Thorat at a banking conference today? Are you going to a Falguni Pathak concert tonight? Why not click photographs of some famous Indian personalities for Wikipedia?
• Are you an employee of the Indian Express Group? We wish we had a photograph of your workplace!
• Are you a student of Architecture or a practicing Architect? We want to end those empty pages in Indian Architectural articles category. Imagine having a stub for something as important as the National Association of Students of Architecture !!!
• Click a snap of National Highway or state Highway - promoted by WP:INR
• Share a snap of your College -- Do you study at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and Higher Studies? Make the article look pretty with stunning pics of your school/college campus? --- promoted by WP:INEI

Uploading Photographs

• Upload to Wikipedia Commons under the category Category:India loves Wikipedia- 2011
• For the photographs you upload to Commons, Please add the template {{India loves Wikipedia event}}
• See the template India loves Wikipedia event in Commons
  
• Photographs collected till now can see at India loves Wikipedia- 2011 page.

But, remember!

• Don't lift images from the net! Contribute an image clicked by you or an
• You need to release your image under a free license. We don't want watermarked images!
• We want pictures suitable for an encyclopedia. A picture of India Gate is suitable for Wikipedia, but a picture of your friends posing in front of it is not!

Similar past efforts

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Chennai

External links

• Discussion on Wikimediaindia-l