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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 any photographs!


TODO: Before we launch

Ideas

  • Facebook (fan page?)
  • Twitter
  • Blogs
  • LinkedIn

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.)?
  • Are you planning to visit Kullu for the famous Kullu Dussehra? Get us some photographs of the tourist places you are visiting!
  • 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?
  • 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!

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

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