Wikipedia:WikiProject India/India Loves Wikipedia
 | Superseded by Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Bangalore, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Chennai, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Mumbai. This article was about a proposed initiative to get more photographs for India-related articles. Please add your suggestions, ideas and comments. |
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?)
- Orkut
- Blogs
- 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.)?
- 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!
- Are you a student of Architecture or a practicing Architect? We want to end those empty pages in Category:WikiProject India (architecture) articles. Imagine having a stub for something as important as the National Association of Students of Architecture !!!
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!