Wikimania 2023: Wikimedia Commons Basics Workshop edit
Mike Dickison · User:Giantflightlessbirds · Room 310, Wednesday 16 August 2023, 2:15–3:40 pm edit
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The workshop is designed for media contributors who have some prior experience with Wikimedia projects or media uploading. It is suitable for anyone who is interested in learning more about Wikimedia Commons and media. The workshop will be interactive and hands-on, with exercises and examples to help you practice your skills.
You will need:
- Your own Wikimedia login and password (use your Wikipedia login if you have one).
- Some photos on your computer that you have taken—that don't include a closeup of a person or a copyrighted object (like a painting or sign)—that you can practice uploading.
A Checklist of a Basic Photos-to-Commons workflow: how take a selection of digital photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, so they can be reused by anyone and put into a Wikipedia article.
Understanding Photo Copyrights: different Creative Commons licences and sources for open-licensed images (note: from the point of view of New Zealand copyright law)
Sample text for requesting photo copyright release: some form letters you can you when approaching a Flickr or iNaturalist user about changing their copyright licence to a more open one.
Working with Commons: a 2022 presentation on some advanced Commons techniques: better wikitext templates, structured data in Commons, and bulk uploading with Pattypan and OpenRefine.
Wiki Science Competition: an international Commons competion for science-related photos.
The excellent tool WikiShootMe!, for seeing which local objects are lacking photos; you can add a photo directly from your phone camera.