Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India/Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 Outreach in Telangana
cis-india.org Hashtag: #WLMTelangana2023 Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate. A2K is collaborating with Historians of Telangana to promote the documentation of Monuments and Historic sites of Telangana in Wikimedia Commons.
Participate
Monuments to upload pictures
Find Monuments in this list: List of Monuments in Telangana
List of participants
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Background and Rules
Wiki Loves Telangana Monuments is an outreach effort to improve contributions from Telangana in Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India. Note that this is not a separate competition but an outreach effort under WLM 2023 in India. So, all the rules related to Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India apply. Just listing them for easy reference:
- Rules
- Self-clicked and self-uploaded
- At least 6 Mpx resolution
- Uploaded within 1-30 September 2023
- Proper title and description identifying the monument
- Free license to re-use the image
- No watermark present
- Judgement criteria
- Effort put into researching the subject and taking the image
- Quality of description provided in any language
- Value in terms of usage on any Wikimedia project
- Value based on uniqueness
- Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective, composition, etc.)
- Grounds for rejection
- suspected of copyright violation
- lack of full EXIF information
- excessive processing & use of unrealistic filters
- lack of proper title to identify the monument
- vague or unfaithful documentation
- presence of watermarks
- resolution below 6 megapixels.
Outreach Effort
Commons Workshop for Telangana Historians
Commons Workshop for Telangana Historians is a one-day training workshop to equip historians, archaeologists, and archaeology enthusiasts with the skills and understanding required to contribute photos of monuments located in Telangana. The workshop tries to provide necessary understanding about Copyrights, and Wikimedia Commons and help them learn skills to contribute to participants.
- Date and Timings
- 17 September 2023, 10 AM to 4 PM
- Venue
- Paidi Jairaj Preview Theatre, Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad
- Participants
- Active Historians and Archeologists from Telangana; Selected and Invited by TORCH Hyderabad. The list will be updated.
- Organised by
- Pavan Santhosh from CIS-A2K and Aravind Arya Pakide from TORCH-Telangana
- Co-organisers and speakers
- IM3847, Wikimedian and Photographer and Pranayraj, Telugu Wikimedian.
- Sponsered by
- CIS-A2K and Dept of Language and Culture, Telangana Govt.
Report
The primary objectives of this outreach effort are to make efforts to promote contributions to Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India from Telangana and to understand opportunities and challenges to conduct outreach campaigns to document historical monuments of Telangana on a wider scale.
Going ahead, A2K initially made efforts to connect with organizations which are currently working on the preservation and documentation of Heritage Monuments of Telangana. Eventually, A2K collaborated with Telangana Historian and Archeologist Aravind Arya Pakide of TORCH Telangana to explore opportunities to promote Wiki Loves Monuments in Telangana. The original idea is to conduct a Commons Workshop for Historians and Archeologists working on Heritage Monuments of Telangana in Hyderabad and follow it up by conducting a Heritage walk for Photographers in Warangal during two consecutive weekends in September. While the Outreach event in Hyderabad was successfully conducted in an originally planned manner, the Heritage walk was postponed and conducted as a follow-up to the participants who already attended the first event due to unforeseen personal difficulties for the organisers.
Commons Workshop for Telangana Historians was conducted in Paidi Jairaj Preview Theatre in Ravindra Bharathi complex at Hyderabad. We successfully secured a venue for free from