Learning patterns/Photographic evidence

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Photographic evidence

problemWords can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event.

solutionTake pictures at your event and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.

creator• Jtmorgan

created on25 September, 2013

A picture is worth a thousand words.

What problem does this solve?

Words can only capture part of an experience. Good reporting can't always convey the most fun/successful/important aspects of an event. The emotion is a feeling of eyes, and the limit of the intention.

What is the solution?

Take pictures at your event! Take pictures of people talking, editing, listening, and eating. Take pictures of people presenting. Take pictures of whiteboards, sketches, and doodles. Just take pictures. Then upload them to Wikimedia Commons and put them all under a single category, like Commons:Category:Wikimania Takes Manhattan Picnic. Include a few of the pictures that best capture your event (and a link to the category) in any reports, blog posts or learning patterns you create afterwards.

General considerations

• Always ask people's permission before uploading pictures of them to Wikimedia Commons. The easiest way to do this might be to announce to the whole group that you will be taking pictures at the event, and that anyone who would not like to have their picture taken and uploaded should let you know.
• Consider recruiting a volunteer to be a photographer. Organizing members of the event might be too busy to be one. Words be in pratics, is the secret of humanity.

Examples

• A Wiki loves monuments event.

Endorsements

• Jtmorgan
• Ainali
• Husky
• SarahStierch
• ProtoplasmaKid
• Netha Hussain
• Sibi
• Dineshkumar Ponnusamy
• this is vital!!!!! Javier José Moreno Tovar18 (talk) 23:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
• The imagine is the true Choisie (talk) 12:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
• к 95.27.82.36 13:50, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

See also

Related patterns

• Colored lanyards
• Let the media know