Photography and Article Competition of Assamese Wikipedia, 2012

Name

Photography and Article Competition of Assamese Wikipedia

Photography Competition

Scope

This WikiProject's primary aim is to encourage the contribution and improvement of photographs on Wikipedia. The project seeks to act as a focal point for photographers, photo editors, and digital artists such that requests to improve articles with photographs and the photographs themselves can be dealt with in a timely manner. Hopefully this project will act as a noticeboard for photographers and interested editors. We hope to raise CC-by-SA media related to Assam in the internet through Wikipedia, as such media is very less in the internet compared to other parts of our country. We believe this would act as vehicle to showcase natural and cultural heritage of Assam internationally.

Goals

To increase the quality media and articles related to Assam.
To attract non-text contributors photographers, graphic artists to Assamese wiki projects
To create a model precedent for cooperation with WMF in organising projects.

Rules

The photographs must depict "Information about Assam." The subjects may range from flora and fauna to tourist spots, indigenous instruments to cultural forms or anything that depicts some information about Assam.
All works submitted should be uploader's own work. Any uploaded content would be considered to be uploader's own by default. We strongly discourage you not to upload other's work, or copy other's work. If any content is found to be copied or stolen from other's works, such content would be summarily deleted from the contest and also from Wikipedia.
A small description of the of the context of the image is preferable, as this helps to establish the importance of the subject. However, this is not mandatory.
Please remember that the first goal of the photographs is to 'dissipate information,' and keeping that in focus, all kinds of creative inputs are more than welcome. Judgment would take into consideration the artistic depiction of the subject beyond a mere record purpose image.
There is no upper limit to the number of media that can be submitted. Contestants are free to upload any number of images for the competition. Contestants are also free to upload a series of images concerning a particular topic, or any other such classifying ways.
Photographs may or may not have a caption. However, a descriptive title is needed while uploading the image, and a descriptive title helps to search and find the image. Putting the description in English raises the scope of finding it in search engines. So, we encourage you to give English description, but it is not mandatory. You may also use Assamese for the description, but not other languages.
Glamour photos, nudity, discrimination, defamation or any such 'socially unacceptable message bearing' images are not welcome. In fact, such images would be summarily deleted. In this regard, decision taken by the judges are final and binding.
Images above 640pixel (length or breath) and resolution above 72dpi are acceptable. However, as higher resolution and bigger pictures can show more details, so we prefer better resolution and bigger images. So, a higher resolution and bigger images are more than welcome.
Images accepted should be in png, gif, jpg, jpeg, xcf, pdf, svg, djvu, tiff, or tif format.
Only color and B&W photos are accepted.
Digital effects that compromise the originality of the photograph are not acceptable.
Images should not contain any watermark, copyright mark, photographer's name, caption, date and time stamp or any other artifacts added during post-production. Be considerate while compressing an image so that it does not reduce necessary details.
If you are using a scanner to scan photos from prints, then please mention that it is a scanned photo.
All images uploaded will automatically fall under CC-by-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike) licence. Once uploaded the uploader cannot take away photos. You may view the conditions of the license here.
Judges decision will be final and binding.

Submission

Preferably images should be uploaded to Assamese Wikipedia.
If for any difficulty, you cannot upload to Wikipedia you may mail your images to the following e-mail id, assamesewikipedia@yahoo.com. Please remember to add Assamese Wikipedia Photo Contest as the subject of the mail. Administrators of the contest will upload the mailed photos to the Wikipedia, with contestant's name. The mailed images would be uploaded with the same license as direct upload.
Images submitted till 31^st May, 2012 will be included for the competition.

Help about photo submission

To upload images to Assamese Wikipedia, you must register first. If you are not a member of Assamese Wikipedia, please register yourself first at Assamese Wikipedia Home Page. If you have any difficulty, you may refer to the log-in help page.
Once you log-in, go the home page of Assamese Wikipedia, and you should see a link called 'ফাইল আপলোড' in the left side.
From the 'ফাইল আপলোড' link you can get the image upload page. Select your image from your local storage by clicking the 'Choose File' button. Give a descriptive name to the destination file name (লক্ষ্য ফাইল), preferably in English and write a short description about the subject matter of the image.
Select a proper license in the lowermost options. Select "অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ আলোকচিত্ৰ প্ৰতিযোগিতা" as the license and then click the button labelled 'ফাইল আপলোড কৰক'।
If you face any difficulty in uploading images to Wikipedia, you may ask for help from the co-ordinators over phone or you can ask for help at the facebook group অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া সমাজ.

NB: - Please check proper license (i.e. অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ আলোকচিত্ৰ প্ৰতিযোগিতা) or mention "'{{অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ আলোকচিত্ৰ প্ৰতিযোগিতা}} within brackets in the description. Otherwise, your image may not included in the competition.

9) Prizes:

First, Second and Third: Book Packs
Consolation prizes: Certificate of Merit from Assamese Wikipedia
Certificates for prize winners and winning entries will be displayed in front pages of Assamese wiki projects.

Article Competition

goal

To encourage writers to contribute quality articles to Assamese Wikipedia and enrich the Wikipedia with some good articles. It is also hoped that this competition will help creating awareness about non-judgmental, fact based, quality informative article.

participation

To participate in the article competition by simply starting a new article in the Assamese Wikipedia as a regular article. Only caveat is that the authors must notify the coordinators that the article is intended to be included for the competition. An article can be submitted by more than one author, that is, a team of authors can submit one or more article. To write an article for the competition, one has to be a registered member of Wikipedia. So, if you are not already registered, please go the Registration Page and starting an article as a regular article. To get help about how to start and article and formatting help, you may read this page. For any difficulties, you may contact inside Wikipedia or you may visit the Facebook group অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া সমাজ and ask for help there. Wikipedia articles can be edited continually, so you may continue to edit an article till you are satisfied. On 31-st May, 2012 midnight onward editing will not be allowed, and the article will be included for the competition. Once judges review the article, the limitations on editing will be taken off and the article will become a regular article. In the 'আলোচনা' page of an article please write down প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ প্ৰবন্ধ and also mention the name of the author. More than one person can join the competition forming a team. The team members' names should be written down in the 'আলোচনা' page of the article, at the beginning. You may also start the name of the article as "প্ৰবন্ধৰ নাম (প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ বাবে)"।

Writing inside Wikipedia is our preferred method. However, if for some difficulty someone/some team cannot write in Wikipedia, they may e-mail articles written in Assamese Unicode. Articles may be send in doc, docx, odt, rtf or txt format. Articles by mail should reach before 25-th May, 2012. Mention 'Article for Assamese Wikipedia competition' as the subject line of the e-mail. Please do not forget to mention name of the team members and your address and phone number. e-mail address for article submission is: assamesewikipedia@yahoo.com

If even writing in Assamese Unicode is difficult for you, then also you may join the competition and send in your entries through postal mail. Please send your completed article to the following mail address so as to reach before 25-th May, 2012. Address for postal mail:

Jyoti Prakash Nath

Simmtronics Semiconductors Ltd.

H.No: 1, K.C. Das Path

P.P. Road, Rehabari

Guwahati-8

Phone: 9864917706

All articles will be eventually placed inside Wikipedia and would follow same copyright licences and guidelines as regular Wikipedia articles after the competition.

rules

Articles should be of 'encyclopaedic nature'. Such articles are short but gives a thorough glimpse of the subject in discussion. The subject is dealt in a non-judgmental manner, and is based on verifiable facts. Reference works are always mentioned in the article itself. The authors refrain from giving any positive or negative comment about the subject. Such articles are also not original research works. If some facts known to authors are not verifiable by a third party reference, then authors explicitly mention that 'citation needed' for this specific info.
Articles in Wikipedia follow a general guideline. To help contestants, a 'sample article' is attached with comments. Depending upon the topic the exact flow of an article varies. Still, authors should try to stick to a pattern that helps in proper dissipation of the information and also are easy to read. Contestants can check good featured articles from the English Wikipedia to get a good example.
All articles whether written in Wikipedia, or send through mail or post will be combined and considered equally for the contest. Experienced Wikipedians of Assamese Wikipedia are not allowed to compete. However, contestant teams can take help of experienced Wikipedians in formatting an articles and other technical staffs, but they should not touch any of the main content.
Articles must be written in Assamese in Assamese Script. For terms that do not have a proper Assamese translation, contestants may translate the same, but the original English term should be mentioned within brackets. Any term that cannot be translated can be written with Assamese Script, but the main English term should be given within brackets.
All articles including the ones sent through mail or post, will be included in the Assamese Wikipedia provided they possess minimum quality for inclusion. Once inside Wikipedia, all articles will be treated as regular Wikipedia articles and editing would continue as a general Wikipedia article.
More than one person can form a team and join the competition. The names of all the members must be mentioned at the beginning and once a team is formed, no new member may join in.
There are no limitations of Subject for the article competition. However, contestants are advised pre-check if the topic already has a good article in the Assamese Wikipedia. Contestants can search and check Assamese Wikipedia before starting an article, or can inquire through mail (mail address: assamesewikipedia@yahoo.com ) or over phone with the coordinators. Existing Wikipedia articles marked as 'পোখালি' can be taken up for the competition. 'পোখালি' means that the article is too short to be considered a good article, hence those can written again.
For articles written outside Wikipedia, authors must add References in the manner specified in the sample article.
Contestants can use existing images in the Wikipedia to enhance their article. Images taken by contestants themselves can also be used, and such new images can also be submitted to Photography Competition. However, contestants are not allowed to use images cut form newspaper, magazine or other such sources.
Competition articles will be closed for editing on midnight 31-st May, 2012. Last date for mail and postal submission is 25-th May, 2012.
Articles should have minimum 500 words to maximum 3000 words excluding the references.
All articles submitted will go under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
If an article or it's part is found to be copied, pirated or translated from other sources, then the article would be summarily rejected from the competition and may even be deleted from Wikipedia.
Judges decision will be final and biding.

prizes

First, Second and Third: Book Packs
Consolation prizes: Certificate of Merit from Assamese Wikipedia
Certificates for prize winners and winning entries will be displayed in front pages of Assamese wiki projects.

Outreach

Outside Wiki

1) Flickr Groups
2) Assamese blogosphere, Assamese aggregators, individual blogs, e-Zines
3) Assamese e-Mail groups
4) Educational institutions
5) Social media - Facebook, Twitter, Buzz
4) Announcements in print and electronic magazines (with the help of media contacts)

Inside wiki

1) Site notices and VP announcements in Assamese wiki projects
2) Targeted sitenotices in En wiki, announcement in India project page
3) An English version of the contest page will be created for potential contestants who can't read Assamese

Responsibilities

Publicity
Responding to contestants queries, guiding them (onwiki, email and social media)
Maintain contest portal and pages
Jury duty (judging and identifying+tagging copyvios)

Lead coord's extra responsibilities

Handling Grant money.
Casting vote in case of differences amongst coordinators

Conduct rules for Coordinators

Coordinators and their close relatives can take part in the contest. But their entries will not be considered for prizes. They will be in-effect dummy contestants.

Coordinators

Uddip Talukdar, (Talk) Contact :-
Bishnu Saikia, (Talk) Contact :- 98641 98228
Anjal Borah, (Talk) Contact :- 09479420094
Jyoti Prakash Nath, (Talk) Contact :- 9864917706
Gitartha Bordoloi, (Talk) Contact :- 8822842426