Wiki Loves Africa 2021/Meetings/Jan 23 : Survey results and needs

First meeting : Saturday 23rd Jan, 10 am UTC+1

Zoom link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83365189302

Record : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrjH_99sy_I

Topics

Material :

File:Final Report WLA Organizers 2020.pdf (this survey was filled up by the lead organizers of WLA 2020)

Some notes

As an organiser, what more do you think we can do to help photographers with their work and get them more involved?

training sessions on photography
outreach session to explain them Wikimedia Commons<
explaining licences
Souvenirs from Wiki loves Team and office hours enlighten them about the overall expectations of the project
criteria for the international selection are made clear for the locals to also aim big while joining the contest
many of the professional photographers expect a gift that can commensurate their contributions so we might look at improving on quality of our prize
deploy a mechanism that can promote total inclusion
Hold online exhibitions video conference for outstanding images locally for each country and internationally
Advise the affiliates to organise more focused events for photographers, and also involve them in other or related Wikimedia project
strategy of communication

Difficulties

finding jury members
jury process
montage complicated.
The jury members were not properly explained to how their contributions would be recognized or rewarded.
grant money unsufficient
lack of volunteers and or motivation
lack of skills in the team
lack of enough understanding of how Wikimedia Commons work
copyright complicated to explain to participants
lack of communication material. Or of goodies
not enough social media presence
people do not know who we are
complicated to contact winners who did not provide their contact info
The quality of the uploaded photos could be improved compared to the total number of uploaded photos

Suggestions

a "checking" lead for each country to follow up image quality
There should be a general video on how one can navigate the use of the montage at least to help entirely new jurys
To promote fairness, I think the International jury can introduce a cross country participation of Jury in such a way that at least the component of jury in a country must include another nationality or member of other user group as the case may be
userguide of montage should be simplified and translated
More support with montage needed
prizes for jury members, besides recognition
more training
There should be Souvenirs shared across board at least to local community leaders to share amongst their communities to create awareness (goodies ?)
More explanations about the video selection criteria. More explanations on the international photo winners' photos
Daily update of contributions per country.
More social media presence, encourage more females to enter the competition maybe have the best female photo
More instructional videos about Wikimedia for new volunteers