Lagos Municipalities Photowalk

Group of the participants at the upload session

"Lagos Municipalities Photowalk is a project primarily focus on engaging professional photographers in taking freely licensed high quality photographs of municipalities and associated landmarks in Lagos State"

Objective

• The aim of the project is to primarily focus on engaging professional photographers in taking freely licensed high quality photographs of municipalities and associated landmarks in Lagos State
• To take and upload images of Lagos landmarks.
• To recruit professional photographers for Wikimedia Commons
• To increase contents on Wikimedia Commons
• To improve contents on English Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia and Hausa Wikipedia

Recruit new editors

• Engage existing editors
• To create awareness about Wikimedia projects

Date

1 July - 15 July 2019

Place

Lagos, Nigeria

Photowalk

• Meeting point at two areas:

Group 1 at Alakuko busstop, Lagos by 8am Group 2 at Ojoto busstop, Lagos by 8am

• Photowalk started at 8:30 A.M.
• Briefing about what to document and introduction ” 8:00 -8:30 A.M.
• Photowalk ended at 7:00 P.M.

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Event co ordinators

• Kaizenify
• Olaniyan Olushola

Upload Session

On 5th July 2019, the upload session took in place at Amen Hall, Ogba, Lagos with 37 people in attendance.

Participants

1. Kaizenify (talk) 11:31, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
2. User:Oludeleadewalephotography
3. User:Lightfast Media
4. User:Comradeayobami
5. User:Maekawhy
6. User:Blacksaltphotography
7. User:Olatunbosun Success
8. User:Omoeko Media
9. User:Davidben zignature
10. User:Harris Jac
11. User:Signature56
12. User:Mayorace
13. User:Softwork Phototgraphy
14. User:LaLibraPoshMedia
15. User:Eighteenedition entertainment
16. User:Johnbrainyvisuals
17. User:Palmsgraphy
18. User:Targetfotografi
19. User:Teecrystal Photograpgy
20. User:Larmis Phototgraphy
21. User:Iwanjayz
22. User:Godmyhelper

• Lagos Municipalities Photowalk Upload-Sessions
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Outcome

• over 800 images of Lagos landmarks uploaded on Commons.
• value addition to through attachment of images to existing content.
• New multilingual content is being created on the basis of this event.
• Strong relationship with photography associations

• Some of the landmark images that was produced
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Followups

A WhatsApp group of all the participants was created and well maintained