Wikimedia chapters/WMF grants/WM CZ/Czech Municipalities Photographs
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- Legal name of chapter
- Wikimedia Česká republika
- Grant contact name
- Petr Novák
- Grant contact user-name or e-mail
- che
- Grant contact title (position)
- chairman
- Project lead name
- Petr Brož
- Project lead user-name or e-mail
- Chmee2
- Project lead title (position), if any
- Chapters member
- Full project name
- Czech Municipalities Photographs
- Amount requested (in USD)
- USD 2 500
- Provisional target start date
- 2009-07-01
- Provisional completion date
- 2010-06-30
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[edit] Budget breakdown
- 10 participants
- 10 journeys per person
- USD 25 per journey on average
[edit] Project scope
Czech Wikipedia currently contains articles (stubs at least) about all 6249 municipalities in the Czech Republic (and many other significant objects around/in them), but only about one third of those have any photographs. Many have been covered by "WikiProjekt Fotografování" on cswiki, which has been quite successful (see cs:Wikipedie:WikiProjekt Fotografování/Foto Brno), but still most of the pictures come from towns where Wikipedia photographers live. The objective of this project is to support creation of freely licensed photos of Czech municipalities (and associated landmarks) through funding reasonable travel expenses of volunteer photographers.
[edit] Project goal
The goal of this project is to provide freely licensed photos of Czech munipalities, castles, nature reserves, rivers, creeks and other landmarks that were not available before.
[edit] Non-financial requirements
There's no additional support needed from WMF. We presume that participants will be using their own equipment, similarly to current photography project on Czech Wikipedia.
[edit] Fit to strategy
The project will provide new photographs to accompany Wikipedia articles about Czech Republic, thus increasing their quality, as well as other projects that benefit from freely available media.
[edit] Other benefits
We hope this project will show what kind of photos are best usable for Wikipedia articles, which is a benefit that will help Wikipedia even after the project is over. We also believe that funding will attract more Wikipedia contributors to photography projects.
[edit] Measures of success
We will consider this project a success if we get free photos 400 of new municipalities/landmarks (that will be 1000-1500 photos in total), or corresponding numbers while using proportionally less money.
