Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
We are happy and satisfied with the outcome of the this project.
Through the 2020 Wiki Loves Folklore Ghana Photo Contest, we succeeded in
Uploading 454 pictures and videos on Wikimedia Commons
Created 47 new articles on English Wikipedia 7 with images uploaded during the contest
Improved 26 articles on Wikipedia using images uploaded for the contest
Created 8 Wikidata items using images uploaded during the contest
Improved 17 Wikidata items using images uploaded for the contest
➤ 24 unique people registered their participation on Google Forms ➤ 10 unique people either attended the photowalk or the upload session ➤ 28 people participated remotely
Although 16 participants registered interest to participated in the photowalk, only 10 showed up. And 15 participants showed up for the upload session.
400 images
454 images and videos
We exceeded our target of 400 with over 41 more images during this competition.
Use 20% of total images on Wikimedia projects
40 images
For lack of enough and reliable references we were unable to create as many articles on English Wikipedia with the images and vidoes uploaded as wanted to.
Recruit and train new editors (photowalks, upload sessions and edit-a-thons)
11 recruits
About 5 of these were recruited during the upload session and the remaining participated remotely
Two Photowalks
Three Photowalks
Considering the theme of the contest "Folklore", in order to get the content we desired we took a different approach of sending about four or three participants to festivals and events where folk music, dances and costumes were going to be displayed. This approach helped us to collect diverse pictures and videos which portrayed both the culture of the Northern and southern part of Ghana.
Engage existing editors to contribute to commons and its activities
28 uploaders
about 15 of these were existing editors from our previous projects
Improve at least 10 articles on English Wikipedia
26
We mostly added images and videos uploaded for the contest to articles which needed them and added new sections to some articles
Create 10 new articles on English Wikipedia
47
Out of the 45, we added pictures and videos uploaded for the contest to 6.
no target
8 new Wikidata items
Using the pictures and videos uploaded for the contest, we created 7 new Wikidata items
no target
17 Wikidata items improved
We added images and videos uploaded for the contest to Wikidata items which needed them. We also added additional statements to some
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What worked well?
Some professional photographers participated in the contest
We realised after our first photowalk that our initial approach of picking towns to visit wasn't going to help us get the diverse content in relation to the theme. So we took a different approach of sending about four or three participants to festivals and events where folk music, dances and costumes were going to be displayed. This approach helped us to collect diverse pictures and videos which portrayed both the culture of the Northern and southern part of Ghana.
We designed a video and flyers which we used to promote the event on our various social media platforms and that helped us to attract external participants who mostly participated remotely.
What did not work so well?
We were not satisfied with the overall participation, we were expecting about 100 participants, remote participants inclusive.
We did not begin planning for this project early enough and hence could not get the time to promote it well.
It was quite difficult tracking the users who did not fill the registration form with their contact details but participated remotely. Some of these remote participant's user pages haven't been created so it was difficult reaching out to them.
What would you do differently next time?
In the future, we will begin planning at an early stage
We will also do some paid advertising to help boost promotion of the project on the various social media platforms
Ensure to get contact details of all participants so that we are able to reach them to give them their award should their pictures be selected as winning photos
Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.
Anything else you want to share about your project?
To select the winning photos, two major rounds were involved. In round one, the jury members which involved four people(Franklin Oduro, Sadik Shahadu, Emmanuel Yeboah and Zita Ursula Zage) had to go through all pictures uploaded, taking note of the users and the number of pictures each of them uploaded. In this round, all pictures and videos which are not ponographic and relates to the theme of the contest were selected to the next round. In the second round, we used another set of four judges which included photography experts(Queen Shatta, Nate Angell, Marti Blume and Liridon Selmani) the winning photos were selected based on:
the nice control of sharpness between motif and background,
decently composed nature
the picture showing a clear subject without distracting elements
relation to the theme of the contest
sharpness and exposure
the difficulty in taking good pictures of a particular category of items, for instance food.
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