Commons talk:Wiki Science Competition 2023

Looking forward - questions

I have a few questions:

• Will there be a CentralNotice like for earlier ones? (I hope so and that it will be displayed for all readers of the site like the WikiLovesEarth banner for example.)
• Can people request specific images that are currently missing? I know of many science-related images that are severely needed or concepts for which illustrating images are missing, especially diagrams, renderings and charts (the competition seems overly focused on photographs only) and listed some as examples here.
• Will there be a chart of which teams and/or countries uploaded most images and/or the overall highest valued images similar to the chart on the right?
• I'm also interested in any further input regarding some of the other ideas in the reddit post such as a proposed Study images importer that works similar to the Flickr importer where you enter an url like a nature study and if it's CCBY it imports all images and file titles, a caption, descriptions, etc so you only need to edit these, speeding up importing free images from studies. (For example, the coding of that could maybe be part of the competition.) See Category:Wikimedia projects and science for more.

If this is not the right place to ask these things and discuss the upcoming competition, please let me know of a better place to put this. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:48, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: Yes, we definitely want CentralNotices. So far the focus has been on fixating the list of participating countries to have a better understanding of where we need CentralNotices.

From the beginning, the competition has had a Non-photographic media category. At the same time, there has been difficulty in promoting this opportunity: a lot of countries don't have many submissions there.

There is currently no place to request specific images. Images are collected in every country however local organizer wants to arrange that. If some local organizer would want to test with that, they are free to go for it. The issue is also that where there would not be some highly specialized outreach linked to that list, then "list of stuff we have missing" would not work, as participants could only upload their own images (i.e to get that stuff you would need to go and ask the right people).

Charts are occasionally being made, but the best statistics can be seen from here. There are a few issues as some bigger countries occasionally have different category structures and therefore count as 0 (especially Russia).

With this competition, the issue has also been that it is really hard to get any banner time as this isn't considered some important Wiki Loves campaign (and that stops this from growing) + this competition is way more reliant on promotion outside banners and many countries don't really have a lot of experience in how to do this. It is also challenging to find local organizers, but this is rather universal to all Wikimedia competitions. This time the likely participants are from those countries.

Would you want to step up as one local organizer? I've collected those images in Estonia since 2011, but unless we have lot more countries joining, then science topics would stay poorly illustrated. It is about time to change that. Kruusamägi (talk) 20:07, 29 September 2023 (UTC)