Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013/Meetings/Doc/WLM-2013-documentation

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This is a draft pad envisioned as a place to gather ideas & parts of documentation for the 2013 Wiki Loves Monuments competition.

I have plenty of documentation ready in my Moleskine notebook, and this is just a place to put it on-line before moving it to Commons.

As always, all help in actually creating the documentation and improving it is welcome.

Reasons for producing the documentation

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  1. Save time answering recurring questions and finding existing answers by linking to a centralised place on Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Enable local teams to answers questions on their own without /ever/ contacting the international team.
  3. Enable more people to participate in the competition by explaining in a simple way what it is about, and how to take part.
  4. Help new participants and newcomers in general to take part in the competition more easily and actively.
  5. Guide new participants through their beginning on Wikimedia Commons in as stress-free way as possible ("Make it fun!").
  6. Leave an impression of professionalism & good organisation.

Audience analysis

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Here are some identified user groups that the documentation should be written for:

  1. First-time users with just a few uploads to come.
  2. First-time super-uploaders, with a few hundred or a few thousand uploads to come.
    These two groups would require a few step-by-step guides, including how to find the necessary information on your monuments, and how to actually upload a file. Super-uploaders might also want to add their pictures to their local Wikipedia list of cultural heritage monuments, and categorise them properly. Links to more general Wikimedia Commons guides would probably be welcome.
  3. Existing Wikipedia editors with a few uploads.
  4. Existing Wikipedia editors with massive uploads to go.
    They should already be familiar with uploading files to their local Wikipedias or Wikimedia Commons, or at least should know how to find the necessary information in their language.
  5. Local teams or people involved with local cultural heritage Wikiprojects.
  6. People who just want to help out in their free time.
    These two should have documentation on their own.
  7. Media?
    "Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in a nutshell", basic information about the competition, its organisers, and how to contact people from their countries; general statistics and numbers.

Structure and content

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  • User guides: "how do I..." ?
  • Reference manuals explain the features of a certain product: UploadCampaign, monuments list, the database, ErfgoedBot, the contest overall, etc.

Basic structure:

  1. Documentation for organisers:
    1. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-2013-documentation-FAQ-organisers
  2. Documentation for participants:
    1. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-2013-documentation-FAQ
Frequent tasks/topics should go /before/ infrequent or less popular ones!
Do not give information that is not necessary, as it will only complicate matters.
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