Commons:Wikimedia France
Wikimedia France is a Wikimedia chapter.
Among other activities − detailed on Meta − Wikimedia France supports the Wikimedia Commons project and community in several ways. The entire support results are available on Category:Supported by Wikimedia France.
Facilitating access
Media accreditations
The chapter helps in getting accredited for various events:
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Final of the Railways of France Challenge Trophy 2012
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Reina Tanaka of Morning Musume during autograph session at Japan Expo
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Citroën C4 WRC 2010, Paris Motor Show
Privileged access
The chapter negotiates privileged access for photographers to special places and collections, especially related to cultural institutions:
- Museum of Toulouse with Project Phoebus
- Palace of Versailles
- Various venues like the Sainte-Geneviève Library or the National School of Palaeography and Archival Studies
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Dynamine postverta postverta (Cramer, 1780)
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Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France.
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Reading room of Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris.
Loaning equipment
The chapter has purchased photographic equipment which can be freely borrowed by contributors: DLSR cameras, lenses, photo studios.
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Tomb of Pierre Gareau at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris (France).
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Planetary gearing of a pencil sharpener
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Procession des saints de Bretagne, fresco in Rennes Cathedral
Encouraging participation
The chapter encourages participation to the Wikimedia projects, through the organisation of photographic rallies or contests like Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth or été des régions:
- Nanterre photo rush
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2011
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
- Wiki Loves Earth 2015
- Été des villes 2015
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2015
- Wiki Loves Earth 2016
- été des régions 2016
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2016
- Wiki Loves Earth 2017
- été des régions 2017
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2017
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Central part of the ceiling of the Gallery of Battles at the Palace of Versailles.
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Great gallery of Château de Maintenon - Eure-et-Loir, France
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The Genoese tower in Porto at sunset - Corsica, France.
Opening and sharing public domain material
The chapter strives to create partnerships with cultural institutions, aiming among other thing to help them opening and sharing their public domain collections.
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Scan of Histoire générale du mouvement janséniste (1924) by Augustin Gazier
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Self-portrait by Eugène Trutat (1860)
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Lithography of St. Bertrand de Comminges, near Luchon (19th century)
Buying reference books
The chapter can help contributors to buy reference books to help describe pictures:
- Files documented with Saint-Sernin de Toulouse - De Saturnin au chef-d'œuvre de l'art roman
- Exhibition documented with the catalogue
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Tympanum of Miègeville's gate in Basilica St. Sernin in Toulouse
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Portrait of Nicholas I of Russia (detail)
Training people
The chapter organizes training sessions to help contributors develop their skills.
- 14 June 2015: Atelier de traitement de l'image (DxO, LightRoom, etc.)
- 27 & 28 juin 2015: Weekend de formation photo, Hérault (34)
A few figures
Wikimedia France has already supported the creation of 207,732 media. Among those:
- 182 are featured pictures
- 4,272 are valued images
- 3,031 are quality images