Commons:Wikipedia Takes Mumbai III

Wikipedia Takes Mumbai

Wikipedia Takes Mumbai is a scavenger hunt for free content photography in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is inspired Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments:Wiki Loves Monuments that happens every year around the world. The aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take photographs cultural heritage as possible for Wikipedia articles. This is aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles and increasing the media content Wikimedia Commons, thereby nourishing Wikipedia, contributing to open and free knowledge sharing and promote awareness about Wikipedia in the city. All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city).

Date: Saturday, 30 September 2017

Time: 8 am.

Point of Assembly: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station

Pre-event discussion

Guidelines for the event

Backdrop activities:

• Spread word through media
• Get contact details
• Encourage new people from outside the community to join.
• This is a team event. Teams can be comprised of maximum four-five members.

Basic requirements:

• Camera (not compulsory!)
• Walk/Vehicle to move around/ public transport/ autos are also okay.
• Data cable/ card reader for transfer of photos.
• Disable on-image timestamps or other data that appears over-top of images.
• Please empty the memory card.

Maps/Routes: The 3 routes for the photo walk.

1. Western: http://g.co/maps/8udzv
2. South A: http://g.co/maps/m4hx2
3. South B: http://g.co/maps/z9atv

Activities:

• Assembling at Oval Maidan at 8am
• The formation of groups and briefing to participants
• Be flexible and capture images of beautiful architectures of Mumbai which possible are not included in the list.
• Meeting at Homi Bhabha centre for science education (hbcse) by 2.30pm
• Upload of pics on Wikimedia Commons.

Dos and Don'ts for the photo-walk.

Do's:

• Bring plenty of water.
• Wear light-coloured clothing and get caps.
• Do not worry about the angles/ nitty gritties of the photo or your camera skills!
• Try and take a clear shot of the building.
• Note down the list of places, names of buildings that you photograph.
• If you learn something new about a landmark/ statue/ building, do pass on the info. It would be very useful to update in the wiki pages.
• If you want to leave early, make sure you transfer your pictures to team volunteer.

Do not:

• Do not take pictures of people - To maintain a level of decency and also not to breach privacy
• Remember that all photos will be used for Wikipedia, hence do not include personal photos.
• Personal photos will not be considered for selection.
• Do not waste time, respect the time limit.
• Do not go into people's homes to photograph. All photos to be buildings/ statues/ landmarks of Mumbai.
• Do not take photos where it is prohibited to do so.
• Do not watermark the images you wish to upload to the Wikimedia Commons.

Mumbai articles that need photographs

Monument ID	Monument Name	Monument Address	Monument Lat Long Details	Greater Mumbai
S-MH-76	Dharavi Fort			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-77	St. George fort			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-78	Mahim Fort			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-79	Bandra Fort			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-80	Shivadi Fort			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-81	Gateway of India			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-82	Banganga Talav			Greater Mumbai
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S-MH-83	August Kranti Maidan			Greater Mumbai
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Image license

• All photos should be uploaded and thereby released under the Creative Commons license.

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Organizers

• Karthik (mail me)

News / Blogs / Media exposure

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