2023:Program/GLAM, Heritage, and Culture/JYAGFG-Wiki Loves in Numbers

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Title: Wiki Loves in Numbers

Speakers:

Lodewijk Gelauff

Lodewijk is a Dutch Wikipedian since 2005 and was in 2010 one of the initiators of Wiki Loves Monuments in the Netherlands. In the years after, he has been part of the international team that helped grow the competition to span dozens of countries each year. He was administrator on various projects, board member of Wikimedia Nederland (2006-2011), steward (2006-2010), member of the Affiliations Committee (2009-2014) and served in various other roles and committees. In 2021 he was named the inaugural Wikimedia Laureate (20th year honouree).

Pretalx link

Etherpad link

Room: Room 311

Start time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:35:00 +0800

End time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:05:00 +0800

Type: No (pretalx) session type id specified

Track: GLAM, Heritage, and Culture

Submission state: confirmed

Duration: 30 minutes

Do not record: false

Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

In this session we will review 13 years of Wiki Loves competitions through a more quantitative lens: what actually happened, and what happened to the uploads and uploaders after the competitions ended? Wiki Loves Monuments, Earth or Africa: it’s worth taking a deeper dive.

Description

Wiki Loves Monuments started in 2010 in the Netherlands and has grown to become the worlds largest photography competition. Similar photo competitions with a different thematic angle have also developed, and we’ll take a look at the entire ecosystem.

As a federated photography competition, we will look at the past years and what it has brought us. The overall statistics are already impressive (almost 3 million images uploaded in Wiki Loves Monuments alone) but in this presentation we will dive a bit deeper in how images are being used, who were the participants that contributed the images and what else can we deduce?

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

Wiki Loves Monuments and sister competitions have been one of the tools available to communities around the world to recruit new colleagues. It has often been heralded as one of the more successful concepts around. To the extent that publicly available data permits us, we will (among other things) look at what happened to these new contributors. What can we learn from competitions in the past, to be more effective in the future?

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

The session is for an experienced audience

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand