2024:Program/Explore the world with "Nearby" in the Commons app!
Session title: Explore the world with "Nearby" in the Commons app!
- Session type: Poster
- Track: Wild Ideas
- Language: en
Did you know that the Wikimedia Commons app has a "nearby" function, which searches Wikidata for items near you that don't have images yet? The app provides functionality to take or upload a photo to Commons through the app and automatically tag it on Wikidata, Commons Structured Data, and categories. Many of these locations are imported from lists of heritage sites and other scenic attractions. When you are bored and want to do something casually meaningful for open knowledge, why not turn on the Commons app and go on a walk to contribute photographs of interesting things around you?
Description
[edit | edit source]If this proposal is accepted, I will prepare a poster with roughly the following layout:
BIG TITLE
Instruction screenshots 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 -5
Photo montages on OSM base maps: Hungerford, England || Sai Kung Bay, Hong Kong (~4 photos each)
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
This poster should encourage casual Wikimedia contributors everywhere to piggback ("Collaboration") on geospatial data on Wikidata, and share open-copyright photographs ("of the Open") about listed heritage and other locations of scenic interest (in "the open", but in the literal sense of a public open space!).
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
[edit | edit source]Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Deryck Chan
- Deryck Chan has been a Wikipedian since 2004 and serves as a bureaucrat of Cantonese Wikipedia and an administrator of English Wikipedia. He is a civil engineer in his day job, specialising in reservoirs and water infrastructure, and holds a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He has wide-ranging interests within the Wikimedia movement, from community health to sustainability and translation.