2024:Program/Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine: using special categories to build partnerships and attract unique content
Session title: Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine: using special categories to build partnerships and attract unique content
- Session type: Poster
- Track: GLAM
- Language: en
Special categories in photo competitions help further collaborations with new partners, attract new participants, and content. The poster will showcase results, and how special categories were used in Wiki Love Monuments Ukraine 2023.
Description
[edit | edit source]The aim of the poster is to show how local teams can attract new participants and content by organising special categories, using the example of Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in Ukraine contest. Wiki Loves Monuments has been organised in Ukraine since 2012, and almost every year there are some additional categories highlighted in the contest. This year there were eight special categories: “Videos”, "Photographic Film" (for uploaded pictures made on a photographic film), "Kharkiv Landmarks", "Jewish Heritage", “War destroys monuments” (for photos of monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian war on Ukraine since 2014), "Elements of Exteriors", "German Heritage" and "Interiors".
Special categories can be used as a tool to highlight some particular relevant need (e.g. documenting destroyed monuments), a particular missing aspect (pictures of interiors), a need to preserve disappearing heritage (buildings of the German colonists are getting remodelled and are not protected by law in most cases) etc.
Wikimedia Ukraine has had great success with special categories allowing new partnerships, attracting new participants, and getting new content.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
This session can help participants from different countries to learn how special nominations in Wiki loves monuments photo competition can help to attract new participants and to create open archive of the photos.
- 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]- Daryna
- I'm a Wikipedia editor from 2017. And I started my way as a project manager of Wiki loves monuments in 2022 right after the full-scale invasion has starte in Ukraine. I love this project and I'm always tring to do my work in the best way.