User:Deryck Chan/2024/Poster submission
 | This is a backup copy of a submitted proposal for a Wikimania 2024 poster. The live copy is on Eventyay. |
Explore the world with "Nearby" in the Commons app![edit | edit source]
- Session type
Poster
- Program track
Wild ideas (because I'm just doing it for fun)
- Language
English (though it may as well be translingual)
- Abstract
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
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)
- Notes
The lead developers of the Wikimedia Commons app have consented to my making this submission.
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kaartic
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Misaochan
- How does your session relate to the event themes - 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!).
- Themes or topics
Capacity building, Storytelling
- Tags
Wikimedia Commons, mobile app, Commons app, mobile, photo walk, geolocation, photography
- Author self-introduction
Deryck Chan has been a Wikipedian since 2004 and a regular Wikimaniac. He serves as a bureaucrat of Cantonese Wikipedia and an administration 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.
- Experience in public speaking / have you presented about this before?
I presented in person at Wikimania 2023 (and various previous Wikimanias): https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/ESEAP_Region/BPWEKU-17_years_of_Cantonese_Wikipedia,_the_Written_Cantonese_literary_movement,_and_the_Wikimedia_movement
I made a poster for Wikimania 2019, which included a few interesting images from Wikimedia Commons https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Environmental_engineering_content_on_Wikimedia_projects.pdf
I won an academic poster prize (British Geotechnical Association) in 2018: https://api.repository.cam.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/6429657b-23ab-408e-a2a4-fa661bc42203/content