WikiIndaba 2023/Submissions/Project Korikath: Bringing commons closer to our daily life
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Project Korikath: Bringing commons closer to our daily life | ||
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| Author(s): Wasiul Bahar | Username(s): Wasiul Bahar | Type of submission: (Presentation) | |
| Affiliation: Project Korikath | Theme(s): Community Engagement, Media Outreach, Partnerships, Strategy, Diversity | ||
| Abstract:
The session will be about “Project Korikath” which is being founded and maintained by some young Wikimedia volunteers from Bangladesh to bridge the content gap in wikimedia projects like wikipedia, wikidata, wiki voyage etc.. I will discuss about our work process of maintain a commons based project with very limited recourses. I'll describe the analysis we're doing to identify the areas where photographs are deficient and conducting physical photowalk in Bangladesh,India, canada and Egypt to fill the content gap in wikimedia projects. I will try to give a overview of how we are attracting young people and utilizing their passion to enrich commons by uploading 10000+ images in just 8 months and aiming to upload more than 20000 images in the first phase. I'll discuss some of the things I've learned that discourage beginners from contributing to commons and how to fix them. I will share my thoughts on how enabling young people can make a major change in commons overnight. I will share my whole journey with the project how I started with zero capacity, zero manpower and made the project sustanable and included 30+ totally new contributors from 4 countries. |
Level of advancement: medium | ||
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| Extra information: I will use interactive slides to present my ideas. | |||
| How will this session be beneficial for the communities in the region?
There are a lots of enthusiastic people in indaba community who want to work and make a change in wikimedia movement but cannot make their dream come true as they don't know how to start because of lack of capacity. I will share my experience of project korikath which will guide them to organize similar projects in Indaba and work to reprsent their work in wikimedia movement. | |||
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