Wikipedia Treks Sammed Sikhar/Guidelines

These are the basic guidelines for the event.

Guidelines for the event

Backdrop activities:

• Spread word through social media
• Get contact details
• Encourage new people from outside the community to join.

Basic requirements:

• Digital Camera
• Disable on-image timestamps or other data that appears over-top of images.
• Please empty the memory card.

Activities:

• Briefing to participants about the purpose of the exploratory trek.
• Starting point will be declared soon
• Upload of pics on Wikimedia Commons after completion.
• Create new articles or improve old articles in English and at least one Indic language Wikipedia.

Dos and Don'ts for the event.

Do's:

• Bring plenty of water.
• Wear light-coloured clothing and get caps.
• If you have trekking shoes, wear it. If not, dont worry. Sports shoes are okay.
• Carry walking poles, if you need.
• Click at will. Do not worry about the angles/ nitty gritties of the photo or your camera skills!
• Try and take a clear shot of the tonks and temples.
• Note down the list of places, names of tonks, temples and other landscapes that you photograph.
• If you learn something new about a monument, do pass on the info. It would be very useful to update in the Wikipedia pages.

Do not:

• Do not take pictures of people - To maintain a level of decency and also not to breach privacy
• Remember that all photos will be used for Wikipedia, hence do not include personal photos.
• Do not waste time, respect the time limit.
• Do not take photos where it is prohibited to do so.
• Do not watermark the images you wish to upload to the Wikimedia Commons.
• Do not leave behind any garbage in the mountains. Collect them in a waste bag and when you return to a populated area, dump them in a dust bin.