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Wikipedia Takes Your City is a one-day wiki scavenger hunt and free content photography contest conducted in a particular locale, where participants compete to take photographs of as many local sights as possible for Wikipedia articles where they are needed. A dedicated tool for facilitating Wikipedia Takes Your City events has been developed on the toolserver: Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunts. Additional instructions can be found there.

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[edit] Compiling a list

A list of articles needing photographs can be compiled from sources such as Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Manhattan, and even by manually going through articles in subcategories of Category:Manhattan.

It can also be that some articles which do have photographs need more modern photographs, or photographs of specific things at the location.

The list should be broadly organized by neighborhood, with addresses and cross-streets included.

You should also solicit fellow Wikipedians for their own suggestions.

[edit] Instruction packets

The finalized list should be printed in an instruction packet to be given out on the morning of the event, with full instructions and a code number for each of the locations.

There were two different starting points (and collection points) in New York, and this could be done in other locales too if it was found convenient.

It is important that participants take a "context photograph" of an index card with the location code written on it (held up in front of the camera and the target location), before actual photographs of the target location. This helps reconstruct which photographs are of which location.

Participants should be encouraged to compete in teams of two or three members if they want to, which increases the fun factor. Still, they should share one camera/memory card, because this also helps reconstruction.

Scores can be tallied with a point system: in New York, there were 10 points for normal locations, 5 bonus points for locations that also had interior photographs, and 30 points for locations far from the city center.

[edit] Uploading

The uploading can be held at a party in the evening, where scores are also tallied and prizes given to members of the winning teams.

The best way to do the uploads is through the Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunts site. Alternatively, a program such as Commonist can be used, and templates similar to {{WTM}}, {{WTMid}} and {{WTMtag}}.

[edit] Events

Wikipedia Takes Montreal 2011 (WTMTL).ogv
Wikipedia Takes Montreal 2011
Roberto Rocha / The Gazette (Montreal) / 2011

[edit] 2008

[edit] 2009

[edit] 2010

[edit] 2011

[edit] 2012

[edit] Ideas for events

[edit] Relevant discussions

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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