Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Picture This Photography Event

What's it about?
Picture This! Share your photos with the world. There is a lack of quality New Zealand (and Wellington) imagery on Wikimedia Commons and it’s our mission to change this! If you’re a photographer or photo enthusiast, come and find out how to use Wikimedia Commons to upload your photos and make them available to all. At Workshop 1 (Saturday 9 March) we will introduce you to the Wiki world. Create an account, learn about Creative Commons and dive into Wikicommons. You will now be ready to shoot! At Workshop 2 (Saturday 13 April) we will come back to the studio and share our photos with the group. Learn about uploading them to Wikicommons and making them discoverable for everyone to use. There will be a prize for the best contribution. The workshop will be held Photospace Gallery, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington, Studio, Level 1 Registration is now open at $5 a ticket - register here https://events.humanitix.com/picture-this-share-your-photos-with-the-world

When and where
Saturday 9 March and Saturday 13 April from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm Level 1 Studio, Photospace Gallery, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington

What to bring
Wi-Fi will be provided at the venue
 * A laptop
 * Your camera of choice

Agenda
Workshop 1 3.00 pm Tea break
 * 1.00 pm Introductions and what we hope to achieve
 * 1.30 pm Setting you up with a Commons user account
 * 2.00 pm Copyright and Creative Commons: a talk by Victoria Leachman
 * 2.30 pm Q&A
 * 3.30 pm Who can help me? An introduction to local Wiki folk
 * 4.00 pm Group discussion: what to shoot over the next five weeks?
 * 4.30 pm Q&A
 * 5.00 pm Workshop ends

Workshop 2 3.00 pm Tea break
 * 1.00 pm Round robin: update everyone on what you’ve been shooting
 * 1.30 pm How to upload to Commons
 * 2.15 pm Break-out into groups for uploading
 * 3.30 pm Q&A. Peer-review of upload session
 * 4.15 pm Categories and structured data
 * 5.00 pm Workshop ends

Links and resources

 * Wikimedia Commons home page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * Create a Commons account: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Special%3ACreateAccount
 * The Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
 * Contributing to Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Contributing
 * How to upload an image into Wikimedia Commons. Youtube. 4min 17s.

People attending
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Dashboard
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