Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Institutions from Flickr

This page lists four international charitable institutions whose images were already on the photo sharing website Flickr under a Creative Commons license and which wholeheartedly agreed with genuine enthusiasm to include such contents within the WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge frame, thus making available over one thousand files. The operation was made possible in semi-automatic mode and with some success using the excellent tool by Magnus Manske, Flickr2Commons, and his bot. Further details about the photographs, like the context or the names of people and places, are usually present in the Flickr set pages they come from. Helping to categorize images, or to find better titles and descriptions, to enter the geographic coordinates, to identify the most beautiful that should be showcased on Commons or simply to include them in a page of Wikipedia or another project of the Wikimedia Foundation is the best way to thank these generous institutions.

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)
Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a Christian organization based in Minnesota, USA. While the basic principles of their work are explicitly religious, this non-profit defends the universally shared right of children (but not only) in areas of extreme poverty to receive nutritious meals, relying on hundreds of thousands of volunteers for the packaging of food and working together with other humanitarian organizations to transport and distribute it. Charity Navigator, an independent non-profit site that has been monitoring financial stability and transparency of thousands of American charities for 10 years, assigns an almost full score to FMSC. Among the African countries in which they operate, especially Liberia, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia are well represented by 84 high resolution files documenting in particular the activities of transportation and delivery of food.


 * commons:Category:Files created by Feed My Starving Children, 84 files, over 1200 direct visits between October and December 2012
 * http://www.fmsc.org/
 * http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=9307
 * Usage statistics

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Heinrich Böll Foundation)
The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Heinrich Böll Foundation) is an international network and a legally independent political foundation in Berlin, subsidiary of the German Green Party and named after the famous writer Heinrich Böll, with whom they share civic engagement and activism. The foundation is involved in numerous programs in the areas of ecology, sustainability, democracy and human rights, justice and gender equality. The 117 high-resolution files transferred to Commons are mainly related to a journalist journey in Nigeria in 2010 to verify the dramatic effects of climate change in the country and the participation of the latter in 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, which was also an occasion for meetings and debates on the subject of football itself as the bearer of social change and the women's one as an opportunity for emancipation.


 * commons:Category:Files_created_by_Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 117 files, over 2400 visits between October and December 2012
 * Http://www.boell.de/service/home.html
 * Usage statistics

International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
According to the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), the information and communication technologies can really make a difference to improve the conditions and quality of life in developing countries; that's why the institute, which is based in The Hague, mainly works with local partners in projects related to economic development, education, health, and gender issues. The hundreds of images on Commons are related to different activities in several African countries in which they operate, from computer training (left) to telemedicine, auto mechanics classes to carpentry ones. User Katharinaiv in particular is ensuring the proper categorization of photos, which in just two months have received more than thirteen thousand direct accesses.
 * commons:Category:WikiAfrica IICD, 410 files, over 13,300 visits between October and December 2012
 * http://www.iicd.org/
 * Usage statistics

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)
The network Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) was formed in 2007 by international organizations active in the field of sustainable sanitation and related fields. It has currently over 200 partner organziations and over 4000 members. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for International Cooperation or GIZ) based in Bonn currently directs the Secretariat and agreed to release their materials for SYK; 440 of such photos have landed on Commons totaling 8500 direct views in just two months.
 * commons:Category:Files created by Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), 440 files, 8500 visits from October to December 2012.
 * Http://www.susana.org/ - http://www.giz.de/en/
 * Usage and other reports on this collection are listed at c:Commons:Batch uploading/Sustainable Sanitation Alliance/index.

Italian version

 * it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Istituzioni su Flickr

Related Pages

 * WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge
 * WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Photographers 4 SYK
 * Informal notes about the used tool