Communications Hackathon/ABCD

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Michael (WMDE)

Program: Freedom of Panorama "intervention" (Summer 2015); postal mailings to German Members of Parliament, advocating for a EU-wide pro-Freedom of Panorama position.

Attention: We sent a letter that included two almost identical postcards. Both postcards showed a famous sight from the city or home state of the respective Member of Parliament. One looked like a traditional postcard from a tourist place, saying "greetings from ... with freedom of panorama!". The other looked similar, but had the famous sight blacked out. Here the line read "greetings from ... 'without freedom of panorama!". Also, the letter included an actual call to action from our Executive Director. It explained that EU legislation could keep people from sharing pictures of the home region of the Member of Parliament, and that with their "pro vote" they could keep Freedom of Panorama in Germany.

Because: Our reasoning was, ..."because of Wikipedia and sharing freely". Infringed Freedom of Panorama would lead to problems for Wikipedia. But we added another "because" by appealing to the personal regional background, as in "because it does have a negative effect on your local community".

do: Vote against the specific paragraph that would infringe Freedom of Panorama

Program: Free culture awareness.There is a project in congress for change the law of intelectual property.

Attention: We inform to Communication List, public policy and Social Media.; We went to the Congress and talk with the people the project.; We send press release to the media.

Press Release.
Video of Patricio Lorente telling the audience the impact of the change in the law.
Posters with the images that we're going to lost.

We ask our community to sign our request in Change.org

Attention: Do you ever see content on Wikipedia related to your museum's expertise that needs improvement?

Because: Museums can help fix the content, and you don't even need to know how to edit Wikipedia.

Chorus/content: The Wikipedia community is asking museums to collaborate on researching and fixing high profile content.

do: Tell us the three articles in Wikipedia you could help improve, with the help of your curators and resources, and our editors will get to work!

Target audience: General public

Attention: Less than 20% of (all) Wikipedia contributors are female. Only 16% of the biographies on the English Wikipedia are about women. Only 25% of edits to subjects about the Sub-Saharan region come from within that region. More edits originate from Hong Kong each quarter than do from the entire continent of Africa over the same period. Wiki Loves Women wants to change this by celebrating the women of Africa on Wikipedia in four countries.

There is a lack of information about Africa and women on Wikipedia
There are very few editors on Wikipedia who are from Africa and are women
There is a lot of information that exists within organisations that people cannot always access.

Editing Wikipedia is not only important but is fun
Reflecting more content on Wikipedia about notable women balances the kinds of information that is being consumed
Providing information on Wikipedia about the context that women face in Africa provides profound understanding of problems and issues that people face daily.

You can get involved. Join a training session and add content to Wikipedia by contacting your local Wiki Loves Women Wikipedian in Residence.