Commons:Wiki Loves Villages

Wiki Loves Villages is Photography event to increase the amount of freely-licensed material related to villages (Rural Municipalities) of Nepalese districts in Wikimedia Commons.The plan is to photograph the important places of three districts of Nepal. The pilot project will be run in Western part of Nepal. The villages (rural municipalities and municipalities) of Mustang District, Myagdi District, Palpa District, Tanahun District and Kaski District districts are photograph during the project. At the end of the project, We will organize a photowalk in one of the Metropolis with group of photographers to photograph the missing places which is not yet uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Impact

Number of place to photograph: 9+8+10=27
Number of photowalk: 1
Number of participants: 15
Number of article or improved: 100
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: 1000 (target)

Goals

To Take photographs of villages (Rural Municipalities) of three districts of Nepal.
Improve the Quality of images and free licensed images of the rural area of Nepal
Upload photographs with a different subject like culture, shelter, food, dress up, People and educational institutions.
To engage new and existing members of the community.
To spread awareness about contributing media contents to Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Team

Bijay Chaurasia -- Event Lead
- Volunteers
Aaasish Shah
Nikesh Ghimire

Valued & Quality Images

Welcome board at Baisari-Rakhu Bhagawati, Myagdi
Komatsu PC200-8 Hydraulic Excavator -Rakhu Bhagawati, Myagdi

Photographs

Images of Wiki Loves Villages (So far 800+ images)

Outreach

For the increment of the amount of freely-licensed material related to villages (Rural Municipalities) of Nepalese districts in Wikimedia Commons. The team has reached various villages of five different districts of Nepal to take photographs and make photographs available for the articles at Wikipedia.