Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Fremantle

In the growing tradition of Wikipedia Takes Your City, a crew of Perth Wikimedians and Fremantle Society members are organising Wikipedia Takes Fremantle, a photo scavenger hunt aiming to increase Wikimedia projects' photographic coverage of Fremantle, Western Australia and environs.

You don't have to be involved in Wikipedia, or an amazing photographer, or anything in particular other than interested in Fremantle and helping record just one day in history. A list of goals is provided, and you walk/ride/bus around town taking some number of photos of each of them, before regrouping back at the venue in the afternoon for uploading and prize-giving. A barbeque is likely. The Society is donating a copy of the history of the Society, Fighting for Fremantle by Ron and Dianne Davidson, as a prize.

The event page is now active on the Scavenger Hunt tool: http://toolserver.org/~contests/viewevent.php?event=13 The goal list hasn't been transferred yet, but will be soon.

Date, Time, and Location (to meet etc.)

• When: Saturday, September 17th 2011, 10:30AM.
• Where: The Fremantle Society cottage, 11 Captains Lane, three doors down from the Round House.
• Who: Anyone! If you have an interest in Fremantle, photography, or wandering around on a nice day with some friends, come along! Add yourself to the participant list below.

Timetable

10:30AM	Meet at the cottage to register and receive goal lists etc.
11:00–15:00	Try to take as many good shots of all the goals as you can.
15:00	Back to the cottage to upload the photos, eat and drink, and generally have a nice Saturday afternoon.

Internet connectivity at the venue is limited to 3G modems (of which there will be at least one, never fear), and there is the offer of a faster connection just down the road on High Street.

Goals

See /Goals for the complete list in a form suitable for printing and taking with you on the day, and below for some topics that might need to be added to the list.

We're currently building the list of goals:

Anywhere in or around Fremantle is fair game, as well as anything or anyone related to Freo in any way.

For inspiration, check out what's already on Commons: Commons:Fremantle, Western Australia — and what's missing!

Browse the Fremantle category here on Wikipedia ([+] to expand category branches):

Fremantle

Teams and Participants

• User:Samwilson (also a Fremantle Society member)
• User:Orderinchaos
• User:Moondyne will try to get down there on the 17th.
• Fox - quite possibly, will be moving to Perth on the 13th! Sorry I couldn't make this, still pretty jetlagged :(
• Add yourself here!

TODO

• Build the /Goals list;
• Advertise, on-wiki and (more importantly?) offline;
• Change that header image!
• Add to the /Goals ;-) .
• Write a few points about how to take photos of things (other Wiki Takes the City organisers seem to mention something about this; I'm sure photographers will have an opinion?).