This is a task to collect ideas and progress from the group of volunteers who agreed to help take photos at the Wikimania Hackathon 2023 in Singapore and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
Volunteer roles:
Photo policy:
- If someone is wearing the **“no photography” lanyard**, they **do not** wish to appear in any photography or video. Intentionally photographing a person wearing this lanyard without their knowledge is against the [[ https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Friendly_space_policy | friendly-space policy ]] of the event.
- Certain sessions of the conference are marked as “no photography” in the program No photography, and will be announced as such at the beginning of the session.
- **Photos of crowds**. If anyone wearing a “no photography” lanyard appears in a photo of a crowd (e.g. a photo of the foyer area or of people in the distance) the photographer must blur out that person in the final rendering of the photograph.
- **Mindful photographing.** Please be careful of photographing those with “photography is okay” lanyards in situations where people are less likely to want to be photographed. This includes while eating food or drinking, or when having a private conversation.
- **Consent**. It is best practice to obtain consent from identifiable people in your photo before posting online.
- For virtual attendees, please avoid taking or posting screenshots without participants' verbal consent.
Note: Some more ideas for improving the photo policy are in the links below:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Photography_policy
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimedia_event_photography
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2019/Organization/Feedback