Kia ora koutou! This open letter is addressed to all parties that register list candidates with the Electoral Commission.
We're running a candidate photo initiative for the 2023 New Zealand general election.
Here's the deal:
We first offered this deal for the 2020 general election. Only the Labour Party took up the offer. The result:
From our perspective, adding images to articles improves the encyclopedia.
We want photos of all candidates to improve the usefulness of the party lists in the 2023 New Zealand general election article and biography articles created about MPs elected in the election. We publish articles about newly elected MPs immediately after the election, and these are a popular source of public information about new MPs.
From your perspective, publishing candidate photos on Wikipedia will likely:
It's time-consuming to obtain correctly-licensed, high-quality photos for every individual. Most MPs elected in 2020 who didn't have photos provided by their party still don't have photos on their pages. Some have older or lower-quality photos.
It's much easier for everyone if the parties make these photos available in advance.
There are also some legal reasons why it's tricky for us to do this alone:
Here's how we can work together to build a better Wikipedia and increase voter awareness of candidates:
If you want to participate, there are two ways you could go about this.
From our perspective, method 1 is more straightforward for us, and method 2 may be a little more convenient for you. We can help you with any steps in method 1 that you are unsure about.
We'll be moving forward with publishing the candidates' photographs we receive, even if it means that one or more parties miss out on having their candidates' photos on the list of list candidates. We hope you will take us up on this offer. There isn't a deadline, but the earlier you provide the photos the sooner we can publish them.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to ask them via the talk page, or reply to the email that has been sent to you.
Kia ora koutou! This open letter is addressed to all parties that register list candidates with the Electoral Commission.
We're running a candidate photo initiative for the 2023 New Zealand general election.
Here's the deal:
We first offered this deal for the 2020 general election. Only the Labour Party took up the offer. The result:
From our perspective, adding images to articles improves the encyclopedia.
We want photos of all candidates to improve the usefulness of the party lists in the 2023 New Zealand general election article and biography articles created about MPs elected in the election. We publish articles about newly elected MPs immediately after the election, and these are a popular source of public information about new MPs.
From your perspective, publishing candidate photos on Wikipedia will likely:
It's time-consuming to obtain correctly-licensed, high-quality photos for every individual. Most MPs elected in 2020 who didn't have photos provided by their party still don't have photos on their pages. Some have older or lower-quality photos.
It's much easier for everyone if the parties make these photos available in advance.
There are also some legal reasons why it's tricky for us to do this alone:
Here's how we can work together to build a better Wikipedia and increase voter awareness of candidates:
If you want to participate, there are two ways you could go about this.
From our perspective, method 1 is more straightforward for us, and method 2 may be a little more convenient for you. We can help you with any steps in method 1 that you are unsure about.
We'll be moving forward with publishing the candidates' photographs we receive, even if it means that one or more parties miss out on having their candidates' photos on the list of list candidates. We hope you will take us up on this offer. There isn't a deadline, but the earlier you provide the photos the sooner we can publish them.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to ask them via the talk page, or reply to the email that has been sent to you.