Wikimedia France is a Wikimedia chapter.

Among other activities ? detailed on Meta ? Wikimedia France supports the Wikimedia Commons project and community in several ways. The entire support results are available on Category:Supported by Wikimedia France .

Media accreditations [ edit ]

The chapter helps in getting accredited for various events:

• political rallies
• sports
• concerts, festival or fairs

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  Final of the Challenge Reseau Ferre de France?Trophee Monal 2012 (epee world cup tournament in Paris)
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  Reina Tanaka of Morning Musume during autograph session at Japan Expo
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  Citroen C4 WRC 2010, Mondial de l'automobile

Privileged access [ edit ]

The chapter negotiates privileged access for photographers to special places and collections, especially related to cultural institutions:

• Museum de Toulouse with the Projet Phoebus
• Chateau de Versailles
• Various venues like the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve or the Ecole Nationale des Chartes

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  Dynamine postverta postverta (Cramer, 1780)
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  Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) in the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France.
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  Reading room of Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris.

The chapter has purchased photographic equipment which can be freely borrowed by contributors : DLSR cameras, lenses, photo studios.

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  Tomb of Pierre Gareau at the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris (France).
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  Planetary gearing of a pencil sharpener
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  Procession des saints de Bretagne , fresco in the Cathedrale Saint-Pierre de Rennes (France)

The chapter encourages participation to the Wikimedia projects, through the organisation of photographic rallies or contests like Wiki Loves Monuments , Wiki Loves Earth or ete des regions :

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  Central part of the ceiling of the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles .
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  Great gallery of Chateau de Maintenon - Eure-et-Loir, France
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  The Genoese tower in Porto at sunset - Corsica, France.

The chapter strives to create partnerships with cultural institutions , aiming among other thing to help them opening and sharing their public domain collections.

• Ecole nationale veterinaire de Toulouse
• Bibliotheque nationale de France
• Archives municipales de Toulouse
• Archives nationales
• Musee des Augustins

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  Scan of Histoire generale du mouvement janseniste (1924) by Augustin Gazier
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  Self-portrait by Eugene Trutat (1860)
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  Lithography of St. Bertrand de Comminges, near Luchon (19th century)
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The chapter can help contributors to buy reference books to help describe pictures:

• Files documented with Saint-Sernin de Toulouse - De Saturnin au chef-d'œuvre de l'art roman
• Exhibition documented with the catalogue

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  Tympanum of Miegeville's gate in Basilica St. Sernin in Toulouse
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  Portrait of Nicolas 1er (detail)

The chapter organizes training sessions to help contributors develop their skills.

• 14 June 2015: Atelier de traitement de l'image (DxO, LightRoom, etc.)
• 27 & 28 juin 2015: Weekend de formation photo , Herault (34)

Wikimedia France has already supported the creation of 206,623 media . Among those:

• 181 are featured pictures
• 4,251 are valued images
• 3,028 are quality images