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There are many ways to get involved and to collaborate with the initiative wikiArS from schools, from the Wikipedian community, from the Wikimedia movement organizations, from universities and art institutions, cultural, research and outreach or from people wanting to participate. How you can participate? Look what profile you match: student, teacher, wikimedian, advisor or other. Contact with a Wikimedia movement chapter, organisation or group involved with wikiArS or ask them to be involved Contact with an school of art (or speak with you collages if you are a teacher or student), explain the project and seek for the best way to be involved. Take into account the triple supervision model. Jaume Ferrer, edRa teacher Luís Casado, Llotja teacher David Gómez, wikimedian tutor User Lluis_tgn, wikimedian tutor Tarragona Archaeological Museum team, expert advisers Joan Lalucat, Art del Treball student Dylan Calaf, EA Tarragona student Carolina Gutiérrez, edRa student Meritxell Guasch, EA Tarragona student Paula Cuadros, Irene Martínez and Laia Ricard at Pau Gargallo School of Art Sara Aznar, Llotja student Carla Liesa, Noelia Martín, Alícia Gallego, Gemma Merino and Marc Hernández at Llotja School of Art Collaboration profiles Students, teacher and wikimedian tutor in Llotja (Barcelona) Students and teacher in UCA (Jerez) Historian F.X.Hernanez in his office giving advise to art student N.Riveiro Student Wikimedian tutor Is the bridge between Wikimedia community and school of art. Ideally someone who knows and edit articles for 'Wikipedia' and/or who knows Wikimedia Commons (uploading images, choosing license, categorise them, etc..). And ideally a person knowledgeable or interested in the field of art, design, photography and/or graphic creation. Although not necessary that the person meets all of these features if you work in a coordinated team of tutors. This profile is specially designed to tutor Professional internship or End of degree projects ​​in collaboration with an art school. Teacher A Teacher in an art or design school ready to do an activity related to Wikipedia. Will be the contact person with the tutor and the person who actually fits the academic goals with the Wikipedia aims for free knowledge. Thematic or scientific advisor Image about Messinian salinity crisis created by Llotja student Pau Bahí and supervised by researcher Daniel García Castellanos Expert or knower of an specific knowledge area of subject that guides the student and oversees the illustrations; specially witch of them that needs scientific supervision. The advisor can help in: Guide and help the Wikimedian tutor to prepare assignments Guide students to find sources where documented for illustration or provide it Supervise the sketches and make corrections to the student Give the go-ahead to the illustrations before they are published. Other Helping to detect gaps in required images and contents that can be filled from art schools (ask for images). Helping categorising images on Commons so they can be localized under different concepts. Helping to promote images for distinctions (Featured, Valued, Quality) on Commons or Wikipedia. Assist translating documentation about wikiArS and the schools contribution pages on Commons in several languages Helping to incorporate the images in articles of Wikipedia ​​which are appropriate in several languages. Helping improving, creating or completing articles related with the images provided from schools Give welcome to students as users of Commons, Wikipedia and other projects. Triple supervision model Specially to produce illustrations or infographies about scientific, historical and didactic issues, the triple supervision by art/design teachers (that can give technical and artistic help and the academic fit), subject-specific experts (that can advice by topic, give initial documentation and validation before publishing) and Wikimedian tutors (follow-up of whole process, help about sing-up and upload, inform about licenses) is the best way for supervising the students' image-creation process to ensure the production of visually well-crafted images that are free of subject-specific errors. Wikimedia organisations involved Organisations and groups from the Wikimedia movement involved in wikiArS initiative (include yours if you start a wikiArS experience). Amical Wikimedia wikiArS coordination page: http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/WikiArS geographic area: priority Catalan-speaking areas contact for wikiArS: Dvdgmz <educacio-at-wikimedia.cat> Wikimedia España geographic area: Spain contact for wikiArS: Dvdgmz