Background
We have been following the 2022 WNBR season (May-Sep) closely. In April, we published a blog titled Participation strength of WNBRs around the world. In June, we went deeper and began by publishing a schedule for the northern hemisphere in a video format -
In this phase of the project, we are planning to prepare infographics on the following data points -
1. Venues by year-wise ride status data - one green block for every successful ride year. This will let us see total rides held in each venue and total rides held across venues in a given year. Here is a sample of how the infographic would look like for each venue -
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2. Venues by total participants - Here is version 1 of this (done during April 2022) and the blog we published (with the updated interactive map) -
3. Participation comparison 2021 vs 2022 - This could let us analyze the impact due to Russia-Ukraine war.
Participation in the research
We have been actively looking for people to provide data for the infographics. We also look forward to the organizers of the WNBRs for certain information.
- Here is the survey form via which users can send us total participation data.
- Also, here is a sample format for sending us year-wise ride status data per ride venue. Please download the spreadsheet, and mail us the filled up sheet to nudistcalendar (at) gmail (dot) com.
We have put up this thread on Twitter for collecting the various data. You can follow us closely there.
Further to the scope of this project on WNBRs, we also welcome people to submit us more visitor stats, like gender ratio, states of undress, age bracket ratio etc. for our ongoing initiative to publish reviews of nudist destinations/events. The reviews hence published will be eligible as entries for our review submission contests and applicable prizes . Check here for the previous contest we ran. The following 3 forms (also available in the blog post about the contest) can be used for submitting the review -
- Form 1 - Destination review details
- Form 2 - Visitor stats details
- Form 3 - Visitor stats contd. & other details
Infographics
Following are what we have prepared so far -
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Key observations
- France has so far been successful with only one ride venue, i.e. Rennes. With several failed attempts in Paris, few more venues have got added over the years to the list of failed venues, like Avignon, Lyon.
- Certain ride venues really shocked us in terms of the restrictions imposed on the nudity. Both the venues in Germany (a country where many cities have city parks with nude zones) - Cologne and Berlin, have been running the event with a condition that genitals (and breasts as well?) cannot be displayed.
Raw data
In case you are interested, here is all the raw data based on which the infographics are being prepared.
Future prospects
More infographics on the following may be possible to create, but only with much larger crowd-sourcing -
1. Venues by gender ratio of participants
2. Venues by support of administration (e.g. whether municipal corporation itself helped and setup posters, whether police escorted).
WNBRs, as a concept are a crowd-sourced initiative, so why should not the research on them be? We started our research based on what is already available on http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org. However, the pages of most of the ride venues are not being maintained. We plan to approach the http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/ team to update the repository with the information that we collect.
