CentralNotice/Request/Project Tiger Writing Contest

Project Tiger Writing Contest edit

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?
  • 1 March 2018 → 31 May 2018
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • Wikipedia
What languages will you be targeting?
  • as, bn, bh, bpy, en, gom, gu, hi, kn, mai, ml, mr, ne, or, pa, sa, ta, te, ur
Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly?
  • Both logged in & anonymous users

What countries will your campaign target?

  • India

Banner/Campaign Diet:

  • To be determined by Central Notice admin

What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign? edit

Description - As a part of the Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program, a three-month long article improvement campaign is being run to bridge the content gaps on various Indic language Wikimedias.

Metrics - Fountain tool will be made available to participants to report their contributions.

What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page? edit

Banners - Project Tiger Writing Contest
Improve articles for readers from India and win prizes!

Landing Page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Contest#Participating_communities

Discussion edit

Endorsing this request on behalf of the Partnerships & Global Reach team at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is a project the foundation is implementing in collaboration with CIS-A2K. We need the banner to ensure maximum participation in the contest. Thanks. @Seddon (WMF):--Ravi (talk) 18:22, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  Comment, @Seddon (WMF) and RAyyakkannu (WMF):, please remove this notice from Bengali Wikisource. It serves no purpose there. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 20:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Krishna Chaitanya Velaga and Ravidreams:, please take action to remove the notice from Bengali Wikisource. This notice is diverting our workforce decreasing our editors. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 15:22, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Bodhisattwa: Thanks for notifying. Pinging Central Notice admins @Seddon (WMF) and MarcoAurelio: for action. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talkmail) 02:50, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the part of the notice - "Together, we can keep Wikipedia in India independent and thriving" - especially the bit about "independent" is open to some misinterpretation and should either be dropped or expanded upon/clarified in the landing page. To some independence apparently means that which is owned by the country and not influenced by "foreigners". Shyamal (talk) 09:14, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Central Notice admins @Seddon (WMF) and MarcoAurelio: for action. As Shyamal suggested, please remove the word, as it may be misinterpreted. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talkmail) 11:56, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Central Notice admin comments edit

@Seddon (WMF): I was about to suggest the same. Please display the notice three stints of two weeks in the beginning of every month. --Ravi (talk) 13:51, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, two weeks at the beginning of every month will work. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talkmail) 06:01, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Seddon (WMF): Please let us know if more details are needed. The contest has started since March 1 and a notice for two weeks now would help us get more participation. Thanks. --Ravi (talk) 06:44, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]