CentralNotice/Request/Wikimedia news: Punjabi Wikisource

Wikimedia news: Punjabi Wikisource

• Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 18:25, 6 August 2019 (UTC))

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What is the campaign duration? 25 September 2019 → 1 October Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia/Wikisource What languages will you be targeting? English 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? Anonymous What countries will your campaign target? India Banner/Campaign Diet: To be determined by Central Notice admin (Preferably low-level.)

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

Description - Publicizing the recent expansion of the Punjabi Wikisource through innovative contest work.

Metrics - Unsure how many clickthroughs to target. We're hopeful that we'll learn more after running a few banners, but the wide variety in topic area and geographical targeting means that these numbers might not be very useful in learning what a 'good' target clickthrough rate is. In any case, this should only run at a low level to a specific country with a limited number of impressions.

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

Banners - Blog1819_Punjabi_Wikisource_1 (view)

Landing Page -https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/07/11/by-digitizing-venerable-translations-theyre-bringing-the-worlds-literary-history-to-punjabi-speakers/?pk_campaign=PunjabiWikisourceAug2019banner

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - N/A

Link to grant - N/A

Discussion

•  Strong support This would be a useful learning for Indic communities and Global Wikisource community. The central notice can help in effectively reaching out to Wikimedians directly from their respective Wiki projects. Wikilover90 (talk) 11:59, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
• I would recommend against having the landing page be off-wiki. Also, the blog post doesn't have any sort of invitation to participate. What is the purpose of highlighting past work through a CentralNotice? And I assume the dates have been postponed, as the specified timespan has passed? --Yair rand (talk) 18:49, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Hi, Yair rand! This request was left untranscluded while we discussed how a call to action could be implemented in the blog post, but another editor transcluded it on the 30th without me seeing. A call to action has now been added. (It's a call to edit Wikipedia, which I'd love your thoughts on. I suspect Wikipedia would be a lower lift for most people, but I'd be fine with sending people to Wikisource instead.) Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
    • I don't see the call to action? --Yair rand (talk) 00:20, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
      • @Yair rand: It's under "Join our community." :-) Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 14:06, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• This request has been updated. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ed Erhart (WMF): Since you're a central notice administrator, I assume you'll take care of those banners? --Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:43, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

@Martin Urbanec: Happy to, if that's not a conflict of interest! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 14 August 2019 (UTC)