CentralNotice/Request/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign edit

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?
  • 1st July 2020 → 31st August 2020
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • WP/WM/C/D/VOY
  1. English Wikipedia
  2. Yoruba Wikipedia
  3. latviešu Wikipedia
  4. русский Wikipedia
  5. português Wikipedia
  6. Simple Wikipedia
  7. Kreyòl ayisyen Wikipedia
  8. ગુજરાતી Wikipedia
  9. shqip Wikipedia
  10. Türkçe Wikipedia
  11. ไทย Wikipedia
  12. español Wikipedia
  13. کوردی Wikipedia
  14. 日本語 Wikipedia
  15. magyar Wikipedia
  16. հայերեն Wikipedia
  17. interlingua Wikipedia
  18. Bahasa Indonesia Wikipedia
  19. Interlingue Wikipedia
  20. Igbo Wikipedia
  21. italiano Wikipedia
  22. Ido Wikipedia
  23. Hausa Wikipedia
  24. македонски Wikipedia
  25. नेपाली Wikipedia
  26. українська Wikipedia
  27. Doteli Wikipedia
  28. galego Wikipedia
  29. français Wikipedia
  30. Nederlands Wikipedia
  31. norsk nynorsk Wikipedia
  32. Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia
  33. العربية Wikipedia
  34. Kiswahili Wikipedia
  35. polski Wikipedia
  36. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Wikipedia
  37. română Wikipedia
  38. беларуская Wikipedia
  39. বাংলা Wikipedia
  40. bosanski Wikipedia
  41. башҡортса Wikipedia
  42. asturianu Wikipedia
  43. Swiss German Wikipedia
  44. Deutsch Wikipedia
  45. Ελληνικά Wikipedia
  46. češtinaWikipedia
  47. Tagalog Wikipedia
  48. Bikol Central Wikipedia
  49. Wikimedia Commons
What languages will you be targeting?
  • Multiple
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

What countries will your campaign target?

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 - The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) is an annual campaign where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking images. This is to promote the use of digital media files collected from various WP photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages. Thousands of images have been donated and contributed to Wikipedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging.

Metrics -

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

Banners -


Landing Page - Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link edit

Type of grant -

Link to grant -

Discussion edit

Central Notice admin comments edit

Banner drafted, see banner preview at [1]. You need to import translation via the "Help with translations!" link, and ping me, so I can approve them. Then, I can set the campaign up. Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:57, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Martin Urbanec: I have imported translation via the "Help with translations!" link. Thank you so much for your help. T CellsTalk 18:27, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I approved them all :). Could you please name all projects where you want this campaign to be run here? "Multiple" isn't specific enough :). Thanks, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:08, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Martin Urbanec:, actually we wish to run the campaign on all Wikipedia languages and the Wikimedia Commons. But I have only listed projects were the display texts have been translated. We shared the translation link with translators. I don't know how to find out if a new translation has been added by them so that I can add them to it. Thanks for your help. T CellsTalk 18:39, 23 June 2020 (UTC) ¨[reply]
Why all? What is the difference between Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos/Participating_Communities and projects where this will be enabled at? Thanks, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:36, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Martin Urbanec, Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos/Participating_Communities is for documenting the list of participating affiliates communities (Chapter, User group and thematic organizations) of the Wikimedia Foundation and not necessarily Wikipedia projects. Many members of these affiliates contribute to more than one language Wikipedia. I am lost, I don't know what to do. Please help me. T CellsTalk 18:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)¨[reply]
I'm just trying to avoid communities complaining about an unsolicited banner. Romaine, perhaps you could comment as well? --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:01, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I do not think that enabling the campaign everywhere would be suitable, but enabling the campaign for the communities listed on Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos/Participating Communities is okay. The same happens with other contests, there communities can sign up on a page and for them it is organised. Romaine (talk) 19:13, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  Comment - translations are available at: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos/CentralNotice. Romaine (talk) 18:18, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that we can let this banner run for two months at 100 % as it is set up now. There are plenty of other campaigns of similar or even higher importance. I see two options:

  • Disabling the banner after, say, two weeks which does not change the duration of the contest. Maybe with another display at the end of the submission time.
  • Reducing the diet to something like 10 % (and maybe also reducing the banner duration to at max. a month which was previously only open for long-established contests like WikiAfrica, WLM, WLE, Asian Month etc.).

@Martin Urbanec: What do you think? Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:00, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you, DerHexer. I'll enable the campaign for two weeks now, and the contest team can evaluate it later, and perhaps change the wording to reduce the effect of banner blindness. Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 15:57, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Martin Urbanec: I'm not sure how this was enabled for Austria before anyone was notified, since we're running a campaign for WikiDaheim/Wiki Loves Earth from July 1st (the campaign was requested on Meta in mid-June). Would be great to coordinate this better in the future :-) Braveheart (talk) 18:52, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not my fault! The campaign was already configured by Romaine. I've removed Austria, but we need to specify wikis this should be running at (and that have agreed with participating). --Martin Urbanec (talk) 20:15, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@DerHexer: I would go for another option: the first five days of the contest 100% with only 3 impressions, and after the five days a diet of 10% or 20%.
Comparing it with WLM, WLE, etc, is not accurate, as these photo contests only last for one month. A month or a week is the most common duration of a contest, but there have been examples of contests that ran for two months with a banner. Romaine (talk) 01:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Braveheart: that is the result because Austria is listed on participating Communities. Romaine (talk) 01:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fine with me as well. I'm not aware of any communication for any German-language country on our usual channels. Therefore, a single person signing up as a contact person might not be the best choice for approval of participation for whole regions, I think. But I am confident that we will find a good solution for this. :-) Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 06:16, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think there should be more checks than just having one person signing up, especially with larger communities. It's fine to run this contest as is, but central notices need more consultation, especially when run in 50 countries. Braveheart (talk) 07:53, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
P.S.: Just to illustrate that with German Wikipedia - there was no never any communication about this on central pages of German Wikipedia and it feels very patronizing to have a German sign up Austria and Switzerland without any prior consensus on the benefits of running this. Braveheart (talk) 07:57, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]