CentralNotice/Request/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
edit- T Cells (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 12:18, 20 June 2020 (UTC))
What is the purpose of the campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?
editDescription - 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.
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What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?
editBanners -
Join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize!
Join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize!
Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link
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Discussion
editCentral Notice admin comments
editBanner 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)
- @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)
- 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)
- @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) ¨
- 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)
- 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)¨
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)¨
- 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)
- @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) ¨
- 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)
Comment - translations are available at: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos/CentralNotice. Romaine (talk) 18:18, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
- Comment, hello @Martin Urbanec and Romaine:, I trust your judgment. Please do what you think is right. T CellsTalk 20:36, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Hi @Martin Urbanec and Romaine: I hope you are doing fine. I want to remind you that this campaign starts tomorrow, 1st July 2020. Thank you for your help. T CellsTalk 17:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hello @Martin Urbanec and Romaine: this campaign starts today and the banner is not on display yet. Please kindly help fix it. This banner is very important to us and this campaign. Thank you. T CellsTalk 23:08, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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)
- 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)
- @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)
- 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)
- @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)
- @Braveheart: that is the result because Austria is listed on participating Communities. Romaine (talk) 01:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- @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)
- 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)