Recruit readers as writers
The Recruit readers as writers (RRW) was an experiment to support small language Wikipedia. The experiment entails recruiting big-language Wikipedia readers to serve as small-language Wikipedia editors. It was first conducted between 2021 and 2022 and was successful. This experiment was inspired by this Wikimania session in 2021.
Background
editOne of the challenges facing small language Wikipedia is low contributions by native speakers. Most of the contents on small languages Wikipedia are either written by bots or non-native speakers who sometimes use Google translator or similar machines to translate contents on these languages Wikipedia. These cause severe damage to the quality and credibility of these languages Wikipedia. Readers don't have access to basic articles in their native languages since most of the contents are poor in quality.
Scope
editThe scope of this project focuses on using the Central Notice banner to recruit volunteers for small language Wikipedia, and we want to experiment with the Yoruba language Wikipedia.
We will host a central notice banner on large language Wikipedia that are often visited from Nigeria, and a simple form will be attached to the banner and Wikipedia readers from Nigeria who are native speakers of Yoruba Language will be asked to complete the form and participate in a training on how to contribute to the Yoruba language Wikipedia.
The Central Notice Banner will only be visible to visitors who are not registered on any Wikimedia project.
Banner texts
editWikipedia exists in Yoruba language. If you speak the language, please help us improve it. Register for Yoruba Wikipedia training using this form.
Organizers
editCore organizing team
edit- User:T Cells (Campaign architect and design)
- User:Agbalagba (Coordinator)
- User:Ọmọladéabídèmí99 (facilitator)
- User:Macdanpets (facilitator)
- User:Sowoletoyin
- User:Olaniyan Olushola
Supporters
edit- User:Olaniyan Olushola
- User:Atibrarian
- User:Gwanki
- User:Ridzaina
- User:Alhassan Mohammed Awal
- User:Dnshitobu
- Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 07:33, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- Johnjoy12 (talk) 09:48, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- Zend2020 Zend2020 (talk)
- User:Musahfm
- --BamLifa (talk) 21:05, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- Ei'eke (talk)
Metrics
edit| Months | Total number of users reached | Total number of users trained | Total number of Wikipedia accounts created | Total number of active editors after 1 year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2022 | 1030 | 350 | 193 | 10 |
- Contents contributions
| Paramters measured | Total number of articles created | Total number of edits | Total number of edits | Total number of new editors | Total number of bytes added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 374 | 984 | 2,076 | 193 | 1.79M |
- Total participants
| number of organizers | Number of participants | Number of trainers | Number of mentors | Number of people supporters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 205 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
- Success story
How to recruit native speakers for a small language Wikipedia : Learning from the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group approach published on Wikimedia Diff. This includes insights from one of the users recruited through this project, who has continued to contribute to date.
Thanks for your interest in Yoruba Wikipedia. Please note that the goal of this training is to create and share free knowledge in Yoruba, not promoting one's business or person. Note that this is a volunteer activity with no financial reward and by no means an employment by Wikipedia, its functionary or the WMF that operates Wikipedia.
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