Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Outreach/Portuguese Wikipedia

Community

Portuguese Wikipedia

Communication channels

• Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Portuguese Wikipedia Village Pump
• Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Track B/Sources/Portuguese Wikipedia Facebook group

Invitations

• Village pump posts
• Mass messages on users pages of all active editors with opt-out
• Facebook post on group
• Watch list message
• Discuss with community possibility of a site notice with banner

Coordination with other tracks

• Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil
• Wikimedia Portugal
• Wiki Education Brazil User Group

Ongoing Outreach

09 March

• Initial pre-announcement over at the village pump

10 March

• Announcement at Facebook group
• Inspired by Samuel (WMF), I asked users at our "translators coffeehouse" to help with translations, if it doesn't get movement I'll message some users on talk pages.
• Messaged IRC channel #wikipedia-pt about the process and my availability over there as well.
• Sent messages to less traveled paths (Commons Portuguese Village Pump, Portuguese Wikiversity, and Portuguese Wikivoyage)

14 March

• Started the topic at the Village Pump

17 March

• Sent personal invites to the 10 top editors in the last 30 days (from this query) and the two bot operators mingled in that list. example
• Asked to use pt:MediaWiki:Watchlist-details to place a link to the discussion.

21 March

• Made a script to invite the 100 top editors in the last 30 days and sent these invites (minus the 10 top already sent)

23 March

• Tried to do it by bot and decided to manually invite the 23 editors that made more than 5 edits in Wikibooks in the last 30 days

13 April

• Translated update 13 and made it into a Facebook post on the ptwiki group.

14 April

• Asked to change the deadline and wording on the Watchlist-details message so that editors are more aware of the end of cycle 1

15 April

• Announced the change of deadline and next steps on the strategy process

20 May

• Announced translation of surveys onwiki
• Sent email to Wikimedia Portugal mailing list
• Announced surveys in Facebook