Hi Phillipe and Tulsi,
As you may or may not be aware, I have been guiding an effort to pilot
Wikimedia Foundation capacity for supporting community content campaigns:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team
So we have seen a wide range of different naming conventions for community
campaigns. Wiki Loves typically include photography campaigns, while Wiki
for (or 4) campaigns are typically writing activities with a focus on an
advocacy topic with broad international agreement i.e. representation of
women, SDGs or Human Rights (as Phillipe notes advocacy positions are
complicated ). There are of course exceptions to this pattern (i.e Wiki
Loves SDGS:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_SDGs_Nigeria )
because the conventions are accidental cultural phenomena rather than
planned and deliberate .
However, suggesting that there needs to be a uniform naming convention
isn't very helpful across widely divergent campaigns with different goals,
different audiences, and different communication contexts (i.e. languages
or cultures). For me, the more important concern is helping organizers
choose the right name for the audiences they want to engage (that, for
example, activists need to know we are supportive of SDGs, Climate action
or representation of Women rather than trying to document something en-mass
i.e. Butterflies or Monuments). For example, Wikipedia Pages Wanting
Photos, WikiGap, Black Lunch Table and InvisibleWikiWomen all have very
deliberate communication and branding choices behind their names.
If new organizers need help thinking through naming for their own campaigns
-- it's worth exploring the various bits of documentation we are gathering
at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns or reaching out to my
colleague Felix Nartey or myself.
Glad that we are thinking publically about how we show up in campaigns :)
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:41 PM Philippe Beaudette <philippe(a)beaudette.me>
wrote:
I have hesitations. First of all, “for” implies “in
support of”.
Therefore, wiki for COVID-19 could be read as “wiki in support of
covid-19”, which I don’t believe is the message you are trying to convey.
Thats why the “loves” works so well. May I ask why you think we need a new
system for naming conventions here?
Philippe
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:57 AM Tulsi Bhagat <tulsibhagat50(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Greetings!
I hope you're doing well. I would like to introduce 'Wiki for X', a
new general format for naming various sorts of Wikimedia community events
and outreach campaigns; For instance, we have 'Wiki Loves X' as such 'Wiki
for X', where X is whatever the coordinators wish to call the campaign.
This is because i believe change is necessary. I hope we can create some
brand new impactful ideas for outreach campaigns across the globe with this
new general format.
With regard to, I've organized Wiki For COVID-19
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_For_COVID-19> on Jun 01-Sep 30
2020 and I see there's another event WikiForHumanRights
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights> starting on
April 15-March 15 2021 to celebrate Earth Day.
Can we please give continuity to this new general format? I really
appreciate your input and opinions on this. Thank you for your
consideration!
Kind regards,
Tulsi
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