Thanks Samuel for the tips,
The documentation of your work helped me in a few points (again).
In particular, my message did not include many links with information on
the process, I've added that for the invites I'm still making.
Congrats on your use of Wikiscan, I did not remember that tool and used
quarry queries <https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/17537> to get the
information.. I also used a bot to make the bulk of the invites, which
allowed me to personalize each message with the number of edits the editor
made in the last 30 days and his position on the most active contributor on
the project in that time.
I used PAWS to run the bot, if anyone needs assistance setting something
similar I'm available to help.
Cheers,
Chico Venancio
2017-03-23 23:17 GMT-03:00 Jaime Anstee <janstee(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Thank you, Samuel, for sharing your experience.
Indeed,direct messages can
have a big impact on responsiveness.
Glad you are sharing mire broadly!
Best,
Jaime
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:58 PM Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share some tips that I learned these days for engaging
more people in the strategy discussions. Most of them were suggested to me
by contributors during discussions on village pumps. They might maybe help
some of you too.
Till Tuesday there was only 1 comment left on the discussion page for the
French Wikipedia. Inter-wikis such as wikiversity (fr) and wikisource (fr)
were even more active. Two days later there are over 20 folks debating in
the French Wikipedia.
Below are some of the tips that helped me:
- Switch from posting on village pumps only to posting on village
pumps AND on talk pages of active members. You may find active users with
the wikiscan tool (eg: most active users in Spanish wikipedia during
February <http://es.wikiscan.org/date/201703/users>)
- Specify in the message that you leave on talk pages of active usres
that their opinion really matters no matter if they are sysop or just doing
spelling check.
- Include in your message few links explaining the context, the
overall process, and the FAQ
- I translated, into English, the template message that I used when
inviting contributors individually. You will find it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/French_Wikipedia#John74.2C_you_too.2C_join_the_discussion_for_the_future.27s_movement>
If you guys have any other tips that worked for you please, I would love
to hear them, especially how you get volunteers to help you summarize
discussions.
Cheers,
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