effe iets anders, 03/09/19 23:21:
Thanks, this is helpful to document. If you would be willing to update/expand the documentation here, that would be great: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentatio...
Thank you, I've added a few links over there.
Another strategy I used in the past is to message (Wikipedia) users related to places which take part in WLM: https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38807
This has the advantage that you can send a more personal/interesting message which mentions a topic they're interested in, see for instance: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Zwobot24
It works in Italy because users are often frustrated by the lack of monuments in their area (for the well known legal issues), so they may miss that new places have been added. To avoid sending a lot of irrelevant messages I focused on users with relatively few contributions but very focused on a relevant place; you may also want to target places without photos, or whatever priorities you have.
Mass messages were likely responsible for the small peaks of attention on September 12, 13 and 21 last year: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=it.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2018-09-01&end=2018-09-30&pages=Progetto:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Monumenti
However I don't remember exactly how many of those users actually proceeded to upload something, so if you want to experiment new kinds of mass messaging I suggest you start small (e.g. 1000 messages) and check what impact they have before you proceed with many thousands. For very large deliveries (over 10k targets) you may want to check a sample of your targets to see if they've been messaged by others recently, to avoid fatigue.
Federico