This was really useful information. Thanks! I have used a modified version of this to invite 2500 people on Commons who previously contributed to WLM in the UK. Regards Michael attolippip <attolippip(a)gmail.com> 30 August 2019 at 9:26 pm Thanks, Mohammad! (I am sure everybody knows this, but I just in case!) For those, who has organised a photo contest before: you can also make a quarry to get a list of participants of your previous editions of WLM (or/and other photo contests), and just invite them (via MassMessage) to take part in your contest this year. For example, you can fork this one (and change the categories you need)): https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38665 Or find somebody in your community who can create such a quarry (or a better one!) or has a bot :))) З повагою / Best regards, antanana Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

Neville Borg <mailto:neville.borg@wikimalta.org> 3 September 2019 at 7:50 pm This sounds fantastic. Is there a foolproof way to do this for those of us with no knowledge of SQL? :) I've changed the categories to WLM in Malta, as appropriate. Is there anything else I need to change? Neville -- Administrator Wikimedia Community Malta <http://www.wikimalta.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Michael Maggs <mailto:Michael@maggs.name> 3 September 2019 at 4:53 pm This was really useful information. Thanks! I have used a modified version of this to invite 2500 people on Commons who previously contributed to WLM in the UK. Regards Michael

I just copied and edited the original template for the UK situation. Here's the UK version: https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38769 Just stepping through what to do: 1. Fork the above query, using the Fork button 2. Change both sections of yellow text to relate to your situation, the first with your old Commons categories and the single line underneath with your current category. Note that you need the underlines between the words; spaces won't work 3. Copy the results. If too many, download as csv, then open in a text editor, to get raw text with one entry per line 4. Use the results as the target for a mass message on Commons. Unless you're an admin, you'll need help doing that, as non-admins are limited in the number of messages they can send. 4a. Start a new page on Commons, in your own userspace. Set out the subject line and body text of the message you want to send. Also include the list of targets. My example page is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MichaelMaggs/WLM-UK2019Message 4b. Post a request to the Commons Administrator's noticeboard ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard) for an admin to send the message for you. Here's my request: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_n… 4c. If all's OK, a friendly admin will be along soon to complete the messaging. Hope that helps Michael Neville Borg &lt;neville.borg(a)wikimalta.org&gt; 3 September 2019 at 7:50 pm This sounds fantastic. Is there a foolproof way to do this for those of us with no knowledge of SQL? :) I've changed the categories to WLM in Malta, as appropriate. Is there anything else I need to change? Neville -- Administrator Wikimedia Community Malta <http://www.wikimalta.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Michael Maggs &lt;Michael(a)maggs.name&gt; 3 September 2019 at 4:53 pm This was really useful information. Thanks! I have used a modified version of this to invite 2500 people on Commons who previously contributed to WLM in the UK. Regards Michael _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

On 4 Sep 2019, at 18:33, Lucas Teles &lt;teleswiki(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: That’s really helpful indeed A query with participants in Brazil returned more than 7000 users. I wonder if there is a limit or if it is fine to send to all of them. Teles Em ter, 3 de set de 2019 às 17:22, effe iets anders &lt;effeietsanders(a)gmail.com&gt; escreveu: -- Lucas Teles - he/him Steward and Ombudsman for Wikimedia projects. Administrator at Portuguese Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Sent from mobile. Please, excuse my brevity. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles +55 (71) 99707 6409 _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

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/Documentati…

Federico Leva (Nemo) <mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com> 5 September 2019 at 8:00 am 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 _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org effe iets anders <mailto:effeietsanders@gmail.com> 3 September 2019 at 9:21 pm Hi  Michael, 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/Documentati… In general, this is the place where we try to collect these best practices: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati… Best, Lodewijk _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Michael Maggs <mailto:Michael@maggs.name> 3 September 2019 at 8:19 pm I just copied and edited the original template for the UK situation. Here's the UK version: https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/38769 Just stepping through what to do: 1. Fork the above query, using the Fork button 2. Change both sections of yellow text to relate to your situation, the first with your old Commons categories and the single line underneath with your current category.  Note that you need the underlines between the words; spaces won't work 3. Copy the results. If too many, download as csv, then open in a text editor, to get raw text with one entry per line 4. Use the results as the target for a mass message on Commons.  Unless you're an admin, you'll need help doing that, as non-admins are limited in the number of messages they can send. 4a. Start a new page on Commons, in your own userspace.  Set out the subject line and body text of the message you want to send.  Also include the list of targets. My example page is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MichaelMaggs/WLM-UK2019Message 4b. Post a request to the Commons Administrator's noticeboard (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard) for an admin to send the message for you.  Here's my request: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_n… 4c. If all's OK, a friendly admin will be along soon to complete the messaging. Hope that helps Michael _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Neville Borg <mailto:neville.borg@wikimalta.org> 3 September 2019 at 7:50 pm This sounds fantastic. Is there a foolproof way to do this for those of us with no knowledge of SQL? :) I've changed the categories to WLM in Malta, as appropriate. Is there anything else I need to change? Neville -- Administrator Wikimedia Community Malta <http://www.wikimalta.org> _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org Michael Maggs <mailto:Michael@maggs.name> 3 September 2019 at 4:53 pm This was really useful information. Thanks! I have used a modified version of this to invite 2500 people on Commons who previously contributed to WLM in the UK. Regards Michael

On 5 Sep 2019, at 23:59, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Michael Maggs, 05/09/19 22:49: I could, but such things tend to become more difficult at the scale of the English Wikipedia. Already on the Italian Wikipedia some queries need to be simplified or they time out. So it's important to have in mind what audience is a priority and can have the most impact. For a list of just 53 places, as you shared, it should be doable. Federico

On 18 Sep 2019, at 20:49, Alex Stinson &lt;astinson(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Hey Michael, I see that you added documentation at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Documentati… Does the query do subcategories or only the parent categories? (Sorry I don't speak SQL, so not sure where I would look for that). Cheers, Alex -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org