Thanks for sharing
Regards, Sandister Tei
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Via mobile On 26 Apr 2016 10:04 p.m., "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
FYI
Anyone up for the task?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *john cummings* mrjohncummings@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Subject: [African Wikimedians] African World Heritage Day To: african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all
I have met a few of you over Skype and in person before at Wikimedia events, I'm currently working at UNESCO.
May 5th is African World Heritage Day and I was thinking about running a small online campaign for it.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1364/
I have an idea and would like to know what you thought and how it could be improved upon.
I would like to encourage editors in many languages to write Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles about the World Heritage sites in Africa through social media and also on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage.
I want to make this as multilingual as possible so I've used dynamic Wikidata Lists to create this table which shows which articles are available in which language. I think its a really nice way to create a project 'hit list' using Wikidata.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/dynamic.html?#list=148
There are a few Wikidata items down the bottom of the list that are blank or with very few articles, I need to fix this, they're duplicate items so don't point to any articles or only one or two.
Some questions I'm currently thinking about:
- What languages should be included in the list? The languages I
currently have are the 6 UN languages + a few other popular languages but this is easy to change.
- What should be the aim of the campaign? E.g to create articles where
they don't exist in smaller Wikipedias.
- Should I include both Wikivoyage and Wikipedia or just stick to
Wikipedia, or should I split into two tables?
- Is the tool easy enough for experienced editors to use to find where
articles don't exist yet? Its a shame they can't click on a button where the gap is to just write or translate the article.
- Does anyone want to work with me on this?
- Where and how should we encourage people to take part
- Does this need a homepage or can it simply be a tweet that can be
translated? This would allow it to be shared in many languages easily.
All thoughts welcome
Thanks
John
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