FYI

Anyone up for the task?

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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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