Dear local coordinators of the WPWP Campaign,
We are excited that the WPWP Campaign is having a huge impact as more than
6000 articles have been improved with photos in about 100 languages
Wikipedia in the last 72 hours.
However, there are concerns about the level of disruption caused by brand
new editors, which includes adding irrelevant images to articles, poor
formatting, insertion of the hashtags to mainspace, and defacing articles
with unnecessary photos.
There is at least one thread at the English Wikipedia administrators
noticeboard about this problem. We have extensively reviewed the concerns,
feedback, and have decided to review the eligibility criteria as an
emergency response to minimize the level of disruption.
The eligibility criteria have been reviewed to include only users who have
registered their account for at least 1 year and had made at least 300
mainspace edits to any language Wikipedia before July 1st, 2020 would be
eligible to participate in the WPWP Campaign.
You are encouraged to update your local pages accordingly to reflect these
new changes.
We apologize for any inconvenience that may result from these changes
With best regards,
Isaac Olatunde
Project Manager and Co-Coordinator
WPWP Campaign
On behalf of the WPWP Organizing Team