Dear French Speakers and coordinators,
I want to inform you that the hashtag #WPWP has been blocked on the French
Wikipedia.
The hashtag was unilaterally blocked by a user in a discussion involving 3
editors. The block was made without community input, notice or discussion
with the International or local organizing team. This amounts to an abuse
of admin privilege.
I have left a message on the admin noticeboard thread. Please kindly weigh
in. We count on your support.
Thank you
Isaac
Greetings,
As all of you may already know, the local organizers of WPWP Hindi
community have decided to allow newcomers (who joined less then a year ago
and with less than 330 edits) to participate in the WPWP from Hindi
Community. This message is to clarify our decisions.
The reasons we are allowing newcomers are the following:
- Absence of significant damaging edits from participants.
- Relatively low number of edits (>200 counts so far,) making monitoring
feasible.
- Clear warning and local guidelines stating what the participants
should or shouldn't do.
Thanks & Regards
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
Hello everyone,
We hope this email finds you well.
Today, Magnus announced a new version of the Fist tool he developed for the
WPWP Campaign.[1]
It has an index of thousands of articles with missing images in 10
languages Wikipedia. The articles and the corresponding images are placed
side-by-side.
This is a very useful tool and we are happy to share it with you.
Regards
Isaac
[1]. https://fist.toolforge.org/wd4wp/#/