Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021 starts on July 01 to August 31, 2021. Before the campaign starts, I would like to request you to please help with translation. Here is the direct link:
Direct translation link of CentralNotice banner:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centra…
Direct translation link of WPWP main page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-W…
Let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. We really appreciate your feedback and help.
If I can help you with anything, feel free to ask!
Kind regards,
Tulsi
Communication Manager, WPWP
Hello #WPWPCampaign family,
I hope this email finds you well and you are staying safe amidst the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has brought so many unexpected changes to
our working lives.
Deborah Jacobs (Cc'ed), our communities liaison coordinator earlier sent
you an invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2021 edition
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021/Partici…>.
We'd like to follow-up with you on this.
In case you missed her previous email, here is a link
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021/Partici…>to
add your community to the participating communities list. We'd provide
additional information afterwards.
On a side note, we have created a Telegram group where you may post
comments about the #WPWPCampaign or questions and get a quick response from
members of the International Organizing Team and experienced editors.
Here is a link for you to join the group:
https://t.me/joinchat/0cy7kfrQpwplODFk
Please let us know if you have any questions or require additional
clarification.
With best regards,
Isaac Olatunde
Project Manager and Coordinator
#WPWPCampaign 2021
On behalf of the #WPWPCampaign International Organizing Team
Hello WPWP organizers,
If you are organising the campaign in your community this year, please add
your community to the list of participating communities using the
link below.
https://w.wiki/3DrG
Thank you.
Isaac Olatunde
Coordinator, WPWPCampaign
Hello #WPWPCampaign family,
We are happy to inform you that the call for participation for the
#WPWPCampaign2021 is now open.
You can now add your community to the list of participating communities via
this link: https://w.wiki/3DrG
If you have any question, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Thank you
Dear All,
We are inviting you to participate in *Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021*,
a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2021.
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then
add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the
Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki
Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined
the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized
by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.
The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and
videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting
and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing
pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by
user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP
participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically
or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to
this email, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_…>
.
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Thank you,
Yamen Bousrih
Regional Ambassador, Arabic speaking countries
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign International Team.
Dear colleagues,
I hope you are keeping safe amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has
affected many activities globally.
We'd like to thank you for your contributions to the maiden edition of the
#WPWPCampaign. It was a huge success.
Planning for the WPWPCampaign 2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021> has
begun, and as always we count on your contributions for a successful
campaign.
We are excited to inform you that the campaign timeline is ready and the
campaign page for this year's edition is almost complete.
We have attached the timeline in this email for your reference. We want to
share this timeline with you early enough and keep you abreast of the
planning.
We will provide additional information on or before 29th of April 2021.
Please let us know if you require additional information or clarification.
Best Regards
Isaac Olatunde
Coordinator and Project Manager,
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2021
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and keeping safe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
that has negatively impacted the world.
I am writing to inform you that the international team will be applying for
a project grant to WMF in the upcoming round, to support the WPWP Campaign
2021. Please see the grant proposal draft here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Phot…>
.
Please do endorse the proposal:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Phot…
While the 2020 edition of the campaign was largely successful, we were
faced with some challenges that limit participation. However, this is
unexpected for a new campaign.
This year, we want to strengthen the campaign across the world. Based on
the identified problems (see the 2020 evaluation report draft
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos/Evaluation_R…>),
we want to adopt the following approaches:
*Evaluate the framework*: The international team will start a discussion
with local organizers of the campaign to understand whether the framework
under which the maiden edition of the campaign was organized is suitable
for their community and impactful. We want to identify the problems
peculiar to each community/country, and suggest what we think might work
well or the best framework for them.
*Collect and share best practices with organizing communities*: In the
maiden edition, some local organizers were unable to successfully implement
the campaign. This year, we want to design best practices, create or lay
the foundation for an infrastructure that contains documentation, templates
and potentially tools that would help to support local organizers in
organizing and implementing the campaign effectively.
*Maintenance work*: There is a need to intensify our maintenance work,
which includes but not limited to monitoring participation and engaging
local organizers in actively cleaning up any mess created by new editors.
We will also be documenting this process to have a better understanding of
how we can effectively track and address occasional disruption by new
editors
*Follow-up with new participants*: The international team would need to
design a strategy to follow up with people who edit Wikipedia for the first
time via the campaign and devise a strategy to retain them.
The grant proposal would be finalized on the 10th of February 2021. Please
share your feedback with us before the deadline to enable us make the
necessary changes to our proposal.
With best regards
Isaac Olatunde
Project Manager & Coordinator,
WPWP Campaign.
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign ended on the 31st of August
2020 and we are pleased to announce the results
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos/Results>.
A total of 92,379 articles in 272 languages Wikipedia were improved with
photos. About 600 users participated in the campaign and the following
users emerged as top contributors to the campaign.
Category A (Top image users)
1. User:Tarih - 9866 pages improved with images
2. Dolphyb - 7401 pages improved with images
3. User:Lordgentual - 7104 pages improved with images
Category B (Top audio user)
1. User:Elisadojm - 617 pages improved with audio
Category C (Top video user)
1. User:Elisadojm - 185 pages improved with video
Category D (Top new user)
1. User:Osenibabalola0 - 5995 pages improved with images
The winners have been notified and the next step of sending the prizes will
be started very soon.
We congratulate the winners and thank them for their contributions to
Wikipedia and for promoting the use of media files uploaded to Commons on
Wikipedia articles.
We also thank every participant for their contributions and we look forward
to more participation in the campaign in the year 2021.
We thank the members of the international team and the jury for their
contributions to the campaign this year and we look forward to more
engagement in the next edition in 2021.
With best regards,
Isaac Olatunde
On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign Team.