Hi Rafi,
It sounds like you have a good plan for the campaign in Bangla Wikipedia. I
am really excited to read about your plans and thrilled about your plan to
use the campaign to recruit new editors and retain existing ones. Kudos to
you and the team!
I am fascinated by your idea to use Bot to make the list of articles
lacking photos as this would generally make it easy for new editors and
other potential participants. This is a brilliant idea!
Yes, feel free to design your own banner for the campaign. We will be happy
to help you with promoting it on our various social media platforms
when it's finally ready for promotion. Are you considering contacting this
handle:
https://twitter.com/bnwikipedia for promotion support on social
media? The handle seems to have tens of thousands of followers.
Please also include in your plan, training for new editors.
By "Boomerang editors" , do you mean those editors who edited Wikipedia for
a short time and left? If yes, can you run a bot to identify these groups
of editors. For example, those editors that have not edited Wikipedia in
the last one month or two (1-2 months)?
If you have their list, you can email them that adding photos to Wikipedia
articles is an interesting way to edit Wikipedia and encourage them to join
the campaign ? You could create a prize for this category of users. For
example, you could offer to give them a custom shirt, visor cap or
something similar.
Do you want me to attend your meeting?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Isaac
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On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 9:16 PM Mrb Rafi <mrbrafi1971(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Isaac,
Glad to hear from you. Here are some updates on organizing WPWP2021 in
Bangla Wikipedia.
1. I've already formed a local organizing team of 10 members. We'll have a
meeting tomorrow to discuss our strategies.
2. We've already started to make a list of the categories lacking photos.
3. Some of our editors are saying that getting a list using petscan tool
will be onerous for our new editors. We've noticed that new editors often
feel overwhelmed even learning MediaWiki syntaxes. So our fellow editors
have suggested that we should give them a readymade list of articles
lacking photos, they'll just search related photos in Wikimedia Commons and
add them to the articles. We'll use bots to make the list of articles
lacking photos which won't take more than some minutes.
4. We've also started to design our own Bangla WPWP2021 banner. We'll
share it with everyone as soon as it gets done.
5. I think we should have some more specific and well-defined strategies
for this event. Suppose we're targeting (1)totally new editors and (2)the
editors who started editing Wikipedia, got no interest, and just left.
We'll try to bring back those "boomerang editors" to Wikipedia. So
we'll
need to know how can we find those "boomerang editors", reach them,
convince them, train them and grow their interest in Wikipedia. I think
having some inter-cultural discussions can bring new ideas.
Best,
Rafi.
On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:50 PM Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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/Participating_Communities>.
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/Participating_Communities>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
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