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