Thanks, Ciell. My settings are not set for Ukrainian — and probably a lot of people are not going to have them set like that anyway, and it would be difficult to control.

My issue is that a person sees this banner in Ukrainian Wikipedia, clicks, find themselves on Meta (of all places), and it is very inconvenient to then look for how to return back to Ukrainian Wikipedia and find a landing page for a local contest. And I think this kind of complicated logistics costs us participants. And that is going to be true to all projects *with local pages*. So I suggest that you rethink how the contest is implemented and change the banner — 1) to lead to a Meta page if there is no local page for that country/language, 2)  to lead to a local page, if provided.

This can be technically done — Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth campaigns have been doing it for years.

Thank you! And hoping for understanding and your support with this.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021, 19:09 Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:

(typo, multi-tasking error, haha)

.... if you have the language settings (top of your screen) set to Ukranian, you should get the Ukranian banner and the Ukranian language WPWP page as a landing page....

Vriendelijke groet,

Ciell

Op do 1 jul. 2021 om 18:07 schreef Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia@gmail.com>:

Hi Antanana,

The link in the banner leads the user to the translated page into the language the users has set their Mediawiki preference in, it is set to go through Special:MyLanguage. Aka: if you have the language settings (top of your screen) set to Ukranian, you should get the Ukranian banner and the Ukranian language WPWP page as a language page. If you have this set to English, it leads to the English page, and the English version is also the back-up for languages in which the banner and/or landing page is not (yet) translated.

Could you please see what your language settings are currently, and maybe try switching to a different language, refresh your Wikipedia page and click the link again? This should work, I'd love to hear back if it does not, so I can try and fix it!

Vriendelijke groet,

Ciell

Op do 1 jul. 2021 om 17:47 schreef Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac@gmail.com>:

Hello Antanana,

Thanks for this information. I have Cc'd Ciell who will handle this task.

Best regards

Isaac

On Thu, 1 Jul 2021, 16:43 attolippip, <attolippip@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear organisers,

First of all, thank you for your support with the project!

I would like to request that the banner from territory of Ukraine and from the Ukrainian Wikiprojects would point to either the local page http://wpwp.wlm.photo or to the translation into Ukrainian at Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021/uk

If it is possible to choose, we prefer the local page on Wikipedia, so people are not confused by going to Meta

Also the English language is off putting to users...

Are you able to help with this?

З повагою / Best regards,

antanana

Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine

Wiki Loves Earth International team

Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation

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