Hello Navin and others, 

We have been thinking about how we might best deal with this situation.

I agree that non-constructive edits can be handled on a case-by-case basis and they could be dealt with at the community level.

We have now reversed this new eligibility criterion while we continue the discussion with the English Wikipedia community on how to best handle the issue in that community. I hope we find a solution to the problem at the English Wikipedia.

Please disregard the previous email about the (now reversed) additional criteria and continue to improve articles with photos.

We apologize for any inconveniences

With best regards,

Isaac Olatunde

Project Manager and Co-Coordinator

WPWP Campaign

On behalf of the WPWP Organizing Team

On Sun, 5 Jul 2020, 13:50 Navin Singh, <navinsingh133@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Issac,

Isn't it a little bit late to restrict users from editing? It would have been okay if the changes were made before starting, but I think we should try to find any other solution. Maybe like, disqualifying if more then 5 edits are found to be destructive. I feel bad in shutting out the users we have called. If an edit is not constructive, we can treat it as so. There are a lot of rollbackers and anti-vandalism users on developed wikis which deal with such things daily. On wikis with small number of participant, we can easily provide other solutions.

Overall, I am asking to deal with it on community level. I don't feel confident in shutting out so many people all of a sudden, it will be a disappointment.

The above is my personal opinion and not a decision. Feel free to to update the guidelines anyway you guys prefer.

Regards

On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 02:47, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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