CentralNotice/Request/Volga WikiSeminar 2017

Volga WikiSeminar 2017

• Frhdkazan (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 06:15, 9 October 2017 (UTC))

Central Notice Settings
What is the campaign duration? 25th October 2017 → 5th November 2017 Which projects will you be targeting? Wikipedia What languages will you be targeting? All WP languages of Russia, except Azerbaidjani, Kazakh, Finnish and Ukrainian (ady / av / ba / bxr / ce / crh / cv / kbd / koi / krc / kv / lbe / lez / mdf / mhr / mrj / myv / olo / os / pnt / ru / sah / tt / tyv / udm / vep / xal) Do you wish to show banners to Logged In users, Anonymous Users or Both? Do you want to target users with a specific number of edits or average monthly? Both What countries will your campaign target? All, except Ukraine Banner/Campaign Diet: To be determined by Central Notice admin

What is the purpose of Campaign? How will you measure the success of the campaign?

Description - Public information campaign for 2017 Volga Regional WikiSeminar, one of WMRU-organized periodic WikiSeminars. Wiki-communities of Wikipedias in the languages of Russia are specifically interest in using all Wikimedia Russia community events to target all (but particularly unregistered users) within the Russian Federation & in respective languages globally to overcome confusion about what is Wikipedia (ex. written by WMF staff & paid editors) & use those as a basis for domestic & international outreach & engagement activities directed at respective language communities.

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What banner(s) will you use? What will be your landing page?

Banners:

• EN: Volga Regional Wiki-Seminar — 4-6 November 2017 @ Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Republic
• RU: Приволжский региональный вики-семинар — 4-6 ноября 2017 г. @ Йошкар-Ола, Республика Марий Эл
• with translation into targeted languages
  
  

Landing Page - wmru:Special:MyLanguage/Приволжский вики-семинар 2017

Community notification text

This is sample notification that can be used for mass message delivery to targeted WP's forums, as described @ Usage guidelines:

• EN: Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Volga WikiSeminar 2017 announcement (all active WPs in languages of Russia, except Azerbaidjani, Kazakh, Finnish and Ukrainian; globally, except Ukraine). Thank you.
• RU: Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о Приволжском вики-семинаре 2017 (все активные ВП на языках России, кроме азербайджанской, казахской, украинской и финской; глобально, кроме Украины). Спасибо.

Community Feedback

•  Support It is also necessary for the development of the Finno-Ugric languages, including! Community Wikimedians of Erzya language User Group (UG EZY) supports! --Erzianj jurnalist (talk) 12:22, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
• MYV: Равчирева ёнксонь викисеминарось — 2017 и. сундерьковонь 4-6 @ Йошкар-Ола ош, Марий Эл Республикась.--Erzianj jurnalist (talk) 20:41, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support, per above. --Edler von Udinium 13:42, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

  Elvonudinium, could you also provide Buryat translation, please? --Base (talk) 23:51, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

• BUA: Эжэл шадарай можо нютагай вики-семинар — 2017 оной 11 һарын 4-6 @ Йошкар-Ола хото, Марий Эл Улас I think it is better, if the banner is also in Russian.--Edler von Udinium 04:06, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

  Elvonudinium, thanks! You mean that even in Buryat wikis it is better to show Buryat and Russian at the same time? Shall Russian be like another line in a smaller font? --Base (talk) 20:47, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

  • Base, yes, perhaps that way. I have seen that a lot of edits are made by non-speakers, so it would make sense to write it in Russian for them as well.--Edler von Udinium 04:07, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
• All banners which I saw in VepWiki were in Estonian language, because it is inserting automatically (Estonian engine in VepWiki). But if it will be available, translation of the banner:
  • * VEP: Volgaveren regionaline vikiseminar — 4-6. kül'mku 2017 @ Joškar-Ol, Marii Elan Tazovaldkund . -- Koiravva (talk) 15:42, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Central Notice Admin comments

Frhdkazan, Here's the banner: [1], you can add more translations here: [2]. Currently set up it to all the languages listed and English in Russia (with fallback to Russian) and to the 3 languages of Russia for the whole world. Will add more languages to the worldwide campaign when translations are provided. Bezik, Saint Johann, you were not satisfied with Russian banner text, you are welcome to provide your opinion concerning this one. --Base (talk) 02:45, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

• @Frhdkazan: I would’ve preferred ‘вики-семинар’ in Russian text, since this is the grammatical form used most in such cases in Russian language (with a hyphen). Other than that I have no problems with the text, it’s too dry to be inviting to show it to random Russian readers IMO, but it’s not a big problem. stjn^[ru] 05:59, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
• The banner is redirecting to this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Example --Soul Train (talk) 03:05, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

  Now I've done this too… Thanks for reporting, fixed. --Base (talk) 03:23, 25 October 2017 (UTC)