CentralNotice/Request/Project Tiger Writing Contest

Project Tiger Writing Contest

Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 14:02, 17 February 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?

1 March 2018 → 31 May 2018

Which projects will you be targeting?

Wikipedia

What languages will you be targeting?

as, bn, bh, bpy, en, gom, gu, hi, kn, mai, ml, mr, ne, or, pa, sa, ta, te, ur

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 logged in & anonymous users

What countries will your campaign target?

India

Banner/Campaign Diet:

To be determined by Central Notice admin

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

Description - As a part of the Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program, a three-month long article improvement campaign is being run to bridge the content gaps on various Indic language Wikimedias.

Metrics - Fountain tool will be made available to participants to report their contributions.

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

Banners - Project Tiger Writing Contest
Improve articles for readers from India and win prizes!

Landing Page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Contest#Participating_communities

Discussion

Endorsing this request on behalf of the Partnerships & Global Reach team at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is a project the foundation is implementing in collaboration with CIS-A2K. We need the banner to ensure maximum participation in the contest. Thanks. @Seddon (WMF):--Ravi (talk) 18:22, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, @Seddon (WMF) and RAyyakkannu (WMF):, please remove this notice from Bengali Wikisource. It serves no purpose there. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 20:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Krishna Chaitanya Velaga and Ravidreams:, please take action to remove the notice from Bengali Wikisource. This notice is diverting our workforce decreasing our editors. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 15:22, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Bodhisattwa: Thanks for notifying. Pinging Central Notice admins @Seddon (WMF) and MarcoAurelio: for action. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk — mail) 02:50, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the part of the notice - "Together, we can keep Wikipedia in India independent and thriving" - especially the bit about "independent" is open to some misinterpretation and should either be dropped or expanded upon/clarified in the landing page. To some independence apparently means that which is owned by the country and not influenced by "foreigners". Shyamal (talk) 09:14, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Central Notice admins @Seddon (WMF) and MarcoAurelio: for action. As Shyamal suggested, please remove the word, as it may be misinterpreted. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk — mail) 11:56, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Central Notice admin comments

@Krishna Chaitanya Velaga and RAyyakkannu (WMF): Three months is far too long for a CentralNoice campaign. I suggest breaking the campaign down into three two week stints. One to launch. One in the middle and one to close. Seddon (WMF) (talk) 02:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Seddon (WMF): I was about to suggest the same. Please display the notice three stints of two weeks in the beginning of every month. --Ravi (talk) 13:51, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, two weeks at the beginning of every month will work. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk — mail) 06:01, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Seddon (WMF): Please let us know if more details are needed. The contest has started since March 1 and a notice for two weeks now would help us get more participation. Thanks. --Ravi (talk) 06:44, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]