CentralNotice/Request/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2023

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2023

Ammarpad (talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log), primary contact (Requested at 10:23, 10 June 2023 (UTC))[reply]

Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?

1st July 2023 → 31st August 2023

Which projects will you be targeting?

Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

What languages will you be targeting?

All that signed up Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023/Participating Communities

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?

Logged in users.

What countries will your campaign target?

Global

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 - Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023 is the fourth edition of this annual campaign that promotes improving Wikipedia articles with photos and contextual media files with view of encouraging use of digital media files collected from various Wikimedia photography contests and photowalks.
Metrics -

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

Banners -

Join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2023 to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize!

Landing Page - Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023

Is this project grant funded? Please provide a link

Type of grant - General Support Fund

Link to grant - Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos International Team/2023 coordination

Discussion

Central Notice admin comments

Hi Ammarpad! Have you notified the target wikis about this discussion? Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, we sent global message about the campaign last week. – Ammarpad (talk) 07:12, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ammarpad, can you provide links to these messages? Thanks, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 16:59, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. enwiki, huwiki for example – Ammarpad (talk) 17:29, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Those technically are about the project, not specifically the banner, but considering this has run multiple times previously and clearly has support I don't think it's a problem. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:17, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ammarpad, I've created a banner for this campaign, see a preview here. People can translate it at this link. Let me know if this all works. Once this is approved I'll create the campaign. Best regards, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:27, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently the preview works for me but not other people...currently asking around for help. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 19:16, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's not working for me too. – Ammarpad (talk) 19:43, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ammarpad, I think I got it working, see this link. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 21:33, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. It works now. – Ammarpad (talk) 15:25, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Approved Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:08, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ammarpad, I've created the campaign, set to run starting on July 1. A few things first:

1) It is enabled in 16 languages: en, ar, bcl, din, fr, ha, hu, ig, kcg, ln, mk, sr, sw, tr, yo. We generally prefer to have the main languages translated by the time it goes live. Would it be possible to ask the affiliate organizers to translate the banners into their own languages? Please ask them to use this link.

2) Given the amount of banners we currently have set to run on Commons over the next few weeks (way too many), and the hard limit of 1 month for banners, I've shortened the banner's end time to August 1. This means the banner would run on the requested projects from July 1 to August 1. If you'd prefer a different 1 month window, please let me know and I can implement that.

Thanks! Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:08, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Vermont, I think Armenian (hy) is missing in the enabled languages.

Also I'm working toward providing the translations, all will be ready before the start date.

The selected period is fine for us.

Finally, is a there a way to vary the link destination? (for instance to link to local campaign page on a single wiki). It seems the translation does not contain the link. Thanks. – Ammarpad (talk) 15:51, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ammarpad, I've enabled hy. By vary the link, do you mean to have a different link target for the banner on each wiki? Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 19:23, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. (My question above was missing some negation, which I corrected now). – Ammarpad (talk) 20:28, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ammarpad, thanks! Because we only want the link destination to vary on Wikipedias, so that Commons users with different languages set are not sent to different pages, I've made two campaigns:

For Wikipedias, there is a campaign and a banner
For Commons, there is a campaign and a banner

Still translate using this link, where people can both provide a local landing page link and translate the banner text. (do not include https://, just the url after that) The text is shown in both banners, however the local link is only used for the Wikipedia banner in that language. If no link or translation is provided, it will default to English.

The Commons banner's target is the Meta-Wiki landing page, as is the English translation for the Wikipedias banner. If you'd like any of this to change, please let me know. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 21:33, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. That's it. – Ammarpad (talk) 07:57, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ammarpad, the campaigns are enabled and will go live on July 1 at 0000 UTC. I'll check the translations a few times before that to approve new ones as they're added and ensure it's working properly. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 15:05, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All right, that's fine. – Ammarpad (talk) 05:59, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've published all translations that have been added as of now. I will likely not be around again until some time after the campaign starts, so if more translations are added between now and then I'd recommend finding an active CN admin who can approve them. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 12:41, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think translation admins may be able to approve translations too. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 12:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vermont, not sure, I haven't tried it before. If I get a way to this, I might try helping as well. ─ The Aafī ^{^(talk)} 18:09, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jeez! I forgot. Taking a look at this, it didn't allow me to mark the translation as published. I could only mark it as ready. That makes me say translation admins are unhelpful in this case. ─ The Aafī ^{^(talk)} 18:18, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]