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Wikipedia offline (before Russia will disconnect)

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Central Notice Settings

What is the campaign duration?
  • 8 March 2022 → 15 March 2022
Which projects will you be targeting?
  • all projects
What languages will you be targeting?
  • Multiple Languages (Russian, Ukrainan, English at least)
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?
  • all

What countries will your campaign target?

  • Russia, Bielorussia, Ukraine

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?

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Description - Increasing readers' awareness (especially in target countries) on the opportunity to use apps so as to store Wikipedia, and maybe other projects, entirely offline in order to get access even without Internet connection. I have read about Kiwix, but I am sure there are different ways to get the same result. In any case, IMHO this is not a matter of "how", rather a matter of "what" and now promptness is key.
There is a recent news from Russia, indeed, according to which the local authorities are intending to disconnect the country from the global Internet in a few days (supposedly, March 11). Limited to Wiki*edia, the effect will be impeding millions of citizen to have access to any page of our projects, including the ones not at all related to the current war events: maths, literature, first aid, psychology, hygiene. We can only imagine the negative impact this could have, not only in terms of knowledge and quality of life, but primarily in terms of life in itself.

Metrics - number of download of the proposed app(s), number of dumps. As an upper bound, traffic reduction from the target countries on WMF projects when the restriction will have effect.

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

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Banners -

Landing Page -
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Type of grant - No grants. The consistency with the WMF vision is however clear, as our commitment is to sharing knowledge, merely by let everyone have access to it. I firmly believe that an effective campaing could partially relieve the discomfort and pains of Russian people hindered to benefit from knowledge in Wikimedia projects as long as this authoritarian initiative will have effect. To be honest, I despair it will be matter of few weeks.

Link to grant -

Discussion

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Central Notice admin comments

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@Nicolabel: Hello, I'm very happy to speedily approve this, if ruwiki is reasonably aware of this happening (and fond of it). I just want to point out up until now, there was an emergency banner of a similar kind displayed (see [1] for how it looked like). If you have any wording (or better yet, a banner code ready), that'd be amazing. CC Seddon who worked on the other banner I linked. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 16:08, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I really apologize, but I did request before being aware of the current banner, which it seems to be already enough to fulfil the aim of my request. --Nicolabel (talk) 16:32, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]