Dear Jon This is an exciting project!! I have been wanting to do something similar with the UNESCO heritage sites for so long - and am so glad you have initiated this plan. I will definitely be helping - And I think we can definitely help to get the word out in several countries across Africa!!
Warmest Isla > On 26 Apr 2016, at 10:50 PM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Le 26/04/16 14:54, john cummings a écrit : >> Hi all > > hi John >> >> I have met a few of you over Skype and in person before at Wikimedia events, >> I'm currently working at UNESCO. >> >> May 5th is African World Heritage Day and I was thinking about running a >> small online campaign for it. >> >> http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1364/ >> <http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1364/> >> I have an idea and would like to know what you thought and how it could be >> improved upon. > I think it is a great idea... > >> >> I would like to encourage editors in many languages to write Wikipedia and >> Wikivoyage articles about the World Heritage sites in Africa through social >> media and also on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. >> >> I want to make this as multilingual as possible so I've used dynamic >> Wikidata Lists to create this table which shows which articles are available >> in which language. I think its a really nice way to create a project 'hit >> list' using Wikidata. >> >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/dynamic.html?#list=148 >> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/dynamic.html?#list=148> >> There are a few Wikidata items down the bottom of the list that are blank or >> with very few articles, I need to fix this, they're duplicate items so don't >> point to any articles or only one or two. > > Great table > The one thing I am missing here to make it appealing is... > 1) the name of the country where the site is located > 2) whether there is at least an image of the site, or not. Ideally... link to > Commons category page IF it can be automated. > > My personal suggestions are > 1) that table should be transfered on a wiki page > 2) that it be divided in two tables actually... one about wikipedia and the > other about wikivoyage > 3) name of country added > 4) organise it per country perhaps ? > 5) for each article, we could add an indicator to show the general state of > it (without making it painful. Something fairly simple) > > Whilst meta would be a cool place to coordinate that... the real effect is ON > the project itself (Wikipedia...) for a simple good reason... it is exciting > to see the blue links and the red links. > On meta... everything is blue... whether it exists or does not exist. > > >> >> Some questions I'm currently thinking about: >> What languages should be included in the list? The languages I currently >> have are the 6 UN languages + a few other popular languages but this is easy >> to change. > am not sure >> What should be the aim of the campaign? E.g to create articles where they >> don't exist in smaller Wikipedias. > well... I have a question. I see 137 items (and you say a few are > duplicates). Do those are the entirety of WH sites ? (= is there at least one > article in one language for each site; or are some sites missing ? If some > are missing... how many sites are missing ? ) > If ALL sites are listed here... make it a call for translation (and > improvement if people feel like it) > If SOME sites are missing... make it a call to make sure that ALL sites have > at least one article in a language > > Make it a 2-4 weeks effort. > > >> Should I include both Wikivoyage and Wikipedia or just stick to Wikipedia, >> or should I split into two tables? > both. Two tables >> Is the tool easy enough for experienced editors to use to find where >> articles don't exist yet? Its a shame they can't click on a button where the >> gap is to just write or translate the article. > Not simple enough. Should be a wiki table with links to explain rules and > translation tool etc. >> Does anyone want to work with me on this? > I love it. Not sure how much time I will have to dedicate to it though. On > the 5th, unless it is cancelled, I will be travelling (somewhere in Marocco). > But I can help a bit I am sure. > >> Where and how should we encourage people to take part > On social media, we have plenty of accounts to relay this (usergroups, > wikilovesafrica, wikiafrica etc.). Project pages could be created on local > wikipedias.... we can quite easily do it in French and English. But need to > find local relays for other languages (if no local relay... use meta at least > to have a global page and tables). Can get Wikimedia Foundation to do a blog > (ask Ed). Then village pumps. Some mouvements can help relay as well, such as > WikiFranca. > >> Does this need a homepage or can it simply be a tweet that can be >> translated? This would allow it to be shared in many languages easily. > Depends how much time you can dedicate to this. But the idea seems cool > enough to do more than a tweet. >> All thoughts welcome > > Flo >> >> Thanks >> >> John >> > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians Isla Haddow-Flood Project Manager Username: Islahaddow
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