The stats page and WLM maps isn't loading. Can anyone take a look at it, please?
Alhen @erlanvegarios alhen at most places. Coordinator at Wikimedistas de Bolivia On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM Mohammad Hekmat <m.hek...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > My apologies for the long email but there are important tips that can help > you with promoting your campaign on social media so please bear with me :) > > The international team has been promoting the contest on its social media > accounts (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). We do our best to reach out to > as many people as possible,but in many cases, due to language barrier, it's > much more effective to do promotion in the local language. Here are some > tips to help you promote your campaign on social media: > > 1. Make use of WLM stats page <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlm-stats/> > by Emilio. It's a wonderful tool to keep track of your local contest. You > can see the total number of uploads, number of users, and the daily > breakdown. It also shows where you stand in comparison to other national > campaigns. > 2. Stay active throughout the month of September. In addition to > making posts make sure to like relevant posts and encourage those who are > potential participants by commenting under their posts/photos. > 3. Use Facebook and Instagram stories to keep your audience engaged. > If you have a large follower base, consider running a live event (e.g., > Instagram Live) for your audience to go live and ask questions. > 4. It's hard to constantly generate content. There are some easy ways > that will help you make a post without too much work. The best way is to > share someone else's story or post. One easy trick is again the stats. > Everyday the international team shares the stats in a story. For example, > today we posted "so far we've got >45000 photos by >3200 uploaders from 53 > countries." This is a good way of keeping the excitement alive. > 5. Be proactive! If you see a profile on social media with monument > photos invite them to share their photos through WLM. This is perhaps one > of the most effective ways. Typically, I leave a comment like this: "Great > pics of cultural heritage. Please consider sharing your photos on Wikipedia > through Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition. It runs through Sep. > 30 with the goal of visual documentation of monuments on Wikipedia." This > encourages people to join and puts all the keywords (monument, Wikipedia > ...) in a short message. > 6. It's all about word of mouth so ask your followers/friends to be > your ambassadors and encourage others to join. Previous years' participants > are typically excellent candidates to help with promotion. > 7. If you have access to people with large accounts ask them to tell > their followers about WLM. This, if done correctly, can help a lot. When > Wikipedia account on Instagram started following us and told about us to > their followers we immediately got many new followers. > 8. Consider paid promotions on social media. They are cheap and they > can reach to a very large number of people. But make sure to make it > targeted. If you need help contact me. > 9. Make sure to update your information on this page: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Social_Media > so we keep you in mind when promoting WLM on our social media > > Finally I would like to thank all our local organizers. You are all doing > a great job and it's so exciting to see so many beautiful monument images > from all over the world. Keep up the good work! > > Thanks, > Mohammad > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
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