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www.sandistertei.com Via mobile On 26 Apr 2016 10:04 p.m., "Nkansah Rexford" <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI > > Anyone up for the task? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *john cummings* <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 > Subject: [African Wikimedians] African World Heritage Day > To: [email protected] > > > Hi all > > 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/ > > I have an idea and would like to know what you thought and how it could be > improved upon. > > 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 > > 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. > > 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. > - What should be the aim of the campaign? E.g to create articles where > they don't exist in smaller Wikipedias. > - Should I include both Wikivoyage and Wikipedia or just stick to > Wikipedia, or should I split into 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. > - Does anyone want to work with me on this? > - Where and how should we encourage people to take part > - 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. > > All thoughts welcome > > Thanks > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > >
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