I'm Trizek, community liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) concerning VisualEditor. We have seen each other during the last Wikimania, during the VisualEditor translathon. I'm contacting you because you may help me. :)
I'm happy to announce you that WMF is starting to work on VisualEditor input method editor (IME) in order to fix specific bugs concerning Japanese language. We want to track all bugs which happens when you type something and VE displays something else. I'm in charge of collecting this feedback, and I plan to send messages on community pages and to people who speak both Japanese and English, to encourage them to participate. If you have any advice for me concerning Japanese community, please contact me on my talk page or by email!
Thanks you for joining the organizing team of Wikipedia Asian Month, here are a few updates.
If you or your colleagues haven't set up a local page for Wikipedia Asian Month yet, here is a sample page for you to translate it to your local Wikipedia without worrying designing. Make sure you also localize this template and this subpage.
If you already made the page, great job! Here are some changes on the sample page that you may also want to moderate your local page.
Please make sure you make a clear statement that article about which county will not count on the local event. Usually are the countries primarily speak this language. For example, Hindu Wikipedia shall not count articles about India. Local organizers have the final say on this issue.
Ask some Wikipedians to organize this event, and sign up to receive further updates at here.
Contact me on meta or facebook if you have any question! Thank you! Sent by User:AddisWang.
It is coming! Thanks you for joining the organizing team of Wikipedia Asian Month, there are only 10 days left before it starts, here are some actioned needed from you to make this event successful! It will only cost you from 5-15 minutes. (listed by priority)
Set up a local page for Wikipedia Asian Month, check out this sample page, and translate it to your home Wikipedia. Make sure you localize these two pages as well. The template and the subpage. (10 Minutes) (Please set up the page by Oct.25, the CentralNotice will activate on that day)
If you already set up the page, check out the sample page, there are some updates made, update those changes in your local event page. (2 Minutes)
After nearly three months of preparation, Wikipedia Asian Month will start in a few days. Here are some changes and action items that need to be done in the next few days before the event starts:
As we discussed on meta, if the article is a list, it will not count. However, on the English Wikipedia, the rules have been changed so that a list that is promoted to a Featured List will be counted. Other Wikipedias that also have Featured Lists (BN, BA, FA, KO, HI, ID, JA, RU, UK, UR and ZH) are invited to consider and add this rule.
There will be two CentralNotice banners used during the event. Please translate these into your language. It should take a maximum of 3 minutes. One is for Ongoing, another is for ending. It will generate huge impact!
If you have any question regarding the banner in your language Wikipedia, free feel to leave a message on meta.
Any Asian topic will be counted. Topics do not have to be about geopgraphy. You can make a clear statement so that participants understand this.
For smaller communities, it is okay to reduce the standard from 3500 bytes and 300 words. I will suggest no lower than 2500 Bytes and 200 words. Please report this change on meta.
I will make a short video demo about how to use the judging tool. This should be done no later than November 10. I would recommend organizers not start judging articles before that if you plan to use the judging tool.
Ask some Wikipedians in your community to assist you if you are the only organizer. Tell them most work has already been done. There is only a little work for being an organizer from this point forward.
For any questions or thought about Wikipedia Asian Month, you can leave a message here. I'm monitoring this page 12 hours everyday.
Hi, here is the demo video that you can see how the tool works and how to judge the articles during the Wikipedia Asian Month. The template we use is here en:Template:WAM user. -- m:User:AddisWang
I'm very excited that Wikipedia Asian Month has many great articles already in the first ten days. To better help us understand how we are we doing on Wikipedia Asian Month, here are some small tasks:
Thank you for volunteering to organize Wikipedia Asian Month - we are doing something amazing! We are expecting to have 1,000 participants improving over 1,500 articles, possibly making Wikipedia Asian Month the largest long-term edit-a-thon ever. Here are a few tasks that need to be completed at the end of the event, as well as some tips you can take to achieve greater success. Requirements:
Check all submitted articles before 15th December, 2015, and send me a data set that includes: total number of submitted articles, number of qualified articles, total number of participants, and articles selected for DYK. For the few Wikipedias that allow article expansions, please also send me the number of new articles vs. improved articles. Use this page to submit results.
List all qualified organizers, up to five on each Wikipedia. Qualified organizers are ones who work actively; those who only have their name on the page or just made a few constructive edits for the event (less than, say, 5-10 edits) will not be counted. Due 20th December, 2015. Use this page to submit organizers.
List all qualified editors who can receive a postcard on here at meta. Also, please determine the Wikipedia Asian Ambassador of this year. For some Wikipedias, we are also honoring the second greatest contributor as an ambassador, as long as they have created at least 30 articles. Please talk with me about these potential additional Ambassadors. Due 25th December, 2015. Use this page to submit Ambassadors.
Create a local results page. A sample page will be provided soon. Due 30th December, 2015.
Tips and Extras:
Place {{WAM talk 2015}} on talk pages of qualified articles to record that it was created as a part of Wikipedia Asian Month. If your Wikipedia does not have an equivalent template, make one! See this talk page example to see the template in action.
Translate the message at this page. This message will be sent to all participants on your local Wikipedia to encourage their participation. Let me know when you finish the translation. For some Wikipedias that have fewer editors, you can send it by yourself.
If you haven't started to check articles, try to give at least one result to each participant to let them know their contribution are qualified, or why they do not qualify.
If you find out that some editors on your local Wikipedia are editing Asian Content but haven't sign up yet, send them a short invitation to ask them join. All edits made in November will be counted regardless of when the editor signed up.
Rules Clarification:
Since it is hard for organizers to keep the checking process very quickly, and may cause some editors who submit five articles being told one of their article does not qualified after the end November. We will still send postcards to those who submit five articles but one of those does not qualified with a minor problem. Minor problems include:
Needs a few words to reach 300 words.
Has a less-important issue tag.
Needs to count one or two edits in the end of October or beginning of December to be qualified.
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