Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024/Call for participation letter

Global call for participation: 1 May 2024.

The invitation letter would be available in the major languages listed below.

Task Manager (s)

• English languages- User:Reading Beans & User:Ammarpad
• Arabic - User:Farajiibrahim
• French - User:Ceslause
• Hindi - User:Kunokuno

• Mass message to local communities on-wiki - User:Tulsi Bhagat

For MassMessage, see list distribution list. Please feel free to add any missing languages

The above committee members are also responsible for recruiting translators for these languages. If you ask any question about the letter, you could ask the project coordinator, User:Reading Beans directly or any of the above-mentioned committee members.

Dear [contact person],

We are inviting you the Wikimedia NAME [Chapter/User Group] to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2024:

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to this email, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs (User:Deborahjay / debjay.wpwpgmail.com)
Communities liaison coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign