Thank you for this update Seddon, (I've cc'd Jessica & Trish from the Australian Digital Alliance, and Jon from Electronic Frontiers Australia - who are helping to coordinate this. Those of you who were at the Melbourne meetup with Katherine this week will have met Jon there).
Things are moving ahead apace with the planning for this campaign, even though it might look very quiet to those not intimately involved: We're trying to strike a balance between keeping people informed, and not spamming with unwanted info! ==Banner display== To reiterate Seddon's point: I am sorry that the proposal which was approved by the community vote - (showing banners only on articles which have Fair Use files) is not going to be technically possible. We thought it was, and Seddon/WMF genuinely believed it would be, but it isn't. We can make a list of all en.wp articles with F.U. files[1] but to make each pageload check against that list would pose an unacceptable burden on load-times. There probably is a technical solution that the WMF could build, but as a question of resource-allocation they're not able to do that at this time. So... I hope you understand and believe us when we say that we're doing our best to adjust to this hiccup by following the spirit of the community-consultation as best as possible, even if we technically can't follow the letter. To that end: rather than showing the banners all the *time* on the minority % of articles which have F.U. content, we will instead show the banners on all the *articles* but only for an equivalent minority % of the time/pageloads. Make sense? There will also be the other limiting factors in place: only for logged-out users, maximum of 5 banner views per-browser/per-week. ==Draft landing page, banner designs== If you would like to help draft some banner texts and find appropriate graphics for them, you can make suggestions alongside the current proposals at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia This meta page will also become the landing-page for the banners when clicked. It's not pretty yet, we've been working primarily on the text itself - to find that balance between concise, accurate, engaging, detailed, and approved-by-the-lawyers! ==Timing== The launch date is expected to be in two weeks, likely 18 May That will be after the media attention surrounding the federal budget has died down. It will also coincide with some mainstream media articles we're hoping to secure with some friendly journalists. As important as our website is, the impact of the national newspapers on the minds of MPs needs to be accounted for :-) ==FairCopyright== And relatedly, Jess, Trish and Jon have been working very hard to produce a matching campaign microsite - faircopyright.org.au (currently behind a password until we 'launch') which will have lots more resources that are not appropriate for Meta - like the 'contact your MP' widget, various FAQ and mytbusting documents, social media sharing... It will also serve as a place for the other allied organisations in Australia (from the education/consumer/digital rights communities) to point their parallel campaign material towards. Yep - other organisations have become inspired by our getting involved and are going to run their own parallel campaigns! ==Mainspace WP article== One of the specific requests made during the Request for Commons was a mainspace Wikipedia article outlining the history of Fair Use arguments in Australia - on the basis that if we're running an advocacy campaign about it, we should have an NPOV and RS referenced EN.WP article about it too. This was written and placed in the 'drafts' namespace for review (to avoid CoI concerns), and is now live and linked from some other relevant articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fair_Use_proposals_in_Australia Please watchlist it, and help improve! I'd like to add in some multimedia from the "anti" fair use camp, but with supreme irony... since they're also anti free-licenses the only way that perspective could be included in the multimedia of the article is with... Fair Use :-P Sincerely, - Liam / Wittylama [1] Indeed, here it is: https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/17179 wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 5 May 2017 at 17:54, Joseph Seddon <jsed...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > I wanted to give you an update on where we are with the technical aspects > of the campaign, a hurdle that I have come across and the direction we will > be heading in. > > ==Banner Targetting== > When this campaign was originally planned one of the aims was to limit > banners to pages that only contained fair use images. This kind of > targeting would have been done within the client (browser) since currently > the functionality does not exist on the server side. The idea was to target > images hosted on the English Wikipedia with the assumption that they would > be fair use with a few exceptions. A line of javascript code would run upon > the loading of the page, search for the following "// > upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/". If found, the banner would show. If > not the banner would be suppressed. I expected a few false positives but > generally this would function well. > > However what I did not take into account was that the top 100 used files > on the English Wikipedia are hosted locally. This includes things like the > Wikimedia commons logo which is used on a vast number of pages. This means > that unfortunately with the current tools at our disposal, we aren't going > top be able to do this particular type of targeting as I had hoped and my > apologies to the community. > > ==Campaign Details== > The intention is for the campaign to continue to follow the spirit of the > consensus established by the community. The plan will be to run banners at > 50% of page views on the first 24 hours of the campaign and then drop and > remain at a lower level between 10-25% of impressions for the remainder of > the campaign period (expected to be 3-4 weeks in length). > > We will also limit the number of times any one person will see a banner > and this is expected to be around 5 views per week. The idea is to strike a > balance between delivering impact and not disrupting the website for our > readers. > > If you'd like to see a current draft version of the banner you can take a > look here: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&; > banner=Australia_FairUse_Draft&uselang=en&force=1 > > (not connected to a landing page yet) > > I hope that we will be able to run and test a number of variants of the > banner in both design and text copy to establish the most effective > campaign. > > If you have questions about the technical aspects of the campaign feel > free to ask me here or directly by my email :) > > Regards > > -- > Seddon > > *Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)* > *Wikimedia Foundation* > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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