Activities

Carrying out the Project

The Wikiboses project was done to provide a free online source of voices and literature in the Philippines. The aim is to preserve the language while also reaching out to writers and different Philippine-language speakers to contribute to Wikiprojects, specifically the Wikimedia Commons in this instance. At its initial stage, we were able to gather a few contributions but what was considered a hindrance to its full success was the commitment of the volunteers.

Community Targeting

A community of writers from the Philippines has already been notified beforehand. But this time, we will need to boost the campaign and make this known to a wider audience, either on social media or printed media. Most of the contributors we are prospecting will be coming from outside wiki instead of the usual editors since this project does not entirely involve editan -a-thon but more on contributions of free-licensed audio recordings.

Follow-up with Participants

At the end of the project, we are looking at having more contributions from diverse languages in the Philippines. These contributors will also have first-hand experience on Wikimedia Commons uploading feature since they would need to upload their entries by themselves. Criteria for the best three entries will be included in the official announcement during the launch of this project.

Impact

Targets:

1. A better user interface of the Wikiboses. The entries will be categorized alphabetically and by language.
2. A collection of 30-50 voices and literature from different parts of the Philippines.
3. More pageviews of the landing page and edit traffic on Wikimedia Commons during the duration of the project.
4. Free audio content from notable writers and artists in the Philippines and link them to their Wikipedia pages.