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List of countries in a WLX campaign
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Thank you for adding the "From an unknown country". But we still have the problem that "All countries" is the default selection. And if people choose "all countries", it does not record the contribution in the "country" space.

Any solution will be biased I fear, but we better have any solution where "all countries" is not the default choice. Either we put "without a country" the default, or we pick up a specific country, or we pick up a randomly chosen country. I am not sure what is the easiest for you. But for WLA, the whole idea is to record country info, and since "all countries" does not allow to easily extract the country origin, all countries should not be default.

In a perfect situation, no country will be selected by default and the user HAVE to select a country before going further in the process. Then remove the "all countries" option entirely.

Event Timeline

Hi @Anthere, that option was not actually added yet, it just shows up for some Wiki Loves Campaigns by default as it fits the same syntax countries use. However, this has just been completed so will be deployed as soon as review is finished.

See these tasks for details:


NOTE: I think the "Unknown" category that the old system was picking up actually needs fixing on Commons, as it's incorrect syntax? See details below

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019
You can see from the link above that there is two syntax listed:

  • Images from Wiki Loves Africa in an unknown country (0 images)
  • Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2019 with unknown country‎ (1001 images)

Or do these mean different things?

In any case I have used the second syntax that appears to have the images in almost all cases

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