# October community campaign

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943>\
**Category:** Common Voice\
**Tags:** participation, announcements\
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943 "2019-10-16T13:13:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/1 "2019-10-16T13:13:09Z")

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Hi everyone,

As some of you have already noticed through Firefox Desktop snippets, Mozilla Activate newsletter and social media, this week we have launched a community campaign to get a boost in contributions for the languages we have at least 1M sentences.

We have launched efforts in English, German, French and Spanish.

So far we are seeing a huge increase in contributions, so much that our server was a bit overloaded on Monday 😉

Please keep an eye on new recordings and please flag any trends you are seeing.

This is a quick report on numbers in the last 7 days to illustrate impact:

 ![imagen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/mozilla/original/3X/7/1/71504a7957729b29feaf41ab5a45ce87ea372681.png)

Cheers.

_Reminder: We are still looking for help to get other languages to more than 1M sentences so we can feel conformable launching big campaigns like this [[Technical feedback needed] Wikipedia extractor script beta - #32 by txopi](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/technical-feedback-needed-wikipedia-extractor-script-beta/42983/32)_

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**Author:** ![hellosct1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/hellosct1/32/4602_2.png) [@hellosct1](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/hellosct1)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/2 "2019-10-17T06:38:10Z")

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Hi,

The French Community has made an article about the campaign on the blog :

[Common Voice : Aidez nous à atteindre l’objectif des 10 heures pour Octobre](https://blog.mozfr.org/post/2019/10/common-voice-aidez-nous-a-atteindre-objectif-des-10-heures-pour-octobre)

Christophe

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**Author:** ![dabinat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dabinat](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/dabinat)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/3 "2019-10-17T15:20:42Z")

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Common Voice made the front page of Hacker News:  
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268579](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268579)

Some interesting comments underneath. Two problems appear to be:

1. Users don’t know what to look for when validating. [This thread](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discussion-of-new-guidelines-for-recording-validation/36465) is the closest thing to proper validation guidelines and I think it would be really helpful if it was prominently linked on the CV site. At the very least, it should be a sticky topic on this forum.

2. The process of getting new languages ready for recording is complex / convoluted.

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**Author:** ![stergro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/stergro/32/40229_2.png) [@stergro](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/stergro)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/4 "2019-10-17T18:19:40Z")

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I absolutely agree, wee need more visible information. It took me a few weeks of reading and trial and error until I understood how this project works.

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/5 "2019-10-18T10:11:09Z")

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Thanks for this link, this is really valuable, and I agree on some of the pain point mentioned. Let’s keep creating a list with all the feedback and see how we can turn it into recommendations for product.

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**Author:** ![dabinat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dabinat](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/dabinat)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/6 "2019-10-18T19:44:57Z")

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@nukeador Will Common Voice snippets be shown to Firefox users long-term or is this only intended to be a short-term campaign?

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/7 "2019-10-21T10:43:45Z")

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Snippets are only run for one week, we plan to at least run this same campaign (incorporating any learnings) also in November and December.

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/8 "2019-10-21T10:47:36Z")

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The results after the first week are remarkable, seeing contributions increase from 5X to 15X!

**New hours in the last week**

- German: +18 recorded +15 validated (5x)
- English: +65 recorded +48 validated (7x)
- French: +48 recorded +31 validated (6x)
- Spanish: +50 recorded +30 validated (15x)

Thanks @couci for supporting the execution and @mbranson and @r_LsdZVv67VKuK6fuHZ_tFpg or the input, feedback and support from the product site.

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**Author:** ![hellosct1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/hellosct1/32/4602_2.png) [@hellosct1](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/hellosct1)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/9 "2019-10-21T19:34:15Z")

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Hi,

With these figures, how many hours does this correspond to the 10-hour target?

Thanks  
Christophe

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/october-community-campaign/46943/10 "2019-10-22T09:09:01Z")

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For French we did 6 times what we usually get in a week, in this case almost 26 validated hours are coming from this campaign.

That’s 260% over our original target of 10 hours

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/mozilla/original/3X/c/9/c9bf61473ec2232790eb6650f4b1e5aa83d9cdcb.gif)