Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
I heart this idea. Srsly. Can you imagine, finding places that have WP articles and projecting the logo globe on them? That would be an amazing public visibility thing. In SF alone, for instance, Grace Cathedral, Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: Yeah! There's so much we could be doing (both on-wiki and in meatspace) for the 10th anniversary next January. I would suggest that not only should we be investigating activities such as that you describe to improve the content, but also that we undertake fundraising and general outreach activities across the world around. For example, the spread Firefoxhttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/ project has been a success and I'd love to see this kind of thing for Wikipedia projected on monuments around the world on the 10th anniversary day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nois3lab/4088072729/in/set-72157622640597827/:-) (video of same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8Dyhz_qbs ) And yes, as you say, it is also a very good opportunity to really utilise the value of the geo-targeted notices if all the chapters and geographically defined wikiprojects coordinate undertake activities simultaneously. -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Stuart West stuw...@gmail.com wrote: At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around participation. What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive? We could aim for some stretch target (e.g. 1 million edits across all projects over 24 hours on 15 Jan 2011, or 25 million edits during the month of January) and use the project and geo-targeted sitenotice technology from the fundraisers. Seems like it could be a great way to celebrate and also get the word out about the anyone can edit spirit of our projects. -stu [[m:User:Stu]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
Amazing idea, Philippe! Additionally to some big things (Hagia Sophia? the Red Square?): small Wikipedia logo stickers to put on a number of buildings etc. in your town. (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) The 10th anniversay will be a kind of looking back, also remembering those who have left us on the way. Some of them we are happy to be rid of, but others - maybe the anniversay is a good occasion to direct us to people who once tried to edit but were beaten away. Couldn't we ask them to give Wikipedia a second chance? Ziko 2010/2/8 Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org: Can you imagine, finding places that have WP articles and projecting the logo globe on them? That would be an amazing public visibility thing. In SF alone, for instance, Grace Cathedral, Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
I am not sure what the planning of the usability initiative is, but it would be an ideal moment to publicly launch a wysiwyg editor or something and indeed ask people to try again :) Wikipedia is entering it's second decade in style - come and join us, Wikipedia is now also editable by mortal human non-nerds! -- Lodewijk 2010/2/8 Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com Amazing idea, Philippe! Additionally to some big things (Hagia Sophia? the Red Square?): small Wikipedia logo stickers to put on a number of buildings etc. in your town. (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) The 10th anniversay will be a kind of looking back, also remembering those who have left us on the way. Some of them we are happy to be rid of, but others - maybe the anniversay is a good occasion to direct us to people who once tried to edit but were beaten away. Couldn't we ask them to give Wikipedia a second chance? Ziko 2010/2/8 Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org: Can you imagine, finding places that have WP articles and projecting the logo globe on them? That would be an amazing public visibility thing. In SF alone, for instance, Grace Cathedral, Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) Decomposable stickers! ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Ang.: Re: 10th birthday edit drive?
Hoi, If we want an edit drive, we want to compare articles of all our wikipedias. Comparing them for their quality is difficult. It is therefore necessary to find other qualities that help decide what article is important, meaningful. We do know the amount of traffic articles receive, when new articles receive a lot of attention, they serve a need. We can help our editors make this difference when we are able to inform them what articles people are looking for and cannot find. Providing such statistics is meaningful for all our projects, big and small. Thanks, GerardM On 8 February 2010 08:30, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.comwrote: We should definitely do something,but I was thinking more in the lines of. .. * giving out special wikipedia cookies / cakes * a big - ass contest * sending out a wishlist * adding some amazing software feature Or something similar Den 2 7, 2010 11:34 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com skrev: Yeah! There's so much we could be doing (both on-wiki and in meatspace) for the 10th anniversary next January. I would suggest that not only should we be investigating activities such as that you describe to improve the content, but also that we undertake fundraising and general outreach activities across the world around. For example, the spread Firefoxhttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/ project has been a success and I'd love to see this kind of thing for Wikipedia projected on monuments around the world on the 10th anniversary day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nois3lab/4088072729/in/set-72157622640597827/:- ) (video of same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8Dyhz_qbs ) And yes, as you say, it is also a very good opportunity to really utilise the value of the geo-targeted notices if all the chapters and geographically defined wikiprojects coordinate undertake activities simultaneously. -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Stuart West stuw...@gmail.com wrote: At a meetup in San Franc... ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) Decomposable stickers! ;-) At a recent local election, a party here used white spray chalk to put their slogans on the sidewalk (or, as the oppo- nents would see it, have them trampled on :-)). While it was decomposable, it wasn't gone by the first rain as promised by the campaigners. But I think Wikipedia probably has more unanimous support :-). If the weather in 2011 is similar to this year's however, it might be necessary to use black chalk in the northern he- misphere :-). Tim ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed
Think he meant to send this here. ~Nathan -- Forwarded message -- From: elipo...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed To: English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey! What? You guys don't want my money? ~ Eli Friedman --Original Message-- From: serv...@paypal.com To: Gmail Subject: Subscription Payment Failed Sent: Feb 8, 2010 10:12 Hello Eli Friedman, Your subscription payment to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. for Monthly donation failed on Feb 8, 2010 because of problems with Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.'s payment receiving preferences. We will try to make this subscription payment again on Feb 13, 2010. Please log in to your PayPal account or contact Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. for more information. --- Subscription Details --- Amount: $18.00 USD Subscription Name: Monthly donation Subscription Number: S-6EH574189U8730336 Item Number: DONATE --- Contact Information --- Business Name: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Contact Email: don...@wikimedia.org Contact Phone: Thanks, PayPal PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD NEVER give your password to anyone, including PayPal employees. Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Firefox) and typing in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account. Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page. PayPal Email ID PP263 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ___ WikiEN-l mailing list wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- Your donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office hours
Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Tuesday from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 12-1pm PST Tuesday, 3pm-4pm EST We're now beginning the process of synthesizing the work that's been done so far. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Stuart West stuw...@gmail.com wrote: At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around participation. What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive? We could aim for some stretch target (e.g. 1 million edits across all projects over 24 hours on 15 Jan 2011, or 25 million edits during the month of January) and use the project and geo-targeted sitenotice technology from the fundraisers. Seems like it could be a great way to celebrate and also get the word out about the anyone can edit spirit of our projects. yes, what a fantastic event to do some concentrated outreach around! I really like the edit drive, welcoming back editors, and usability launch ideas. Some more ideas: * Worldwide meetups -- next year, January 15 is a Saturday :) which makes planning convenient. We should encourage every chapter and meetup group, large and small, to have some sort of meetup or event on Wikipedia Day. How many wikipedians can we have partying at once around the world?! Or larger groups might put on bigger wikipedia day events where the public is invited, talks are given, etc. Some sharing of best practices from groups who have already done this to groups who haven't would probably be helpful. * make it a month of Wikipedia and provide materials, kits and ideas to outside groups and newbie editors who want to participate. Other groups do this, e.g. with the International Year of Astronomy. Ideas: ** outreach to teachers for classroom projects -- not just classroom editing but also learning about wikipedia, using wikimedia materials in lessons, etc. ** article referencing drive :) something I've wanted to do for a long time -- outreach to librarians (and others) to help add references to articles ** editing drives -- especially editing drives on smaller projects? Maybe Google and others would considering partnering again, as they just did for the Swahili contest. ** photography drives (the world 3 wikipedia) * Along with outreach to the world, this should also be a chance to remember and celebrate the community internally, as Ziko mentions. Maybe creating a Wikipedia timeline... bringing back old-timers to speak... exchanging greetings from group to group... finally tracking down willy on wheels (Every time I do the this week in history section for the Signpost I get nostalgic -- this week, in 2005, we protected the main page of the english wikipedia!) We should try and collectively celebrate our amazing past as a community, too. Does this need a planning page on meta? :) -- phoebe ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed
Hey Eli, On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey! What? You guys don't want my money? As this has to do with private information about you, I suggest you e-mail donate [at] wikimedia.org about this, instead of the public mailing lists. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:48 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Stuart West stuw...@gmail.com wrote: At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around participation. What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive? We could aim for some stretch target (e.g. 1 million edits across all projects over 24 hours on 15 Jan 2011, or 25 million edits during the month of January) and use the project and geo-targeted sitenotice technology from the fundraisers. [...] Does this need a planning page on meta? :) Let's start here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Day Arne ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Batuta Army for those who remember
Hi, I think it is worth reading: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Batuta%27s_case_became_something_of_a_milestone_in_the_development_of_Wikipedia%22_-_interview_with_Konrad_Godlewski IMHO perfect example showing why Wikipedia is unique :-) Cheers, -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice, but I made sure that there wasn't any confidential information in the message before I forwarded it. Well, either way, donate [at] wikimedia.org are the people who can help you. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
