[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-19 Thread Brandon Harris
The Wikimedia Foundation is partnering with the Noun Project[1] to do a public service "Iconathon." The goal of this event is to generate 30-40 icons for the public domain, with the intent of primarily using them on Wikimedia Foundation projects. The event is open to the public in an ef

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-19 Thread Fajro
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Brandon Harris wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation is partnering with the Noun Project[1] to do > a public service "Iconathon." Great! > We want your help and input! IMHO this should be a global event with all chapters doing local iconathons. --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Getting some experience first makes sense.. Going global is something that can be done the next year ?? Thanks, GerardM On 19 March 2013 22:52, Fajro wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Brandon Harris > wrote: > > The Wikimedia Foundation is partnering with the Noun Pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Mar 19, 2013 10:13 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > > Hoi, > Getting some experience first makes sense.. Going global is something that > can be done the next year ?? Surely this is a one off project. How many icons do we need? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is not only how much we need for the English Wikipedia. We have many more Wikipedias, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikisource Really ... There are other people, applications who will be happy with a large volume of icons. Thanks, Gerard On 19 March 2013 23:48, Thomas Dalton wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 20 March 2013 12:05, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > It is not only how much we need for the English Wikipedia. We have many > more Wikipedias, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikisource Most of the icons lists are not project-specific. The idea, as I understand it, is to have a consistent set of ic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-20 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-03-19 23:12, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : Hoi, Getting some experience first makes sense.. Going global is something that can be done the next year ?? Thanks, GerardM Why? Just ask the community to spread the word and organize their own local part of the event. On 19 March 20

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Iconathon 2013

2013-03-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is no why, it is just that it is unlikely to be done this year. There are other *athons that take place, have a big impact and are not reproduced elsewhere. I have seen large groups of people localise the MediaWiki software in Pune for instance... This happened this year for a second