Great! Congrats to Hebrew Wikipedia!
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Nurunnaby Chowdhury | User: Nhasive
Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia
Member, IEG, WMF
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Itzik Edri <itzik(a)infra.co.il> wrote:
That's really cool Gerard! thank you for sharing
:)
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hoi,
> Congratulations..
> Many awards are known at Wikidata
and, the "Roaring Lion Award" is now
one
> of them. Given that the Israeli chapter received this award, the item for
> the chapter has been updated with this fact. Also added were its creation
> date and the fact that it is a chapter.
> It turns out that many chapters are
not known on Wikidata.. Have a look
[1]
> if your chapter is known and maybe you want to create an item for your
> chapter..
> Thanks,
> GerardM
> [1]
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=15924535
> On 3 July 2014 17:55, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il>
> wrote:
> > Hey,
>
> > I'm very excited to
share that last night, we received the award at an
> > event presence with of hundreds of guests (Picture of the award:
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaring_Lion_2014_award_to_Wikimedi…
> > )
>
> > The Roaring Lion
competition is an award for excellence within Israel's
> > communications and public relations industry awarded by the Israel
Public
> > Relations Associations. The campaign was chosen among many, judged by a
> > committee of public relations executives, academics and public figures.
>
> > Last July the Hebrew
Wikipedia celebrated her 10th anniversary. The
> > celebrations were followed by massive press coverage - TV radio,
internet
> > and print. You can give a look on some of them in our Press Book:
>
>
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iobJg3Vpp0bDdKaDExNmU2VEU/edit?usp=shari…
>
> > The strategy was to show
the volunteers – the people behind the
projects,
> so each cover presented another volunteer.
To show the power of
Wikipedia
> we collected a lot of numbers such the most
viewed articles of the
last 5
> > years, numbers of edits, words and many others – which leads to many
> items
> > covering the history of HEWP.
>
> > But besides arranging
massive coverage for the celebrations we were
> > looking for a special way to celebrate – to do something that has never
> > been done before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel
> 2,
> > the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most
> > senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our
> > volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then,
each
> recorded a one minute video, explaining why
they have decided to write
on
> > this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast,
> the
> > video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he
> > explained "we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show
> > that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia. Happy Birthday
> Wikipedia!”
>
> > Due the success of the
project Channel 2 decided to broadcast it all
over
> > again on the week after. According to the ratings records 2.033 million
> > people (cumulatively) watched the project. On the celebrations month
> pages
> > views on Hebrew Wikipedia showed increase of 12% (compare to 1%
> > internationally) and increase of 12% in new articles (compare to 14%
> > internationally decrease).
>
> > You can watch them the
videos (translated to English) on our Youtube
> > Channel:
>
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED
>
> > I wish to thank all the
volunteers who take part making this happen, to
> > the Wikimedia Israel team, and to Gidoen Amichay who supported and
helped
> > lead the Channel 2 cooperation.
>
>
>
> >
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
> > Chairperson and Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel
> > +972-(0)-54-5878078 |
http://www.wikimedia.org.il
> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the
> > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
>
>
>
>
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