Several replies here:-On 20 November 2013 10:37:44, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:> I like your idea of the e-reader - a Kobo seems a good choice - and perhaps> preferable to Amazon vouchers. If we scale down from an ereader for the> overall winner, smaller prizes for the best of the week sounds like a nice> idea. I'm not sure what thiese could be though, assuming that is a category> which goes ahead.I've reduced the whole period to a fortnight (partly because I am not going to have time for this closer to Christmas) so that's only two weeks. If we exempt the overall winner from winning the vouchers, that will mean two runner-up prizes of vouchers: one for the first week and one for the second. I'm not sure what value of voucher would be best but, say, £10 each?Can I go ahead and announce that WMUK will provide a Kobo and two Amazon vouchers? (About £70 worth of prizes in total.)There's only a few days left now. If we do this again, I will sort this out properly with much more notice.On 20 November 2013 11:37:32, Craig Franklin <cfranklin at wikimedia.org.au> wrote:> But, I'm still not seeing any strategy for promoting this to the wider> community. As it is, as far as I can tell the only entrants will be> Wikisource regulars and maybe curious people poached from other WM> projects. If there was a strategy for pitching this to the general public> as a recruitment drive I could see a link to movement goals which might> justify spending money, but I don't see that this is a focus. The> excitement of the tenth anniversary shouldn't lead to us spending money> without first having a good business plan and justification.I would like it to draw in new people, and I've tried to find texts that should be easy to proofread over a range of different types and subjects to facilitate that at one end.The contest will also be a useful learning experience. I don't know about anything similar on Wikisource. The English subdomain 10th anniversary is in 2015 and a Welsh contest might be practical in the near future too.Of course, people can't take part if they don't know about it. I don't have many ways to promote this outside Wikisource but...On 20 November 2013 12:51:42, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:> > As far as drawing people in is concerned, a central notice for Wiki Loves> > Monuments worked well and involved a lot of people who had never uploaded> > photos before. Would that be worth considering here?>> Yes: given the "I would never have considered looking on Wikisource"> comment which is fairly standard, on other sister projects, it would make> sense.I agree, this would help a lot.I believe the instigators of this contest are going to try to advertise this as well. I will do what I can.- Adam
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