[ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS

Tue Nov 6 10:12:26 UTC 2007

Hey everyone! I have begun working on the census and have a section on most 
projects where I would like questions to be put up. I am working on the 
coding/layout of it all so, take a look at the preview at 
http://loopaustralia.com/survey/index.php?sid=54369&lang=en - it may not 
work for everyone since it has not been published but, you can have a very 
rough idea about how it looks. It will slowly evolve so, keep checking back. 
There is a section on each project in the same location on each;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Census
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Census
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Census
etc.

We need help to work out how we could get users to fill it out, by the name, 
a census is meant to be filled out by the entire community but, emailing out 
to 5 million+ users would be a world record spamming (c) brianmc

Any ideas on how we could do it?

thanx

symode09 + brown_cat + itunes

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From: "Sean Whitton" <sean at silentflame.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM
To: "ComProj" <comproj at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [ComProj] Fwd: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call 
forparticipation

> Hello all,
>
> The following was posted to internal-l by Sue regarding a possible
> 'Edit Wikipedia Week' to be held in December as part of a way of
> keeping the momentum of the fundraiser going. All are invited to
> participate in the planning for this event at
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week>.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Nov 5, 2007 4:09 PM
> Subject: [Internal-l] Edit Wikipedia Week: call for participation
> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
> subscription)" <internal-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm writing to invite you –chapters, individuals, everyone- to help
> stage a bunch of "Edit Wikipedia Week" events in December. The idea is
> to pick a date, probably the week of December 3, and stage outreach
> events around the world designed to encourage people to participate in
> the projects.
>
> The events could be practically anything – big or small. You could
> speak about the projects at a local school; get yourself booked on TV;
> talk to a local photography club about contributing to Commons;
> organize a marathon weekend of translations; recruit new people to
> help you launch a WikiProject, or even just teach your mom how to
> edit. Anything that you think will improve the projects: the purpose
> is to reach out to people who don't edit, and encourage them to make a
> contribution.
>
> This is intended to be an experiment. The premise is that anyone can
> organize an event under this umbrella idea, and it can take whatever
> form makes sense to them. Nobody needs permission: feel free to just
> participate.
>
> Why now? As you know we're in the middle of the annual fundraiser,
> which this year runs from October 22 to December 23. Because it's so
> long, we want to stage events at various points, designed to keep the
> media and the public paying attention. We've got some Wikipedia
> Academies coming up in South Africa
> http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Academies on November 10
> and 11, with Jimmy, Frank Schulenburg and Ndesanjo Macha. Edit
> Wikipedia Week would be the next big event after that.
>
> This would be focused on Wikipedia, because it's our biggest and best
> known project, and therefore most likely to generate interest among
> the media and general public. That doesn't mean we couldn't hold
> similar events for Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikisource, or any other WMF
> project. Implementation-wise, I'm thinking of having us set up
> edit.wikipedia.org, which would redirect to pages in the local
> Wikipedias. Each of those pages would also refer back to the ongoing
> fundraiser with a little info-box (something along the lines of "There
> are different ways to help Wikipedia..").
>
> I'm also going to ask Cary to make a page for this on meta, where we
> can discuss it, and people can post events. I would ask you please to
> translate and share this note with whoever you like. I know that not
> everyone can afford to make a financial contribution to the
> fundraiser: I am hoping some people will choose to support it (us) by
> helping with Edit Wikipedia Week instead.
>
> The first thing we'll need to do is finalize a date. I think December
> 3 would probably work best, but please let me know if/why you think
> another week would be better.
>
> And lastly .. I am thinking this could become an annual event. In that
> spirit, this year may be a little wonky and haphazard, which would be
> okay. If it goes well, we'll learn some good lessons, and next year
> will be better :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
>
>
>
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