Hello, comproj folks,
I'd ask you for help to publicize the coming endorsement acceptance
(of Board Election, of course). This message, taken from
[[m:Communication Projects Group/Board Election/Call for
translators]], was posted already to the project following:
- zhwiki
- svwiki
- Commons
I expect top 13 Wikipedias and all English projects are already
informed about Election in a way. On the other hand, I am not sure all
of them are aware of the forthcoming endorsement phase. At any rate,
even if all of them know about it, as you may know, they are only a
top of an iceberg among over 600 Wikimedia project (about 87%
registered accounts of all Wikipedias are found on those top 13 - and
the left 13% is roughly estimated as one million). Therefore your help
for distributing the news will be very appreciated.
As noted, please leave a note on meta, to reduce duplication of works.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations/en
Thanks for your consideration,
Cheers,
Aphaia / Kizu Naoko
== Endorsement ==
=== About ===
* Latest note for informing the community about endorsement. Help
distribute it to the community: VP, mailing list, and other channels.
* After posting it, please leave a record on [[Board
elections/2007/Translations/en]] for traking record and reduce
duplications.
=== Message ===
Suggested title: Wikimedia Board Election is soon calling for endorsements
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I'm posting it on behalf of Election Committee. --<your signature>
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Hi Wikimedians,
As you may know, we are currently holding the [[wikimedia:Board of
Trustees|Board of Trustees]] elections. We are very grateful to your
collaborations for sharing the info, through translations, forwarding
and other several ways.
Next Sunday, June 17, the Board Election will enter its second phase:
call for endorsements from the community to the candidates. Only
candidates who get 12 or more endorsements in the following week will
be able to run in the election.
For further information, please see [[m:Board elections/2007/Endorsements]].
Also we would like you to aware we are planning to use
[[Wikimedia:Sitenotice]] to inform you that call for endorsement while
it is open. Please modify the message in an appropriate way to your
community. The notice will be placed at most in seven days.
We would appreciate your translation of this message as well as other
Election related information. If you'd like to offer further help,
just contact your
[[Board_elections/2007/Translations#Coordinators_by_languages|language
coordinator]] and regularly check [[m:Board
elections/2007/Candidates|the list of candidate statements]].
If there's no coordinator for your language, please consider joining
our translations team. Please contact [[m:User:Schiste|User:Schiste]]
or [[m:User:Aphaia|User:Aphaia]] on meta if you have any question.
Cheers,
Wikimedia Election Steering Committee
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KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
I just wanted to thank everyone for all their help with the press list.
Currently, we have over 450 contacts worldwide. Pretty impressive.
comproj should give itself a nice pat on the back :)
--
Sandy Ordonez
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Phone: 727.231.0101
Fax: 727.258.0207S
E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org
Hi guys and gals;
I'm looking for help in getting the word out that we need a specific
group or task force of users with legal knowledge, particularly in some
governing bodies (Japan being a major one). This is something rather
strongly needed. Ideas as to the best way to implement this?
Cary
just sharing, since we are collecting case studies. but this is an
example of a perfect case study: (mathias shared this with us)
http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/06/fourth-grader-wikipedia-update.ht…
I just wanted to relate something that I think shows the power of a
Wiki in general and Wikipedia particularly.
My son, in 4th grade here in California, was assigned a research
report on the California Gold Rush and decided to focus his report on
the different routes taken by the 49ers. He used a variety of
different resources and particularly used the California Gold Rush
Historic Maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection. There is one map
in particular that has an incredible description written in 1849 of
the different routes: Map of the Gold Regions of California, Showing
the Routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn, &c. If you are into
maps, this is a fun one to drill down on to see the description.
Of course, my son read the Wikipedia California Gold Rush page (it
comes up first in Google). It had a paragraph on the routes, but it
didn't include the route through Mexico. It did point us to a detailed
article on the California Trail. Because it was rather limited about
the routes, my son added a sentence about the route through Mexico and
added the Map to the Wikimedia Commons and added the map to the
article and added a link to the collection of maps on the topic.
Now 4th graders doing the same project will be able to find that same
wonderful primary source.
It's actually somewhat rare that a 4th grader has a primary source
like the map, so it's quite a nice little legacy to leave behind.
Actually, I don't remember having anything as cool as that to study
when I was in school. It's quite remarkable when I think about it.
And it shows the beauty of a Wiki and Wikipedia.
--
Sandy Ordonez
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Phone: 727.231.0101
Fax: 727.258.0207S
E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org
Hello Wikimedia translation coordinators and ComProjGroup members.
The Election Committee is working on preparing the Wikimedia Board
Election, 2007. We hope to open to candidate reception very soon: next
Sunday (10 June), hopefully.
We think internal communication and translation are very important
parts of organizing this Election, and we welcome any help from the
community. We would ask you to help us in this. We need people
who bring the news to each community; to their village pump, community
portal or recentchanges. We'll also ask for updates to sitenotice, at
an appropriate time. Indeed, there are many things you can help.
For organizing translation and information spreading, we are now
setting up a dedicated page on meta at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board elections/2007/Translations
The page name could be changed, if you think there's a better one.
This page isn't yet finished and needs further organization. As
involved parties of communications, would you design it for utilizing
it for your coordination in the best way?
Thank you for your consideration.
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee Chair
[[m:User:Aphaia]]
* vox populi, vox dei *
I don't if everyone is ok with that, but tommorow there will be a
meeting on #wikimedia-cpg at 23h00 UTC so members of the elecom could
join us.
Two main topic, as I'm aware of, oncomming Board Elections and
podcast, if sandy join us.
If the scheduled time doesn't feet you, just mail back we'll try to
arrange that.
--
schiste
so let's say 16h00.
Good night, see you in 5 hours :D
On 06/06/07, Martin Peeks <martinp23(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Like Sean, I have exams the following day, so would prefer not to have
> something at 0000BST ;). 1600UTC is fine for me though - I should be
> reachable by ping.
>
> Martin
>
> Christophe Henner wrote:
> > I don't if everyone is ok with that, but tommorow there will be a
> > meeting on #wikimedia-cpg at 23h00 UTC so"sylvain veyrié" members of the elecom could
> > join us.
> >
> > Two main topic, as I'm aware of, oncomming Board Elections and
> > podcast, if sandy join us.
> >
> > If the scheduled time doesn't feet you, just mail back we'll try to
> > arrange that.
>
>
>
--
schiste
I could manage 1600UTC, yeah, thanks :-)
Thing is, 2300 would be midnight, and since I'm on exams I'd rather
not do that, if you see what I mean.
Let me know what ever you decide.
Thanks for your organisation with this,
Sean
On 06/06/07, Christophe Henner <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sean when it is better? 16h00 UTC?
>
> schiste, trying to get "everyone"
>
> On 06/06/07, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm afraid I can't be there for that; way too late for me :(
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > On 06/06/07, Christophe Henner <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I don't if everyone is ok with that, but tommorow there will be a
> > > meeting on #wikimedia-cpg at 23h00 UTC so members of the elecom could
> > > join us.
> > >
> > > Two main topic, as I'm aware of, oncomming Board Elections and
> > > podcast, if sandy join us.
> > >
> > > If the scheduled time doesn't feet you, just mail back we'll try to
> > > arrange that.
> > > --
> > > schiste
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > ComProj mailing list
> > > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > —Sean Whitton (seanw)
> > <sean(a)silentflame.com>
> > http://seanwhitton.com/
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > ComProj mailing list
> > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj
> >
>
>
> --
> schiste
>
--
—Sean Whitton (seanw)
<sean(a)silentflame.com>
http://seanwhitton.com/
Hello,
The podcast project is back on. Please post any ideas you may have for a
segment (or speaker) here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_TV.
The idea is for each monthly podcast to have several of the segments.
(listed in the wiki.)
Thanks,
Sandy
--
Sandy Ordonez
Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Phone: 727.231.0101
Fax: 727.258.0207S
E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org