I have a toolserv account however, it was a bitch (srry bout language) uploading it and, I recieved NO help - I attempted to get help for over a month and, asked everywhere, my conclusion: people on the toolserv are generally douchebags
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Sean Whitton" sean@silentflame.com Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:22 PM To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group" comproj@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
Symode,
Your use of the Wikimedia logo on your pages is questionable as they are not official. Have you considered getting a [[m:toolserver]] account to run this survey off? That would probably be a more appropriate option.
Thanks,
Sean
On 11/6/07, symode09@hotmail.com symode09@hotmail.com wrote:
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
From: "Sean Whitton" sean@silentflame.com Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM To: "ComProj" comproj@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@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@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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Symode,
I think it could be done with a little patience :-)
I suggest you try getting an SFTP client working then you can upload really quickly. Try FileZilla.
Sean
On 11/6/07, symode09@hotmail.com symode09@hotmail.com wrote:
I have a toolserv account however, it was a bitch (srry bout language) uploading it and, I recieved NO help - I attempted to get help for over a month and, asked everywhere, my conclusion: people on the toolserv are generally douchebags
From: "Sean Whitton" sean@silentflame.com Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:22 PM To: "Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group" comproj@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [ComProj] WIKIMEDIA CENSUS
Symode,
Your use of the Wikimedia logo on your pages is questionable as they are not official. Have you considered getting a [[m:toolserver]] account to run this survey off? That would probably be a more appropriate option.
Thanks,
Sean
On 11/6/07, symode09@hotmail.com symode09@hotmail.com wrote:
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
From: "Sean Whitton" sean@silentflame.com Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM To: "ComProj" comproj@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@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@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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On 11/6/07, symode09@hotmail.com symode09@hotmail.com wrote:
I have a toolserv account however, it was a bitch (srry bout language) uploading it and, I recieved NO help - I attempted to get help for over a month and, asked everywhere, my conclusion: people on the toolserv are generally douchebags
Well of course, if you start off this way... ;-)
You seem to be using limesurvey for this survey, I installed limesurvey on the toolserver in about... 10 minutes two days ago and it's working perfectly. Maybe I can help you get it up and running on your toolserver account.
Contact me offlist at dmenard AT wikimedia PUNTO org so we can see how we can get this going.
Delphine
I was waiting for you to pop into this discussion for that very reason. I saw that you got a ts-account for survey based tools. :-)
On Nov 7, 2007 8:32 AM, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/6/07, symode09@hotmail.com symode09@hotmail.com wrote:
I have a toolserv account however, it was a bitch (srry bout language) uploading it and, I recieved NO help - I attempted to get help for over a month and, asked everywhere, my conclusion: people on the toolserv are generally douchebags
Well of course, if you start off this way... ;-)
You seem to be using limesurvey for this survey, I installed limesurvey on the toolserver in about... 10 minutes two days ago and it's working perfectly. Maybe I can help you get it up and running on your toolserver account.
Contact me offlist at dmenard AT wikimedia PUNTO org so we can see how we can get this going.
Delphine
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