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" &lt;sean(a)silentflame.com&gt; Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:49 PM To: "ComProj" &lt;comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; 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 &lt;sgardner(a)wikimedia.org&gt; > 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)" &lt;internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Internal-l mailing list > Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l > > _______________________________________________ > ComProj mailing list > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj > _______________________________________________ ComProj mailing list ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj