In my traditional love of the British Isles I'd like to recommend a tweet
about the Queen this morning as she surpasses Queen Victoria as longest
serving UK Monarch (and, believe, the longest serving reign of any Queen).
The traditional time it seems people are confidant about is around 17:30
BST and so 9:30 Pacific. I think it would be awesome if we could get
something out then. The front page of Wikipedia will change about the same
time to add this to In the News (currently here
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#September_9>
).
Thoughts:
- Today Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British head of
state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
- QE 2 is a featured article
- Could also use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_in_Britain_by_length_of_reign
- Today Queen Elizabeth II surpasses her great-great-grandmother Queen
Victoria [Link]
- Today Queen Elizabeth II surpasses Queen Victoria as longest reigning
UK monarch. [Link]
Great free Photo to use:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Elizabeth_II_March_2015.jpg
[Personally I like the purple better but there are a couple other good ones
at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_King…
]
For those interested (i.e. probably not many of you unless you're as nerdy
as I am) the Queen being smart and "celebrating" the day avoiding the
London politicians toasting her and doing official duties up north with
with the Scottish First Minister :).
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
Hello everyone,
Education mood: here's a recent post from our friends at the Wiki Education
Foundation. Thanks for review!
http://wikiedu.org/blog/2015/09/07/the-roundup-japanese-theater/
Fb/G: Japanese playwrights get written into English Wikipedia
Fb/g: You can now read about award-winning Japanese playwrights on English
Wikipedia.
Fb/G: Student editors from the University of Washington have brought
Japanese playwrights to English Wikipedia.
t: You can now read about award-winning Japanese playwrights on English
Wikipedia (via @WikiEducation)
t: Japanese playwrights get written into English Wikipedia (via
@WikiEducation)
--
Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
Harvard Crimson tweeted out this story about an edit-a-thon that was held
yesterday. Thank you for reviewing!
Here's the link:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/9/8/students-edit-wikipedia-feminist…
Fb/G: Poet Jenny Zhang now has a Wikipedia page, thanks to Harvard
students.
Fb/G: Harvard students made made significant contributions on pages
relating to feminists, BGLTQ and human rights issues on Monday.
t: Poet Jenny Zhang now has a Wikipedia page, thanks to edit-a-thon
@thecrimson <link>
t: Harvard students improve Wikipedia pages on feminism, BGLTQ & human
rights issues. @crimson
t: Harvard students 'dismantle the patriarchy' using Wikipedia. @thecrimson
--
Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
I would not recommend these for official use - if for no other reason than they are both too long and lack any branding (and attribution - although they are all free media) - but for I submit the attached for your personal use and enjoyment. ;)
The result of my being a little too bored this morning - and again - with complete apologies for violating typical meme rules. :)
-greg (User:Varnent)
PS. Available in higher resolutions if anyone wants the master files.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Jan Ainali <ainali.jan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On that note, svwiki will probably pass 2 million next week.
>
> /Jan Ainali
> (skickat på språng så ursäkta min fåordighet)
> On Aug 30, 2015 18:43, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We are getting close to the milestone of 5 million articles on English
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> Some ideas have previously been discussed at
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29/Ar…
>> and I'd like to build off of those. Victor, would you have enough time in
>> your work calendar to make a brief celebration video?
>>
>>
I don't think so, what do you have in mind?
> Pine
>>
>>
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*Victor Grigas*
Storyteller <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition> and Video
Content Producer
Wikimedia Foundation
vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org
https://donate.wikimedia.org/
https://twitter.com/EFF/status/639541051741503488
Or our own tweet about it thanking them? Copying in Michelle if she has an
opinion .
TLDR: EFF Blog post
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/eff-asks-court-behalf-libraries-and-b…>
about
a brief they've filed (to be technical they've filed a motion to be allowed
to file the brief... but I wouldn't want to be pedantic... even if I am in
legal things) in our case on behalf of some large Library and Bookseller
associations including the ALA (American Library Association) and ABA
( American Booksellers Association. I think it would be nice to get a
retweet at least if not something more specific.
If we really want crap to tweet we could start individually thanking (one a
day? ;) ) the 9 1st amendment/constitutional law professors from 8 highly
ranked law schools who also filed a brief in the case on our side :).
/considers doing that for his own account/
James Alexander
Paying the US Government through PACER since 2003
