On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often.
Aside from recalling the lesson of the disastrous "WIKIPEDIA FOREVER!!!" banner to make sure that doesn't happen again, I think some (more?) appeal videos would be good.
What about asking our readers to submit "I use Wikipedia to..." videos; they begin with those words and then carry on talking. Perhaps it would be possible to get a call for such videos mentioned on the YouTube blog: they often run special events calling for people to submit vids on a particular subject. The individual projects sometimes have fancy landing pages with novel interfaces:
Examples:
Life In A Day - users asked to submit their daily activities on a specific date; some of the resulting submissions will be edited together to make one coherent (?) film:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-in-day-thank-you-for-filming...
Life In A Day - landing page and interface:
http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday
YouTube Play - a call for submissions from artists:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/youtube-play-jury-selected-and-re...
YouTube Play - landing page and interface:
We already have a relationship with Google. We also have a relationship with Facebook:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=382978412130
... so perhaps we can get them to advertise our fund drive too?
en.User:Bodnotbod
Would there be an opportunity to get the word out via an interview on NPR or C-SPAN? I'm in the UK so not overly familiar with public service broadcasting in the US, but I wonder whether they might be good avenues to promote the fund drive.