Following discussions arising from Tuesday's Board of Directors'
meeting and conversations with Samuel Klein (user:sj), I started to
seriously consider organizing an online social media campaign around
the theme "I'm a Wikipedian"
The campaign, should we decide to take it on, would utilize
twitter/facebook/youtube/other social media outlets. We would
encourage users to talk about how Wikipedia fits into their everyday
life. Participants need not be regular Wikipedia editors. They could
be scientists, artists, kids, CEOs, nurses, whoever, and their use of
Wikipedia could range from looking up a fact about a city they're
visiting, to uploading spectacular images or illustrations they've
done, to organizing a project on updating information about the
Chesapeake Bay, etc.
Participants would submit a short video (15-30 seconds) about
themselves and how they've been using Wikipedia. At the end of the
message, they would say "I'm a such and such (i.e. student, math
teacher, scientist, photographer, etc.), and I'm a Wikipedian,"
followed by the slogan "Your World: Your Wikipedia" and the Wikipedia
logo, if we're allowed to use it.
Hopefully, if the project goes well enough, then you can have people
from all over the world send in videos in various languages. The goal
is to show that we are all Wikipedians, no matter what our background
is.