> From: nicholasbashour@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:31:53 -0400
> To: wikimedia-dc@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia-DC] "I'm a Wikipedian" Campaign
>
> 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.
>
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