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.
I haven't chimed in much on this list, but if the list had a like button, I'd be pressing it right now.
Best,
David (in DC)
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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+1.
I'm sure that once this takes off, WMF would be happy to help promote this on the blog, twitter, facebook, etc., with the official Wikipedia handles.
-Sage
2011/6/17 David Itkin dhitkin@hotmail.com:
I haven't chimed in much on this list, but if the list had a like button, I'd be pressing it right now.
Best,
David (in DC)
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.
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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That sounds like a really great idea. Pressing the like button,
Alex
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Sage Ross sross@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1.
I'm sure that once this takes off, WMF would be happy to help promote this on the blog, twitter, facebook, etc., with the official Wikipedia handles.
-Sage
2011/6/17 David Itkin dhitkin@hotmail.com:
I haven't chimed in much on this list, but if the list had a like button, I'd be pressing it right now.
Best,
David (in DC)
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.
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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