so... to conclude the discussion on this topic, which went rather sideways,
there seems to be a broad support for the retro logo - also at least in the
local nlwiki community. What would be the steps to take to make this happen?
Lodewijk
2011/1/6 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> Hi,
>
> wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back
> for one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to
> see enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo
> would lead to less overload of the OTRS queues) How can these logo's be
> changed if there is a wish to do so? It used to be possible through
> Wiki.png, but that is no longer the case.
>
> Best, Lodewijk
>
Hi,
I suppose there is (or will be) a press release prepared for the 15th,
marking Wikipedia's tenth anniversary. I was wondering if the
community could get the text a little earlier, so we can translate it?
I'm sure there will be some articles on the subject in every country
and it would be good to have a localized version sent to press
organizations.
Thanks,
Strainu
The conference was held by Wikimedia Foundation in Japan.
Wikimedia Conference Japan 2009 （WCJ2009）
http://www.wcj2009.info/index.php?title=Main_Page&uselang=en
Wikimedia Conference Japan 2010 （WCJ2010）
http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:%E3%82%AA%E3%83%95%E3%8…
Kansai Open Source 2010 （KOF2010）
http://k-of.jp/2010
These conferences succeeded. However, the earnings call is not yet
done. A fee, a donation, the money of which we paid support are
unidentified.The reward paid to Foundation, and the staff is
unidentified.The disposal of remaining assets, the cancellation of a
contract procedure of the bank account are unknown.I demand
accountability as the sponsor of the meeting from Foundation,.
User:山吹色の御菓子
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: January 8, 2011 3:35:06 PM PST
> To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: 10th anniversary banners
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> So we're about a week away from the anniversary, and there more than 275 events listed on ten.wikipedia.org. Whether you're an informal meet-up of a dozen people or a conference for hundreds led by a chapter, we're going to use this week to run CentralNotice banners on Wikimedia sites to remind readers of the anniversary and promote your activities. (I'm going to repeat the following details on the tenwiki Village Pump if you prefer to read it there.)
>
> We're currently running a banner on English Wikipedia that links directly to tenwiki and is awaiting further translation. (We will also be translating the Main Page of tenwiki further. Let me know if you want to help with both those translation projects.) The priority here is threefold:
>
> 1. Educate people about the 10th anniversary in general.
> 2. Link to a comprehensive list of online and offline events so that people can choose the event that interests them.
> 3. Show people the enormously diverse number of things our movement is doing to celebrate.
>
> Considering that we're only running the 10th anniversary messages for a week, we did not plan for a large number of different banner designs. However, if you're an organizing group that would like to run your own banner design or directly link to your event in your country, that is definitely welcome contingent on a few basic requirements:
>
> 1. Just to state the obvious, the banner needs to be localized fully and will only run for visitors in your country who are on the wiki the banner is localized for.
> 2. The banner will need to mention both the 10th anniversary (remember, most people have no idea it's happening) and that there are events to join. A banner that merely mentions a single party or other kind of event without context would fail to do justice to the anniversary and the other volunteers who have worked hard to make it memorable.
> 3. The banner can link to your event's ten.wikipedia.org page or a landing page elsewhere. To link directly to a page off tenwiki, that page needs to clearly mention and link back to the other events on tenwiki (so that people don't end up at a dead end if they don't find what they're looking for). If there are multiple events happening in your country, then whatever page the banner links needs to mention all of them.
> 4. You need to submit this banner directly to me so that we don't miss any submissions. If you want to put it on-wiki first and simply link to it in your email, that's great.
>
> If you're still with me here, thanks for reading, and thanks for everything you're doing to make the 10th anniversary great. If you have questions, please let me know.
>
> Steven Walling
> Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation
> wikimediafoundation.org
>
>
>
>
Steven Walling
Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/
January 7, 2011
Wikipedia Comes of Age
By Casper Grathwohl
Casper Grathwohl is vice president and publisher of digital and reference
content for Oxford University Press.
Fred Bauder
Dear friends,
An Wikipedia workshop arranged by Wikimedia Bangladesh has been held on 7th
January 2011 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop was arranged as a part of
"10 years of Wikipedia" celebration. Most of the participants at the
workshop are from different blog communities in Bangladesh who are already
capable to write in Bengali at web, now they achieve the confidence to
contribute at Wikipedia. At the workshop Wikimedia Bangladesh distribute an
Wikipedia FAQ booklet in Bengali to the participants.
The photos of the workshop has been published at facebook,
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=258264&id=124780066238
Wikimedia Bangladesh also celebrating the anniversary of Wikipedia on 14 and
15 January by participating Kite flying festival (We have Kite with
Wikipedia logo) and a Birthday Party.
Happy Birthday to Wikipedia!
Belayet
Wikimedia Bangladesh
http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaBD
--
Belayet Hossain
http://www.facebook.com/bellayethttp://twitter.com/bellayethttp://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla)
Knowledge is universal
...so share it.
Hillel____
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
Sounds like an excellent start. Congratulations, WMEE!
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Israel
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Teele Vaalma <teele.vaalma(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikimedia Estonia report July-December 2010
>
>
>
> ==Meetings==
>
> *July 25. Founding meeting in Tallinn with 10 Wikipedians. Our bylaws<http://et.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws>were signed and first three board members elected.
>
> *August 20-22 . Summer meeting in Kuigatsi library (South Estonia) with 6
> Wikipedians. (page in Estonian and some photos<http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Suvep%C3%A4evad_2010>
> )
>
> *September 24. Board meeting in Tartu.
>
> *December 18 . General meeting in Tallinn with over 20 people including
> members and guests. One new board member was elected, membership fee and
> board member compensation were fixed. (page in Estonian and photos<http://et.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cldkoosolek_2010>
> )
>
>
>
> ==Other milestones==
>
> *August 31. Wikimedia Foundation recognized<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_Estonia>Wikimedia Estonia as an official Wikimedia chapter.
>
> *October 6. Wikimedia Estonia was added to the register of non-profit
> organizations in Estonia as "Mittetulundusühing Wikimedia Eesti".
>
>
>
> ==Projects==
>
> *June 3 – October 3. HELP (Head Eesti Looduse Pildid – 'Good pictures of
> Estonian nature') was a contest calling users to upload their own good
> quality photos taken of Estonian nature – landscapes, plants, animals,
> objects etc. 26 contestants uploaded a total of 507 photos during the
> contest. Best photographers were awarded with subscription to journal "Eesti
> Loodus" ('Estonian Nature') and gift coupons by Photopoint company. Also an
> article appeared in "Eesti Loodus" about that contest.(contest page in
> Estonian <http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:HELP> and gallery of
> photos <http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:HELP/Pildid>)
>
> *"Wikipedia in schools" is a project which started in September and is
> planned to continue through the school year. Project consists of visits to
> various schools in Estonia (about 35 of them in different parts of Estonia)
> during which a Wikipedian is conducting a survey among students and teachers
> about their knowledge of Wikipedia and also giving lectures about how to use
> Wikipedia and how to contribute to it. From September to December, 14
> schools were visited. (project page in Estonian<http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Vikipeedia_koolides>
> )
>
> --
> Teele Vaalma
> MTÜ Wikimedia Eesti
> teele.vaalma(a)gmail.com
> 58145381
>
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