On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, all!
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in
cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center> has invited Wikipedians
from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the
article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting
practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating
relevant articles as fast as we can.
For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested
to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel
<irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel>, where we'll be talking and coordinating.
We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel>, probably mainly from the account
@WikimediaNorge <https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge>.
The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is
*08:30
UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help
spread this invitation to your community.
--
mvh
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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Hi Jon, thank you so much for your efforts in having Malala and Kailash
Satyarthi's pages updated. I was over the moon to see the announcements
this morning and really proud of the Norwegian Wikipedia community for
updating the pages today! I for one would love to hear about everyone's
experience being there.
(I'd also love to hear anyone's experiences about edit conflicts while
updating the pages).
I'm not sure when you were notified of the invitation, but do know that the
Foundation wants to find ways of supporting community activities like this,
so if there are any ideas on how to do that please say so.
Cheers,
Rachel
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Rachel diCerbo
Director of Community Engagement (Product)
Wikimedia Foundation
Rdicerb (WMF) <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29>
@a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel>