That's really cool Gerard! thank you for sharing :) On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hoi, > Congratulations.. > Many awards are known at Wikidata and, the "Roaring Lion Award" is now one > of them. Given that the Israeli chapter received this award, the item for > the chapter has been updated with this fact. Also added were its creation > date and the fact that it is a chapter. > It turns out that many chapters are not known on Wikidata.. Have a look [1] > if your chapter is known and maybe you want to create an item for your > chapter.. > Thanks, > GerardM > [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=15924535 > On 3 July 2014 17:55, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel &lt;itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il&gt; > wrote: > > Hey, > > > I'm very excited to share that last night, we received the award at an > > event presence with of hundreds of guests (Picture of the award: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaring_Lion_2014_award_to_Wikimedi… > > ) > > > The Roaring Lion competition is an award for excellence within Israel's > > communications and public relations industry awarded by the Israel Public > > Relations Associations. The campaign was chosen among many, judged by a > > committee of public relations executives, academics and public figures. > > > Last July the Hebrew Wikipedia celebrated her 10th anniversary. The > > celebrations were followed by massive press coverage - TV radio, internet > > and print. You can give a look on some of them in our Press Book: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iobJg3Vpp0bDdKaDExNmU2VEU/edit?usp=shari… > > > The strategy was to show the volunteers – the people behind the projects, Wikipedia last 5 > > years, numbers of edits, words and many others – which leads to many > items > > covering the history of HEWP. > > > But besides arranging massive coverage for the celebrations we were > > looking for a special way to celebrate – to do something that has never > > been done before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel > 2, > > the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most > > senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our > > volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then, each on > > this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast, > the > > video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he > > explained "we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show > > that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia. Happy Birthday > Wikipedia!” > > > Due the success of the project Channel 2 decided to broadcast it all over > > again on the week after. According to the ratings records 2.033 million > > people (cumulatively) watched the project. On the celebrations month > pages > > views on Hebrew Wikipedia showed increase of 12% (compare to 1% > > internationally) and increase of 12% in new articles (compare to 14% > > internationally decrease). > > > You can watch them the videos (translated to English) on our Youtube > > Channel: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED > > > I wish to thank all the volunteers who take part making this happen, to > > the Wikimedia Israel team, and to Gidoen Amichay who supported and helped > > lead the Channel 2 cooperation. > > > > > *Regards,Itzik Edri* > > Chairperson and Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel > > +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > _______________________________________________ > > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > > WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>