Wikimedia projects keep on growing and many projects are starting aside from the normal encyclopedia projects. Sometimes you find yourself in need of help. For fight against vandalism, translation, promotion of your projects and anything related to the project.
You can request for help on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/We_need_your_help
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But even better, if YOU want to help, you can get informed on which ongoing projects might need you.
Please read this page from time to time and consider how you could join and help.
For example, right now, help is welcome for * Quarto (publication of information) * Wikimania (big international meeting next summer) * Wikijunior (publication for kids, for which we received a grant) * ScanBot (a bot for featured article)
Please come and help
Anthere
On Apr 2, 2005 8:54 AM, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Sometimes you find yourself in need of help. For fight against vandalism, translation, promotion of your projects and anything related to the project. You can request for help on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/We_need_your_help
Perhaps the Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_COTW could focus on the tasks listed at this page. The first one is likely to focus on sorting out the help pages on Meta, but any of the tasks at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/We_need_your_help would seem ideal candidates for a COTW.
Angela.
True, but "we need help" does not necessarily call dozen of editors, it may be just a limited number. Besides, "we need help" calls for individual initiatives, not for first a voting time to decide whether the project should be helped or not.
Sorry Angela, but imho, as far as individual help is welcome, voting is evil :-)
Angela a écrit:
On Apr 2, 2005 8:54 AM, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Sometimes you find yourself in need of help. For fight against vandalism, translation, promotion of your projects and anything related to the project. You can request for help on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/We_need_your_help
Perhaps the Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_COTW could focus on the tasks listed at this page. The first one is likely to focus on sorting out the help pages on Meta, but any of the tasks at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/We_need_your_help would seem ideal candidates for a COTW.
Angela.
I see no reason for the pages not to coexist -- just as we have multiple pages on the English Wikipedia pointing out articles in need of help, hopefully there will be multiple pages on Meta coordinating work on worthwhile projects.
The main difference with the Collaboration of the Week (COTW) idea is that it should be featured on the individual Wikimedia projects to truly bring out a large number of volunteers working on a single task in multiple languages. That high level of exposure makes it necessary to have a selection process, and the voting rules as used on Wikimedia COTW have proven very successful for the English Wikipedia COTW.
The first WM-COTW will start on Monday; I'll send out a separate announcement then and Angela and I will try to get the template into use on some more Community Portals or similar pages. Any help is welcome.
Hopefully, if the WM-COTW is successful, this will get more people interested in Meta and, hence, in the [[We need your help]] page and similar tasklists.
All best,
Erik
Erik Moeller a écrit:
I see no reason for the pages not to coexist -- just as we have multiple pages on the English Wikipedia pointing out articles in need of help, hopefully there will be multiple pages on Meta coordinating work on worthwhile projects.
Naturally. I totally agree.
The main difference with the Collaboration of the Week (COTW) idea is that it should be featured on the individual Wikimedia projects to truly bring out a large number of volunteers working on a single task in multiple languages. That high level of exposure makes it necessary to have a selection process, and the voting rules as used on Wikimedia COTW have proven very successful for the English Wikipedia COTW.
Exactly. The two process can meet, but they are different.
The first WM-COTW will start on Monday; I'll send out a separate announcement then and Angela and I will try to get the template into use on some more Community Portals or similar pages. Any help is welcome.
Hopefully, if the WM-COTW is successful, this will get more people interested in Meta and, hence, in the [[We need your help]] page and similar tasklists.
All best,
Erik
I hope this just as much as you.
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