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.
Congratulations, Jon, sounds great! Regards.
2014-10-08 16:07 GMT-05:00 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
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.
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Hm. Given Wikimedia's roles in global communication, education, diplomacy, activism, and journalism, I hope for a day when we will be considered for the Peace Prize. (:
Pine On Oct 8, 2014 3:12 PM, "Ivan Martínez" galaver@gmail.com wrote:
Congratulations, Jon, sounds great! Regards.
2014-10-08 16:07 GMT-05:00 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
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.
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Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :)
Nemo
Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should probably look into that. :-)
2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :)
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It sounds like something we can pull in many languages! Congrats on the event :D
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should probably look into that. :-)
2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :)
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This sounds just great. Can't wait to see what you guys do. I'm always so amazed at what people are building and doing. And it's great that they reached out to you to do this.
Nice work, /a
p.s. I know that when Americans say great or amazing too many times that we are totally suspect, but so be it.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Alhen ałħen alhen.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
It sounds like something we can pull in many languages! Congrats on the event :D
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we
should
probably look into that. :-)
2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :)
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Jon Harald Søby wrote:
2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :)
Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should probably look into that. :-)
I tried to get a photo of Alice Munro (2013 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) for her English Wikipedia article and the experience was both difficult and disheartening. I'd personally be much more appreciative of freely donated images of the winners over biography text. The latter is a lot easier to create than the former, in my experience. :-)
MZMcBride
Hi Jon,
that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil.
I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has made a cool short interview with some Nobel prize (I think chemestry) and it was really good. This can be even used to outreach at universities to bring more people to catalyse efforts to involve more schools on Wikimedia projects.
If you can do it, please, let us know.
Cheers,
Tom
2014-10-08 18:07 GMT-03:00 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
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.
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You are right Tom, WMSE made several such videos, I guess the one you are thinking of is this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_BrianSchmidt_2011-12-08.ogv
Will the winners be present at the announcement?
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2014-10-09 0:26 GMT+02:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga < everton.alvarenga@okfn.org>:
Hi Jon,
that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil.
I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has made a cool short interview with some Nobel prize (I think chemestry) and it was really good. This can be even used to outreach at universities to bring more people to catalyse efforts to involve more schools on Wikimedia projects.
If you can do it, please, let us know.
Cheers,
Tom
2014-10-08 18:07 GMT-03:00 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
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.
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No, this is just the announcement; the award ceremony itself will be held on December 10 as usual. As much as I like the idea, I think that is probably the worst time to try to make something like that happen, seeing as we'd be competing with every major news agency in the world... 9. okt. 2014 10:01 skrev "Jan Ainali" jan.ainali@wikimedia.se følgende:
You are right Tom, WMSE made several such videos, I guess the one you are thinking of is this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_BrianSchmidt_2011-12-08.ogv
Will the winners be present at the announcement?
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2014-10-09 0:26 GMT+02:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga < everton.alvarenga@okfn.org>:
Hi Jon,
that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil.
I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has made a cool short interview with some Nobel prize (I think chemestry) and it was really good. This can be even used to outreach at universities to bring more people to catalyse efforts to involve more schools on
Wikimedia
projects.
If you can do it, please, let us know.
Cheers,
Tom
2014-10-08 18:07 GMT-03:00 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
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.
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This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest, but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the two work in tandem.
-Liam / Wittylama
Today there was the announcement for the Nobel prize in literature. Quit interesting is that the Swedish Radio, Swedish Television and the Norwegian NRK are updating articles related to this. Not perfect, but with a obviously good ambition!
https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520171448636551168 https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520169175776784384 https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520167492078297088 https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520175308872617984
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2014-10-09 13:42 GMT+02:00 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:
This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest, but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the two work in tandem.
-Liam / Wittylama
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I do agree. In Amical we regularly organize small one-week long online writing contest regarding local Music Festivals, ComicCons or similar. We get in touch with new organisations, reach to new communities and get quite a lot of press atention with relatively small organizing effort and one small prize.
2014-10-09 13:42 GMT+02:00 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com:
This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest, but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the two work in tandem.
-Liam / Wittylama
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On 9 October 2014 09:05, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
the award ceremony itself will be held on December 10 as usual. As much as I like the idea, I think that is probably the worst time to try to make something like that happen, seeing as we'd be competing with every major news agency in the world...
You might be pleasantly surprised at the positive reaction you'd get; see:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/no-interviews-except-wikipedia-document...
Hi All, We Bengali Wikipedia community arrange a Nobel Prize Edit-a-thon & this edit-a-thon to be held next October 14 at 5-8PM. In this time we add this year Nobel laureate details at Bengali Wikipedia.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 9 October 2014 09:05, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
the award ceremony itself will be held on December 10 as usual. As much as I like the idea, I think that is probably the worst time to try to make something like that happen, seeing as we'd be competing with every major news agency in the world...
You might be pleasantly surprised at the positive reaction you'd get; see:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/10/no-interviews-except-wikipedia-document...
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Hoi, Jon a great initiative. I hope many people will consider updating Wikidata as well. As you know, Wikidata serves many languages with results when there is no article available. It is done especially well when people choose the "Reasonator" icon or when they choose a Wikipedia article in another language.
Of particular interest are the commonalities like other awards, their alma mater, where they are employed. When people who are in the public eye are known for other awards as well, we find that these connections are important and make people find the associated people and places of interest as well. Thanks, Gerard
On 8 October 2014 23:07, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@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.
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@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 _______________________________________________
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
Hi Rachel,
I'd like to suggest someone in change of WMF communication to write a blog post about this great initiative from Norwegian volunteers. Talk to those taking the lead. :)
Such initiative should be highlighted very much, mainly after to see those great Nobel Prizes (different from some years ago).
Hopefully I'll try to find some time next October 12, Children's Day in Brazil, to contribute with Malala's article in the Portuguese Wikipedia. I'm trying to spread the word among Open Knowledge Brasil community because we were thinking to do some thing for children and teachers aligned with our mission.
Cheers,
Tom
2014-10-10 14:46 GMT-03:00 Rachel diCerbo rdicerb@wikimedia.org:
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
There is a short blog post about the event that went up yesterday, thanks to the speedy turnaround of Astrid and Jon! We reached out to them right after seeing this announcement, and they provided a quick background just a few hours later.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/09/wikinobel/
I agree that it would be wonderful to have another post with more details about how this all came to together, the event itself, and what the organizers felt were the best learning and outcomes of this new collaboration. On Oct 10, 2014 11:19 AM, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" tom@okfn.org.br wrote:
Hi Rachel,
I'd like to suggest someone in change of WMF communication to write a blog post about this great initiative from Norwegian volunteers. Talk to those taking the lead. :)
Such initiative should be highlighted very much, mainly after to see those great Nobel Prizes (different from some years ago).
Hopefully I'll try to find some time next October 12, Children's Day in Brazil, to contribute with Malala's article in the Portuguese Wikipedia. I'm trying to spread the word among Open Knowledge Brasil community because we were thinking to do some thing for children and teachers aligned with our mission.
Cheers,
Tom
2014-10-10 14:46 GMT-03:00 Rachel diCerbo rdicerb@wikimedia.org:
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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