hi,
The central Wikipedia Ten page has rolled out phase of its communication
toolkit. It has a wider 10-year what we've accomplished scenario.
Any idea on who was the first Wikipedian from India? Any way to find out??
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
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From: Moka Pantages <mpantages(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 14 December 2010 01:30
Subject: [WikiX-l] W10: Communications Toolkit Phase I
To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello, everyone:
Following up on the email we sent out last week, we have Phase I of the
Community Communications Toolkit up:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Communications_Kit
Phase I stresses two things for volunteers: telling your own story NOW and
helping to pull together background information on the history of Wikipedia
and the global magnitude of our work.
As discussed in the last email, we understand that most people don’t fully
realize we’re a mission-driven, non-profit movement run by real, everyday
people who care about providing a free public service to the world. Often,
Wikipedia is thought to be a static product or service, not a living,
breathing community of people who care. While some of us in the Wikimedia
community are dedicated to communications work, all of us can use this
10-year anniversary as an opportunity to educate the world about who we are,
the work that we do and the mission that drives us. The first—and most
important—thing we can do RIGHT NOW is tell our own stories in our own words
and encourage others who care about our work to do the same. Over the past
10 years, what has Wikipedia come to mean to the world? What was it like
before there was a Wikipedia in your language? How will it impact the next
ten years? We're encouraging all volunteers and anyone who cares about our
projects to publicly tell their personal Wikipedia stories via letters to
the editor, op-eds and personal or chapter blog posts. If volunteers don't
have a blog or aren't comfortable sharing thoughts publicly, we've created a
page to post on wiki as well: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stories
Additionally, we need help curating all of the interesting information about
Wikipedia including:
*Wikipedia's Historical Timeline:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
*Stats and information to help demonstrate the magnitude of Wikipedia:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_by_the_numbers<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share>
*Wikipedia's top 10s: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%27s_Top_Ten
There's a wealth of interesting information out there, but hasn't been
captured and organized so that we can all access it easily. If you remember
any fun facts and Wikipedia trivia from the last ten years, please share!
We plan to send a variation of this email to Internal and Foundation. We'll
likely post Phase II of the Toolkit on Friday which should also include a
draft media advisory we plan to send to press next Tuesday. Until then,
please provide any feedback you have.
Cheers,
Moka
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hi,
Some good news from Israel.
warm regards,
Pradeep
User:prad2609
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From: Itzik Edri <itzik(a)infra.co.il>
Date: 13 December 2010 00:51
Subject: [WikiX-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary
Commemorative Postmark
To: wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
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From: Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Commemorative Postmark
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
<internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello, everyone.
I am pleased to announce, on behalf of Wikimedia Israel, that Israel Post
(the Israeli monopoly postal service) will be stamping all items passing
through several major post offices in Tel Aviv and in Haifa with a special
*Wikipedia 10th Anniversary postmark*.
You can get an idea of what it might look like (Hebrew Wikipedians are still
working on the design) here:
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%…
In addition to the anniversary, a _second_ special postmark will be stamped
on all through Wikimania 2011, in August!
<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%…>To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first time Wikipedia is featured on
postal materials. Is that correct?
Dedicated philatelists and stamp-collectors among you (and your respective
communities) may want to make arrangements to have something postmarked. In
addition, we'll try to have some stamped items to give away.
This cool way of marking the anniversary is the work of Wikimedia Israel
member Liron Dorfman, who's done excellent outreach work with Israel Post.
Cheers, and happy holidays,
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Israel
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Hello India Wikimedians!
Time is getting short for organizing Wikipedia 10th anniversary
events. January 15, 2011 will not come again - it's a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be there as Wikipedia marks this big
milestone. :-). If you manage to put together an event, you may still
be able to get one of the 10th anniversary kits that Steven is talking
about below. They include t-shirts and other goodies.
See more at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
So far, there are pages up for Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Would
be awesome to see even more India events :-)
Erik
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From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2010/12/14
Subject: [WikiX-l] 10th anniversary merchandise is ready to ship!
To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
So with little more than a month to go before Wikipedia's anniversary,
I'm pleased to say that the kits of special Wikipedia 10 merchandise
we've talked about previously (on this list and at ten.wikipedia.org)
are ready to be shipped. To reiterate:
* This merchandise is free. The WMF is paying all shipping and production costs.
* It's available to anyone that has confirmed publicly that they're
holding an event that will celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. You
don't have to be holding a particular size or type of event (we have
conferences, film screenings, parties, plain old meet-ups etc.).
* Everyone is getting the same kit.
* Each box includes 50 t-shirts with a balance of sizes for men and
women, as well as a mixed assortment of stickers and buttons. You can
see mockups of the designs at Design/Merchandise on tenwiki. I'm going
to get pictures of it all on Commons soon, under Category:Wikipedia
10.
This means that if you're organizing one of the more than 60 events
currently in the works, I need two things to be able to ship to you:
1. A public listing for your event on tenwiki. Just to be clear, this
is merely a description and links to wherever you're organizing. If
your wiki page exists but doesn't tell people the basics of
who/what/when then please enrich it a little, so that logistically we
can feel comfortable shipping a couple hundred dollars worth of
merchandise to you. The New York City and Brasília events are good
examples of the level of detail I'm talking about.
2. Contact information and your shipping address, plus an estimate of
the size of your event so that we know how many boxes to send you. You
can email this to me privately.
The shipping takes roughly a week depending on location (of course),
so the sooner you can send me your event information the better. We're
hoping to get as many kits as possible sent before January 1.
For those of you who've already done all of the above, thank you. I
will contact you this week before we ship anything to you.
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Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
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Interesting news..Thought to share ...
Wish if we could get this Wikiculture to India , among our students &
academia ...
*URI oceanography students target Wikipedia entries*
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2010/12/12/uri_ocean…
*University of Rhode Island students are using what they've learned and
updating dozens of oceanography entries on Wikipedia.*
*
*
*Susanne Menden-Deuer, a professor at the university's Graduate School of
Oceanography, said she's asked her students to identify a biological
oceanography term or topic and improve the entry. She said students could
also create a new Wikipedia entry for terms not yet included on the free
online encyclopedia.*
*
*
*One student, Conor McManus of Milton, Mass., updated the Wikipedia page on
stable isotope analysis in aquatic ecosystems.*
*
*
*He said he chose it because he had learned a little about it as an
undergraduate and wanted to learn more. *
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Danese Cooper, CTO, Wikimedia Foundation will be delievering the key note at
the annual FOSS.in conference , Bangalore on Dec 15th Wednesday, 12 PM .
Details here : http://foss.in/2010/schedules/
Also note that she & Erik will be addressing the Wikipedians / Wiki
enthusiasts on Dec 18 in Bangalore
Details here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Hi,
This is kind reminder for the Wikipedia meetup on 13th December at
6:30pm at SICSR.
Do join in.
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune3
You can also join the technology centric meetup on 14th at Redhat.
Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune4
-Sudhanwa
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Hi !
A Meet up has been organised on 13th December, 2010 at Pune. This is
third wikimeetup in Pune.
Erik Möller,Deputy Director,Wikimedia Foundation, Danese Cooper ,
Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma ,
Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending
the meetup. Also, Bishakha Datta , Board of Trustees, Wikimedia
Foundation might join in.(not yet confirmed)
Please find the venue details for the Pune Wikimeetup.
Venue:
SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony.
Room No 707. 7th floor
Time: 6:30 pm
Location map available here: http://www.plug.org.in/images/map-to-aturcenter.jpg
You are all invited for the meetup. Do join in.
Please do spread the news .. to your friends, groups, mailing lists, forums...
Also check out the wikipedia meetup page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune3
Also check out details of the meetup4 on 14th at Redhat.
Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune4
Best regards,
-Sudhanwa
