Hi everyone,
If I haven't introduced myself before, I'm Steven Walling. One of my jobs at the
Foundation is helping everyone who wants to celebrate our 10th anniversary. I'm pretty
sure it's been mentioned on the list before, but
ten.wikipedia.org is the place to
learn about everything we're organizing.
There's plenty going on there for the anniversary, but the most pressing issue is that
the Foundation is shipping kits of free merchandise to people who are running events, and
the deadline for getting that merchandise shipped to you is rapidly approaching. You can
see mockups of the t-shirts, stickers, and buttons at
ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise
If you're running an event and would like merchandise kits, the time to get set up to
do so is now. I just need a couple things to be able to do so:
1. A public listing for your event on
ten.wikipedia.org. Most people have done this, but
if your wiki page doesn't have at least a basic description of what you're doing
and how people can participate, I would really appreciate it if you could do that. It will
help make your events great and show the world all the amazing things we're doing to
celebrate Wikipedia's first decade.
2. Email me your shipping address and contact information.
Two events (Bangalore and Kannur in Kerala) have done all this already. The other events
listed (Mumbai, Mehrabpur, Hyderabad, Pune, Mysore) still need one or both of those two
things.
The Wikimedia Foundation has the merchandise ready to ship and is prepared to pay all the
costs involved. If it might make better sense to say, ship to the chapter or a particular
group and have them distribute throughout the rest of India, we can talk about making that
happen too.
Thanks for reading,
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org