Jimmy Wales wrote:
To reach people who are most likely to be motivated to
vote for us,
which means people who actually write on wikipedia, I recommend some
bold text on the edit screen, just below the "Save page" button,
saying something like "If you have a couple of minutes, we'd really
appreciate your going to vote for Wikipedia at the People's Choice
Webby Awards." And a link there of course to the peoplesvoice page.
Additionally, since everyone who is anyone views Recent Changes, some
similar text there would likely be helpful.
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Additionally, we should take some of the suggestions from
"How_to_Make_The_Most.doc" page (from the download page, see link
above) and place them on a meta page, to be linked from all the above
places. The gist of the message we should get out to people is "Go
<a>here</a> to vote for us, and go <a>here</a> for other ways to
help."
Notices were added to [[MediaWiki:Watchdetails]],
[[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] and [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]], but were
removed by Martin and Wik. Martin explained:
"I recommend we ignore Jimbo's recommendation, get on with creating an
encyclopedia, and forget about random award ceremonies. People only need
to be told about this once, at most, not every time they edit every
page. Martin 22:59, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk%3AWatchdetails#Webbys
-- Tim Starling