Hey folks,
In addition to our own parties and events, I think it makes sense for
us to invite public intellectuals to reflect publicly on the meaning
and impact of Wikipedia, for the 10th. I'm thinking about asking both
Timothy Garton Ash and Tim Wu to write about us, and I asked James
Forrester the other day to urge Tim Berners-Lee to do it too. (I
don't know why they are all Tims, LOL. That's an accident.)
If you know people who are really smart, who have a platform (or could
get access to a platform, by doing for example an editorial for the
New York Times, the Guardian, or whatever), and who would have
something useful to contribute to the public discourse about Wikipedia
.. I'd suggest you mention it to them. These kinds of pieces can take
a long time to prepare and sell, so if you think it's a possibility,
I'd recommend planting the seeds for it now.
Thanks,
Sue
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Dear all
On a board meeting last Saturday
WMHK decided to host two events for the coming WP 10th Anniversary
a. A bbq party on the 15 Jan (from the afternoon to night HKT)
b. & we try to bid a stall in the Chinese New Year's Fair in one of the
districts in Hong Kong
which will last from 28 Jan - 2 Feb if we bid successfully
and we will go to bid for it on next Monday
We will give you further update if stuffs go smoothly
especially we are lOOking for some interaction with other ongoing meetup in
other places on 15 Jan via Internet if possible
Cheers,
(sorry for duplicate, as I might sent from the wrong e-mail)
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Dear all
After a board meeting last Saturday
WMHK decided to host two events for the coming WP 10th Anniversary
a. A bbq party on the 15 Jan (from the afternoon to night HKT)
b. & we try to bid a stall in the Chinese New Year's Fair in one of the
districts in Hong Kong
which will last from 28 Jan - 2 Feb if we bid successfully
and we will go to bid for it on next Monday
We will give you further update if stuffs go smoothly
especially we are lOOking for some interaction with other ongoing meetup in
other places on 15 Jan via Internet if possible
Cheers,
--
Jerry~雨雨
Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, ARAD
President, Wikimedia Hong Kong
Member, Chapters Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
Member, Communications Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
User:Yuyu | zh.wikipedia
also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places
http://about.me/jeromyu/bio | http://jeromyu.blogspot.com
Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601
Perdat ego veni ut plasticum habeant et arachis habeant
Hi everyone,
This week we're forgoing Office Hours due the U.S. Thanksgiving
holiday, but a week from today on Wednesday December 1, I will be
hosting an IRC discussion of the planning for Wikipedia's 10th
anniversary. From 16:00-17:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office, we'll have an
open meeting to cover the organizing underway to celebrate the
encyclopedia's first decade. Please attend if you're even remotely
curious about attending or volunteering for one of the 39 events
currently listed on ten.wikipedia.org.
As usual, instructions for accessing the chat and links to other
resources, such a time converter, are available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Thanks,
Steven Walling
Wikimedia Foundation Fellow
(wikimediafoundation.org)
Hi everyone,
I know there are some events which plan on screening Truth in Numbers.
There's a related question on the Village Pump of tenwiki (I've
started calling it that since it's the interwiki link). If you could
dive in and answer if you've got an answer, that would be appreciated.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump
Steven Walling
Wikimedia Foundation Fellow
(wikimediafoundation.org)
Hi folks - not sure if Steven sent this original note as a CC to the list, but here you go. And please see updates from me below as well.
thanks
jay
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: November 16, 2010 6:01:14 PM PST
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's 10th anniversary
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> (x-posted on a few lists)
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Just to follow up on Steven's note... I just uploaded the mockups of the Wikipedia 10 and new Wikipedia t-shirts to ten.wikipedia.org:
> http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design/Merchandise
>
> Kits of merchandise, each containing 50 shirts and other fun stuff described on that page, will be available to registered Wikipedia 10 celebrators all over the world. The Wikipedia 10 'team' shirts are, alas, in english, but we hope they'll prove highly visible and fun alongside the Wikipedia shirts.
>
> You'll also see there are some buttons and stickers that can be used to dress up any other outfits or celebration spaces.
>
> Post your event at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Event to ensure we get a supply of merchandise to you.
>
> The design concept is also housed on the same wiki:
> http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design
>
> Which is all about remix and localize! Some volunteers have already localized the marks in their own languages and geographies. They template blanks are there and standing by to be added to. And of course you can always add completely original concepts to his page as well. They're all being housed on WM Commons:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10
>
> We're thankful to David Peters, a design consultant who has been working with us for about two years now for putting the time into this concept. I hope it makes it joins a wide range of other images and designs that help us celebrate this one-of-a-kind milestone!
>
> Please continue the conversation on the wikix-l mailing list per Steven's instructions below. That way we keep the conversation focussed on the events and activities.
>
> Thanks,
> jay
>
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As a few of you know, I have a fellowship in the Wikimedia
>> Foundation's Community Department, working for Chief Community Officer
>> Zack Exley on a variety of projects. One of these projects is making
>> Wikipedia's 10th anniversary one to remember by supporting you
>> (Wikimedians) who want to celebrate online and off.
>>
>> To that end, we've opened up a new space for collaboration at http://ten.wikipedia.org/
>> . Many thanks to the editors who've already showed up to participate.
>> For who haven't had a chance to explore it yet, we started the wiki
>> for four core activities, which are outlined in our FAQ (http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ
>> ). They are:
>>
>> 1. Gathering a single, detailed list of events that we can point
>> interested people to.
>> 2. Hosting some interesting ways to reflect on the anniversary online,
>> across Wikipedia communities. If you have ideas for celebrating, this
>> is the place to share them.
>> 3. Providing resources for organizers, including a press kit, freely-
>> licensed designs that can be localized, and instructions on how to get
>> a free set of t-shirts, stickers, buttons etc. for your event.
>> 4. A place to document everything. This wiki will be a great place to
>> look back and see what we did to celebrate our first double digit
>> anniversary.
>>
>> Hopefully that gives you a better idea of what we're working on. As
>> usual, please be bold and join in!
>>
>> If you have questions that can't be answered on the wiki or mailing
>> list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l), I am your
>> best point of contact. I'd especially like to encourage current or
>> potential event organizers to get in touch.
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>>
>> Steven Walling
>> [[User:Steven (WMF)]] on ten.wikipedia.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Hi friends,
I just wanted to give everyone an update on what's been accomplished
here at the Wikimedia Foundation so far and what we've got in store for
the near future. We've got roughly two months until the 15th is here.
With that deadline rapidly approaching, I want to really step up our
efforts here at the WMF to help local events happen.
Just to restate it: our goal is to help make the tenth anniversary a
memorable one for Wikimedia editors/readers/donors wherever you are. To
that effect, we've launched ten.wikipedia.org in the last couple days.
Many of you probably saw the pages on Outreach wiki that have since been
migrated. Thanks to the editors who stepped up to help wiki-garden so far.
We've tried to structure the wiki to make it clear what it's for. Here's
some more detail on what I want to include:
1. A list of all the events that will happen. Lots of organizing work is
happening on other wikis and off-wiki, such as through Facebook events.
That's great, and of course we want that to continue. But having a
single list of what's happening is immensely useful for organizers,
attendees, and the press.
2. On-wiki activities for reflecting on our anniversary and conveying
the magnitude of our first decade of work. There is a list of
preliminary ideas on the [[Share]] and [[Ideas]] pages.
3. Providing a space to gather resources for organizers, including a
basic press kit and a set of anniversary designs put together by Jay
Walsh and David Peters, whose work you will recognize from the 2009
Annual Report. The designs will all be uploaded to Commons shortly and
will be in a gallery on the anniversary wiki. I'm really excited about
this part of what's been prepared, since it's ideal for the
customization and localization that needs to happen.
These designs are yours to run wild with, and some of them will be
incorporated into products (t-shirts, buttons, stickers etc.) that will
be provided to event organizers that want them. All we need to give you
these materials is a basic set of event details and contact information,
all of which can go on your event page. If it's unclear on the wiki what
we're asking for, then that's my fault, so please let me know.
4. A place to document everything that goes on. Encouraging taking
photos, video, and making written records of what everyone is up to in
their celebrations is essential (and it's fun, at least to me). Media
should probably go on Commons, as is standard procedure, but I'd love to
see everything aggregated into the event pages on the wiki. Sharing the
cool things that you're doing will be both a gift to other Wikimedians
who can't be there, and will create a permanent record of our first
double-digit anniversary.
If you have any questions, either about the wiki or however else the
Foundation can support you in planning, I'm your best point of contact.
I'll also be posting more regular updates to this list.
Thanks for reading,
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Steven Walling
[[User:Steven (WMF)]] on ten.wikipedia.org