Hi all;
Who is the founder of #wikipedia-ten IRC channel on Freenode? The channel
has no ops and the topic is empty and locked. Please, manage the channel or
give privileges to other users (#wikipedia main channel ops for example).
Regards,
emijrp
Hi all,
I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you
are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot
Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we get some more :) Others
interested please feel free to reuse and remix.
PS : I have shared it under CC, I am just lazy to upload to commons, will do
so in the night.
[1]
http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/WikipediaXLogosAndBanners?authkey=Gv1s…
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to know is there any way to find out if we are being merchandise or not. From Lucknow we requested Steven to send us a box of merchandise to which he said that he may send it though it may not reach on time due to the delay on our part on asking(we asked for it on Jan4) but since then we have not heard anything from him after continuously writing to him. I know we were a little late but we still have plenty of time as we have the celebration on 30th Jan,2011. We were intending to distribute the merchandise to everybody who contributed and celebrated the anniversary event with us because people are collecting fund by themselves to print banners and stickers.
It is important to inspire them for future.
This is supposedly the first event in Lucknow for Wikipedia and we want it to start of a tradition and thus help create new contributors to the wikipedia world.
I hope to get a satisfactory reply very soon.
Kshitij Gupta
kahitij_lko(a)yahoo.co.in
KG
Hi, everyone!
Just three days until we celebrate a decade of Wikipedia: more than
300 events in 104 countries! Amazing.
Below is the final release you are free to distribute anytime after
1PM UTC tomorrow, January 12. Again, feel free to edit or change it
anyway you like. It's for you to use however you need.
Just so you know, Jay is going to send this out to press tomorrow at
1PM UTC. It's going out to the media list a few days early to make
sure people have it in enough time to write something by Saturday.
I'm personally so proud to be apart of this movement and love seeing
everyone --press, everyday people, community members-- excited and
celebrating.
Congrats to you all! You do amazing work.
Cheers,
Moka
Wikipedia Celebrates 10 Years of Free Knowledge
Wikipedia users and contributors mark the project's first decade with
events around the world
San Francisco, January 15, 2011 -- On this day ten years ago, a
website with a funny name invited people everywhere to come together
to create a free encyclopedia. The initial results were underwhelming.
The article "Astronomer" simply said: "Scientist whose area of
Research is Astronomy." Sweden: "Country in Northern Europe.
Inhabitants are called Swedes. Language spoken is Swedish. Capital is
Stockholm." Physics: "Physics is a very broad subject."
Following these humble beginnings, Wikipedia grew quickly, and 1,000
articles were written in less than a month. Over the next five years,
many new language versions were launched, and Wikipedia began to
surpass traditional reference sources in breadth and depth. The secret
to its success: anyone can edit any article. In January 2006,
Wikipedia volunteer Gareth Owen wrote on his user page: "The problem
with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a
total disaster."
Wikipedia is now consulted by more than 400 million people every
month. It provides instant access to high quality and in-depth
information, free of charge and free of advertising. In the last
decade, a vast and unique global volunteer community has come together
to create more than 17 million articles in 270 languages, advancing
the cause of free knowledge for every person on the planet.
Today, January 15, the Wikipedia community is coming together in more
than 200 locations all over the planet to celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the free encyclopedia. From a conference in New York to
a concert in Prague, from the launch of a new school project in
Nairobi to a museum bootcamp in Amsterdam, from a beer-meet in
Bucharest to a film screening in Tel Aviv, the events are organized by
volunteers and Wikimedia chapters, as well as independent supporters.
The events are open to participation by anyone and reflect the
diversity of the community.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, recalled: "It's hard to imagine
that it's been 10 years since I first edited Wikipedia. I remember
that first day. I clicked on 'Edit' and I wrote 'Hello World', and
that was the beginning of Wikipedia and all the things that have come
since then. I want to thank everyone who has helped. I want to thank
all the people who have edited Wikipedia, who have contributed to this
great knowledge base. I want to thank everybody who is reading
Wikipedia, who is really engaging with ideas and knowledge. That's
what we made it for: we made it for you to read."
Wikipedia is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a charitable
non-profit organization established by Wales in 2003. It is entirely
supported by donations, and just completed the most successful
fundraiser in its history, with more than 500,000 individual donations
totaling more than $16 million.
Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, has ambitious
goals for the future. "We want to reach a billion people by 2015. We
want to persuade more readers to edit. More women. More people from
the Global South. We know that the more diverse the editing community
becomes, the more comprehensive, accurate and rich the encyclopedia
will be."
Jimmy Wales joined her call to action: "Even though we've got millions
of articles, even though we're in hundreds of languages, there's still
a lot of work to do. So, I want everybody out there, if you've never
edited Wikipedia, try it - just click 'edit'."
For more information about Wikipedia 10 events
* http://ten.wikipedia.org
* http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
About the Wikimedia Foundation
* http://wikimediafoundation.org
* http://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 410 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th
most popular web property world-wide (Nov, 2010). Available in more
than 270 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 17 million articles
contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000
people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation
is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through
donations and grants.
--
Cheers,
Moka
Moka Pantages
415.839.6885 x 635
@moka
Thank you Steve for your reply and I am sorry for showing no patience. I
have got my answer and some e-mails now I am satisfy. I know you guys are
really very busy in arranging the stuffs so it is kind of hard to get time
for replying. Well the progress is that we are going to arrange the meeting
for plans to make them real. We will upload the snaps of organizers who will
participate in the meeting. Please anyone from Wikipedia keep our
inspiration up by replying and giving the feedback on the page. Please visit
the page http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/jaipur . I request other people
please do not copy my message content you can generate a good message by
yourself also. Thanks once again.
Apurva Tripathi
alonemayank(a)gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to know is there any way that organizers Can still
request for merchandise. Here in Jaipur we don't have any merchandise and
moreover we already requested Steven to send one box to us but there is
still no response. I know now it is too late that goodies can arrive on time
but the thing is most of the people belongs to same community so most of us
are in contact. We organizers can distribute the merchandise to everybody
(who contributed in anniversary event) later because guys are collecting
fund by their self to print banners and stickers and for buying kites. It is
important to inspire them for future. This will be the new chapter of
Wikipedia in Jaipur because this is the ever first event form Wikipedians in
Jaipur. I hope I will get a satisfactory reply very soon.
Apurva Tripathi
alonemayank(a)gmail.com
We're having our Wikipedia celebration a week after everyone else, to make
it easier for students who were on break (looong breaks here!)
1) Print instructions or Screencasts for uploading to Wikimedia?
- I want to make some really simple instructions for uploading to Wikimedia,
so we can print out a 1 page guide to sit next to the machines. (I have a
copy of the comic book-like licensing info)/
- And we want to direct people to a screencast on how to upload images to
wikimedia. Is there a screencast already?
Any other resources for absolute beginners? Possibly people who aren't
comfortable with computers (older people, etc).
2) I wanted to check if there's anyone else on this list from Ireland. I
didn't see any other Irish cities, but thought there might be lurkers?
3) More info about our event in Sligo:
http://sligovec.ie/news/sligo-celebrates-wikipedia-10
- Promotion a week before the event online to get people to select existing
images from their photo libraries
- Saturday 'wiki wander' - photo scavenger hunt (hoping for good weather,
but rain won't stop it)
- Exhibition and a prize to give away from a local company sponsor
- Hand on workshop in the computer labs to show people how to get their
pictures into wikimedia.
Best wishes to everyone making preparations!
________
Dear jimmy
We are organizing the 10th birthday celebration of wikipedia in charleston as carolina event.
IF you are free at 2:00 pm at Eastern Time USA time or 7:00 pm GMT (london time.) .
PLease let us know our skype id is " charlestonwikigroup ".
Our event page link is given below.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_SC
Thanking you
with regards
tripathi
and charlestonwikigroup
BSB505
MUSC
173 ashley avenue charleston SC 29425
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Chinese Wikipedia is just planning for change the logo in the mid January.
Discussion is going on in VP, and the logo is
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/File:10piece-chinese-L_k_2.svg?. Chinese Wikipedia
is also using JavaScript on common.js to use the logo stored in local but not
commons.
Some celebrate work will also be done on Chinese Wikipedia soon. Thank you.
(Cross post to foundation-l & wikix-l)
HW
Thank you Jay for your response well I am going to get a banner print can
you get me a link for a good banner of 10th anniversary of Wikipedia ? We
guys have collected some fund by contribution by ourselves. So we can have a
banner of Wikipedia anniversary.
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Those are valid points, FT2 - thanks. There are many ways we could go about
this release, and I think the direction taken here is in line with how we
expect much (not all) media to engage on this topic: celebratory, somewhat
light-hearted and joyful look at the project.
I like this version in that it proposes a lofty trajectory of growth and
change. It doesn't try to cover all of the bases, and though the final
version has some of the vision-forward facing stuff, it strikes a reasonable
balance.
Glad to see everyone's comments of course. The release isn't the center of
the celebration - let's hope the coverage generated by all of the events,
chapters, and celebrators builds for a great story.
On Jan 9, 2011, at 8:19 PM, FT2 wrote:
> I asked Moka off-list to clarify the points that were concerning me. My
comment and her response are below.
>
> She suggested I forward it to the list, "I think it's a good point to
raise to help others think through how the release might be tailored. In
the end, it's there for them to edit and remix."
>
> So see below :)
>
> FT2
>
>
> My email:
> While laughing gently at one's past is admirable, I'm just not sure about
the degree of self-deprecation. In this release a reader takes away the key
points that it has a "funny name", that its early articles were pointless
and trite, that the last words in the next paragraph (which tend to linger)
are "total disaster".
>
> The rest (and anything strong) comes much further down, but traditionally
a skim-reader is less likely to pick up on stuff the further down it is.
>
> I guess I mainly want to re-check, does this work in media terms?
>
> Response:
> I hear you. I think this release is more about writing to celebrate,
> rather than writing for a real news hook. If you take a look at most
> of the Foundation releases, it's more about the ceremonial process.
>
> The nice thing about the 10 year is that almost all press are already
> writing about it, so we dont have to sell them on a story-- and that's
> mainly the function of a press release.
>
> Does that make sense?
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Hi,
I requested yesterday with Moushira to run a banner in the Netherlands for
inviting people to the event in Amsterdam. The deadline for registering is
*january 11*. However, the request is apparently stuck in bureaucracy with
some people who have to approve it first... Could someone please help me
here and get this up (or tell me how I can speed up the process)? I know I
could have sent this earlier, sorry for that - but right now we're already
quite near the deadline :)
thanks a lot in advance!
Lodewijk
Wikimedia Nederland board member
