WikiX-l January 2011

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IRC Channel
by emijrp 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

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

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India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

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

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10 wikipedia Lucknow
by kshitij gupta 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

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

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W10: Final Press Release
by Moka Pantages 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

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

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10 Wikipedia Jaipur
by Apurva Tripathi 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

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

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10 wikipedia Jaipur
by Apurva Tripathi 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

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

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Some questions and checking - Anyone else in Ireland?
by Heather James 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

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!

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Re: [WikiX-l] My availability on the 15th of January
by Tripathi, Kaushlendra 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

________ 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 ________________________________ From: wikix-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [wikix-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of wikix-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org [wikix-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:21 PM To: wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: WikiX-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7 Send WikiX-l mailing list submissions to wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikix-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikix-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WikiX-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: January 15 retro? (HW) 2. Fwd: [Foundation-l] 2001: A Knowledge Odyssey (Steven Walling) 3. wikipedia 10th anniversary at Kollam (kannan sundaram) 4. Re: Fwd: [Foundation-l] 2001: A Knowledge Odyssey (Peter Coombe) 5. Re: Fwd: [Foundation-l] 2001: A Knowledge Odyssey (Steven Walling) 6. New Delhi, India Event confirmed for 15th Jan 2011 (Mehar Bhagat) 7. My availability on the 15th of January (Jimmy Wales) 8. Re: My availability on the 15th of January (Arun Ramarathnam) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:36:13 +0800 (HKT) From: HW <waihorace(a)yahoo.com.hk> Subject: Re: [WikiX-l] January 15 retro? To: Foundation mailing list <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia 10 <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <685929.26092.qm(a)web19011.mail.hk2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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

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Re: [WikiX-l] 10 wikipedia Jaipur
by Apurva Tripathi 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

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. -----Original Message----- From: wikix-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikix-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of wikix-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: 10 January 2011 PM 12:24 To: wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: WikiX-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 26 Send WikiX-l mailing list submissions to wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikix-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikix-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WikiX-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: W10: Embargoed Press Release (Jay Walsh) 2. Re: W10: Embargoed Press Release (Moka Pantages) 3. Re: 10 wikipedia Jaipur (Jay Walsh) 4. Re: W10: Embargoed Press Release (Pradeep Mohandas) 5. Re: transcript of the Jimmy video (HW) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:38:02 -0800 From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiX-l] W10: Embargoed Press Release To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <BAF3A32D-9160-4D67-A9D9-2A95BEB894E8(a)wikimedia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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? > _______________________________________________ > WikiX-l mailing list > WikiX-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw

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banner for the Netherlands
by Lodewijk 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

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

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