Hi everyone,
So we're about a week away from the anniversary, and there more than 275 events listed on ten.wikipedia.org. Whether you're an informal meet-up of a dozen people or a conference for hundreds led by a chapter, we're going to use this week to run CentralNotice banners on Wikimedia sites to remind readers of the anniversary and promote your activities. (I'm going to repeat the following details on the tenwiki Village Pump if you prefer to read it there.)
We're currently running a banner on English Wikipedia that links directly to tenwiki and is awaiting further translation. (We will also be translating the Main Page of tenwiki further. Let me know if you want to help with both those translation projects.) The priority here is threefold:
1. Educate people about the 10th anniversary in general.
2. Link to a comprehensive list of online and offline events so that people can choose the event that interests them.
3. Show people the enormously diverse number of things our movement is doing to celebrate.
Considering that we're only running the 10th anniversary messages for a week, we did not plan for a large number of different banner designs. However, if you're an organizing group that would like to run your own banner design or directly link to your event in your country, that is definitely welcome contingent on a few basic requirements:
1. Just to state the obvious, the banner needs to be localized fully and will only run for visitors in your country who are on the wiki the banner is localized for.
2. The banner will need to mention both the 10th anniversary (remember, most people have no idea it's happening) and that there are events to join. A banner that merely mentions a single party or other kind of event without context would fail to do justice to the anniversary and the other volunteers who have worked hard to make it memorable.
3. The banner can link to your event's ten.wikipedia.org page or a landing page elsewhere. To link directly to a page off tenwiki, that page needs to clearly mention and link back to the other events on tenwiki (so that people don't end up at a dead end if they don't find what they're looking for). If there are multiple events happening in your country, then whatever page the banner links needs to mention all of them.
4. You need to submit this banner directly to me so that we don't miss any submissions. If you want to put it on-wiki first and simply link to it in your email, that's great.
If you're still with me here, thanks for reading, and thanks for everything you're doing to make the 10th anniversary great. If you have questions, please let me know.
Steven Walling
Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Dear all
as I mentioned previously
some of us expressed our wishes to video chats with other parties around the
world
(even Jimbo express such wish :P)
so I think it is to have a list or sort of thing to cross check each other
times
so I started one the ten yo wiki http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Chat
I have a little request for everyone to convert your party time to UTC
also, for an easier match.
and I have divided the list into two sections, as I believe 15th will be the
peak hour of events.
do feel free to suggest anything
and if you wanna chat with our HK beaux, do mail me off list :P
--
Jerry~雨雨
Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, ARAD
http://about.me/jeromyu/biohttp://jeromyu.blogspot.com
also Jeromyu on twitter, plurk and most of places
Tel (Mobile): +852 9279 1601
Perdat ego veni ut plasticum habeant et arachis habeant
Dear friends,
An Wikipedia workshop arranged by Wikimedia Bangladesh has been held on 7th
January 2011 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop was arranged as a part of
"10 years of Wikipedia" celebration. Most of the participants at the
workshop are from different blog communities in Bangladesh who are already
capable to write in Bengali at web, now they achieve the confidence to
contribute at Wikipedia. At the workshop Wikimedia Bangladesh distribute an
Wikipedia FAQ booklet in Bengali to the participants.
The photos of the workshop has been published at facebook,
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=258264&id=124780066238
Wikimedia Bangladesh also celebrating the anniversary of Wikipedia on 14 and
15 January by participating Kite flying festival (We have Kite with
Wikipedia logo) and a Birthday Party.
Happy Birthday to Wikipedia!
Belayet
Wikimedia Bangladesh
http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaBD
--
Belayet Hossain
http://www.facebook.com/bellayethttp://twitter.com/bellayethttp://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla)
Knowledge is universal
...so share it.
Hillel____
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
(the following message was posted at tenwiki:Ideas on 03:52, 7 January
2011 (UTC))
Attention, Event Holders!
The Department of Fun <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DOF> at the
English Wikipedia has been working very hard on developing a unique
trading card game <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:TCG> based on the
English Wikipedia. The profits (beyond production) will benefit
Wikimedia, as we'd like to continue the non-profit tradition.
We'd like to thank all the Wikipedians in the world (and the Wikipedia
fans) who have helped make Wikipedia worthy of its own trading card
game, so we're offering a free promotional trading card to everyone.
Unfortunately, since the game is still under development, we're only
able to offer a coupon at the moment which can be redeemed after the
game's release (which might easily be a few years from now). We
encourage all event leaders to download and print several copies to
distribute at your events
<http://wptcg.wikia.com/wiki/File:Coupon2011.png>. Thanks, Event
Leaders, and happy anniversary, Wikipedia!
On behalf of the Department of Fun
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DOF>, Bob the Wikipedian
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bob_the_Wikipedian> ^(talk
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bob_the_Wikipedian> . contribs
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bob_the_Wikipedian>)
03:52, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Dear friends,
I just want to inform You, that Wikimedia Czech Republic joined the global family of Wikimedians celebrating the Wikipedia 10 anniversary with a special event.
A public concert, that will take place in Prague January 15, will be arranged from works of the famous Czech composers like Dvorak, Smetana, Janacek and others. And as all the performed works are in public domain and as all the performers agreed to make their performances under free license, the concert will be (audio-)recorded and the recordings will be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons.
So we hope You will be able to enjoy the music later and learn something about our culture this way.
Happy 10th Wikipedia Birthday to everyone!
Okino
Wikimedia Czech Republic
Hi, all.
Looks like the hashtag discussion has resulted in most folks leaning towards
WP10. If you want to discuss this further, please feel free. We'll set a
deadline for tomorrow at 6PM (PT). If you'd like to invite other lists to
join the discussion, please feel free.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Communications_Kit
--
Cheers,
Moka
Moka Pantages
415.839.6885 x 635
@moka
Dear Friends and wikipedian
We are delighted in welcoming you all to the tenth anniversary celebrations
of Wikipedia in Charleston, SC.
We have very good speaker at that day.
The details have now been updated here:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_SC
see you
with best regards
tripathi
wikigroup of charleston
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Dear friends,
I just want to inform You, that Wikimedia Czech Republic joined the global family of Wikimedians celebrating the Wikipedia 10 anniversary with a special event.
A public concert, that will take place in Prague January 15, will be arranged from works of the famous Czech composers like Dvorak, Smetana, Janacek and others. And as all the performed works are in public domain and as all the performers agreed to make their performances under free license, the concert will be (audio-)recorded and the recordings will be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons.
So we hope You will be able to enjoy the music later and learn something about our culture this way.
Happy 10th Wikipedia Birthday to everyone!
Okino
Wikimedia Czech Republic
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We're glad to have your message in Mexico City event.
We'll be good to streaming you on 3:30 GMT of January 16th like a opening of
the party and the end of conferences, when it's 10 pm on Mexico.
Thank you!
2011/1/6 Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com>
>
> On the 15th of January, I would like to make myself available for a
> short video conference with as many local celebrations as want me to
> join in some way. Big or small. If it's 3 people in a coffee shop in
> Tajikistan, I'd love to say hi. If it's 100 people at a party or
> conference, I'd love to say hi.
>
> From a logistics point of view, the easiest thing for everyone is
> probably Skype, but if anyone wants to suggest a free software
> alternative, I'm happy with that as well.
>
> I will be in London with decent but not super awesome connection speed.
> Time zone doesn't really matter, I can get up in the middle of the
> night and go back to bed afterwards. :)
>
> In terms of process, I would propose that we start a page on the ten
> wiki where local organizers can post requests, and then Topher and I
> will study it and contact people for more details.
>
> --Jimbo
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各位：
按聚會頁面及相關討論，中文維基社群將舉行以下活動慶祝十周年：
* 香港－活動由香港維協主辦
**慈善燒烤派對，活動在1月15日當天於元朗西鐵燒烤場舉行，歡迎本地及鄰近地區維基人參與。
**開設年宵檔攤，檔攤在1月28日至2月3日於葵涌運動場葵青年宵市場101號鋪開設，歡迎本地維基人到場支持。
* 台灣－活動由章.安德魯、Reke及燈火闌珊處主辦
**2010台灣冬聚，活動在1月30日於嘉義市嘉義公園、嘉義市勞工育樂中心進行，由上午至下午，費用150元，歡迎報名[1]
* 網上－活動由思源如寧提出，於1月15日在中文維基百科的Skype舉行，請到客棧報名。
所有收費、日期及時間以當地時間計算
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Dear all,
Refer to the meetup portal page and discussion in wikipedia, the following
meetup for WP10 will be held.
* Hong Kong - held by WMHK
**Charity Barbecue Party will be held on 15 January in Yuen Long West
Rail Barbecue Field, welcome for Hong Kong and near country wikipedians to join.
**CNY Fair will be held from 28 January to 3 February in Kwai Chong, welcome for
wikipedians come and support.
* Taiwan - held by three wikipedians
**2010 Taiwan Winter meetup will be held on 30 January in Chiayi city, Taiwan.
You must first reg in the link given below [1] and pay $150 for the events cost.
* Online - may be held in Chinese Wikipedia's Skype, you are welcome to reg in
the VP.
All time, date and money is counted in local time and local money.
****
[1]https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFk4b3ZIck45VEtsaVZiQ0NV…
hi,
We're delighted in welcoming you all to the tenth anniversary celebrations
of Wikipedia in Mumbai. The details have now been updated here:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai
Venue: VJTI, Matunga, Mumbai
Date: January 15, 2011
Time: 10 AM to 2 PM (IST)
Agenda:
1. Keynote Address by Barry Newstead (Chief Global Development Officer,
Wikimedia Foundation)
2. Talk on Indic Wikipedia by Kundan Amitabh (Wikipedia Ang Wiki
Administrator)
3. Cake Cutting Party
Hope to see you there!
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas,
on behalf of the Wikipedians in Mumbai.
